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kpatrickon The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04

"faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

kpatrickon Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?

You should only bill for time spent on client work, unless stated in the contract. When I did consulting, I worked over 40 hours to bill 40 client hours, because there is always some company overhead that isn't related to customer work.

The 40 hours you see billed regularly is maybe to avoid triggering overtime/excess hours clauses or norms.

kpatrickon Modula-2 Compilers on CP/M

Both Pascal and Modula 2 (and Oberon) were designed by the same person.

kpatrickon Raft Consensus Animated (2014)

Thank You!

kpatrickon Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative

Seems a reasonable experiment to me. Beyond the base install it contains a collection of useful apps and setting preconfigured for web filtering.

kpatrickon “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

Most residents of Greater Vancouver can get it via Burnaby Public Library

kpatrickon Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (2007)

I must mention Factor, which is a modern concatenative, stack-based programming language. It turns out Forth was just the first concatenative language discovered/constructed.

https://factorcode.org/

kpatrickon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring in Canada?

SAP is hiring in Vancouver

kpatrickon Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking

My patent attorney used to tell me: "Patents are like nuclear weapons. I want to be on the side that has the most."

kpatrickon Trump's blog isn't lighting up internet, showing effectiveness of deplatforming

Bush and Obama are still called Mr. President by some people.

See https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/47505/what-is-t...

kpatrickon Tax Consequences of John Oliver’s $15M Medical Debt Forgiveness (2016)

My understanding was all the debt was beyond the statue of limitations anyway.

kpatrickon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Great name!

kpatrickon Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service

Hard to compete with Canada and the language is the same in most parts.

kpatrickon Htmx – high power tools for HTML

The // means use network, while / means use local file, so I think we need both.

kpatrickon Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

1) The Pilgrim's Progress, and 2) The Holy War - John Bunyan

kpatrickon John Oliver buys $15M of medical debt for $60k (2016)

The debt was out of statute, so probably not taxable.

kpatrickon Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser

user: kpatrick Thank You

kpatrickon Ask HN: How do I get a Linux admin job with no degrees?

What religion forbids a cs degree?

kpatrickon Little Wars – a game by H.G. Wells

I second M44.

kpatrickon Robert Boyle's Experimental Proof of the Possibility of the Resurrection

I don't think the ability to appear in a closed room is necessarily walking through walls, and I don't think it was a function of the resurrection, rather that it was a miracle. Similar miracles of transport are recorded for angels, Philip, and Enoch.

kpatrickon Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2

Try Wawanesa insurance out of Regina.

kpatrickon I’ll write you a Slack bot in return for a $5K donation to ScriptEd

OP might want to check the tax implications of this e.g. Joe Louis.

kpatrickon Alternatives to Tableau?

SAP Analytics Cloud (which I work on), combines BI, Planning and Predictive.

kpatrickon Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

Will console get multiple tabs support eventually?

kpatrickon Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

what feedback app?

kpatrickon Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts

Guessing the battery died and the clock reset throwing off a https parameter. Happens to my daughter's tablet when she forgets to charge it and then she can't connect to https sites without resetting the clock.

kpatrickon Dropbox Paper

Apache Wave https://incubator.apache.org/wave/

The spiritual successor was OpenSocial gadgets, also now gone except in some corporate spaces.

kpatrickon Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

Was in Reykjavik in June one year. It was cold, light and stunk. The cost of food was high.

kpatrickon DemocracyOS

I'm actually pitching a similar idea to a major corporation.

Here is a reading list if you are interested in the subject. There have been (at least) four conferences on the subject of online deliberation.

https://www.loomio.org/

http://wikis.evergreen.edu/civicintelligence/index.php/ELibe...

http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...

http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/

http://online-deliberation.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_deliberation

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=134286...

http://www.virtualagora.org/

http://parliament.sourceforge.net/ftf-paper.pdf Parliament: A Module for Parliamentary Procedure Software

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf Prakken, Henry. 1998. Formalizing robert’s rules of order: An experiment in automating mediation of group decision making. Tech. Rep. REP-FIT-1998-12, GMD.

kpatrickon jQuery.com Malware Attack Puts Privileged Enterprise IT Accounts at Risk

IBM also has a patent pending on this.