tingley

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by tingley 6y ago
Good read from last year about how trucks from the current LLV fleet (which at this point are very old) keep catching on fire: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-...
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by tingley 6y ago
The police have said they are evacuating the building, but have not identified a threat: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1327353175670657024
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by tingley 6y ago
Credit to the people that wrote and maintained bugzilla, both as software and this particular instance. It's still ticking, much longer than (I assume) they planned it to.
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by tingley 9y ago
This criticism is pretty rich, given the venue in which it is posted.
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Therapy app Talkspace raises questions about medical, privacy regulation(theverge.com)
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by tingley 10y ago
A hollowed-out book that contains something other than pages is literally a fake book. It looks like a book, but it is a fake. It is not a real book.
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by tingley 10y ago
If you are interested in this type of activism, and live in a city that offers its own form of ID (notably SF or LA), you can do this now by signing up for a city ID card. There is considerable concern that the city ID databases will be
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by tingley 10y ago
Years ago I worked for a company who was building a piece of networking hardware, and we had bought some code that implemented various well-known routing protocols. This included the TCP/IP layer, but it was just the BSD stack. Our de
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by tingley 11y ago
The disparity in disk snapshot performance was surprising.
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by tingley 12y ago
This is the comment I was going to make. This is an /extremely/ apologetic spin from Owen Williams, and seems very unlikely to be accurate.
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by tingley 12y ago
For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik. For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.
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by tingley 12y ago
This is not an uncommon SV story archetype, but as many people have pointed out before me, it's one that highlights the concept of privilege with particular clarity. In the US, both men and white people are more aggressive at this sor
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by tingley 12y ago
Valencia Street in SF has this, but it's set for 13mph, for bikers.
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by tingley 12y ago
The extended pregnancy metaphor is confusing and off-putting.
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by tingley 13y ago
There's not a lot to say. I didn't have any huge role in the project, although the experience working on it was hugely influential in the way I thought about programming. Maybe I'll write it up some day. As for Hyatt, it ju
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by tingley 13y ago
I fixed blink in Mozilla twice ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89065 ) in the old days, back when I was running around looking for things to fix. The first time it broke was a result of Dave Hyatt's rew
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by tingley 14y ago
When I'm allowed to pick the question, I invariably pick "Which is it?", and the answer is a series of random words. Now you know, identity thieves.
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by tingley 15y ago
Margo Seltzer taught CS50 for much of the 90s -- at least '95, '97, and '98 and also, I believe, for a couple years prior to that. (She was on leave in 1996, and Brian Kernighan taught the course.)
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by tingley 15y ago
This worked for me as well.
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by tingley 15y ago
Nice addition, although as a marginal Mozilla contributor at the time (and frequent IRC lurker), I remember a few other principals being involved -- notably Ben Goodger and and Matthew "mpt" Thomas, who seemed to me to be Blake Ross's prima
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by tingley 15y ago
This omits one of the most interesting parts of the story, which is how Firefox evolved as an offshoot from Mozilla in the first place.
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by tingley 15y ago
Also the name of a venerable BBS system [3]. I'm feeling OLD. [3]: http://www.hermesbbs.com/
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by tingley 15y ago
The end of an era, no matter how minor a procedural change this is. The impact that Eich has had on the average computer user is unimaginable to me. Thanks, Brendan.
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by tingley 15y ago
> helping a customer define a process and improving that process with technology 100X. This, this right here. One of the things that I discovered over the course of my 20s is that this one particular thing gives me vastly more satisfac
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by tingley 15y ago
Real Genius by a hundred thousand miles.
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by tingley 15y ago
I've been using Evernote since October, primarily for straight note-taking (logs of things done during coding, draft emails, records of meetings, etc). I used to use vim + dropbox + grep, but a) I finally got a decent phone and wanted to
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by tingley 16y ago
Silver lining: I discovered m.gawker.com.
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by tingley 16y ago
I was! But unfortunately I have not had a Mac since 2000 or so. I should really commandeer my brother's laptop next time he's in town. Maybe over the holidays.
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by tingley 16y ago
Maybe? I'm not sure. I remember Andy Inhatko having the back page for a while, and some other people as well, but I don't remember where those things fall in the timeline w.r.t the merge with MacWorld.
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by tingley 16y ago
Dvorak could legitimately be described as a professional troll. Stopping right here to reminisce for a minute. When I was a kid, my parents bought me a subscription to MacUser magazine, because I was glued to our old 512. I would read th

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