jbb_hn

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by jbb_hn 2y ago
They would use those 4 magic words in aviation: "I'm declaring an emergency"
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by jbb_hn 3y ago
I get that they need to try to do this. However, it seems they learned nothing from the Napster/mp3 era. The genie is out of the bottle. Movie industry will follow suit to try and prevent script writing in "the style of <inser
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by jbb_hn 4y ago
Wow. As someone that has written a fair amount of VBA in the past, this is a game changer. Impressive feat of integration and I hope you're rewarded for all your efforts. Clearly a passion project!
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by jbb_hn 4y ago
2013? That’s almost a decade ago.
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by jbb_hn 4y ago
Probably due to that provocative movie on cable TV by the same name. It had that girl from the bus.
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
The fact that you recognize this is a great first step. It’s not abnormal to have a negative mindset. This goes back to our caveman days of having to think about the worst case scenario for everything since it was literally life or death.
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Would it though? We haven’t had this tech for that long. Has it made things better or worse when everything, including non-priorities, can be a distraction.
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Saving water is a good outcome. It would have been nice if the reward for doing so was less cost, since that was one of the big marketing messages of the campaign. Instead they opted to give us less for more - perhaps that was the intention
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
A few years ago, my city provided all residents with low flow showerheads - for “free”. They were even delivered directly to homes. They included literature around reducing consumption and the importance of that for sustainability. Enough
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing that! Hearing him name drop terms like markup language, stylesheets and internet is mind blowing. If only the promise of “no delay in response” had been achieved :-)
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
We wouldn’t make applications. Rather we’d deliver components which could interoperate via a binary contract. Components would be “snapped” together by non-programmers to make an application. I suppose that pieces of this became true with
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Thanks for helping to restore my faith in humanity.
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Agreed. It took me a couple of years to reach that same conclusion. When I did, I deleted Twitter and LinkedIn - the only two platforms I used. When I realized my mental health was suffering from the “infinite scroll” and the toxicity of
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
This sounds like a potentially lucrative business opportunity!
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
That wasn’t my experience, but I’m referring to the mid to late 90’s timeframe before “paywall” was even a thing.
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
Sadly, I think you probably nailed it. Back in the day, “experts exchange” was the place to get answers to questions, and look where they’re at. 2 billion dollars. That’s a LOT of money even by 2021 standards. You better believe the inve
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by jbb_hn 5y ago
And the original article has exactly ZERO comments. A lot of his concepts were right, but the implementation isn’t as aggregated as predicted.