JJMcJ

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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> am I alone There isn't enough pushback, unfortunately.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> So after that we all got laughed at and told to stay later and work weekends. At far too many companies.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Some, not all but some, new grads hear something from a prof or maybe departmental philosophy, and they will defend it to the death until they see real life for a while.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
There are still sites with very simple HTML/JS/CSS, and they load so fast it's almost like magic.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Craft unions, like in construction, are more like guilds than the industrial unions. You must qualify in one way or another to be a union member before you can get hired by a union company. But in an industrial union, as an example get hir
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
This is more a reflection of the royalty structure for recorded music than anything else.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Though of course the captain could have stopped the ship overnight, and I suppose the owner would have complained but that's it.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I have found errors in sections of my resume from ten years ago, looked at by me and many others dozens of times. They can lurk.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I agree, and Tesla's "autopilot" was just lane keeping and adaptive cruise control along with a bit of collision avoidance.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
No, just the common understanding of autopilot for aircraft. I assume, just like with cars, things can happen quickly with a boat.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
But autopilot is explicitly a term for hands off operation. In general, in driving, things happen too fast for any control assist system to allow hands off driving. EDIT: Any existing control assist system And I don't think we are th
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
People get used to how a company is. If the lunchroom is like the orphanage in Oliver Twist, and you have 12 inch VGA monitors, well, that's just the way it is. At another company, if one day you notice that the coffee in the break roo
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Please write a PhD thesis with a marker in the next 30 minutes. If you erase anything, or make a false start, it will be held against you.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
"Targeted ads" - hmm. Real galaxy brain stuff. Not me but read a few days ago, someone (male) did a search for pages on the Battle Of Quatre Bras (part of the Battle Of Waterloo). You guessed it, now he is seeing ads for brassier
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
TIL about /sudo:: I will look at it further. For the other it's usually something like /usr/x/y/z/a/b/c/config.ini Yeah, I want to type that path into Emacs when I can vi config.ini
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Comes with every *nix distribution. Fast to start. I use Emacs for programming but if I have one single file, like a config file, that needs a quick edit, use vi(m) because otherwise I have to either: 1. Go to my open Emacs and navigate to
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"Earth Peoples, we come for the secret of the ShamWow"
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms. Most golf courses have thunderstorm sirens, when it sounds stop, drop everything, head for club house or lay flat on ground well away from trees. The pro golfer Lee Tre
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Chapter in a James Bond book "The Man From Ag And Fish", that is the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry.
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Last Perl shop I worked at was newer than the company you described but well on its way toward being like this. Since Perl code is often very compact, it probably needs a higher comment to code ratio than most other languages, but you don&#
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
The ranger wasn't referring just to the bus but to all the people who do things like this.
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Similar to the period 1973 (first oil crisis) till 1981 or so, no obvious good investments anywhere.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Unlike school deadlines tend to be more flexible but finishing is less flexible, maybe not flexible at all. Don't show off. Yes, the system is a mess and everyone knows that. But we can't fix it.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> Well vetted and tested C (or C++) is great The review process and standards maintenance must be very strict. Otherwise, as someone said, "A C compiler is a mechanism to turn coffee into security advisories".
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Sales tax, ZIP code crosses county line, one county has a sales tax surcharge, the other doesn't. Not ZIP precisely, but even the "City" causes problems. The address is the name of the post office that delivers your mail, no
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
DDG started out using Bing. Now they use other resources as well, and also have their own internal web search. Yahoo search is largely powered by Bing, as well. That's kind of funny since MSFT wanted to buy Yahoo at one point. Also, t
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> speculative cash-flow negative rental properties Usually that means rents aren't enough to cover the mortgages. Example: Buy a house for $2 million. Mortgage, taxes, upkeep, insurance, pushing toward 100K a year. But there is n
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> lower profit margins than AWS Which is exactly what you would expect. Retail is notoriously low margin.
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Lived for a while in an apartment building put up about 1910/20, so indeed pushing a century. Solid oak doors. The banisters (railings on the stairs) also solid oak. Duplicated would cost a fortune today with newly cut wood.
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Or drive 60 miles in rush hour traffic.

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