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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Shaq-fu and Kazaam come to mind
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Obligatory DJ Khaled "You played yourself" quote.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I'll also second this. Not as clean or orderly as the DC metro, but for the most part the NYC subway was easy and simple to get around in. Only time I've ever been jumped or harassed on a train was in Madrid.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I suspect that's mostly due to par baking, since a lot, arguably most, of the grocery store baguettes are pre-made, par baked, and shipped frozen. They're then baked again in the store, which often leaves them soft and chewy or r
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> because we see through the bullshit (when we don't outright block it) where as they don't. Sounds like the "marketing doesn't work on me cuz I'm so smart" fallacy, which usually means you're getting h
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Bingo. Context helps, a lot in some cases. It's hard to gauge what's happening, on your project, a different project, the company, the team, etc. without a little metaphorical-water-cooler discussion.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Marketing works, we've had 100+ years to tweak and it justify marketing's huge budgets. Tweaked ads work too. Further more, why can't it be both, because of AND in spite of those ads? Successful propaganda often uses false
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I'm not even in a T2 company and they offered us similar bennies. Not amazing stock options or anything, but solid healthcare and 401k. "Small" business (200-500 bodies) out of the DC area.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Indeed, world's smallest violin, definitely not slavery. Like, I don't know if they enjoy doing it, but if they're getting FAANG salaries and the name recognition that comes with working in such places then they likely have o
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
What did the call the money they used to pay when people lived in company towns in the 1800s? Scrip? You lived in company housing and got paid company scrip and could only spend it at the company store, at outrages rates. This sounds like
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I believe that is why Netflix has the "Chaos Monkey" -- to occasionally break things and see what happens. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-netflix-simian-army-...
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
mingling =/= open office. I can still have a quiet space where I can actually get things done, but still interact with coworkers at, say, the coffee machine or water-cooler.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
True for both partners -- usually after one dies the elderly widow/widower tend to have ~5 years or less. Some of that is just timing, like if the average age of death per the actuary tables is like 79, and your spouse dies at 80, you&
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
+1 Canadian immigration gave us hell because we could only prove the relationship existed for 11 months and 3 weeks (gotta be able to prove 1 year). In the end we were saved by online pizza receipts and amazon orders that proved we were liv
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I get blasted for network engineering work non-stop. Only 6 month contract though, and usually in some technology that is 1) brand new, or 2) obscure as hell
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Also the utility work, no? Unless you're in a pre-planned subdivision or demolishing existing builds (brownfield stuff), water, phone, and power are often non-trivial.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Also just a minor detail - let's roll
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it. Interesting how the people making these social media platforms are growing disillusioned with them and leaving them. After th
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Salaries in Van are lame, but the housing costs are all out of proportion. I was in Kitsilano a couple weeks ago and stayed in an AirBnB; liked the neighborhood and decided to check out some of the for Sale Signs. Modest 3-bedrooms were go
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Those sound interesting. Got any recipes?
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
54GB is going to crowd your 1TB? Plus how much of that 54 is going to overwrite or replace the existing code?
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> Findings This systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials involving a total of 1890 men found that testosterone treatment was associated with a significant reduction of depressive symptoms,
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> The American Civil War and Boer Wars were exceptions, but discounted because they weren't European wars Russo-Japanese War as well. More recent than the US Civil War and gave some early examples as to what WWI would look like, bu
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Europe didn't have any of the large, stable empires like a lot of the rest of the world, i.e. China's various empires, Sassanid Persia, Mughal India, etc. That's not to say that violence didn't happen, things didn't
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> So why the hell did you use it to write this article, then? thatsthejoke.jpg But seriously, my guess is that the author wants you to see the things that he's talking about on the page. Like you read that the banner sucks and you
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
It is boring. I got into it because I did electronic warfare in the military. But it has its uses. Plenty of other stuff is boring and mostly useless, e.g. most of the raspberry pi stuff I've done. A $20 Google Chromecast or Roku is
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I switched to DO from Vultr a couple years back. No ragerts as they say. Aside from the FreeBSD options, the other reason I went to DO was that a former sysadmin I used to work with went over there as support lead and had good things to sa
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's also used by loss protection to make sure you stand in one place on the way in, and on the way out, as a way of making sure they get a clean camera shot of you. Loss Prevention will have cameras and
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Thank you for taking a look at the sources. Salt grain status: taken.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I'll take it a step further -- why does work need to be fun? It's my meal ticket, not my hobby; it needs to be tolerable. The "fun at work" meme is, IMO, a way to keep people in the office longer a la the GOOOOG's G

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