DavidAdams

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by DavidAdams 6y ago
I grew up in DC in the 70s, and used to go to the Air and Space Museum all the time. I'm surprised I don't remember having seen this video as a kid. I love how she uses her well-worn chef's knife as a pointer.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
This is anecdotal based on my experience in both the Bay Area and SLC, but the pay differential is extreme at the top end, and practically nonexistent in the middle bands. That is to say, the kind of developer who might be able to command a
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
More specifically, it's the smell of brine shrimp decaying on the lakeshore. But it's actually not a common occurrence for the Salt Lake stink to be present in the city itself. OP was just lucky!
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Lost Cities is a good game that's 2 player only
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
I had the same feeling. I'd been working on building software for so long that I wanted to build something with my hands. But I ended up building a whole house instead. It probably wasn't a good idea in retrospect to be so ambitio
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Some might consider your post to be off-topic or worse a "well, actually" interjection, I found it fascinating to learn the source of the "best minds of my generation" framing. Thanks.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
If you're trying to turn around a mis-managed company, a few rounds of identifying and eliminating people in the manager ranks that aren't pulling their weight could have a huge positive impact. So I could see that "neutron&q
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I'll echo this, and add in what some other commenters have said below: you might want to consider leading with your sabbatical in an interview. Talk about it in a positive way, and how you're refreshed and ready to come back to wo
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
On the morning of September 11, I stepped onto the stage at a trade show to launch my new product. Over the course of the presentation, a buzz developed, and people started standing up and leaving. By the end of my speech, the trade show ha
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Incidentally, did you ever listen to the NPR Star Wars radio drama? https://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460269884/that-time-npr-turne...
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
My company is hiring in SLC. If you'll give me some idea of your background and qualifications, I'll give you some advice.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
They banned cars in Zion National Park about ten years ago, and it was a good idea. Arches could definitely do the same, but the problem with the Moab area isn't so much overcrowding of the parks as it is overcrowding of the town, beca
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Interestingly enough, there's a parallel to the San Francisco housing shortage. There are actually many, many more amazing places to see in Southern Utah and the rest of the Southwest. Only a small number of these places are in nationa
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I had the same thought about quantitative easing. Because he used the money to make so much investment, he was single-handedly modifying Portugal's monetary policy, which, had he succeeded, may have permanently stimulated the economy.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
My volvo's big central volume control has a large play/pause button in the middle and it works to pause anything that Carplay is playing. There's also a play/pause control on the steering wheel. Overall, my 2016 Volvo do
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I know that a lot of activity on Shopify is from ambitious but deluded people setting up dropshipping businesses. Shopify is just selling picks and shovels to a lot of prospectors in a particularly unfruitful gold rush. I'm wondering w
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Malcom Gladwell addresses this strange credentialism in the legal industry in a recent podcast. In his reckoning, entry into top law schools is determined almost entirely on LSAT scores, and the LSAT favors people who can process questions
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Chargeback.com | Senior Ruby Developer | Salt Lake City, Utah | Onsite preferred, remote considered Chargeback is a SaaS FinTech company that helps merchants deal with credit card disputes. We work mostly with Fortune 500s, online retailers
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-globally-...
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
James O'Keefe claiming something doesn't make it a fact. On the contrary, I'd be inclined to doubt the claim in that case.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Despite my quibble, I find the sentiment to be very poetic and inspiring.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I don't think you'll find any scientist that will predict that the sun will burn out in a hundred years :-)
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I randomly ran into an old high school friend at a gas station in Breezewood. We were living 2000 miles apart at the time and were traveling in separate directions and just happened to meet. A few years later, in his late 30s, he contracted
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I'd suppose it's no different than the wide use of local colloquialisms, abbreviations, and pronunciation differences in spoken language region by region. An American in Australia has to intuitively pick up a lot of new vocabulary
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Many quadraplegic people have limited use of their arms. Pretty much everything I know about quadraplegics I learned from the most excellent documentary, Murderball, which is about quadraplegic rugby, a full-contact sport played in wheelcha
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
In the summer, the greenhouse opens up.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Terry was a nut, but he did a pretty good job of getting the word out about his magnum opus. Over several years, he alternated between sincere advocacy and unhinged abuse in trying to get my website OSNews to cover his OS development effort
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
I believe OP implied that the battery in the smart lock itself died.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
People don't like puns?
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
An HR department whose mandate is to limit legal damage to the company at the lowest possible cost. That is to say, all of them. Unfortunately, it's usually easier and less legally dangerous to push a low level employee who has a griev

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