kenbolton

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by kenbolton 3y ago
I would pay for commercial support, an API, and maybe a webhook or some programmatic way to be notified of changes.
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by kenbolton 3y ago
> (no date, though, so I don't know how recent). This has been one of my biggest peeves about the WWW since 1993. Please include publication and/or change dates and/or include a changelog on your pages. Do not force your u
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by kenbolton 3y ago
> I’m struggling to recall the locations of the concentration camps in the USA. My reply was to the above statement.
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by kenbolton 3y ago
I can help you remember the locations with the help of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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by kenbolton 4y ago
The only thing to which you are entitled–by definition–is access to the source. It is your responsibility to verify what the source does. The "getting paid" notion is off-topic and has nothing to do with the source being open. I
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I only care about the individualized ethics. You do you.
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by kenbolton 4y ago
Android uses the Linux kernel, which, to old-heads like me, is Linux, whereas the combination of userland and kernel was GNU/Linux. ChromeOS also uses the Linux kernel. If you are talking about Chrome-the-web-browser, well, then the
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by kenbolton 4y ago
Happily picking an opinion: I won't use phone apps; I won't buy new computers or devices, though I infrequently buy refurbished; I won't buy new cars; I carefully vet all vendors for quality, politics, and ethics (and have la
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I'm not at all saying that they are equivalent, just that they should not be forgotten.
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I fell hard out-of-love with fantasy about the time of the release of Jackson's TFotR, which coincided with a hard "nope" to the fantasy "science" fiction of the Star Wars universe and has grown to a rejection of 95
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by kenbolton 4y ago
No. It won't die. In the same way that memory of the Holocaust won't die (hopefully), or that memory of Putin's invasion of Ukraine won't die (hopefully), or that the memory of the corruption of Donald Trump won't d
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by kenbolton 4y ago
More seriously, though, I am not far-sighted. I do not need corrective lenses to read books, newsprint, magazines, or labels at the grocery store despite the possible genetic predisposition baed on the need for reading glasses by my parents
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I call it "wisdom". :-)
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by kenbolton 4y ago
In the same minute that I learned GitHub had been acquired by Microsoft, I cancelled my pro subscription and began moving my critical repositories elsewhere. I'm old enough to remember the MS that tried to choke the life out of GNU&#x2
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by kenbolton 4y ago
In our case, there is no "brand dishonesty". In some cases, the front-end is co-branded, in others the front-end is white-label while the resulting product, if used, has our branding. And sometimes the end-user gets the raw data w
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I try to work seven days a week four hours a day for the last ten years. It is an attempt to avoid burnout, but I also find I solve more of the truly hard problems away from the keyboard. My fantasy setup: waterproof 13"-15" e-ink
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I know the estuarine river very well in my part of the world and the approximate distances between various landmarks and aids to navigation. Places I don't know as well, I use nearby features: cars, houses, aids to navigation, etc., to
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by kenbolton 4y ago
Totally agree! I live in my own bubble and discount everything written on the internet by some (often arbitrary) percentage. (Dons flame-retardant suit.) I double that percentage if Elon Musk or Marc Andreessen have skin in the game in the
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I wore glasses for a few years in high school because I had trouble seeing the blackboard from anywhere but the front row. I started hiking and kayaking every day, especially in places where I could see for many miles. I also migrated from
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by kenbolton 4y ago
We are careful not to play favorites with customers, whether the relationship is direct or through a reseller. Success for our resellers translates into success for us. Every unit sold matters. Every relationship matters. Critically, every
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I bumped into a friend on the street a year ago he and told me about the business he had recently co-founded and taken through YC: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/partnered . I told my co-founder about it and it b
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by kenbolton 4y ago
We have our own customers, too. In addition, the folks white-labelling use us in-house. We aren't strangers to the companies receiving our white-labelled SaaS; we do the initial customer on-boarding and provide all the higher-tier supp
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by kenbolton 4y ago
My business does exactly this. We have a very small sales team, but the firms white-labelling us have tens-to-hundreds of folks in sales and marketing, and sometimes provide a SaaS into which they bundle our white-labelled product. Our (&qu
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by kenbolton 4y ago
I was opposed to electronic reading of all types having spent much of my life in academic libraries. I'm now on my second Kindle Paperwhite; I gifted the previous generation to a sibling's seven-year old. The Kindle is the only de
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by kenbolton 4y ago
The manufacturer downstream from Gore has a great repair service, but we've repaired GoreTex in the field with a GoreTex patch adhered with AquaSeal for larger tears and a drop of AquaSeal for pin-holes. I agree that they could be doin
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by kenbolton 4y ago
Wool ftw! I consider my primary work to be in outdoor leadership. I've built my wardrobe around sustainable wool. Gore is working toward more sustainable waterproof/breathable materials, and the manufacturer I buy GoreTex from, Ko
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by kenbolton 5y ago
> I face this all the time at work. "Can't you just make a single button to run this task so I don't have to figure out how to use this complicated script?" "Just" is a four-letter word and its use is forbid
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by kenbolton 6y ago
The distinction with regard to muscle memory between Vim and evil-mode Emacs is a false one. Try Doom or Spacemacs. You are likely to learn more about your editor and your development process with a tool like Spacemacs.
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by kenbolton 6y ago
Emacs user for the years in college, with the occasional forced dip into vi. Vim user for ten years after college with a couple of forced dips into Eclipse and other IDEs, with vi keybindings where available. Evil emacs user for about the l
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by kenbolton 6y ago
Are you notified of the location of the reviewer?

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