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by ben7799 7y ago
I had a Software Engineering contract at Verizon around the time Fios was starting up. Verizon went through/is still going through the same thing. The companies are a bit sketchy but the whole mismatch in workers is a real thing. They
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by ben7799 7y ago
We had already decided no Fortnite in the house but this really is awful. My impression is some of this is kids younger than "teenager" too, which is even worse. Hilarious this game is so toxic when one of the UI designers was fea
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by ben7799 7y ago
I totally agree, and it's hilarious how many engineers fall for this Smart home BS. We are all supposed to be keeping K.I.S.S. in mind because we're engineers. Smart home crap is the complete opposite of K.I.S.S. Smart home setups
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by ben7799 7y ago
This company is really famous for selling really expensive "upgrades" that do very little for actual speed. The resistance of the chain & pulleys is a very tiny percentage of the whole unless they're gunked up and not mai
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by ben7799 7y ago
Is muscle memory even a thing though? Whatever "muscle memory" is, it's in your brain. It's when you've done something so many times your brain has pathways for it so you can do it unconsciously. It's like ridi
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by ben7799 7y ago
This is hugely noticeable playing/practicing/learning music. Just yesterday playing guitar.. I was fighting playing the wrong note cause my brain was guessing that was the next note because so often in so much music it would be.
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by ben7799 7y ago
Yah I can agree with that completely. Mostly my observation is the way they run events and stuff seems very cool. E.x. letting the kids come in and play Fortnite or do coding classes. Seems to always be free. Then they've got VR demos
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by ben7799 7y ago
For me the apple store has basically come to mean: - Very long lines/overcrowded store - It's all full of Apple Watches and stuff like that and trivial luxury accessories - Not enough Macs anymore - None of the really cool display
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by ben7799 7y ago
Having done a lot of bike races you're even making deals with your teammates realistically. It's an odd artifact of the sport awarding prizes to individuals when it is impossible most of the time to win without teamwork, and only
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by ben7799 7y ago
Shades of "The Expanse" and "Silo" series. IIRC Wool, etc.. had people being decomposed right back into the farm area, and the Expanse has bodies being fed into the "recycler".
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by ben7799 8y ago
Just to clarify. The Agile experiences I've had that were more satisfying were actually the ones that were closer to "by the book" Scrum or Kanban. The specific things that I've noticed get left out that make Agile miser
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by ben7799 8y ago
I'm ready for what comes next after Agile. I've been through about 5 Agile shops now. I would say one of the 5 ran Agile well, the rest were a mess that just makes it frustrating for everyone. What we mostly have now is watered d
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by ben7799 8y ago
I did the fraternity thing in college as others have mentioned.. I am an extremely moderate drinker and have been ever since I finished college. Sometimes as little as 1 drink a month, and in periods where I am actively working towards a
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by ben7799 8y ago
Such a weird article, more of a waste of words than any podcast I've listened to in a long time. The mainstream journalists/media have raced to the bottom in a clickbait orgy. Podcasts are one of the only areas where you still ha
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by ben7799 8y ago
Do you actually live in MA? There's a lot wrong with what you say. 2) We don't even have to register our cars every year. And you can renew online, so you don't have to sit in the RMV at all. (I did mine a month or two ag
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by ben7799 8y ago
It should be easy to be a millionaire by 40 in the Tech Sector, particularly if you don't end up with dependents, just save your money and don't live above your means. Almost all tech workers are paid way above the averages for
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by ben7799 8y ago
Not that many people have 10+ kids, or something is just wrong with your post.
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by ben7799 8y ago
Waltham is further away too and has > 100k people. It's hard to say if these cities are suburbs or not. Waltham, Newton, Cambridge, etc.. are very dense. There is a clear delineation in density with a lot of these. Usually it&#x2
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by ben7799 8y ago
This is Cambridge, MA.. it is incredibly hard to go most places in Cambridge and ever find a parking space on the side of the street. If you are not a resident the majority of non-metered parking is not legal for you to park in. The metered
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by ben7799 8y ago
I'm a long term cyclist (> 100,000 miles) and I live in the Metro Boston area and have bike commuted into Cambridge before. I read Effective Cycling a long time ago and took it to heart and I put a large amount of my safety over the
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by ben7799 8y ago
Kind of puts getting recruiting emails from Huawei about their imminent Boston office opening in a new light. Just seeing their executives get charged with international crimes is enough to avoid replying.
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by ben7799 8y ago
It wasn't a BBC Micro but this is actually pretty similar to what we had in the US in the 1980s... I'm 41, mid 1980s we had one Apple IIe that got wheeled around on a trolley. There were a handful of us who had parents who worked
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by ben7799 8y ago
Having used SGIs in the 1990s they didn't have any power at all until you spent many many many thousands of dollars. The ones that were impressive were the ones that might have been $20k+. At the time the Voodoo came out the run of the
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by ben7799 8y ago
I agree with your take on it. If they got their billions of taxes they'd have bankrupted this guy and put Continental Tire and a bunch of other companies out of business. There would be a ton of lost jobs and a lot of value in society
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by ben7799 8y ago
I think this is partly because things have gotten vastly more complex & abstract, and none of that complexity and abstraction has been managed well. We basically always say "Yes right away" to increased complexity/abstra
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by ben7799 8y ago
Yes for sure.. I had a 75mhz machine in 1995-1996, got a 200mhz machine in 1997, and then built a 1Ghz machine in 1999. It was an absolutely wild ride! Each machine back then was dramatically dramatically faster than the previous one. It
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by ben7799 8y ago
Fond memories of these cards for me. I bought one my junior year of college as a CS major. I had some good internships and that year I had some money. Instead of a car I had built a Pentium MMX 200Mhz box with Diamond Stealth card & 1
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by ben7799 8y ago
The funny thing about NYC residents complaining about this kind of thing is if they lived anywhere else for a while and came back then the normal background noise level of the city without construction would seem so loud as to seem unbearab
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by ben7799 8y ago
They discontinue stuff even if it makes money because it's a blip compared to ad revenue. Someone looks at a product like Chromecast Audio and decides it's not really helping ads so there's no point in spending money on maint
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by ben7799 8y ago
A bunch of us at my office have problems with the USB-C sockets. We have external monitors/kb/mouse through OWC Thunderbolt 3 Docks and we have a lot of trouble with the connectors on the Macbook making everything unreliable. The

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