TheRealDunkirk

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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Freaking Business Insider. Funny, this particular article isn't paywalled, nor complaining about my adblocker. Weird, huh? I wish that site would just implode already.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
The base pay is effectively capped because salaries are taken out of money that is taxed. That's why CEO's used to stop at $1M. (Maybe they still do.) Everything else is stock because it's "free" money for the compa
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Spoken like someone who lurked in #Linux on EFNet. There's a way to foster new people who are interested in your field. There's a time to explain something, and a time to say you're at a point where you should be able to gras
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I'm absolutely certain that the private equity monstrosity that paided almost $2B for it a couple years back is fervently working on this to recoup their investment.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Just because Reddit is throwing handfuls of money at Google to prop up their results doesn't mean it's a better resource for programmers. In fact, it's completely, utterly the opposite. The programming subs are just getting c
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I'm sub-contracted to a blue chip manufacturing Fortune 250, who everyone has heard of. Before COVID, I was strolling through the cubicle warren, and really noticing all the things pasted on to every carpeted vertical surface. No matte
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It is a fundamental truism of American "capitalism" that, if there is a law for something, it was written to protect established "capital" from competition. There are no free markets in the US.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
"The CEO of Stack Overflow reassures the millions of developers who rely on it to do their jobs that its $1.8 billion sale to an investment firm will only help it grow and 'take things up a notch.'" https://ww
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It's funny that your first example is real estate, when I've read many stories this past year about how private equity is buying up lots of residential homes, and driving the prices even higher than what inflation accounts for.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
The idea that there's a "fair" market left in the US is an abject joke. At BEST, there are a handful of companies divvying up a market collusively. At worst, and increasingly commonly, we have effective duopolies that juuuust
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Then you haven't spent any time on Twitter.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I've argued about this deal on Twitter at length, and the prevailing sentiment of those who favor this acquisition comes down to one thing, and one thing only: getting more AAA games "for free" on Gamepass. Discovering why th
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Why does this feel like an attempt to steal an underdeveloped thought and run to market with it?
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Gaming in the 90's started out on OpenGL, which was and is cross platform. Ports for Quake were being made for things like SGI workstations, because it was relatively straightforward. Microsoft headed off further development in a cross
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Good grief. If the age of YouTube has taught us anything, it's that creating good video of something takes a lot more skill than writing something decent about something. Trying to find the relevant issue in a bunch of unrelated in
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
How did Windows become the de facto gaming platform? Microsoft made easier-to-use API's, and then subsidized developers to use it. I don't program against it, but it seems that Vulkan and Metal are reasonable to use. It's the
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
But that's the trouble: there's more than enough hardware in a Studio to game with. Saying that people who need a "media" computer don't care about games is silly. I used to run $5,000 PC's for CAD/FEA,
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I once wrote a time-and-attendance app for a small company I worked for (using Rails 2.x). I put an export function in it, so that the office manager could dump the week's hours, pull it into Excel, and run pivots on person-time-per-pr
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
No notes. https://www.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/9o8yvc/if_you_created...
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I have a friend who does HR & payroll database management for one of the largest health insurers. In the past couple of years, they've switched over to Workday from Peoplesoft. After 25 years with them, it's making my friend w
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
“Smugly pedantic” describes the entirety of the internet pre-2000 or so, so it all fits. :-)
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Well, something tells me that someone "mostly busy with Java, C#, and JS/TS" is going to be a tough sell anyway.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It sounds like you reinvented the concept of a loghost with a database.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Locked under company copyright, and not shareable, of course.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
It's amazing to me that so many people make "stuck with Rails" arguments in the enterprise. It's extraordinarily clear to me, having worked in 3 Fortune 250's, that the single, most-attractive-to-management feature
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I never claimed anything about his character or his innocence. I don't understand that you don't seem to understand that this was part of the process. They used his narcissism and paranoia to effect the plan.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
They got the Constitution ratified based on the promise of the first ten Amendments to be passed later. The fact that they weren't part of the original document was just the political process they used. I don't know; maybe read a
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Whoosh. You went clean over my head, anyway.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
I have no idea what you're on about. The Founders of the US absolutely intended the press to be the last counterbalance on government overreach. It's literally why it's the First Amendment. Getting bogged down by terminology
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
You’re missing the point. It was designed to be transparent to interception efforts up front, so you can’t tell if you’re being surveilled, lawfully or not.

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