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consultSKI

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Retired Marketing Mad Man™
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consultSKI··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
I only needed one: It is a Microsoft offering.

Never used it, never will.

consultSKI··on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
Priceless! Well done Jan. Thank you for sharing this amazing project.
consultSKI··on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
>> BlackBerry reserves the right to change, modify, discontinue, or cancel any offer or program or any part thereof at any time and in its sole discretion, without notice to you. <<

Oh. Never mind. I thought you guys were serious this time.

"As I once told a QNX sales rep, your problem isn't that you're being pirated. It's that you're being ignored." — https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Animats

consultSKI··on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
Awesome! I signed up for the BlackBerry PlayBook dev initiative at SXSW in 2012 and found the device and QNX to be amazing. It supported a bluetooth mouse YEARS before the iPad! But BB failed to capitalize and yet another great product failed to make it into the mainstream.

Looking forward to it! Espcially now that you guys are "inside" several EVs if the rumors are true. Sign me up!

consultSKI··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Yep. Equifax got hacked a few years ago and the Government let them use ITS credit monitoring tool for those affected instead of reaching into its own pockets to pay for a third-party solution.

#sad #speakingOfMonopolies

consultSKI··on CSS @property and the new style
Great feedback IMNSHO. But the key is CSS (cascading STYLE sheets)...

You and I are NOT designers if I may be so bold. In 1996 I was one of about 100 people on new and MAJOR website/application build. From scratch. My role: Billing Lead. As a "full stack dev" only my eCommerce insights were needed from me. It is called FOCUS.

As a StartupBus alumnus of three treks the model was brilliant: Build teams from three skill sets: Devs, Designers, and BizDevs. Focus.

I love that the examples will not be gibberish to the designers of our day.

consultSKI··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
Term Limits. No real math is required.

Senate: 1 Term. 6 years. Not able to then serve in the House. House: 2 Terms. 4 years. Not able to then serve in the Senate. 1 Term House + 1 Term Senate. 8 years total.

Elect any LEGAL Citizen regardless of age.

consultSKI··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
Maybe this will get Tim Cook's attention?

P.S. Tim, you have gone to far. Even if you win the case. #justSayin

consultSKI··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
>> but the IDE was the best way to make GUIs that ever existed

It was Lifted in spirit from NeXTstep's Interface Builder, so it was okay. But still a pale comparison.

P.S. If you are old enough, you will remember when $MSFT tried to steal Quicktime so its video products didn't suck. They got caught because they copied the machine code. Byte by byte. #howSad

consultSKI··on HTML First
Yeah, I agree with others, not good. Recommending inline CSS is just wrong.
consultSKI··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
"We have always done it this way" comes to mind.
consultSKI··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
#sad
consultSKI··on We raised a bunch of money
Okay, help me here... with Dockers why would I want to go back to VMs?
consultSKI··on Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
Interesting insights... it is going to take me a couple of reads to comprehend all the value here. Thx JDAW

P.S. Thx for the PDF version

consultSKI··on My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
My 10 year old BlackBerry Playbook was light years ahead of the iPad in functionality with standard features like mouse support (which iPad only received a few years ago). The QNX-based OS v2.x was amazing. In fact, QNX is now used on over 200 million automobiles.

https://blackberry.qnx.com/

consultSKI··on Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Wrong. Never used them, probably never will.

>> The programming use case died because, according to Hillell Wayne, “even most proponents of UML considered it a terrible idea.”

When Ivar Jacobson's Use Cases were added to UML it was a day to celebrate for me and many others. I still create them 30 years later with other methodologies, even ones with no direct tie to software development like Dr. Eli Goldratt's TOC (Theory of Constraints).

consultSKI··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
Does anyone besides FAAM-sized entities care what Google thinks or does?

There is a very real reason disruption matters. Can Google be disrupted? Absolutely. However, will they? I believe so. But not by playing by the same rules.

consultSKI··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Not happening. Where is my new iPhone like the AR units used in "The Expanse?"

Oh yea, the great SciFy series about the future of outer space is on Amazon Prime.

Tim Cook: Stop by and I will show what you should have released. #justSayin

consultSKI··on Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
#sad
consultSKI··on The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
About time.
consultSKI··on ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
This is a big deal. Huge.
consultSKI··on Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
if true, one more reason i don't miss mailchimp...

they have made it IMPOSSIBLE to take them seriously. #justSayin

consultSKI··on Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today
The ONLY reason I cared was it allowed others to think the RSS approach was somehow how "over" and no longer worthy. #sad

P.S. I still use RSS Feeds and have a reader as a Chrome extension.

consultSKI··on Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage
All three "services" are bought dogs. Only MUCH worse than the BBB.
consultSKI··on How I make a living working on SerenityOS
Cool. Where did the name Serenity come from?
consultSKI··on Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
after 30+ years writing scripts, I picked up several cool ideas. #thx
consultSKI··on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
Cool. So the defense, "Facebook does much worse!" didn't fly? #justSayin
consultSKI··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
Never. One is the best.

If and if they have a note from the Hiring Manager's Mom would I give ANY employer a second interview.

If you are Talented and they do not hire you on the spot, they are not going to do so. Why? The "A Player" to be named later has a new position within seven (7) days. Period. Get it?

consultSKI··on A Project of One’s Own
>> Remember that careless confidence you had as a kid when starting something new? That would be a powerful thing to recapture.

Indeed. Never lost it. Thanks for sharing.

consultSKI··on This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
Nice. I haven’t thought about (at) commands in many moons. My first modem was a 300baud acoustic. Homemade by a friend.
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