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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Why not put the pasta in from the beginning instead of waiting for it to boil?
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
MS is a weird disease, it can stabilize for long periods of time and it can suddenly get worse (an "attack"), and then improve, but sometimes not completely. If I were you, given your current problems, I'd check into what you
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
OK, but he should definitely read "Lonesome Dove". It's a great book and not tough going at all.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
My own experience has been that upper level executives are the most frequent job hoppers.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the comparison in the article shows that it's generally way better for the environment to get a bunch of those flimsy plastic bags at the grocery check-out than to re-use a more substantial cotton or plastic bag (
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How ‘busy’ you were - How stressed you were - How many hours you worked People will remember: - The giant monoliths you have erected to your own majesty - Poems about the monoliths, o
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Same here. I don't think accumulating books is a great idea, it uses up trees, costs money and takes up space. Libraries are wonderful.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
I would have been more convinced if the article hadn't included an ad for a Disney world vacation.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
The 2CV is an interesting car to drive. It has very little power and the gear stick pokes out of the dashboard. It's a comfortable ride and you can peel back the cloth roof cover on a sunny day. Unfortunately it's not great at pro
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Same here. It's not all bad though, I think a lot of Larkin's poetry can best be appreciated when you have a few years behind you and have had some of the same experiences as him.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does." ― Steuart Henderson Britt
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
I drink instant coffee now and have settled on this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Moccona-Coffee-Freeze-Dried-Medium-... Unfortunately it's expensive. It's good though.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
I prefer the background sound of rain, there are a lot of long rain videos on youtube and I am very grateful to the people who post them.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Here's what I've noticed in my career so far. It's difficult if not impossible to assign an actual concrete value to programmer productivity. This makes it difficult to compare programmers side by side and assign a true value
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
I put one some white noise such as a fan or play the sound of rain such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6dkqlcyPTM it really helps.
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
Around the 3:50 mark: "that's where the beer belly comes in handy" :)
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by bufordtwain 4y ago
In my experience almost none of the US supermarket breads are decent. They almost all have added sugar and don't taste good compared to UK/French/Italian bread. There is one brand called "The Rustic oven" that has c
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Maybe the sweet spot is to have someone pair with an expert when they are getting started and when they are struggling to understand things. Personally when I pair program I use a large fraction of my brain to interface with the other perso
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
I say go for it. He might want to consider areas such as database development (SQL) and stable, commonly used technologies (Java, C#) as opposed to front end where frameworks seem to be constantly changing. You mentioned he might be good at
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Yeah, right. They know exactly what he was thinking.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Bread is one area where the US is sorely lagging behind Europe and there needs to be some sort of revolution. I don't think most Americans know what they are missing. I hope this will change soon, similar to the progress that has been
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
This blew my mind. I would never have guessed that this was a thing. I wonder if the mathematician Ramanujan had a visualizing ability similar to this.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
You definitely should. My mom was in a bad car accident some years ago and barely survived. Since that time I call her twice a week without fail. At this point I feel much more at peace with whatever happens.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
At which point, nobody would want to read it.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
OK but it shouldn't be necessary to know what's going on under the covers of your source code control system.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Electric guitar - it's been a game changer. Fun and stress relief at a low price. I play along to songs on YouTube. This has opened up a whole new world of music.
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Sorry to hear this OP. Yes I have these feelings too occasionally. Not sure if this will work for you but one thing that gives me perspective when I'm feeling sorry for myself is to read posts on the subreddit /r/cancer. I im
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Also would be nice to have some sort of international standard/repository for a person's medical history, allergies, etc. I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets tired of filling in that several pages long list of the sam
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Who was it who said “any man who, past the age of thirty, finds himself without a shed, can consider himself a failure”? -Andy, Detectorists Season 3 Episode 1 https://youtu.be/QWJMxigdruM?t=552
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by bufordtwain 5y ago
Lady Alice apples appeared recently at our local grocery store and they are now my favorite.

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