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by bungie4 9y ago
In case you haven't noticed, 15 yr old, and 17 yr old girls don't walk anywhere. LOL. Nor do they ride their bicycles. In fact, anything other than 4 wheels (or dad on two) will have them mysteriously taking a sick day. +30C or -3
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by bungie4 9y ago
Living in a small northern Ontario town, I wish we had Lyft or Uber here. Instead, just taxi's (or family) and public transport. Our public transport is based on a center hub topology with the hub being downtown. So if my kid wants to
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by bungie4 9y ago
My boss addresses this by buying staff a $1 store self-help book inscribed with "Push Yourself" in the front cover. Did you know Indeed will send you unlimited alerts on a daily basis! Great site :D
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by bungie4 9y ago
Well timed. I just had my annual performance review, and it was brought up that my time estimates are consistently 'off'. The actual complaint was ridiculous because I typically get my work done faster than my estimate. So, you o
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by bungie4 9y ago
Technology needs to be refocused into making homes more affordable to the working class instead of creating more profitable McMansions.
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by bungie4 9y ago
Your assuming the very rich purchase proportionately more taxable goods and service than the lower classes do.
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by bungie4 9y ago
Personal opinion from first hand observance: Tolerance died approximately 3 years ago.
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by bungie4 9y ago
I love xkcd, and the point the cartoon makes is not lost on me. However, one could also argue that the thoughts expressed more than a 100 years ago are still true today and have only accelerated still further. We are humans with finite lim
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by bungie4 9y ago
"Damn the torpedeo's" Its so bad that even though I've been here going on 6 years. It will never appear on my resume. I don't want my name sullied by the decisions of others.
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by bungie4 9y ago
You left out the part where the market 'corrects' every 7-10 years and you lost 10-30% of your portfolio. It'll likely take you several years to recoup your lost investment at 8%. You had a 100K invested, you lost 30K of it,
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by bungie4 9y ago
Let me make this as simple as possible. The most important thing in personal finance is the delta between how much you net, and, how much you spend. Period. Increase the former, or decrease the latter. Preferably both. You will 'earn&#
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by bungie4 9y ago
I am your 1960 born example (my bday was yesterday!). I'm 57. I've been a professional programmer (read, I've been getting paid for it) for 30 years. I live in a small town in Northern Ontario. I'd like to be paid more,
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How many coders does it take to change a lightbulb(bloomberg.com)
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by bungie4 9y ago
LOL. You'll be back. Sudbury is a blackhole. Nobody escapes :D But you have a very valid point. I like winter, the seasons, but winter itself, up here, is very long and can be quite harsh. The flipside is, we tend to stay inside with
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by bungie4 9y ago
Sounds like your talking about Elliot Lake. (I'm in Sudbury). After the boom, Elliot Lake rebranded itself as a retirement community with some measure of success. It hilarious to see the cost of housing there. A 3 bed, 2 bath house b
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by bungie4 9y ago
At some point, your shit owns you. A few years ago, I was forced to move in with my gf (long story) She owned a house, filled with her own stuff. I was left with no option but to dispense with furniture etc. Some was sold, some given away,
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by bungie4 9y ago
We later found he was acutely OCD and a perfectionist, which I've since come to find is common in DBA's. He HAD to change the column names. He quite literally couldn't stop himself. Changing it in dev, QA and staging wasn&#x
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by bungie4 9y ago
Late 90's, I'm lead dev for a large site. Company hires a DBA. We partner with a VERY large content provider. I'm awake for 48 hours buttoning things up, last minute stuff. I finally collapse from exhaustion only to be wok
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by bungie4 9y ago
I'm aware, I don't want to use the comments as advertising, but these problems have been addressed in a specialized manner with the services we provide. Not that they can't be wrong (location) but protocols are in place for d
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by bungie4 9y ago
Their are companies out there that answer 911 calls originating form VOIP systems. I work for one that handles provides those services to nearly a 1 million VOIP users. We handle a LOT of V911 calls everyday. Also, with the growing popular
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by bungie4 9y ago
I work for a large alarm monitoring service. For years, I've been sending management notifications of new entries and updates in the 'personal monitoring' space. Its actually humorous to see these old school guys who have en
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by bungie4 9y ago
See ya on the 13th
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by bungie4 9y ago
9 has been done as well. Likely not in production owing to maint. in the case of chain, and heat (short belt, tight radius) failures.
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by bungie4 9y ago
I know a restaurant that is fantastic. It seats hundreds, yet they all feel private. The decor is meticulous down to the last detail. Theirs fresh flowers on every table, they serve dishes from a hundred lands. No dish takes longer than 1
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by bungie4 9y ago
I have a 14 yr old and a 16 yr old step kids. They both live with their phones in their hands. I took them camping this past weekend. Fishing (caught 4 lake trout!), tubing, camp fire .. it was a blast. Even though their was no cell and no
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by bungie4 9y ago
Our local public library put its card catalog online accessible by direct dial. It ran on a microVAX. I'm on it one day and somebody picked up the phone while i was connected. A burst of high bit characters found me looking at the roo
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by bungie4 9y ago
We have some code here, not written by me!, which queries by Canadian Postal Code, of which, their are several hundred thousand. Apparently, dropping the last character and requerying is the equivalent of a proximity search! This in itself
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by bungie4 9y ago
I like this. I've been writing code since the 80's and doing it professionally for decades. I'll say this, Nothing is Easy Anymore. By that, I mean writing code is easier than ever with the tools and capabilities available to
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by bungie4 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know for sure their was at least two computers 'networked', reception and one in doctors office. It was likely some sort of an RS232 network. I do recall studying a bit of OS/9 back in the day, and the doctor
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by bungie4 9y ago
Flashback time! I got a chuckle about your dad still running his C128 for financials. Their was a local optometrist here who ran his entire practice on Tandy Color Computers, networked together in a multi-tasking environment running OS9.

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