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Any link or details for the event?
I tried looking for SJSU events and found the earlier Vintage Computing Fair talks, but at least I can trade this time capsule link from that era even if it doesn't quote me toon the Byte Shop specifically: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/04/04/bytes-and-chip...
Or perhaps the dimension was length, rather than weight?
the corresponding receipt, then pinned them together and sent out a check, usually a few months late. To figure out how much money the company owed, they stacked up all the bills, measured them with a ruler, and through a formula of unknown provenance turned feet into dollars.
From _The Fires_ by Joe Flood (2010) Cited in https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/18z6i09/comment...
But I could not find a quote in the Macnamara interviews from the _Fog of War_ https://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html as cited by https://forum.woodenboat.com/forum/the-bilge/28529-the-film-...
From _Go Like Hell_ by A.J. Baime (2010):
Ford Motor Company was hemorrhaging millions of dollars every month. It was impossible to give an exact number because there was no accounting system. “Can you believe it?” Henry II later remembered. “In one department they figured their costs by weighing the pile of invoices on a scale”
I’d suggest Firebase for scenarios that need real-time notification all way to a device, app, or browser.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub is better aligned to server-to-server messaging, similar to other Cloud queuing services, service buses, event logs, or open-source systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
Is there a "defense fund" to contribute to? Any other constructive actions to suggest?
The scariest/most exhilirating challenge is one he plucked right from the running monologue in my head: "is our company vision really the path to a brave new world, or just a delusion?" http://bit.ly/bdS0