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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Won't NFC on a phone suffice? Cost. Now everyone who needs badge access _also_ must have a smart phone. I guess you could make it a condition of employment, then you'll probably pay each employee a stipend to have a phone an
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Oh yes! More than a few episodes from all eras are quite fun to watch. But the universe, as a whole, disappoints. I don't know if Paramount would have let them, but if the writer's for TNG (and DS9, and so on) had been free to ig
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Perhaps they don't build Dyson spheres because living _in_ one would be really boring. The sun is always in the same spot. It's always day. You can't see the _stars_. Give me the surface of a planet, anyday.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
You're not a terrible nerd. Star Trek just isn't that great a show. I blame Roddenberry. He sold the network 'Wagon Train to the Stars' but what he deliberately _produced_ was an episodic morality play. Good fiction an
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Why work on a manufacturing line producing required and high-demand materials and equipment We're rapidly reaching the point where 'manufacturing' will be what farming is today. Farming employes (iirc) 3% of the US popul
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Not to mention that (I recall reading a long time ago) a typical asteroid contains as much iron ore as is present in the Iron Range. And there are a whole _lot_ of typical asteroids. I'm a big fan of the High Frontier. We just gotta ge
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by bdunbar 13y ago
The idea was floated around to boost shuttle's ET into orbit, and collect them. Flush out the noxious bits, add atmosphere and: living room. Modular sections for a rocket ship. Storage. NASA never went for it.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
What InclinedPlane said. The huge-giant wings were needed so Shuttle could fly cross-range back to Vandenberg after going over the pole.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Wings were the real problem. They stuck out where they could be struck by stuff. They precluded the capsule eject system. They cost Shuttle tons of fuel. For a system used in only one part it's flight regime. Why _why_ did Shuttle ha
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I took into account salary diffs between Wisconsin and SV. And I'd still be living in a sh*tty house with a teeny-tiny yard two hours from the office.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> It's almost as if, at some size, a company's "internal" network should be considered no more secure than the internet itself. Exactly this. I realized this a few years ago, at a previous employer. We had _excellent
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by bdunbar 13y ago
The author may have a point about Silicon Valley driving out employees, or deterring potential ones. I looked into moving there, for the opportunity. I networked. I had (I flatter myself perhaps) the right skill set for my niche. I looked
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by bdunbar 13y ago
My guess is that, while that will be true, if you dig down deep enough through whatever interface we're using in 2214 you'll find csh. And support for vt100.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> we were safer with dedicated airmen manning Minuteman silo switches. Competence is fleeting. A hundred years after Napoleon France produced the generals who 'fought' WW I.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
'A Canticle For Leibowitz' by Walter Miller. Because it helped bring me to the Catholic faith.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I've had good managers, and bad. A good manager knows his people, their skill sets, and how they work. He knows what work he can give them, and how much and what kind of supervision they need. Like this; Ann needs only to be given a g
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I'm not sure how well it scales - the developers seem to be thrilled b it. But this week I'm backing up, and migrating datomic from AWS to our own hosted hardware. Doing this for our dev environment? Man, it Just Worked. I could
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by bdunbar 13y ago
It takes a real professional to admit when he's screwed up. Or. The more skilled one is, the more confident one is that he can do dumb things and get away with it.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Please consider these notes as food for thought only Understood. Also, thank you very much.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> There is also a Safe Harbor scheme that is intended to overcome this problem so working with US businesses is still possible if they provide additional safeguards. However, it's now clear that no business operating in the United S
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> However, we have a lot of personal conflict. A long time ago, my first 'IT' job, and it came time for my first rating. I got marked down, because, per our supervisor, 'Sergeant P. had problems with you a few months ago&
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by bdunbar 13y ago
It is, I'm told, ideal for paired coding.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> then want to measure my results. I do this. I have a pair of jeans shorts, size X. When the waistband is tight, I'm not exercising enough. When I need a belt, I'm doing 'enough'. It's rough but it works.
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Ask HN: Compelling uses for RADIUS?
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Yeah, sure, until some numpty digs up your internet connection cable. My last employer was not into 'the cloud'. Just a smart manufacturing company, with sites in five countries, two data centers, one on each continent. Whic
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by bdunbar 13y ago
We're managing fifty hosts and applications under Ansible, due to treble by 2014 Q2. So far, I see no need to use AWX. I can't ensure you of anything but why not install it in a test instance and give it a try?
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Thought: A team of competent people will work together well no matter their physical situation. Thought the Second: It's going to take some really _good_ software to replicate the intangible benefits found when people work in the same
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> While I can understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards (at least appeal for you but hatred from your coworkers) We resolved that problem: everyone in the group has a mechanical keyboard.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> On the other hand, if you have a community of asians or western europeans, it doesn't. I might be mis-understanding the context here: I've been to a few impoverished communities composed of 98% descendants of Western European
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by bdunbar 13y ago
My take away isn't 'don't fly during x' but 'don't fly at all'.

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