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40 yrs of coding as well. It's a joy.

This was my experience until I started using a fitbit to get an accurate daily burn count. It showed that I was setting my calorie count way too low, hence the hunger issue. If I e…

The plain joy of solving problems via code. I'm 55 and wake up every day with another set of problems to code against, it never gets old. You can also make a lot of money along the…

Companies with great products rarely go bankrupt in my experience (while the product is great of course).

I exit when I either no longer love the product or see a replacement product I like better. I have my accounts at Fidelity and my 10 year RoR is 33% vs 9.78% for the S&P 500 (31% g…

My product tastes are pretty mainstream, nothing obscure. In the early days I liked Windows and Netware as I did a lot of consulting work with them and had good runs with them. I s…

For the last 30 years I have bought stock in tech products I use and like and hold it until I no longer like the product. This simple strategy has dramatically outperformed the ind…

OpenAir, Ambrahealth

I recently switch from a Macbook to the Asus Chrome flipbook and am happy with the following workflow. I enabled developer mode and installed Chromebrew, vim, git, rsync and tmux. …

Just this weekend I retired my old Macbook and switched my dev environment to an Asus flipbook and preemptible VM's on google cloud. For offline work I boot linux from a usb-c flas…

55 yo and have run close to daily for 45 of them with minimal injuries. I land on my forefoot and then put the heel down softly, the shoe makes little difference other than an over…

CTO at ambrahealth.com here, once you get the CD you can create a free account at our site and upload the MRI for cloud viewing and sharing. A lot of providers are starting to use …

Nicely done, very slick, you have nailed a lot of the pain points of VDI. Shameless plug but at leostreamdesktops.com and leostream.com we have been in the VDI market for over a de…

Slow SSH session is usually a DNS issue.

My personal experience jibes with this. For many years I struggled to stay around 200lbs on a low fat diet. A year ago I tried the whole 30 and since then have easily stayed on a n…

Congrats to the MedXT team they built a beautiful DICOM viewer and had a good cap structure which makes this a win/win for them and Box. Box now has an Saas offering into the most …

An age old debate and both are great! I used Emacs for a decade plus and on a whim spent a vacation re-programming my fingers for Vim and stuck with it as it felt slightly faster, …

I can vouch for the real world performance. Phil has used Purescript to dramatically improve the performance of our medical image viewer. It's pretty impressive stuff.

For me the answer is simple. If I eat 2500 calories a day of vegetables, nuts, meat, eggs and fruit I have trouble finishing it all. If I eat 2500 calories with grains and sugar in…

Same problem with the seals in New England. They are cute and protected and exploding in population with negative effects on the fish stock. Canada restarted seal hunting to protec…

Agreed! I use a lot of Saas services and tarsnap is insanely cheap for the value it provides. While I'm at it, a feature I would love to see in tarsnap is server side pruning of ol…

Yay, this is a big step towards making DaaS a reality. The Teradici PCoIP client they use improves the user experience a lot, especially for video. Now just waiting for an API so w…

A very cool idea. A meat space analogy I recently saw in South Africa is a rapidly growing farm supply company that automatically gives the farmers stock based on purchase levels, …

This one hits home. 25 years ago I zigged into the water filtration business when I should have zagged in the bottled water business. I had the choice and never saw that businesses…

The judge is an America hero. The NSL's are Orwellian. I just donated to the EFF, please do likewise.