buckbova

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   by buckbova 13y ago

   Okay. I'm not a fan of unattributed author blogs. It comes off as advertising.
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   > In this installment of the Web Setup, we spoke with John Sheehan, the CEO of Runscope, a small startup based in San Francisco. Who's we?
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   I don't take personal calls at my desk. My phone is on silent at all times when at the office. If I need to make a call, I step out. I would like others to do the same. Edit: Even my desk phone is on silent. It sounds a single beep w
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   I don't want to hear you crunching into carrots or biting and slurping an apple. I don't want to smell your leftovers from yesterday. I don't want to hear the rustle of your take-out bags. Please find another place to eat. Wh
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   I never eat lunch at my desk because I think it's inconsiderate to my coworkers. They should not have to smell or see what I am eating, let alone hear me crunch into chips or an apple.
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   Similar to 7 habits of highly overrated people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965295 or ineffective people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430695
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   This requires recruiters to actually do work, instead of keyword searching resumes and spamming candidates.
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   Computational mathematics? That was the required course. I work in sets and relations for the most part.
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   by buckbova 13y ago

   I can barely remember high school or college. I can't name a professor from college right now, although I can picture a few faces. I played sports for all four years of high school but can't recall anything but a few flashes. I d
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    mssql has a lot of "tricks" associated with CTE's. Using the OUTPUT clause on updates is one of them.. Here's some queue code using a cte to grab the top one by queued date. DECLARE @Queue TABLE (QueueID INT) WI
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    My childhood exposure of Canada was through the movie strange brew. Still a favorite of mine. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/ I figured all Canadians were hosers who scarfed donuts and drank beer. Then I wat
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Add another few digits and we're good, kinda like ipv6.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    I was given a national ID card, it's call a social security card. That is my unique identifying number as an American.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Not sure how it is in any way illegal.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Me too, but starting Jan 2nd.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Oh the nostalgia. You can't go home again. For me it's better to remember playing Air Sea Battle on my Atari 2600 fondly than playing it now and realizing how lousy the gameplay actually was.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Worked for me. Thanks.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Currently I'm working as a database architect but, I would love to consult or start a development business. The most difficult part I see is where I'd get clients. Seems like I'd need to specialize in some CRM/etc or ha
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    The HN account is new(er). It seemed like a safer account to create and it wouldn't require any attention.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Same, had one but deleted it along with reddit, yahoo, twitter, linkedin, stackoverflow and others.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    > South California="Strong Democrat" This is not true. Orange County and San Diego County can go Republican and drag LA County with it. > North California: Solid Dem (?) There are plenty of libertarians here as well. > W
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    This information is provided to plant some reasonable doubt to anthropomorphic gw and to suggest there's larger forces at play here than greenhouse gasses. It is relevant but it is not "proof" of anything on it's own, as
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    I've spent over a decade living in relational databases . . . currently senior db architect. I like the joins. I work and think in sets of data and not objects. But, I do spend a good deal of time transforming this data for application
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    Any Oregon dwellers out there? How's the tech community in and outside of Portland? Has it been growing or shrinking?
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    San Diego is a great place to live and work. How "low cost" are you talking? There are areas of SD that are less expensive like East County in the South or Escondido in the North. It's always a tradeoff.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    > "What does your vagina look like?" That's probably a natural question for the curious 12 yr olds of reddit to be asking. I wouldn't take offense.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    It looks terrible, but do you ever physically click on a vertical scrollbar? I can't remember the last time I had to do this.
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    any.do does not have lists of lists of lists of lists . . . . I use any.do, but sparingly. Mostly for shopping lists or short to-do lists. I do a lot of project planning and design. It's hard for me to write this all out in paragraph
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    I really enjoy using workflowy and have suggested others use it. What I'd like is an Android app instead of using the mobile browser. Possible in the future? For all those who don't know, workflowy is lists of lists of lists of l
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    by buckbova 13y ago

    NPR should research how much more tax money and social programs are now available because of this social inequality.