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by bdunbar 15y ago
This process creates jobs. Good jobs too -- the kind that you need to go to college for -- system administrators, programmers, database admins, etc, etc. Correction - you don't need college for these jobs. The most one needs for any of th
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"Longevity and subjective awards are no substitute for a good valuation in your portfolio." Han Solo, capitalist.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't think I live in an anomaly. Statewide statistics here: http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.wi.htm I live in this met region: http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.wi_oshkosh_msa.htm
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by bdunbar 15y ago
What do you suggest for a 'nothing' category? By 'nothing' I mean that I'm a sysadmin, knows a smattering of PERL, a little BASH, a lot of this and that over the years.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
rural manufacturing and farming areas seem to be going through population decline. I will allow this is the case for some areas. It it not universally true. It sure isn't where I live.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
in the places which are dying In what sense do you mean 'dying'? 'Prevalent and important'?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
People gather lots of acquaintances but no or few good friends. This is not the norm, in my experience. Worth noting that America is a big place, with lots of variety. You know this of course. I can see what you describe being the norm i
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by bdunbar 15y ago
dogfighting in kinda rare now. This is true, now. In large part because the USAF dominates the air so thoroughly that opposing air is toast the day the war starts. This may not always be so.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
They're loud as hell I work in a semi-open plan office. I was concerned about this last year when I got my Unicomp keyboard. I've been assured by my peers that the sound is noticeable, but not loud.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I've used a machine gun. Keyboards are a lot quieter, and have way less recoil. But your friend has a point. Have you ever used a late-model IBM Selectric typewriter? Now that is the acme of keyboarding. IBM knew their users would spend
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'll second the motion for Unicomp, Ultra Classic. It's an IBM Model M keyboard, with updates. It's clicky. I like this, personally. My hands love they keyboard, the feedback from the 'clicky'. You mentioned 'looks' twice. This confuses m
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by bdunbar 15y ago
So tell me why that isn't possible? I am not an economist or a business guy - I move bits for a living. But I'll take a stab at it. what prevents a technologically sophisticated engineer from doing the same with one robot workstation an
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I really hope we'd find a way to take this cyberspace out of any political jursdiction; I don't think it can be done. Because, getting right down to it, the internet lives on wires and computers that have a physical presence. You can't a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I took your words literally. Sorry about that. It's that we are ever making less in the US and ever buying more made elsewhere. iPods, sure. But if you're talking really expensive, high-quality, hard to make stuff ... it's likely made in
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's because we don't manufacture stuff anymore that this latency is an issue. I love it when people say that. I love it because I work for a company that very much does still make stuff in the US. We just make more stuff, with fewer peo
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Good question. I'm familiar with two 'unix' networks that stood apart from the windows networks in an enterprisey setting. - NIS+ - Scripts to copy a 'master' /etc/passwd to all other unix hosts. Keep the master under version control. But
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by bdunbar 15y ago
This might be the right place to ask but ... is there a reason people keep reinventing SSO? It's 2012. The first place I saw SSO was on a Banyan VINES network, in 1990. Years, I hasten to add, before NetWare figured it out. We've got it,
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by bdunbar 15y ago
After reading Niven and Pournelle's 'Mote in God's Eye' I thought a simulation of the MacArthur (a space-going battle cruiser) would make for a keen game. Captain types 'prepare the ship for spin, 1/4 g', screens flash, animated guys all o
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I find it really interesting to think about Perl 100 years from now. Will it still be around in some form? There is a really excellent SF novel 'A Deepness in the Sky' by Vernor Vinge. It's a few thousand years from now, and one really im
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It was not that long ago that 'serious CAD' and 'Unix' went together like ham and eggs. Then those pesky Windows computers got underfoot and that was all she wrote.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Most - perhaps all - of the situations a Tarantino character would find himself in _are_ extreme situations. Most of us don't find ourselves in places like that on a frequent basis. This might be true of most action movies. If you're shoot
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by bdunbar 15y ago
that's when you start having these unofficial shadow systems spring up Exactly what happened to me today. An engineer [1] opened up a ticket because some java code he was developing to insert attachments to our BOM system was returning fu
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I've been waiting for something better to come along, for a long time. Still waiting.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I started in 1990 [1]. Learned COBOL, courtesy of the Marines. Then was side-tracked into a series of billets where I did micro-computer repair, LAN, dBase III. Never had a job, since, where the title was 'programmer' but I've programmed
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Which may be too tautological to be useful Depends on what you need it to be useful for. Understanding the root problems in a philosophical sense? Maybe not. A rough guide for where to put a factory, do business with, startup ideas? Use
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Does anyone think that large organisations will tend to move to Web-browser based business applications over the next few years? Yes. We're upgrading (slowly but certainly) JDE and it gets rid of all the fat / skinny clients in favor of
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"... and reduced user complaints" When I hear that metric I think of a homegrown app that was supposed to upload files from PeeCees to the company's mainframe. At the annual IT meeting ... "And since implementing change foo and bar in t
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Reading this review - and others - I was reminded of Ralph Peters essay 'Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States' http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/Articles/98spr... Which doesn't really explain 'why' but do
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"Why did people have computers with no internet? What did you do with it?" I think about that, now and again. Mostly when I find myself with a laptop and no wireless or paired phone. IIRC .. Played Civilization. Played Sim City. CompuSe
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Change happens. When I got my first real job in IT, one of our tasks was moving data from 8-inch to 5-inch floppy. I hasten to add this was not - for the junior guys - real hard. Walk by the machine every so often, switch out the disks, hi

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