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by douche 10y ago
If your parents made less money, all other things being equal, you'd be in better shape. $150k just gets you out of the income bracket that gets heavy financial aid from the endowments at top-tier schools, and so you, or someone, has t
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by douche 10y ago
Hear hear! Linus really is the patron saint of grumpy, cynical engineers. There's nothing more frustrating than listening to the bullshit artist spin castles made out of air, knowing that you're the poor son-of-a-gun that's g
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by douche 10y ago
> Is there some benefit to giving a fuck? I haven't seen one yet, save maybe doing so publicly in order to properly virtue-signal and keep the torches-and-pitchfork brigade off your back. It gets very wearisome being berated all the
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by douche 10y ago
"Modern" front-end dev is so needlessly complex and byzantine. I don't know whether the tooling is just inadequate, or people are committed to making things harder than it needs to be for some reason, but I'd almost rath
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by douche 10y ago
The cognitive dissonance is just breathtaking.
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by douche 10y ago
I've seen too many pirated unactivated copies of Windows Server running large businesses (that could afford the licensing easily) in many of those countries to subscribe to that theory.
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by douche 10y ago
Long, but worth the read. It is disheartening how much of life is mindless ritual.
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by douche 10y ago
There are definitely customers that are more expensive to keep than they are worth. I don't understand the calculus sometimes... Why are we burning 100 hours of developer time for a $5000 sale? There's not a ton of upside, and you
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by douche 10y ago
NancyFX is fantastic. I started using it a few years ago, after we switched off of IIS to the self-hosted OWIN web server stack for a couple of projects, and MVC was not (maybe still isn't?) supported there.
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by douche 10y ago
Seems like a dumb reason to flag something, especially for a new account that's only posted two rather interesting articles here.
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by douche 10y ago
For this sort of thing, albeit only with a .NET backend, I've always used SignalR to handle these browser/server OS incompatibilities. It'll negotiate a common protocol, whether that be WebSockets, SSE, or falling back to lon
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by douche 10y ago
Like most supposed "classics"of english literature that high school students are saddled with, it's largely a steaming pile, particularly if you are coerced into attempting to find meaning in it as a raw fifteen-year-old. I&
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by douche 10y ago
I would hope that people know who Sparticus really is.
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by douche 10y ago
I never got into TADS, but have fooled around with Inform, as well as with libFrotz for the old Infocom games. The old text adventure days were very impressive. Some of my most memorable experiences gaming come from Zork or Hitchhiker'
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by douche 10y ago
Some trains in the northeast corridor also get bounced by local commuter trains that have priority on the tracks. Several times I've been on the Downeaster headed to Boston and gotten shunted onto sidings, to the point that we got an h
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by douche 10y ago
24v heavy equipment is kind of a a PITA, in reality. For instance, my father always ran Timberjack and Clark logging equipment, in part because they were 12V. One common problem is that you've got a dead battery in your piece of equipm
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by douche 10y ago
Medium has to compete with the rest of the blogging ecosystem, where many of their articles are actually cross-posted from personal blogs. The rest of that entire world, content is free or donation-driven, so the value of a Medium post is e
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by douche 10y ago
That whole myth will inevitably be revealed as a coup by the soybean industry, right? Right up there with the hogwash of the food pyramid.
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by douche 10y ago
Bring a bag lunch, and make coffee at home. If I go out for lunch every day, and get a coffee on the way in in the morning, that can add up to $15-$20 a day.
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by douche 10y ago
If I could work 100% remote? Back home in northwest Maine. It's beautiful, it's cheap, I know everyone, my family is all there, there's a ton of stuff to do outside, it'd be a great place to raise children. It's hom
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by douche 10y ago
> but it gives me great hope that quality news organizations have a future I hope that high quality news organizations do have a future, but the WaPo? I'm not sure that label fits.
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by douche 10y ago
That's pretty much the way it has always been. You can go back at least to the Civil War and find politics has had more to do with procurement than performance of the weapon systems in question.
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by douche 10y ago
To be fair, this happens in dysfunctional organizations that are all on-site, too. There's no good excuse for being that disorganized, but it happens all too often.
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by douche 10y ago
That sounds just awful. Maybe I'm spoiled, but even when I'm at work, I go in my office and close the door when I actually have work to do. Trying to work in that kind of a panopticon style environment sounds nerve-wracking.
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by douche 10y ago
That's one of the reasons I like Australian Cattle dogs. They are still mutty enough that there aren't a whole lot of genetic issues in the breed. Of course, they are also very smart, tough, low-maintenance, and tend to live for
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by douche 10y ago
There's already a shutoff in the nozzle that prevents overfilling when the level in the tank reaches the end of the nozzle, at least on any pump I've used in the past decade. A Leatherman is just about the right size to jam in the
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by douche 10y ago
Except that they often do have to fab up prototypes, at the least, and the better ones have enough familiarity with the realities of the blue-collar Joe or Jane that's going to have to use and maintain the piece of equipment that the e
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by douche 10y ago
You might sell one or two of those a month, in the typical areas many of these RadioShack stores are located. If you were lucky...
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by douche 10y ago
This is the primary reason I want places like McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts to turn their POS systems around and let me key in my own order. My success rate on the staff behind the counter putting an order in correctly has been plummeting f
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by douche 10y ago
New Jersey is the worst. I always have to remember to fill up before I cross state lines into that place, so I don't have to deal with people yelling at me if I absent-mindedly jump out and start gassing up. Also, one very minor gas st

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