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by njacobs5074 11mo ago
I'm not certain that I agree with this because a URL makes no claims about idempotency or side-effects or many other behaviors that we take for granted when building systems. While it is possible to construct such a system, URLs do not
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by njacobs5074 3y ago
I like the idea of an e-bike but in South Africa I’d be worried that it would easily be stolen. We also have grid challenges here but that can be dealt with by planning one’s charging schedule.
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by njacobs5074 3y ago
Agree that saying "intimate understanding" is a bit off the mark. Had the author written "intuitive understanding", it would have made a bit more sense. However, given the prevalence of the von Neumann computing architec
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Turn off your iPhone for five minutes(9to5mac.com)
4 points by njacobs5074 3y ago|1 comments
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by njacobs5074 3y ago
I think society, collectively, puts a lot of currency is "knowing what you're going to do". It's a question that adults ask children, especially precocious ones. But, frankly, it's pretty much bullshit. I was an ave
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by njacobs5074 3y ago
I had the interesting experience to work at Palm in the early 2000's on a project that was to compete with the Blackberry. Needless to say, it never saw the light of day but I still remember that we had to ask the PalmOS engineering gr
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Apple, please don’t take all of the buttons away(theverge.com)
56 points by njacobs5074 4y ago|90 comments
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
Interesting narrative - all we need is Bruce Willis at the controls and we’re gold ;) I’m sure it was all planned and coordinated with their marketing team. After all, they need to figure out important things like how much fuel, time to arr
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
Definitely experienced this as well playing music in public. I also experienced a variation of it when I did karate. During sparring, once my sparring partners hit me for the first time, I was able to start focusing on sparring and not the
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
Helping and mentoring the next generation of coders to be successful.
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
I remember taking a graduate level networking course at NYU in the early 1990s. The instructor was an IBM consultant. We studied token ring, FDDI, SNA, HDLC/SDLC and several other commercial products. One evening, I raised my hand and
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
I worked at Sun Microsystems in the late 90s/early 2000s and at the World Trade Center offices, pretty much everyone had to hot desk. I was in a group that, unlike our "pure" sales brothers & sisters, spent a lot of time
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
Wouldn't the Victorians have used 'enquiry' and not 'inquiry'? (Asked in all honesty and w/o an ounce of snarkiness because to this day I still struggle with the difference)
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
This behavior always reminds me of book "The World Without Us"[0] in which the author points out that, of all our domesticated animals, cats would definitely survive due to their excellent hunting skills in a world without humans.
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
My experience with eSIM has been with my Apple phone. I have an app that basically does this - it's Ubigi and I've generally been happy with it. I installed it from the App Store. As to why Apple themselves don't have such an
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
I'm 58 and feel like I still have a lot to offer. But my focus in these days is to help my team (most of whom are easily half my age) be successful. I find that their success gives me a lot more of a buzz than coding something I'v
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
This is a great idea. Any chance you can back port it to older versions of macOS? My laptop is running Big Sur (11.6.7) and I see it requires Monterey (12.3+).
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
First of all, that sounds like a shit situation. If you think it'll be valuable, you could ask them why it's important that you hit their date. Most likely they're being pressured by someone else. But at the end of the day, y
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Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees(english.kyodonews.net)
264 points by njacobs5074 4y ago|98 comments
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Elon, you have no idea what the hell you're talking about(techcrunch.com)
8 points by njacobs5074 4y ago|4 comments
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Custom Alien-Inspired PC – Custom PC #225(raspberrypi.com)
2 points by njacobs5074 4y ago|0 comments
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
The Pascal compiler on our CDC Cyber (used by undergraduate courses when I went to NYU) would do this, too. Yeah, was a long time ago :)
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by njacobs5074 4y ago
I think part of it is that while this may be a win for your customers and maybe for the founders, the payoff for the startup’s employees may not be that lucrative, based purely on the wages that are typically paid in-country as compared wit
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
I’ve meditated on and off for a few decades and have only ever experienced a sense of calm and clarity. Is the author’s experience common for other people?
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
JUST_SAY_NO? :)
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
What’s odd is that we have back-end services that send messages to Slack and those seem to be working absolutely fine. Guess the failure is in a different part of their platform…
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
> Just giving people money forever will only cause destruction. Would you agree that this is equally true for someone who comes from a wealthy family and has a trust fund that essentially guarantees that they will be "given money&qu
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
My point was that IBM Plex, as a recent font, is not bound by historical traditions or practices regarding the use of ligatures in the font. Sorry for the confusion.
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
Sympathize with all the comments about the horrific web page. More concretely, is it too much to expect that fonts have ligature support by default? I get it that certain fonts, for historical and aesthetic reasons do not support them. For
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by njacobs5074 5y ago
My experience with this issue has correlated highly with poorly written specs and/or stories (or worse, none at all). This in turn usually means that someone in the team is being lazy about the work to be undertaken. I get it - writing

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