chasingthewind

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by chasingthewind 9y ago
I try to be pretty slow to criticize people for taking advantage of a service that they find valuable. Calling things in these storage units "junk" is a moral judgement that's repeated a bit early on and then cast off to make
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
One of the primary languages I was taught in college was Modula-3. At the time it was a huge improvement over both Pascal (which was also taught) but it had some of the same power as C++ but was much safer. I was always a bit sad it didn&#x
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
I agree with this to an extent. Where I'd diverge is on the question of whether we should say that some of the reasons things aren't "as good" as they were in the post war period is because certain segments of society (b
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
It doesn't appeal to me particularly on a first glance but I have a rule I call the "Slate.com Rule of Web Site Redesign". A few years ago I found that every time Slate did a redesign I absolutely despised it and felt they&#x
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
I did try that about ten years ago and while I enjoyed it a little I had problems with pests ranging from slugs to deer. I also had a bit of a black thumb and my veggies never turned out that well. Part of the reason I've never taken t
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
I'm not in SV and the market where I make my living doesn't have nearly the high salaries or costs, but I've considered getting chickens a few times. I didn't plan to do it for health reasons, environmental reasons, or a
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
His reply was gracious and well thought out. I didn't get a vibe of arrogance or sour grapes myself. The job hunt is a mutual process...employers are looking at candidates and candidates are looking at employers. If an employer doesn&#
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
When I was in 7th grade in the late 80s I sent Sierra a letter asking for something...perhaps a disk exchange or maybe it was just fan mail, I don't remember. But since I wasn't used to sending letters I completely forgot to put m
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
I literally just finished making some code changes minutes ago to very carefully sequence a set of changes to some related documents to make sure that if write failures occur they'll have the least impact on our system. I've been
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by chasingthewind 9y ago
You said it first and better :)
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As a counterpoint, the falcon heavy costs something like 1/10th of a Saturn V launch. So you can launch two and dock the payloads in orbit for 1/5 the cost. Source: Kerbal Space Program