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by NordSteve 5y ago
I’ve found that Clarks in their dress casual line are both comfy and business casual.
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Example: De Smet, South Dakota. Regional hospital, county seat, population 1000. Area is 1/10th the size of New Jersey.
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by NordSteve 5y ago
I live in suburban Minneapolis. We go weeks with ice covered neighborhood streets, and they are lit only at intersections. Teens learn to drive safely in this environment.
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Last summer GAMA received a supplemental type certificate for a 100LL replacement, called G100UL. The STC covers certain Lycoming O-320, O-360, and IO-360 piston engines, which are commonly used in light aircraft. https://www.aop
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by NordSteve 5y ago
You used to be able to mailorder houses from Sears (the Amazon of the 20th century). https://www.vintag.es/2019/02/sears-catalog-homes.html
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Not true everywhere in the US, this sort of thing is regulated at the state level. Where I live, a homeowner is allowed to do their own electrical work. Must be permitted and inspected, though. When I've done big projects in the past
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Auction house selling “The first emoticons” -- or are they?(twitter.com)
3 points by NordSteve 5y ago|0 comments
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Target and Walmart are still solving some interesting problems around online ordering and fulfillment. Are they tech companies now?
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Demand for IT workers inside non-technology companies varies greatly based on the set of projects under way. Large projects are funded as capital projects with finite end dates. Companies want to vary the number of workers in response to de
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by NordSteve 5y ago
I've implemented static analyzers in several codebases, and every time it's paid off in finding multiple "must fix" bugs.
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by NordSteve 5y ago
You really can’t make a blanket statement about whether a particular salary makes you well off, unless you consider cost of living in the area where it’s necessary to live. There are places in the US where someone with a $60,000 a year sala
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by NordSteve 5y ago
No, it really sounds like a server room down there. You don't hear much of the APU, which is at the very back of the aircraft, ~60m away, with the exhaust pointed away.
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by NordSteve 5y ago
Bogleheads has a great thread on what goes in your Death Book. https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119346
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by NordSteve 6y ago
The taxpayer and property owner can be different parties -- for example, in the US, a commercial property that is rented to a tenant under a triple-net lease.
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by NordSteve 6y ago
Services, yes. Code is shared across the board at no cost.
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by NordSteve 6y ago
I have exactly that deal at MS (and I know many others who do), and I'm a couple levels away from DE. I'm later in my career, don't need the job for $$ (they know it), lead a great team, work on a meaningful project that I pi
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Should Section 230 apply to algorithmic feeds like Facebook News Feed?
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by NordSteve 6y ago
It is hands down the best implemented e-commerce site. Just ordered some SS stud anchors from there today. Didn't bother checking the hardware store for them. Another distributor that is super strong on the fulfillment side is Digikey.
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by NordSteve 6y ago
I stopped reading the post once I got to the drawing of the waterfall diagram. There's not a single service I'm aware of that runs today on a waterfall process. Not sure how you can trust anything else in the post with that obvio
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by NordSteve 6y ago
Paying an advisor doesn't solve the problem - how do you pick the advisor? That is actually a harder problem than implementing a three fund portfolio, and has even more emotional burden because successful advisors are good at making
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by NordSteve 6y ago
There's some support for your idea of connecting everything to the same strip. This book goes into great detail on lightning protection for amateur radio stations, with similar guidance. https://www.goodreads.com/book&#
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by NordSteve 7y ago
Another model is combination bus driver / school custodian jobs. Good article on long school bus rides: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/10/04/long-bus-ride-cook-...
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by NordSteve 8y ago
Packard Bell was a well known radio and TV brand that ceased operation in the 1970s. During the PC clone era, a group purchased the brand as a way to bootstrap brand awareness. So, other than the brand, there's really no relationship b
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by NordSteve 8y ago
2012 had big internal architecture changes that did a lot to stabilize the designer.
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by NordSteve 10y ago
Grocery stores have order of magnitude more SKUs than Kohls, and operate on smaller margins.
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by NordSteve 10y ago
I'm one of the Stream engineering managers. Our team also operates Azure Media Services (AMS) and Office 365 Video. Stream is built on AMS.