Caveman_Coder

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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "...working on something benefiting humanity..." I think you forgot to add the "/s" to this statement.
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Is the Cloud Killing Data Center Jobs?(datacenterknowledge.com)
2 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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California Millennial Assembly-Member Pushes Bill to Recognize Blockchain(ccn.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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FB co-founder: The digital economy will continue to destroy jobs in the US(cnbc.com)
2 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
The company I work for uses it for all of their customer billing, and when I was first doing my orientation I met another new hire that was joining the mainframe team, and from what he described, it is the same for most COBOL programs in mo
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The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language(devops.com)
43 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|15 comments
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China's Dystopian Tech Could Be Contagious(theatlantic.com)
4 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Didn't that exact scenario happen at like Berkeley? I thought Ann Coulter or someone what prevented from speaking...maybe it was someone else
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
What do think about the other content in the report?
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The Clean Power Plan and the Midwest’s Winds of Change(energycentral.com)
2 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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Statement on Visit to the USA by Professor Philip Alston(ohchr.org)
103 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|65 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I posted my experience with this on HN before...it was very disheartening: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16396441&goto=threads%...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I don't think this would need to be codified...There seems to be too much of that going already
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Plus, the TSO/Dispatcher role is a lot less bureaucratic than being an RO/SRO. I think most current RO/SROs would enjoy the job immensely more. You still get to operate a pretty large, intricate, and intellectually interestin
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "It seems like that minor inconvenience is worth the net benefit to the community, from which your wife benefits" You'd be hard pressed winning her over with those arguments in all honesty > "...for example, by b
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I think that is a fair point. Our group is relatively homogeneous in our interest in HAM radio (and there aren't that many of us), so when we find others that share the same interest, perhaps we're more likely to overlook any poli
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Can you point me to an example of "discord" brought about by better rules of conduct? Or to this funding that you mention?" Only my wife's anecdotal experience...she was a full-time software developer and the
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I wonder why tech communities need their CoC... I'm a member of a local HAM radio group and we don't have any CoC and we don't have any issues at all. The male/female makeup is about 70/30 and there are people of va
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "My concern with reactor operators is that it's a dying industry due to the challenges in getting a commercial reactor permitted and constructed, along with the costs of renewables driving nuclear out of commercial viability.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
What you found for RO/SRO positions is pretty much spot on, and there are other "experience-in-lieu-of-degree" types of jobs that pay exceptionally well. Regarding the naval experience aspect, the utilities that hire navy vet
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head here. As an anecdotal example, I was hired as a software developer on a team of mostly electrical engineers, and our group develops software/supports the energy management system at a major utility
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I've told this story on HN before, but when I was first interviewing, companies would ask me for my GitHub/public projects/conferences/etc. and I would say that in my free time I'd rather be outside doing various ac
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
TLDR: "...the American state of Arizona — a Republican Party stronghold — is poised to take the lead on energy storage in the country as it tosses up whether to impose an 80% clean energy target by 2050. The proposed clean energy overh
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AZ Could Implement Huge Energy Storage Mandate, Aim for 80% Renewables by 2050(cleantechnica.com)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|1 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Thanks! The current role I'm in has me working on software that controls the electric grid...pretty cool stuff in my opinion, and it fits in nicely with my electrical trades background. Working mostly with C/Perl/Linux.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I'm not a wordsmith... Plus, what would I write? It's kind of straightforward sexism. 1. White guy applies for job, no responses. 2. White guy reapplies and only changes name/sex to appear female, receives responses within th
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Sorry to hear that...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> I can't believe you were downvoted for expressing that merit rather than race and gender should be use for hiring decisions. This is the new world we unfortunately live in. Words and their meanings are transformed to fit within th
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
+1 I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I worked my way through school), I had a hard time even landing an interview at first. As a social experiment, I changed my
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I was pulling in 100K (base pay) as a tradesman, granted I was an operator, but it is still considered a "trades" position. Also, a college degree is not required in order to land most power plant/transmission/distributi

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