GVIrish

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by GVIrish 12y ago
The Chinese are pushing on a Gen 4.5ish fighter and the Russian Su-30 variants are nothing to sneeze at. The Eurofighter is a step up over the F-16 but doesn't totally eclipse it. However, the irony is that the F-35 probably won'
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Eh, something like a F/A-18 has somewhat short range but the Super Hornet is better in that regard and there's always mid-air refueling. It simply doesn't make sense to jeopardize the success of the backbone of American airp
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> The F-35 has a lot of problems, but it's already made its way through most of that loooong process. Scratching it and going back to the drawing board would reset that clock, which means that even if 1) they started on the new desi
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> Why would you think the next program would be any better? Because if the powers that be were smart, they drastically simplify the requirements and drop the USMC variant completely. Any time the military tries to design a super-advance
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> Additionally, the problem with police cameras during protests (at least in my experience in Germany) is that they are routinely turned off just before the shit hits the fan. To address that very real problem there needs to be a 'm
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by GVIrish 12y ago
It's a poor way to manage anyone, period, and an even poorer way to deal with people outside of the company. An anti-pattern if I ever saw one.
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> Ongoing internal investigation? Or -- and forgive me, I don't know a universally inoffensive way to broach this subject -- because her being a gender/ethnic minority in her line of work makes Amazon reluctant to terminate her
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> It's not worth all the human suffering caused by a depression instead of a recession just to prove that the banks should be more cautious. It's not about proving a point, it's about preventing this situation from happeni
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Only a publicly traded company would be subject to Dodge v. Ford. Even then, making money and doing the right thing are rarely a strict dichotomy. Trying to sue start ups out of existence is not the only way to ensure the profitability of a
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by GVIrish 12y ago
> Customers are not useful when dead, no matter how happy they were when they left. One of my hobbies is motorcycle racing/track days and I'm always flabbergasted about how lax organizers are about safety. I'm going to s
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Honestly that's kind of always been Apple's strategy. They're usually not the first mover, but they try to be the best mover. I think they've been a little bit slow to follow shifts in the smartphone market though. The
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Banks will only become willing to pay after experiencing expensive, massive disasters like what JPMorgan is experiencing. Maybe. Migrating and/or killing large legacy enterprise applications is monstrously expensive, so the decision m
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by GVIrish 12y ago
While ISP monopolies are a big part of the problem, even if there were competition, that would not ensure net neutrality. After all, if all of ISP companies decided that they could make metric tons of money by gating off the internet, and t
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by GVIrish 12y ago
One of the victims stated the pictures were from several years ago. Unless the hacker was extraordinarily patient and persistent, I have to think a MITM attack on a cell tower is unlikely. More likely a cloud service (email, social media,
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by GVIrish 12y ago
"Maybe they make the processes arbitrary difficult so that only those who really want to work for Google actually follow through?" I think it comes down to the attitude that they'd rather have a bunch of false negatives than
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Just because you're unlikely to get shot in the streets by British police, doesn't mean unlawful killings by British police are not an issue. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/dec/03/deaths-pol
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by GVIrish 12y ago
No we shouldn't be 'complaining'. As tech workers we have it better than most professions in the United States. However that doesn't mean we should be happy that the powers that be are conspiring against us to not pay u
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Yeah the poor environment can be frustrating and demoralizing. Recently I had to deal with an environment where I wasn't allowed to deploy code to the development server myself. I had to copy code to a shared drive and wait for a sch
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by GVIrish 12y ago
If you don't hold a clearance weed usage won't really be a problem. And if you do apply for a clearance, past marijuana usage is not necessarily a disqualifier. What they're screening for is substance abuse that might be pr
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by GVIrish 12y ago
There are multiple layers to the woes bedeviling government IT (and government work in general). The contract award process is indeed broken and often awards contracts to the large fish who fail regularly. Part of that is because 'pri
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by GVIrish 12y ago
The fact that in government work spending money wisely is not critical the way it is in private sector is a component of the problem. But I think the more fundamental problem it points to is a lack of consequences for poor performance. An
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by GVIrish 12y ago
"It also increases the consequences of getting banned by the XBox staff. Not only can't you go online for multiplayer, you can't play your subscription games either." Sounds like a classic case of "this is feature n
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Whether that is the NSA leadership's goal is anyone's guess. However, with the road they're going down, they will have the ability to exert considerable control over people around the world, particularly in the United States
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Sure, anything at industrial scale is going to me more efficient than a mom and pop operation. But with a system like this you've got scale and proximity. Instead of having a network of trucks delivering lettuce from California thous
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by GVIrish 12y ago
I know that is the rationale for USMC CAS but I just wonder if the cost of acquiring and flying a STOVL aircraft just for that very specific requirement is justified. In the case of the JSF program, maybe if that requirement had gotten spli
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Yes but in what major engagement that we could reasonably expect to face in the next several decades would a USMC task force be sent without a carrier group. If there is a serious need for airpower in a region there's no way we'r
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Yes it really is shameful how bad the VA is. I wish someone would pass a law that would prohibit deploying troops to anymore deployments until we fix the VA.
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Honestly for someone in their 20's 50+ hours per week is not a prerequisite for getting to $100k to $120k. Find jobs that are using technologies that are in high demand for companies that respect your work-life balance. Temporary spi
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by GVIrish 12y ago
No you can definitely use prepared statements with bind variables since you can dynamically name the bind variables. So if you have a statement where you don't know how many bind variables will go into the query you can give the bind
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The challenge for mass transit systems in the United States is that if the operating costs are so high that it requires heavy subsidization from taxes it becomes a very tough sell politically. "Our taxes are being raised by how much t

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