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Andy, you had me at KillerMike + El-P super group. Best of luck running the jewels on the dbase world with CH

class action lawsuit? maybe i'll eventually get a settlement for my multiple Office Mac licenses that won't buy me a latte. what a joke. note to self: never buy anything from MSFT …

Here's my workflow, hopefully concise enough as a reply, in case helpful to those very few who'll actually see it: Research -> Define 'Domains' -> BDD -> Domain Specs -> Overall Ar…

I'm impressed by the depth of snark from GPro3 here, e.g. - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) And,…

Nice read, and beautiful website btw.

Few misc thoughts here: - Lawyers want this all to work in Word.docx - Many [ / most? ] law firms have a large, overly-complicated "doc database." These have Word plugins, and they…

> Using a very well designed library for your use case is not nonsense. Could you recommend your personal favorite(s) of such libraries? Enquiring minds want to know! Thx.

100% If equity is going to be a material component of compensation, then the argument "you're not committed enough, you deserve nothing if you leave..." is utter nonsense. Imho, ma…

https://www.rubykoans.com/ Last time I looked they hadn't been updated in a while, so may not have support for the very latest & greatest features of rubylang, but find this a grea…

Great article exploring specific colormaps and applications, incl discussion of pros/cons of popular maps [ e.g. Cividis better for color-blind viewing than Viridis, but is a more …

"The old Apple laptop would sound like a VAX in a hurricane while building Emacs!" Sysadmin to a VAX farm in an earlier life -- this brought back some good memories, especially of …

To whomever went to the trouble of writing this up, then giving it a dedicated domain -- thank you, you're making the world a better place.

"Not sure I totally get your point about my reason for selling. Are you saying I should or shouldn't say my heart's not in it? That's the genuine reason and I've always built in th…

Hi Andy, Former founder, now investment banker here. Sorry to hear you're not interested in continuing the business moving forward. Btw, if you really want to sell, probably best t…

From 1995 to 2002 I led biz dev for DataChannel's XML parser [ the first written, most widely licensed to other platforms eg MSFT, and likely most widely adopted ]. I coordinated o…

I've been using Bitwarden a couple months now and can only speak highly. We'll see how it's security audits & stands the test of time, but so far so good for me.

Long time ago, in a dot.com startup epoch long ago: Our Seattle/Bellevue based startup hired VP & Dir of outside sales in Silicon Valley. Expensive hires, big payout to recruiting …

Ask your student(s) to look at a map, or better yet, open up Google Maps and flip to 'Earth' view. All that satellite imagery? Every single pixel, from every single satellite fly-o…

They never wanted to sell this data -- it's far too valuable. They merely wanted US gov't approval to use it in any possible way they choose to, which they have not had previously.…

How is it possible that no one else has already commented that Uber's first truck delivery is basically self-driving Smokey & The Bandit??? Well played Uber, well played.

Other concepts to discuss: > API versioning, perhaps in Services DSL, and toolset to enable factories and testing more easily against multiple versions > Modular 'apps' from singul…

tldr: My year off was fantastic. Not life-changing, but amazing. In the years since I find individuals reaction to hearing of my year off very telling in what they'll be like to wo…

+1 for VMS.... so good, but so proprietary & doomed to extinction... so unfortunate.

Thought this very interesting and potentially useful. I added a suggestion under 'person going through a divorce,' e.g: ''Acknowledge it's going to be a difficult process and trans…