Blackstrat

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by Blackstrat 4y ago
As a retiree, I'm older than most here, and can attest to the fact that the freedom of expression in the United States is suppressed to a greater degree than at anytime in my lifetime. And it's only getting worse. To accept cens
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The key point, regardless of the subsequent disagreements about Apple, is that this involves the government. Consequently, it is easy to argue that Google and Big Tech aren't private companies and thus subject to the Bill of Rights.
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This article isn't ethics. It's ideology. It is not unethical to identify differences in various cultural, demographic, or organizational groups, or any others for that matter. It used to be called science. A prime example of
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There really isn’t anything comparable and that includes the publications by ACM and IEEE. The magazines one finds on the shelf at the local bookstore aren’t worth the expense. The same is true of the majority of the programming books aime
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No matter how many times you toss this word salad, it falls to the taxpayer. I paid my student loans off in full and on time. At the time I owed a loan amount equal to about 25% of my annual salary. If one borrows the money, they are o
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I’m betting the majority loans are not to ITT
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One of the most important things I learned early in life - don't define yourself based on your career. Eventually, the career ends and then you find that you don't know who "you" are. Same with family, children, friend
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I’m 67 and don’t have any trouble learning new things. My priorities change. I’m not willing to waste time on certain topics now but will spend hours on others. The claim that “old people” can’t learn effectively is a myth and has been
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Amazon has reached a scope and scale that more than warrants antitrust action.
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Start with rejecting the very premise. Look at who stands to gain from the various crises and realize most are manufactured. Now closer to 70 than I care to admit, I’ve seen decades of world ending predictions, all of which were fallacious
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Krugman is a political hack first and somewhat less an economist. His prognostications down through the years don’t have a great track record. Might as well be a Jeane Dixon.
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If you believe this will seriously curtail illegal trading by Congress, you're dreaming. This is nothing more than a show bill leading up to the election. The dinosaurs in Congress like Pelosi, McConnell, et. al. are corrupt to the c
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While unquestionably semis, etc. are of vital US concern. However, why should the companies be subsidized by the taxpayer? All of these companies are profitable. All are multi-national. All can sell every chip they make, etc. This smack
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Generally, high taxes on anything are bad. Taxation facilitates a transfer of assets from the productive sector to the non-productive sector, e.g., from the homeowner to the government. The recipient then uses the money to further their p
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As a survivor of more than 10 mergers/acquisitions at various stages of my career, I definitely think the industry is self-destructing. The embracing of the trend of the week, e.g., microservices, the Cloud, off shoring, outsourcing,
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I would suggest that answers to this question require that you qualify what you mean by "good" programmer. There are, IMO, many functional definitions. And depending on which you are using, will yield different secondary skills.
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If I was your boss, I would be asking you the following questions: 1. Who is covering your role while you are on vacation? Hint, it's not your boss. 2. You are the lead dealing with a maverick. Are you sure that you are right on th
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Sooner or later, and I suspect later, companies and individuals will realize that they can’t trust cloud providers-period. And all the connected gadgetry like Siri, Alexa, et al are not in anyone’s best interest.
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Look back at the bill the democrats put forth after the initial leak. It was never intended to pass. Just another stunt as most things from Congress are.
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Something between France and Britain, i.e., abortion cutoff somewhere between 14 (France) and 24 weeks (British). Make it a clean bill. Leave out late term, identity and gender politics, etc. The bill would pull 60 votes, IF AND ONLY IF,
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License plate readers were an issue long before RvW was overturned. And what everyone seems to be ignoring is that the Democrats control the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Passing a reasonable bill, one that would garner bipart
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Nuclear and natural gas. Forget tilting at windmills.
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Seldom do I see any of the OpenSuse flavors touted on here. Curious about the reasons why, general perceptions, etc. Its been around a long time, has many users, but seemingly not much support here or in the web media generally.
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Extremely shortsighted. But the cloud is still the big trend. It’s a “brilliant” move until it isn’t. And then the pain is monstrous.
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He popularized Rank & Yank, Stack Ranking, or any of the other names the practice has been called. It was one of the most pernicious trends ever promulgated in corporate America. The practice promoted one of the most toxic work envir
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I used LinkedIn heavily prior to Microsoft’s acquisition of the company. Since that time, it seems to have become more and more Facebook like. Consequently, I’m no longer a paid subscriber but maintain a presence simply because I have hu
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It’s not just QE. Couple excessive government spending, with intentional disruptions of the energy supply, and the ongoing damage from the COVID lockdowns and inflation was inevitable. Powell’s comments are concerning since it was obvio
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As a retired hiring manager, I’d ask what type of accommodation are you looking for in the technical interview? How would you have convinced me to take a chance on you? And what type of position? What is your comfort level interacting wi
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I would suggest that it depends on your platform, paradigm, and your experience level. SICP, Clean Code, Code Complete, The Gang of Four, DDIA, CLRS, etc. are all great books but their value, IMO, varies by environment, e.g., perhaps of dif
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There are other reasons. I live in a major city that has difficulty completing infrastructure projects. In grad school, one of the projects we did was to evaluate the city’s contracts, which were publicly available. What our team foun

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