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by DrScump 7y ago
It addressed the parent comment that implied that programming organizations are inherently not diverse. Too many are not, but it's not because programmers from other demographics aren't available ; it's because true diversit
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by DrScump 7y ago
All book/course links are affiliate links (e.g. tag=javamysqlanta-20)
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by DrScump 7y ago
If the author worked as a programmer and could still repeat the above As a programmer for a "stodgy" defense contractor, the programmers in my group alone included our Chinese-born female project leader, a Hong Kong-born f
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by DrScump 7y ago
My first programming job was for a defense contractor. There was no PTO concept, just vacation (2 whole weeks a year) and sick leave (12 days a year). Unused sick leave accrued indefinitely but was not usable in any other way. I was putting
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by DrScump 7y ago
I wonder what TMobile support organization the writer contacted. In my substantial experience, their support organization in the far East is worse than useless. I've been flat lied to numerous times. However, their Oregon support opera
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by DrScump 7y ago
offload the risk of personal property theft ... which somebody always pays for (the customers, if the business survives, investors if it fails).
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by DrScump 7y ago
running errands ... is exactly the kind of use case for which these shared scooters are ill-suited. You stop for your first errand, come back outside afterward, and bam! someone else took it. What if there are no others nearby?
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by DrScump 7y ago
less useful for bar hopping and you're on the hook People using motorized scooters for bar hopping (inebriated use) is a specific concern.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Warning: silently redirects to different domain.
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by DrScump 7y ago
There is also a good PBS miniseries of his work using the same title. One benefit is seeing his interactions with different aboriginal societies and how respectfully he treats their origin stories.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Today, San Francisco only has trains along Market Street Um, Caltrain? BART? Fixed rail Muni, including the 3rd Street line all the way to Bayview?
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by DrScump 7y ago
The weakness of poor fill was also demonstrated by the collapse of row houses in the Marina district of SF. One striking effect was the directionality of the damaging waves. Bookcases and such that were perpendicular to the waves from the
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Xkcd #2172: Understanding Lunar Cycles(xkcd.com)
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by DrScump 7y ago
I remember feeling like I had really "arrived" that day I got my very own Sparcstation on my desk. But it was still not as much fun as operating an IBM 3081 with two banks of tape drives by myself throughout the night.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Halon activation wasn't fatal to people. It was designed to be the least harmful method to people, equipment, and materials alike. (The ozone layer, on the other hand, ...)
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by DrScump 7y ago
I just realized I’ve never physically touched any sever I’ve worked on professionally. In my career, nothing felt quite as high-tech in its moment as hands-on mainframe operation, oddly enough. - Loading a custom removable boot d
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by DrScump 7y ago
Mainframe security (or mainframe era security) was stronger simply because of access . Introducing media required access to a connected peripheral and console (or TSO, at least) access, both of which were probably in a secure, raised-f
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by DrScump 7y ago
used to be being the relevant metric. Linux and UNIX used to be installed using stacks of diskettes and piles of patience.
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by DrScump 7y ago
These kids today have no idea that copyfests and installfests were things.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Atkins goes back to the 1980s, and keto diets well preceded him. There was already an active Usenet community for lowcarb diets in the late 1990s (alt.support.diet.low-carb).
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by DrScump 7y ago
The earliest warehouse shopping "clubs" worked sort of like this. Consumers Distributing, Best Products, Service Merchandise, DAK, etc.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Walmart was an early adopter of handheld on RF networks clear back to the early 1990s. I worked on integrating support for our database/4GL apps with Telxon and Symbol RF network devices (including portables and wearables) then.
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by DrScump 7y ago
Also watch for events at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, CA, east of L.A. http://www.museumofpinball.org/
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by DrScump 7y ago
How do you handle refueling?
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's probably best not to comment about it anyway, except to make vague mumblings about Higgs-Field-detailed sensors and death rays.
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by DrScump 7y ago
I'd recommend being careful about making flippant remarks on public forums lest some future litigious asshole try to make hay out of it. But on point: on I-5, for one example, I've encountered semis doing 80+ MPH in loose groups a
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by DrScump 7y ago
Do you support triples in those states that allow them?
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My systems were core to business operations (manufacturing shop-order control) and always ran between 2-4 AM. I quickly hardened the shit out of our interfaces so that we (a) wouldn't break and (b) had automatic workarounds for when fe
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by DrScump 7y ago
Getting analog lines in my office and/or the lab so I could rlogin around and fire off builds and tests from home so I could get an extra iteration or two in with minimal lag time.
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Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in. Microsoft ran a radio recruitment ad campaign in SV in the late 80s with that exact theme! The narrator exclaimed how hirees would

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