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rpcwork

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About rpcwork

Life Hacker, author, hopeful, delusional.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #28172767

    Screen capture, Nope. Drone footage, yes!

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    Comment #27232157

    Sublime sustained me for years, until I switched to VScode for complaince .. FML. Go sublime!

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    Comment #27224450

    Possibly uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

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    Comment #25980351

    Netflix deserves a mention: https://netflixtechblog.com/

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    Comment #25942878

    Imagine being the CEO of a company whose capital structure has IC related debt that amortizes over 10 years, having to report next quarter to shareholders, and your tenure is measu…

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    Comment #25897437

    Great endeavor! Trying to think how One would make the “...” (jill is typing) for Delta Chat considerig that it is all happening over SMTP.

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    Comment #25757533

    Our giants came before us, swallowed the enormous complexity and presented us with simpler abstraction to build on. When you move your work across environmental abstraction, these …

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    Comment #25666571

    Been an iPhone prisoner/beaten-wife/lover since 2010. Whatsapp charged $1 per year for update. Happy to pay that in exchange for knowing that my familyand network information and m…

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    Comment #25477780

    “Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because doing so might hurt pawn shops that have been thriving during a years-…

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    Comment #25451541

    Requesting the name change to the more subtle “RoachDB”

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    Comment #25236017

    I have been through this before. Losing my friends and multiple conflicting accounts about how they might have passed away. In the end, when the dust settles, it always seems ends …

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    Comment #25132168

    Same boat fella. But, The MBPpro just handles to much of my day to day critical stuff. At work, we do not allow cutting stuff edge into production on first release. That old-fashio…

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    Comment #25132047

    Might I suggest we add a touch of subtlety and call it “RoachDB”. Still the that undying stoic of the much disliked critter, but without invoking the full image of a cockroach. Lov…

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    Comment #25085482

    Nobody showed them more love than I did. Just because it felt like such a fun way to get food while still supporting the gig-workers. Until, I started noticing the huge markup on s…

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    Comment #22974682

    Pretty good historical account of pandemics based on facts, but might wanna make it more apparent that this coming from a fictional novel.

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    Comment #20852488

    Managed mail server clusters for years with an ISP. Agreed, too many things that can break and cause PITA. However, ‘Hard’ is a subjective term. The deeper you are in a trade or th…

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    Comment #20813386

    Thanks!! Honestly, I cannot afford the ghostwriters. Good ghostwriters demand upwards of $250 for 1000 words. They have their place and could be useful of one is writing structured…

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    Comment #20803029

    Glad to answer questions. Maybe, I should do an article on things I learned getting a book from concept to published with Kindle Direct.

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    SHOW HN: Wrote & published a SCI-FI thriller in 5 days. Need feedback please.

    Don’t know what came over me. Just a regular hacker here. Have procrastinated to death before, but this time, I said, fcuk it. No, “I’ll write it one day”, just started writing. An…