jonjon10002

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by jonjon10002 4y ago
I jumped to MD in 1997 because I was still using cassette for mobile music consumption. Because of the media size, there wasn't a pocketable portable CD player, and skipping was a problem (that got fixed later) so I never switched to C
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
Because if they had a choice of paying someone to answer questions for free or paying them to develop features that generate revenue, which one do you think they pick? Yes, there's the whole narrative about customer satisfaction and ca
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
In about 2002, I had a Handspring Visor Prism, running PalmOS. I bought the VisorPhone, which was a cellular phone add-on that plugged into the back. It was somewhat ungainly, and didn't work well as a voice phone. It also had a separa
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
Interesting - I'm curious if the small labels doing releases are using recordable magneto-optical MDs. (I'm assuming so.) In its heyday, there were a limited number of prerecorded releases, mostly from Sony. They didn't use M
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
Gopher was a pretty brief blip in my career, but I remember being insanely excited about it for about three months of 1991. Apple's OpenDoc was a pretty neat idea, until I actually tried it on an anemic Centris computer in 1996. And I
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
Seldom, except when we on-boarded new people. This was mostly to counter when the folks on one continent would feel left out when folks on another continent were given custom training, and the feeling that institutional knowledge was being
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
Look up the history of FM broadcast automation for more on how this worked - it's fascinating. Starting in the 60s, companies like Drake-Chenault started implementing these Rube Goldberg-esque analog systems that involved tapes with su
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by jonjon10002 4y ago
I'm a manager. (Sorry.) I do a weekly Friday "Ask me anything" on Zoom that's basically a free-form training session where people reporting to me (or other teams are fine, too) ask about how to do something or how we sho
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
NASA first addressed this during the Skylab training. They sent two of each crew to a 14-day crash course at an Air Force dental clinic, where they took volunteers and started pulling teeth from patients. More info: https://book
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
I've had two (Japanese models) sitting on my desk since maybe 2015 without drying out.
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
What about a list of open-source projects in the Ukraine to support? Of course I'd chip in a few bucks to sponsor companies on GitHub. But I can imagine there are enterprise companies that work in an OSS repo that are going to have bad
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
In case anyone's curious about California's law on this: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... This was changed in 2019. Employers must provide a salary band, but it can be after an
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
Spent ten years at a Vista company that I won't name, half before acquisition and half after, and all of this pretty much tracks. (Maybe not the security guard part, but I can confirm that when you were laid off, you were escorted stra
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
It's just a job. If you don't believe that, or thing that sounds petty or stupid, ask yourself why. Do you feel like you need the job to survive financially? Work on that. Go read about FIRE. Look at how much money you spend and m
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
It's also worth noting that Wind River purchased Integrated Systems almost entirely so they could kill off pSOS and drive customers to using their competing VxWorks RTOS. I wouldn't doubt if FlexOS is in a similar situation. It&#x
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
Wind River just got bought by Aptiv, like literally a week ago.
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
Markdown, Gatsby. Source is in GitHub, GHA builds the HTML output, then schleps it over to an S3 bucket. I inherited this setup. Works great from my end, but we've got an engineering team that set it up and owns the plumbing of everyth
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
The first one I encountered from that same era was Interface Builder, on the NeXT. And it turns out it's still around, as part of XCode on the Mac.
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
Picked up one of these as a kid at a garage sale for a buck, mostly to take it apart and see how it worked. Internally, it was a board with maybe a dozen daughter boards, each a vertically-mounted, removable card. All transister-diode logic
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by jonjon10002 5y ago
He hasn’t seen it since