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by kochbeck 1y ago
I’m just going to leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by kochbeck 3y ago
It’s not that the mainframe is hard to learn. In fact, the environment is pretty easy to understand once you get past the archaic naming (but let’s not kid ourselves: on the POSIX side we’re still running t[ape]ar[chive] and other archaic t
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by kochbeck 4y ago
I see a lot of “good” answers where good translates to reasonable business or social goals. But I can think of quite a few bad reasons. The top reason is, management wants workers back in the office because managers never learned how to man
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by kochbeck 4y ago
The author could not be more wrong. Branches exist to handle and process A) cash demands, B) check and other non-specie instruments, and C) paper for commercial clients. If they’re a community or specialty bank, branches also exist to serve
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by kochbeck 4y ago
Well… I read it. And I’ve gotta say, that sounds like a blatant violation of Regulation Y, the requirement that bank holding companies engage only in, “The business of banking.” There are lots and lots of activities that fall under that umb
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by kochbeck 4y ago
Oh wow, that made me feel old. I actually read that article just before making the switch from the Radio Shack TRS-80 ecosystem to Commodore. See the Tussey ad for a 64C with an FSD-2 floppy? I bought that package from them with a repackage
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by kochbeck 4y ago
Goodness, Rexx. I’m pretty sure I got the job at IBM when I was a kid because I already knew Rexx on the 390, ARexx on the Amiga, and the OS/2 version. I also knew HLASM and ia32 assembler, so I was instantly useful with no further tra
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by kochbeck 4y ago
During US v Microsoft, I was in the middle of writing a brief to the court arguing that the solution to Microsoft’s monopoly was not to split the OS from the application groups, but rather to disallow Microsoft from publishing its own compi
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by kochbeck 4y ago
I still have a Model 100. It replaced the one I had in high school. It has, by far, the most comfortable keyboard I’ve ever used on a laptop. My typing speed on it approaches the speed I can reach on a Model M mechanical keyboard. There’s s
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by kochbeck 4y ago
That depends. I give you the graphite grading scale: https://pencils.com/pages/hb-graphite-grading-scale Remember how standardized tests require you to use a “#2” pencil? That’s an HB pencil (approximately) in the stan
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by kochbeck 5y ago
I notice IBM was a major licensee. If you can figure out which product it was used in, the successor to that division (since I suspect it was something that’s now dead like PSP or mass storage) almost certainly has a clean copy of the sourc
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by kochbeck 11y ago
If you want to stay in JS, check out Pocketsphinx ( http://syl22-00.github.io/pocketsphinx.js/ ). If you can get outside JS, look at Sphinx or Kaldi. As an alternative, if you're on mobile, both Android and iOS have
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by kochbeck 11y ago
Heh, yeah, as someone who still occasionally advocates for converting something back to batch, I know. Bear in mind, I'm typing this from an XOpen-certified UNIX machine, so obviously I wasn't a total rwars ideologue (religious OS
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by kochbeck 14y ago
Meh, these guys got it blindingly wrong. But I suppose now that MIT TR picked it up, I have to write up a a response. Bother.
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by kochbeck 14y ago
Umm... that was a pile of mediocre advice. They compared a bunch of plans to costs in San Francisco, but they overlooked the #1 most important thing: for persons with fairly low to zero income, San Francisco already has universal healthcare
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by kochbeck 14y ago
I haven't delved deeply into the problem they're describing here, but it seems like I haven't really heard any very creative solutions to this. For instance, can you still create a named pipe inside the sandbox that the parent process can h
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by kochbeck 14y ago
\rant{I think it's funny that you say this, because I was just remarking to someone the other day that the primary way I've seen TeX and its little forest friends age is that it's become rather unwieldy IN SPITE OF the fact that the hardwar
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by kochbeck 14y ago
There's actually a really good reason why this isn't coming anytime soon to the US: number portability is not entirely centralized, and the porting system is built to run in batch, not in realtime. So if, say, Sprint issues a portability re
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by kochbeck 15y ago
5% is pretty much for contract rate offset. But $100/hr is not an unusually large hourly rate right now for finance. I'm curious what you want this person to do? If you're prepping for an angel or seed round, is there something unusually co
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D3 for Beginners tutorial series(blog.visual.ly)
2 points by kochbeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by kochbeck 15y ago
What's particularly galling about this post (and the SOPA / PIPA / whatever people on the other side too), is that I haven't found anyone on either side of the argument who's stopped and said, "Hey, wait! Somebody's getting some major econo
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by kochbeck 15y ago
Meh, I left my post running tech there just before this story ran. One day I'll write what really happened. It's a lot more complex than people imagine.
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by kochbeck 15y ago
Not sure how helpful this is, but I ran the development of Live Nation's site before the TM merger. The key systems you're probably looking for access to are TM Classic, TM Archtics, and the Paciolan platform, all of which are owned by Live
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by kochbeck 16y ago
Er, yes, but I'm not sure if this will be a satisfying answer: If you contact IBM Global Services, they have a group that can put together a hosted database proposal with very stringent uptime guarantees. Most likely they'll push for you to
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by kochbeck 16y ago
The usual benefit of porcelain is that it's on top of metal, and the metal takes a magnet. So if you're going to be putting something on the board that would benefit greatly from magnets, like, say, a timeline that you update everyday by mo
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by kochbeck 16y ago
I think you mean your basal metabolic rate. Wikipedia has a pretty good entry about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
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Filming a Documentary on Startup Weekend(kck.st)
1 points by kochbeck 16y ago|0 comments
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by kochbeck 16y ago
I was in an early entrance program to U of North Texas back when highly-organized early entrance was a (very) newfangled creation. If you qualify for a large, on-campus early entrance program with plenty of kids your own age, you ought to g
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by kochbeck 16y ago
I absolutely loathe MS Project, but for large projects it does one thing well that I haven't found in other desktop packages: it does a passable job of supporting effort-based planning. There are lots of good enterprise-class planning proje
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by kochbeck 16y ago
I purchased insurance through a corporate membership with the American Electronics Association http://www.aeanet.org/Insurance/InsuranceStart.asp some time ago. Don't know exactly how it is now. But it was good insurance then, it was easy

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