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by buckbova 10y ago
Late thirties here, I expected we'd be in flying cars and live in big glass bubbles by now. Technology is moving fast but still too slow for my taste. And basically I feel like that's it for my lifetime. There will be incremental
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by buckbova 10y ago
>"We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities Perhaps. Russia and China have been "cyber attacking" my servers for y
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by buckbova 10y ago
mongodb folks are indeed aggressive. I had one person really hounding me to pitch mongodb to my organization basically suggesting it as a huge boon to productivity and it would be trivial to rewrite all our rdbms based apps on top of mongod
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by buckbova 10y ago
Awesome. It takes so long to load vs 2015 and if I want to have two or three instances open simultaneously it absolutely kills my machine. Can't wait for this to come to the official release.
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by buckbova 10y ago
> The idea that your own data would be stored online was almost unimaginable Except that's what I did for many years using a computer only as a terminal for an AIX mainframe. My mail was there, I browsed what was the web, used gophe
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by buckbova 10y ago
Accepted answer. http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/30952 > Why do programmers looking for easy cash from VCs they can blindside with a storm of buzzwords migrate to San Francisco? Its one of the absolute wors
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by buckbova 10y ago
Got a moto g4 for under $250. Works perfectly for me. Good specs, stock android more or less, unlocked. http://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-g
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by buckbova 10y ago
Totally agree with this. Just got the moto g4 and for under $250. I have a really good looking color customized phone with stock android, that feels good in the hand, unlocked that I can take to any carrier. That is a killer.
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by buckbova 10y ago
And the article mentioned increased risk of cardiovascular disease. >Another study that same year raised the possibility that they may face a heightened risk of dying of cardiovascular disease ... So there you go.
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by buckbova 10y ago
"It’s 2016 man, no one uses jQuery anymore, it ends up in a bunch of spaghetti code. Everyone knows that." I prefer "jQuery soup."
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by buckbova 10y ago
Looks like my primary search engine DuckDuckGo tackled this with a relatively small team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/
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by buckbova 10y ago
Triggers are synchronous and is not much different than the application updating this value when the underlying data is updated, except for the reliability that always when the data is updated the trigger will for sure fire. Postgres trigge
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by buckbova 10y ago
That's not to mention simple app caching techniques for computed values.
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by buckbova 10y ago
FYI, article does get updated regularly. But, last update: 04 August 2016: Added “Future” and “Conclusion”
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by buckbova 10y ago
> rock climbing, kayaking, snowboarding, ultramarathoning, CrossFit I feel like I missed something. When did it start that being in tech meant you are a snowboarding rock climbing cross fit stud(ette)? My typical week I'm on my ass
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by buckbova 10y ago
Something new or interesting to report?
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by buckbova 10y ago
I've been out of college for over 10 years and I wanted the job because it was full stack at a profitable company who treated their employees well. Unfortunately my cs degree was from a state school and I've only worked enterprise
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by buckbova 10y ago
I been there, getting rejected for what amounts to a CRUD job because I didn't have the right pedigree. Shake it off and move on.
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by buckbova 10y ago
I just wouldn't do it. If these were the options, I'd go somewhere else. What I would do is pay for a subscription if it included all the major news outfits and was cheap, say $10 a year unlimited access.
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by buckbova 10y ago
The typical article I spend <1 min reading. Navigating this mess to display an ad to watch a video is just not worth it and would be an instant close. The donate 5 cent thing might work for some but I'd never want to tie a payment m
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by buckbova 10y ago
> But why do devices suck them in so easily if I don't direct or enforce their behavior? Advertising had nothing to do with my addiction to gaming. When I was a kid I played games nonstop on atari before I got an apple ][. Then I pl
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by buckbova 10y ago
Downtown high-rise condos are always way more costly than the equivalent size condo 20 miles out. Build a bunch of three story condos out on some cheap land and you don't even need an elevator or parking garages because there's ro
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by buckbova 10y ago
It's not the iron that's toxic, but the oxygen depletion and other toxins expelled from the algae. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom#Harmful_algal_bloo...
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by buckbova 10y ago
You can always edit the hosts file. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
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by buckbova 10y ago
I had a #! setup for a couple years that I liked. OpenBox is clean. I see that the project is continued as BunsenLabs Linux. I'll give that a try as I just wiped my laptop last week. https://www.bunsenlabs.org/ http:&
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by buckbova 10y ago
We're on servicenow. I begged to use the atlassian stack over that platform. Too late. The choice was made by those who'd barely use the tool.
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by buckbova 10y ago
Haven't people said "ditto" or "agreed" or "hear, hear" or some such other phrase for the entirety of human speech?! Hardly new to millennials.
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by buckbova 10y ago
Majority wouldn't. They'll get the 7s or wait for the 8.
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by buckbova 10y ago
Lean the chair back slightly. Adjust the lumbar support (I hope you have one) to support your lower back. This works for me at me desk and in my vehicle.
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by buckbova 10y ago
Left Digg some years ago for Reddit. Left Reddit couple years ago for HN. The hive mind echo chamber drove me away from each.

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