DougN7

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by DougN7 3y ago
Theft will eventually result in even less pay over time. Both sides need to respect each other. In my case a dev was paid very well and given tons of freedom, and screwed me. I’m not some huge company making bank here.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Totally agree with almost everything you say. But there are lines both sides should not cross. For employers it’s exploitation (don’t expect unpaid work) and for employees it’s theft (don’t take pay for no work). If we can’t agree on tha
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by DougN7 3y ago
I am probably missing the point of this. Didn’t we have stuff like this back in the 80’s with phone couplers and modems?
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by DougN7 3y ago
I’m hanging onto this post for the next time I see people on their high horse about integrity among engineers. The fact is, some people have it and some don’t, regardless of job. This makes me sad. Economically it makes sense, but it’s a
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by DougN7 4y ago
Industrialization was slow - it took many decades to happen, so people could adapt. I don’t see us having that luxury of time.
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by DougN7 4y ago
Yes. One of my pet peeves is when I read articles that say “but now we know…” I mean progress is good, but we always think we know everything when something new is figured out. Seems like it’s never the case - there is always more we don
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by DougN7 4y ago
That is true, and if it does the same, then asking about a job gets you there 15 minutes sooner. It’s an optimization.
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by DougN7 4y ago
I don’t think the parent has disdain, but rather experience. I’ve had my eyes opened wide by getting to know some people at the bottom of the economy. A 50 year old man who has basically no skills other than manual labor. There are peopl
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by DougN7 4y ago
Love or hate the job, knowing what it is gives you insights/guesses into skillsets, education level, economic level, possibly the type of people they mingle with, etc, etc.
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by DougN7 4y ago
You seem to be a Google apologist. Just because a platform is currently the biggest and most dominant hardly means it has trust and love. YouTube is the Windows of video platforms.
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by DougN7 4y ago
You’re not alone - I had to read it out loud to see the pattern :)
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by DougN7 4y ago
This is just an anecdote, but I’ve had multiple “10 year” LED bulbs fail after just a year or two. I suspect much of the claims for these bulbs are theoretical as they just don’t hold up, probably for reasons the grandparent poster is poin
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by DougN7 4y ago
What if they swap some details of an eye or a nose and make one person look just enough like another that an innocent person is convicted?
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by DougN7 4y ago
Probably not. Business owners are running a business, not doing deep research on their bank (one of the larger ones!), their electric company, the water and sewage company, the landlord, printer supplies company, caterer, ISP, all cloud pr
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by DougN7 4y ago
So I have to prove what was stolen from ME, but others have to prove what was stolen from people 2-8 generations back? Notice how your examples of reparations are to those who were directly harmed, which seems fair. Saying I owe someone fo
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by DougN7 4y ago
I’m not convinced. What about all of my ancestors that got paid less than inflation adjusted minimum wage? Who were killed in wars fighting to keep the country free? Lots of people benefit from their work, so do I get a slice of the pie?
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by DougN7 4y ago
I’ve always thought reparations have to be balanced against all of the benefits folks have gained from being born in the US in the 20th/21st century vs being born in Liberia (for example). Any economic help (unemployment, food stamps,
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by DougN7 4y ago
I really hate this quote: “Why buy the cow when the milk is free?”. Having said that, sex is a huge bonding element for those who won’t have sex outside of marriage. Everyone else misses out on that element, and are paying for it.
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by DougN7 4y ago
That was beautifully said.
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by DougN7 4y ago
I don’t understand - how is it not a server port? When a datagram arrives from the network it’s addressed to the server’s IP and a port (and from a client IP and port). How is the data delivered to the correct socket if not through the 5-
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by DougN7 4y ago
My wife has chronic migraines, and we live in the US. We visited Europe last year for 3 weeks and she was migraine free. We figured it had to be the food, and talk about maybe moving…
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by DougN7 4y ago
I’ll admit I was raised wearing my shoes indoors and still do it. I live in the suburbs and haven’t really ever needed to use public transportation on a long term basis. I guess big cities are different. I go walks everyday and track who
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by DougN7 4y ago
I actually wondered the same thing since I’ve never heard of z-library
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by DougN7 4y ago
I wonder which is the cause and which is the effect. Aren’t neural pathways changed by experience?
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by DougN7 4y ago
They weren’t getting stuff done, because they weren’t putting in the time to get it done, because they were splitting their time between two jobs.
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by DougN7 4y ago
With three out of three different employees so far, all slowly did less and less work the longer they worked from home. I’m 90% sure one of them had an additional job, and another one admitted it when he quit. I don’t like to micromanage
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by DougN7 4y ago
That’s what we called a “regular job” 30 years ago. Work from wasn’t even an option.
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by DougN7 4y ago
I very much doubt you get fewer ads - they’re just less personalized.
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by DougN7 4y ago
This might sound silly, but I once had a project to work on an IMAP mail retriever so I decided to name it Rocket IMAP (it was faster than the previous approach). I was surprised how many people picked up on that name and talked about it i
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by DougN7 4y ago
It’s just anecdotal, but I know a few men that died shortly after retiring, including my father who also had the same concern. Makes you think…

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