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I don't expect amazon to have my best interests at heart. To the contrary, this entire post is about how their actions dont have their best interests at heart. When I pause a purch…

I spent 11 years working as a contractor for the U.S. State Department. During this time I: - In 1996 built and deployed a system to keep track of the removal of landmines in Bosni…

I realized I should clarify “I could find”. I’m in the Washington D.C. Metro area, but I spoke _at least_ once a week everywhere from Richmond to Philadelphia, and occasionally as …

Networking and Marketing. For 10 years I spoke at every conference, user group, etc. that I could find. I sustained a 9 person consulting company finding gigs through the network o…

This is ridiculous. 1. Pseudocode should be typeable in an email. 2. You should be able to write pseudocode on a whiteboard without worrying about syntax. 3. Pseudocode should be l…

I use and love pinboard.in

I absolutely have an inner voice. I’m ‘hearing’ it right now as I plan out what i’m saying to you. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science...

Let me get my pdf highlights into readwise and let me orgazize my notes as a zettelkasten in obsidian and i’ll get in lline to pay you.

I started watching it, but the whole thing turned me off because they took two fantastic women involved at NASA - Margaret Hamilton and Poppy Northcut, and combined them into one c…

This alsp pissed me off. He is totally ignoring Benoit Mandel brot’s work in the 1950’s and John Conways work in the 1970’s. He sounds like a petulent child who takes himself too s…

Beautiful, but why this design trend of breaking the semantics of scrolling?

Um, he starts in 1976, then says ‘21 years later’ and he’s talking about today? He’s 20 years off in his opening premise...

Wow! A webring! Haven’t seen one of those in a zillion years.

Fully functional? I have expectations...

How can this article, as well as the hundreds of comments here, not acknowledge that all they are doing is solving the Drake Equation for new values they are estimating?

Training on a common ‘software engineering body of knowledge’. The state of the art is so different across organizations it’s like having medical tricorders at one place and leeche…

Washington Apple Pi in the mid 80’s. Had no idea that would be thought of as a ‘heyday’. I was in high school and used it mostly as a group of people to get software from...sharewa…

Every time I see Godzilla he’s ensnared in and tearing down power lines. This was bound to happen sooner or later.

This but for retrocomputer kits

Audible, I’m a regular user and a big fan, but if you want to make me happy and increase my book purchasing volume: 1) get rid of the subscription service, I have avoided purchases…

I can’t believe I’m going to be ‘that guy’ for this post, but the word ‘co-conspirators’ hurts my eyes. Can you conspire alone? No, a conspiracy naturally involves several people. …

There is an important point lost here. People are saying 'people who couldn't use the road before now have the option to', but they are ignoring that the restricted hours were incr…

Getting this up and running on the PiDP/11 would be a thing of beauty: https://hackaday.io/project/8069-pidp-11

I recently hired several graduates from General Assembly and several from CodingDojo in Washington DC to be junior engineers on a team including intermediate and senior engineers. …