julesallen

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by julesallen 8mo ago
Thank you for sharing this.
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by julesallen 8mo ago
Absolutely agree, have been looking for something like this for a while now. Did you build this yourself? Would love to know more if you’d be so kind to share. Used to do similar things with Trello before the focus went all in on enterprise
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by julesallen 8mo ago
There’s need and there’s want I suppose. My oldest computer book I won’t part with is Alan Simpson’s dBase III+ Programmer's reference guide, circa 1987. This book was transformative and allowed me to get a gig as a coder, so much self
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by julesallen 2y ago
Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE. I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix system, that wasn't you by chance was it?
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by julesallen 2y ago
Skimming this and thoroughly enjoying it, back in the mid to late 80s I worked in London's phototypesetting industry mostly serving ad agencies and others who needed high quality, quick turnaround type. I didn't work with Monotype
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by julesallen 2y ago
I turned this on as well and all I've had are a few false positives when running up stairs or similar. Good feature and id rather have to unlock occasionally than error the other way.
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by julesallen 2y ago
Like that there's no ads but it's a big no on the "data shared with third parties". Assuming this is how they make money? I'd rather wait 10 more mins for the bus I just missed.
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by julesallen 2y ago
Android here. Have you looked at the amount of data this shares with third parties? No ads but holy hell. No thanks.
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by julesallen 2y ago
Go easy on calling yourselves "QI", the hugely entertaining BBC TV show might have some qualms about this. https://www.qi.com/
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by julesallen 2y ago
If it's any consolation you're really not missing much!
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by julesallen 2y ago
I had one of these and I think I bought it from Staples, Office Depot, or whatever the predecessor to this was. I can't remember the exact timing but I picked up an IBM Simon around the same time. Both were half baked products that end
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by julesallen 2y ago
Prodigy, haven't thought about that in a lot of years, thanks for the memory tickle. Even with the painted-with-bricks interface. GEnie was another that was kind of fun. And I still can remember my CompuServe number!
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by julesallen 2y ago
It's a little anecdotal as nobody was really writing history down at that point but it feels about the right timing. The first time the FTP server I ran got broken into was about then, it was a shock as why would some a-hole want to do
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by julesallen 2y ago
If you actually read the article all will be much clearer.
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by julesallen 2y ago
"Here a busy New Yorker *can book a 5 minute time slot*, pay for a hat, stand in a spot under my window for 3 seconds, have a hat put on their head, and get on with their extremely important, extemely busy day all within a single New Y
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by julesallen 2y ago
So if I type hunter2 you see ****?
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by julesallen 2y ago
Did you consider the Planet Computers' Gemini? Martin Riddiford who designed the keyboards for the Psion 3 and 5 series did the magic again. https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini-pda Got mine in 2017 from their Indie
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by julesallen 2y ago
"But because juvenile convictions in Finland don’t count towards determining whether somebody is a first-time offender, Kivimäki will end up serving approximately half of his sentence."
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by julesallen 2y ago
It is, yes. You're moving (your) home, it's just what everybody says. Just as dropping 'on' from "let's meet Monday" equally baffles Brits.
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by julesallen 3y ago
Seems to be back up again, ~15 min outage.
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by julesallen 3y ago
Love reading the comments here and how these books changed lives. For me it was dBASE III PLUS programmer's reference guide from 1987 and it imparted enough knowledge to start a programming career. Read that dog eared thing end to en
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by julesallen 3y ago
Redesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed. Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger pr
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by julesallen 3y ago
> All those real-time features are antipatterns that do nothing but create anxiety and a false sense of urgency. We use Slack at work... ...and I use other apps to keep in touch with family in different time zones. For me knowing somebod
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by julesallen 3y ago
So many reasons not to use SMS: No indicators that the message was actually received (2023 and SMS is still flaky on deliveries), no read receipts, no presence notifications, no typing notifications, no encryption in transit or rest, no esc
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by julesallen 3y ago
duckduckgo.com/?q=siriusxmoffices and pick the first one.
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by julesallen 3y ago
You're going to love this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i+still+don%27t+care+about+cookies
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by julesallen 3y ago
You might like iVPN.net, been using them for years. A little more money but solid support and mission.
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by julesallen 3y ago
If you haven't done it recently it's not the nightmare that it was. These days you say you want to cancel, they'll ask you "would you pay $X?", you say no and you're out.
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by julesallen 4y ago
No argument on the crappy comms. If I was in customer success at an enterprise vendor I doubt I'd be let anywhere near the tools to get this back up and running. These guys are generally in the way rather than helping in a situation li
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by julesallen 6y ago
I've been using their products since their first cam came out (was skeptical but hey, $20-odd bucks was low risk). Now have multiple cams, bulbs, and so on. Getting the watch is a low dough no brainer. Solid stuff for not a lot of mone

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