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by jonaf 4y ago
We own an HP printer. The other day my wife told me the printer refused to print unless she renewed her subscription. I told her no way in disbelief. That can't be legal. She renewed the subscription and was able to print again. I&#x27
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by jonaf 4y ago
I purchased the ThinkPad P1 mobile workstation in 2018. It's a great machine but it's about as loud as a vacuum cleaner.
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by jonaf 4y ago
Agree with this 100%, as a father of 5. I have 2 sped kiddos that are aseverely handicapped and even at 7 and 8 years of age they cant do many so-called mundane tasks. Also no one can or wants to watch them, including family. Also if you th
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by jonaf 4y ago
I purchased new construction once. They were putting up a thousand cookie cutter houses like ours in that neighborhood. And even that estimate missed the mark by more than 3 months. Even estimating building the same floor plan the hundredth
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by jonaf 6y ago
I have never looked this up, but anytime I'm checking out at a brick and mortar store, I'm asked, casually, "Phone number?" Or "Zip code?" As if thats information that is necessary to check out. My response is
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by jonaf 7y ago
Parent of 4 here, ages 6, 5, 2, and 8 months. My oldest two are special needs. Some thoughts from my POV... My oldest wasnt trained until about 4.5 years. It took around 6 months to a year for him to pick it up consistently. Hes still not t
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by jonaf 7y ago
This looks like a great case-study. Basically, it seems that if the licensing isn't in Amazon's favor (take the OSS project, put it into operation, sell it as a service), then Amazon is likely to simply build their own implementat
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by jonaf 7y ago
New business model idea: write open source software with a license that requires, well, a license to _operate_. It's free in all the typical APL2 senses, except that you can't sell it "as a service" without signing, eff
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by jonaf 7y ago
Yeah, I am a fan of Arch on the desktop, but the P1 runs Nvidia's P1000 chip and Arch doesn't seem to like that, so I went with Ubuntu+i3 for now. Updating the firmware first is definitely critical, as you could brick the machine
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by jonaf 7y ago
Thanks, this makes me feel better about my decision a couple months ago to switch to Lenovo's ThinkPad P1 Mobile Workstation. I don't have any regrets switching from Apple hardware, and frankly Linux is so much more superior (espe
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by jonaf 7y ago
Ha, I like this one! Actually these algorithms may approximate one another when generalized. Pirsig explores the philosophy more deeply, though; for example, generating a hypothesis: where does it come from, and is it possible to run out of
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by jonaf 7y ago
This was the one, a facetious version of Pirsig’s algorithm: https://xkcd.com/627/
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by jonaf 7y ago
I have also experienced this phenomenon. Why do you suppose we come to these surprises, and why do you suppose we experience them? Is it because we are confident? Or because we lack sedulity? Or because our analysis was incomplete? Is the s
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by jonaf 7y ago
This is a very interesting philosophy. A few years ago, a former coworker and good friend of mine introduced me to an algorithm for solving problems. This is a slightly different purpose than doing something hard, but there are some interes
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by jonaf 7y ago
I have been in search of what you’ve put together. My wife and I have tried unsuccessfully various strategies along these lines that were more lofi, but always come back to the spreadsheet. Another vote for open sourcing! I would be willing
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by jonaf 8y ago
PSA: if you take TripleByte's online quiz, they don't have the capability of giving you the results of the quiz. At least, that's what I was told when I took the online quiz -- they couldn't share the results with me bec
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Teaching Smart People How to Learn (1991) [pdf](pds8.egloos.com)
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by jonaf 8y ago
I couldn't find this on your product page, but does Hazelcast Jet support "global windows"? I've found 90% of stream processing systems I've come across only work within a window, but if I need to perform a computat
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by jonaf 9y ago
It's interesting to me that, before I learned about databases (circa 2004), I built 3 distinct software products based on flat files (no database). They were all written in PHP (the only backend language I knew at the time). This was b
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by jonaf 9y ago
Please tell me that the referenced C# dialect used in Midori is available in some form for use, research or general learning? This would really make my week!!
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by jonaf 9y ago
Cool! I authored a web based accessibility tool called Graybit some years ago. It allowed you to enter a web address and browse the web through its proxy, which converted all CSS, html and images to their grayscale equivalents. The idea was
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by jonaf 9y ago
Something else people should know: AWS ES is on the Internet. You can't deploy it to a vpc yet, and you can only lock it down using IAM, which may or may not be good enough for your use-case. For those that prefer the ease provided by
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by jonaf 9y ago
Yeah, I should have clarified I was talking with my operations hat on. From a development perspective, you might call it a "deploy-time" or "scale up" dependency.
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by jonaf 9y ago
Speaking from an operations perspective, yes, it's a runtime dependency. From a development perspective, you might think of it as a "deploy-time" dependency. Think of it in contrast to compile errors. If your program has erro
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by jonaf 9y ago
You can speed up AMI baking by using chroot + a mounted EBS volume on a running instance. It should drastically reduce the time it takes to produce a new image. Also be sure that you're building EBS-backed AMI's, as S3-backed AMI&
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by jonaf 9y ago
Your question seems to indicate that you have a runtime dependency on github. If true, this is a problem no matter where your git repo resides. You need to architect a solution wherein you do not have a runtime dependency, especially if it
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by jonaf 9y ago
I can appreciate how holistic the GNU ecosystem seems to be. I'm a lover and user of Nix, so whenever something about Guix comes up, I draw the contrast. In this case, GuixSD is using Shepherd, which uses Guile for configuration and fe
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by jonaf 9y ago
Thanks! I never thought of it this way before, but I suppose there's no "set it and forget it" to selling on the app store if selling on the app store is your primary source of income, since you have to keep working to ensure
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by jonaf 9y ago
That's interesting, but it sounds too simple. Surely any of the competitors could also IPO, and at that point, Blue Apron still needs to justify why the market is better off investing in their company. By contrast, prior to its acquisi
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by jonaf 9y ago
Tangential, but what made you decide to go back to full time employment? Also, did you just not enjoy working on a product as much as consulting work, or was it simply not as lucrative/sustainable/reliable?

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