MaggieL

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by MaggieL 14y ago
Notice that way down the hall past the stormtrooper is a sign that says "Pharmacy" Wot?
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by MaggieL 14y ago
Gee, happened to see this post while attending a regular Sunday night hangout/dance in SecondLife.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
If this fellow truly has no passion for his craft, I hope he can find the energy to constantly update his skills when he's 50. I started in FORTRAN in 1968. Today I'm working in Java and MongoDB and studying Scala and Go.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
See David Weber's "Honorverse" stories. (Yes, they eventually gain carriers, but it's plausible)
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by MaggieL 14y ago
I've met and worked with lots of H1-Bs, but in no case did they have skills that were not available by hiring citizens.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
Not sure I'd be comfortable hiring someone who claims to be able to "understand undocumented libraries and code bases in a day".
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by MaggieL 15y ago
1968, IBM Quiktran, Germantown High School, Philadelphia. :-)
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by MaggieL 15y ago
Why not just do what the Greeks did? Pay for all the drugs with government bonds that are worth nothing. That'll work just as well.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
"1. In the spirit of Rand, I suggest you don’t pay for it, but download it here.." That's pretty much all you need to know about how much this fellow understands about "the spirit of Rand". "Like all philosophies, Objectivism is absorbed se
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by MaggieL 15y ago
Sad to see what the once-mighty Microsoft Flight Simulator has become.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
When a liberal talks about how somebody "should have access to" something, hang on to your wallet. Because you will pay for it.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
ASE (is now SL4A) has a Python interpreter module, but also has support for other languages like Beanshell, Lua, perl and Javascript. This project may be a tighter integration. Choice is good.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
Dude, you're arguing from stereotypes. Saying "as people get older they get less competent" is just silly; I can tell there's the same distribution in competence in a set of 25- year-olds that there is in 55-year-olds. (It is true that th
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by MaggieL 15y ago
kls doesn't think age discrimination is as bad as it is. I'll wager he doesn't think gender discrimination is as bad as it is either. He's more likely to age than he is to change gender, so we'll check back with him in 30 years. It's kind o
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by MaggieL 15y ago
You mean...somewhat like this? http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-quantum-levitating-video... Only somewhat; it's a different set-up, of course.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
At the Franklin Institute Science Museum years ago, they had a huge (2 foot diameter? More?) copper disk attached to a crank suspended in the gap of a big-ass electromagnet. The idea was you spun the crank, and then operated a foot pedal th
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by MaggieL 15y ago
If Obama's DoJ is discussing RICOing News Corp, that's more of an indictment of how broadly the RICO laws are applied then of News Corp.
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by MaggieL 15y ago
One word. Soros.