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by __jal 10y ago
Mostly systems tools for managing operations in companies with complex internet presences.
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by __jal 10y ago
There is nothing about text streams that prohibit tools from understanding whatever language you're writing in. Unless you have an very interesting compiler, your IDE is processing text, too. But also, you seem to believe that somehow
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by __jal 10y ago
Heh. I did that once (with financials, I do learn what I can before going in). It was astounding how uptight and offended the interviewer got. Pretty sure he was an outlier, but it was very satisfying. I ended it by telling him I wasn'
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by __jal 10y ago
People encountering this need to name and shame more. This is straight-up using asymmetrical information as a zero-sum weapon. It is hard to find salary information ahead of time, Glassdoor notwithstanding; and it is also hard to know how s
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by __jal 10y ago
> The problem is that this is a whole lot of cargo cult. Please do explain. Where do I use symbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic rituals? As far as the rest of it, everything accumulates cruft. That's why pe
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by __jal 10y ago
This was how Unix was presented to me when I was first introduced to me. I was told it was like industrial machinery - designed for those who know how to use it, efficient, dangerous if you aren't careful. Which is exactly what a good
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by __jal 10y ago
Take it at your own speed, when you're confident in your abilities. Especially mail is difficult to get started with now - domains that don't have years of (spam-free) reputation tend to be blocked a lot, creating a bit of a chick
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by __jal 10y ago
I sort of agree, but still ended up in the opposite corner. I use a keyboard which has no arrow keys and instead use <fn>-hjkl in every app with no (non-keyboard) configuration needed. Also, combined with some other changes (the space
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. That was, best I can tell, the original "app store". Also, still the best implementation.
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by __jal 10y ago
Yes. And if there are more CEOs than available gigs, why are salaries not going down? Executive compensation has a nasty ratchet effect built in that I'm really surprised more shareholders aren't fighting.
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by __jal 10y ago
> Important to lawful civilizations. You seem to have misread. I was arguing about word choice about tax policy, not tax policy. I choose to recognize a range of behavior as "evasion". That's what we're talking abou
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by __jal 10y ago
Was the most notable part of the article to you the headline writer's word choice?
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by __jal 10y ago
Important to whom? I intentionally do not make a distinction. I'm not going to start, because the point is important to me. The distinction matters to: decision-makers at the firm in question, shareholders of the firm in question, the
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by __jal 10y ago
The iron cliches: - Security is a process, not a product. - You always pay for security. Up front, after the compromise, or both, if you're unlucky or bad at your job.
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. I've been increasingly disappointed in Apple's OS X releases. Not even considering this upgrade for a point release, at least. And they're doing a very good job of promoting third party replacements for their own apps...
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by __jal 10y ago
To be fair, that's normal, if unfortunate, competitive behavior. "We meant to do that" is the rule until there's running code correcting the initial mistake. Less forgivable is training a couple generations of developers
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by __jal 10y ago
Say, which party hasn't done something despicable in the last, say, 100 years? Remember that the Greens arguably gave us Baby Bush and the Libertarians have run unapologetic racists relatively recently. I'm thinking the Progressiv
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by __jal 10y ago
I think you're forgetting that there are dreamers, crazies and malcontents that historically have been more than willing to risk everything to make a go somewhere new or get away from their civilized peers. Persecution is certainly one
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by __jal 10y ago
1) Invent god. 2) ??? 3) ??? [...] 3.468^10128) ???
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by __jal 10y ago
> Nice response. Thanks. I realized that discussing this with you was a waste of time.
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by __jal 10y ago
A student and an economics professor are walking across the quad. "Look, a $20 bill!", says the student. "Someone must have dropped it." "Nonsense!", replies the economics professor. "If there were a $20 o
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by __jal 10y ago
Bluntly, this discussion makes it pretty clear that asking skinny technical people about medical obesity is pretty close to asking Donald Trump about how to solve crime: get more violent. If it doesn't work, you weren't violent en
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by __jal 10y ago
So they don't prescribe statins, and just tell people to change their diets, yes? Hold back on insulin until those nasty diabetics stop gulping soda, even the thin ones? They tell people who do physical work to suck up the back pain, b
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by __jal 10y ago
Wow. Who knew that medicine and library science were the same thing? Come to think of it, I bet librarians could replace lawyers, too. Just need to teach them to shout "objection" and be jerks in the coffee room, right?
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. After several years of pointing out that feudalism was the natural outcome of his political sympathies, I finally convinced a friend that he wasn't a libertarian a while back. I say this as someone who is very sympathetic in princ
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by __jal 10y ago
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that sends clients elsewhere. At the very least, I suspect Orrick will have some damage control to do, and I suspect this just became a career limiter for the lawyer who leaked.
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by __jal 10y ago
> At this rate soon nobody will be able to file their own taxes without an accountant to sort through the muck. And complicated to systems tend to benefit the wealthy. It also heavily benefits Quicken. Along with HR Block, they heavily l
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by __jal 10y ago
My home desktop is an i5-1620 with 64G RAM running Ubuntu 16.04, and Firefox just hiccups and lags, period. It is sad. I need to find time to experiment with Chrome while blocking all the Google chatter to see how functional it remains with
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by __jal 10y ago
The thing that happened to "all that stuff" is called the War on Drugs. It blended in to pretty seamlessly into the War on Terror. The word "routinely" might be contentious, because we have almost no numbers on it and th
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by __jal 10y ago
> It may come as a surprise to some that the people <strike>running federal agencies</strike> often have their own best interests in mind most of the time FIFY. And why are you limiting this to the feds? State/local

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