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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
Very well written, I think this is a great argument once you're comfortable. Once you have some stability you can take a breath and enjoy a good book and have time to think and appreciate the value of knowledge. However, before that, a
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I started on a help desk, from my experience the management knew which ones were smart enough to do real damage and triggered enough to actually do it. If I had any advice it would simply be to avoid letting a corporate environment allow yo
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note: For Enterprise users.
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I didn't realize people actually cared about zillow zestimates. I'm not trying to be mean, I love Zillow as someone too introverted to go to open houses but still curious what the inside of homes look like around me. I live in a
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
The facebook feedback of Pokemon Go has been astonishingly the joy people have of seeing people leave their homes to play games. People meeting new people with similar interests and people having interest in Pokemon that would never have t
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
This article covers that there is going to be an increase in cost for the consumer as we're conditioned on the reality of Apple offloading the DAC to the headphone companies. The article also talks about how, but doing this Apple opens
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
Context would be nice, looked through it baffled until I realized this was a port of the Grammar of Graphics to Python to work and look exactly like Hadley's ggplot. I learned R because of my frustrations where Panda's was years a
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I started my career on the phones, while six year seniority isn't actually that rare it would be very rare for that to be lowest seniority. Additionally it felt like a twist, I was waiting for this to be a mid-manager issue, where the
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I feel like I'd be lost if I had a TP-Link device, it throws me off when routers use 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.0.1.
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I found the way the author put together how the system came to be amazingly well written, very quickly stated of a very complex reality. As he got into universal income and a gig economy I was lost, not because I think they're terrible
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I agree and did not intend to say that there should be any force. Around 2005-2006 when I hadn't changed majors to computer science yet and was student teaching middle school, there were still things being said to girls like 'its
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I see a big issue is that you were encouraging STEM activity at the high school level, there was likely a multitude of years where those same girls were pushed in other directions. I believe it has to start earlier and not as a forced thin
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
From hacker news stories I've now seen that FBI has shell company planes flying over major cities, cameras on the utility poles and wants root un-encrypted access to our phones. Scary.
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Work email actively, with an active complaint it can stem to personal email.
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Depends on the job actually, I'm licensed in the financial industry so my emails are all public record to the company compliance department.
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
Glad I saw this on HN, I saw the news that Jlaw was playing Holmes elsewhere and I just assumed they were doing a gender swap on Sherlock as well and thought it was odd, but figured I'd still see it.
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When life imitates begins to reflect a Netflix series it is sometimes hard to tell real life from fiction.
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feather is a great way to move data between the two as it is blazingly fast and native in python and R.
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In this round of battle, anyway.
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This article only continues to prove how little research is done before articles can be published. The media is reporting on itself and its 'effects' without even taking the time to look at the data that is available through sites
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Valve's choice to switch to a casino 'random chance' instead of being able to buy the cosmetics you like has moved them into the darker side of F2P imo. I play DOTA still when I can, but have lost a lot of my willingness to b
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I learned to program on Texas Instruments calculators in the same form as this seven year old's application, I made really elaborate choose your own adventure games with if statements.
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I have a lot of duplicate images from dropbox but I'd never known why until now. It just required me to get an additional app not by dropbox that evaluates images and deletes duplicates which took me a long time to find a good one as
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Did overall expense on salary go up or go down, did I miss that? This system likely shames large outliers out, maybe saving the company money. Salary would seem to become more of Mediocristan[1] in this system. [1] https://en.wik
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I was thinking this as well. I have been really frustrated with selective sync because of how long the process takes to check the folders that make sense on each computer.
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by carlmcqueen 11y ago
Wow, I'm not exactly sure where this intense hate of Chicago came from. I grew up in Chicago and lived there as an adult as well for a stretch before moving where I live now and I still have a lot of friends who live there. Chicago is
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by carlmcqueen 11y ago
All I can offer you is it only matters if you define yourself by your salary, which in my experience will only leave you feeling pretty hollow. I have worked for companies where I was underpaid but the work was great and the co-workers were
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Having gone the corporation route there are jobs that I don't go for because I don't have the desired degrees and without the degrees the job req. ask for twice as much experience without it. I've held off and have done well
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by carlmcqueen 11y ago
a very simple and well written version of the thoughts I've been having around Wikipedia.
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Behind a subscription model for the journal, so unable to read the article but: I would love to read what the definition of positive fantasies in this case would be. I'm probably mostly curious because I've always been a day-dream

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