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petethomas··on Tim Curry has died
In 1979 Curry had a Billboard Hot 100 song in the U.S. called "I Do The Rock" https://archive.org/details/TimCurryIDoTheRock
petethomas··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Dimension X, 1950: https://ia800901.us.archive.org/33/items/OTRR_Dimension_X_Si...

Burgess Meredith Reads Ray Bradbury, 1962: https://dn720300.ca.archive.org/0/items/meredith-bradbury/01...

Edit: Ray Bradbury read by Leonard Nimoy, 1975 https://archive.org/download/bradbury-nimoy/1-There%20Will%2...

petethomas··on Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
The Story Behind the Story Behind “The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy” Thomas Pynchon didn't invent the Phoebus cartel: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-story-behind-the-story-behind-...
petethomas··on Goodbye to Sora
Probably this https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/var...
petethomas··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
There is this with a 2012 date:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYW...

petethomas··on When is it better to think without words?
This reminded me of Hans Keller's wordless functional musical analysis. I came across it listening to his documentary on Schoenberg, available here: https://archive.org/download/miscellaneous_plays_1983-02-07_...

"Keller would construct an analysis in the form of an analytic score written for the same forces as the work under consideration and structured as a succession of 'analytic interludes' designed to be played between its movements."[1]

[1] https://www.artandpopularculture.com/Wordless_functional_ana...

petethomas··on A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
I think that is kinda what Tim Robbins does in the opening scenes of Code46 i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVXASxNrq4#t=7m35s
petethomas··on What It's Like to Brainstorm with a Bot
https://archive.is/su98C
petethomas··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
This a good suggestion with the caveat that entire domains can and do disappear: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...
petethomas··on Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
It's not mentioned here but Kapwork contributed the beginnings of this work in a PR a couple weeks ago: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/pull/1437. Thank you Gregor & Magnus for the great tech and all you're doing for the community.
petethomas··on Washington Post offers invalid cookie consent under EU rules
Ad-Tracking Consent & The Dilemma: Some Thoughts on the Washington Post Case: https://mingli.me/2018/12/06/ad-tracking-consent-the-dilemma...
petethomas··on The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found
That's intriguing to the point I tried to find the relevant web site. Thanks for conveying your experience with it: http://web.archive.org/web/20080212005133/http://gpt.berlios...
petethomas··on The Book Is a Time Machine
For some URLs given one of their old Wayback Machine entries it would be nice to be able to render those in their contemporaneous browser environments (e.g., going way back maybe Mosaic 3.0 or IE 10) to maybe then have a chance of working with some close facsimile of the original interface and functionality.
petethomas··on Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/101020585398579200...
petethomas··on Ask HN: Is there a clear, mature discussion of OOP/functional tradeoffs?
Maybe try this post, "Object Oriented Programming vs. Functional Programming" by Bill Gathen dated May 12, 2015 [0]

https://www.codenewbie.org/blogs/object-oriented-programming...

[0] https://twitter.com/ryanbrush/status/999982149901021184

petethomas··on How much money do people need to be happy?
Years ago a real estate agent driving me around to look at property relayed a somewhat pessimistic aphorism he'd picked up from his father: Life's a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less it tastes like shit.
petethomas··on Motel Living and Slowly Dying
Available on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20171205060015/https://lareviewof...!
petethomas··on Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
Just fyi on the native front our team recently started work on npm package webcrypto-crypt in conjunction with some experiments utilizing IPFS hypermedia and modern web browsers. Maybe others will find it useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webcrypto-crypt
petethomas··on How ‘Weird Al’ eclipsed most stars he parodied
The usatoday link lead to a page that would not render on my mobile device but this latimes link worked http://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/11/local/me-weirdal11
petethomas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
C2FO | Research Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE, Full time, Visa considered | https://c2fo.com

The C2FO lab is charged with developing tools for small businesses to help them win the fight against their own unpredictable cash flow using networks instead of traditional financial intermediaries, e.g., banks.

Today we work mainly in Go and JavaScript and put roughly equal emphasis on writing papers and writing software. Team members need to be able to define their own areas of interest, write their own supporting documents, and lead their own coding projects while welcoming help and input from others. Simultaneous with the largely independent effort is a need to demonstrate to stakeholders outside the team why your work is valuable.

Our interview process consists of an initial conference call to assess mutual interest, then one or more onsite interviews in Pioneer Square.

C2FO as an organization is headquartered in Kansas City and has some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Temasek, and Union Square Ventures. We have a separate, larger engineering team that we collaborate with and that publishes open source at https://github.com/c2fo.

The position includes an excellent compensation package (commensurate with experience), equity ownership, Health Benefits, 401K and more.

If interested, please email pete@c2fo.com.

EDIT: added benefits blurb

petethomas··on Why some software companies still make you talk to a salesperson
Salespeople are most effective in situations where convincing one person or one committee within a large prospective company to buy your product will unleash tens or better yet hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to you, the seller. Most other situations should probably be handled with a great web page that shows reasonable pricing.
petethomas··on [pdf] Ninth Circuit Decision on AT&T Throttling
Brian Fung's piece covering the decision https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/31...
petethomas··on Agencies seek solutions to illegal transient rentals
WSJ piece about Home Compliance is behind their paywall: http://www.wsj.com/articles/want-to-book-an-airbnb-stay-not-...
petethomas··on Twitter’s User Growth Goes Nowhere as It Meets Revenue Expectations of $710M
Here's an archive.org link to Dan Bigman's May 2012 Forbes post on those ownership structures (published a few months after Facebook's IPO): http://web.archive.org/web/20120527223753/http://www.forbes....
petethomas··on The First 'Nigerian Prince' Scam
Arguably, rampant cynicism regarding a 14-year-old's attempt to make us all "feel like worthy people" says more about us than the kid. [0]

[0] http://myfunnymemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nigerian-...

petethomas··on The 1975 LaGuardia Airport Bombing
You can hear the relevant CBS Evening News radio update at the beginning of this mp3, and again at the end (~1h:00m:41s in):

http://cbsrmt.thelongtrek.com/pp/CBSRMT%20-%20751229%200404%...

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petethomas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
Seattle (Pioneer Square)

C2FO - https://c2fo.com - hiring a software engineer for a small labs team.

We maintain a web platform dynamically pricing working capital so companies can connect on the web to meet each others' cash flow needs without involving traditional financial intermediaries, e.g., banks.

The platform runs as a marketplace similar to a stock exchange where the assets considered are approved invoices. We work mainly in Go and Node.js on the backend. Our open source projects are available at https://github.com/C2FO. We also have some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Temasek,and Union Square Ventures.

If interested, please email pete@c2fo.com.

Press release regarding C2FO's most recent venture raise is here: https://www.pehub.com/2015/08/c2fo-snaps-up-40-mln-in-temase...

petethomas··on Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire?
Watching the GSN video on YouTube I was struck by the generic presentation of non-cash prizes. Press Your Luck was apparently content to just mention the contestant won a "Sailboat" without tethering it to a brand which seems like overlooked opportunity even for the simpler time since contemporaries like The Price Is Right were integrating brands into their show.
petethomas··on Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture
I'm not aware of a JS adapter for clara rules but per the wiki it does offer ClojureScript support "with a couple constraints"[1]

[1] https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript

petethomas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
Kansas City, MO

C2FO - https://c2fo.com - hiring software engineers.

Our name stands for "Collaborative Cash Flow Optimization" and we maintain a web platform that dynamically prices working capital so companies of any size can connect with each other to meet cash flow needs without involving traditional financial intermediaries like banks or financial factors.

The platform runs as a marketplace similar to a stock exchange where the assets considered are approved invoices. We work mainly in JavaScript and particularly node.js; our open source projects are available at https://github.com/C2FO. We also have some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Summerhill Venture Partners, and Union Square Ventures.

More about the openings at https://github.com/C2FO/jobs

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