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by eej71 7y ago
I don't disagree - but its a government agency and so the job requirements are always going to come out like that. Between that and the below market pay - there is a long road ahead for them.
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by eej71 7y ago
The ignorance of cobol is not the blocking point. Ignorance of the details of the NJ system is the great challenge. Its likely a huge legacy system with all of the attendant warts, histories, strange choices, and odd limitations that come w
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by eej71 7y ago
I have to imagine there is a substantial amount of regulatory capture that makes it incredibly difficult for an upstart to sell into this space.
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by eej71 7y ago
I'm of the general opinion that what people think volatile does vs. what the compiler really does is quite different. Perhaps the situation has improved since this paper appeared. https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/pa
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by eej71 7y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on what got you to that conclusion? That's not meant as a challenge - just curious to get more perspective on your conclusion.
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by eej71 7y ago
These rules are chosen by the participants. By the owners of the property. They are not government imposed. Consider an analogy. Suppose you were a stamp collector and you wanted to run a weekly stamp exchange. You and your fellow collector
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by eej71 7y ago
These rules are completely in keeping with the free market.
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These are well documented rules. They have been built up over years of experience. Not to say its perfect. But they are established and understood by the participants. Further refinements may happen based on today's experience.
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by eej71 7y ago
It is popular to tar the electoral college with the slavery brush. But I think that's deeply unfair to the overall value that it offers. Slavery is merely one kind of divisive issue that can be used by a candidate to leverage seeds of
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by eej71 7y ago
Can we agree that the popular vote is irrelevant to the presidential election? And if so - why impute my words with that interpretation?
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by eej71 7y ago
Not sure why you are getting the down votes...
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by eej71 7y ago
Why dwell on an irrelevant number? It's not material to the presidential election. At all. There is no reason the mass media should even report it. It's not germane to the outcome. It only serves to confuse everyone. The rules for
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by eej71 7y ago
This is a popular narrative, but I suspect the reality is - many of these named groups also voted for Trump. Consider this front line report in Ohio. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/21/outsid
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by eej71 7y ago
No one who supports the electoral college is opposed to the nature of democratic voting such as is used by the House of Representatives. I believe it's a strength of the US that we have different voting methodologies for different role
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by eej71 7y ago
You can keep calling it manipulation all you want. But I truly believe both HRC's message reached the voters and that Trump's message also reached the voters and they chose accordingly. Are you suggesting that their respective mes
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by eej71 7y ago
I believe most wanted a bull in a china shop to gore the sacred cows of the media elite, policy wonks, and "experts".
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by eej71 7y ago
I think that this is true, though I have no numbers to back it up. He appeared to run a cost effective campaign. The endless free coverage provided by pundits and commentators who continuously mocked was transformed (by him) into a strength
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by eej71 7y ago
I think the vast majority of folks who voted for Trump felt that they received what they were expecting to receive. I think most who voted that way the first go around will likely vote for him again should they return to the polls.
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by eej71 7y ago
If the world gets to the point where it really thinks their work is useless, I hope _they_ go on strike.
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by eej71 7y ago
I think evolution can escape a local minima - however - I would imagine that most organizations aren't able to support the individuals who can lead an evolution toward a more long range goal that would require transiting the natural bo
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by eej71 7y ago
What's wrong with constant ongoing evolution? Software is the ultimate metaphysical playdough. It can always be changed. Piece by piece. Step by step. Until it becomes something different. It's just... not exciting to do it that w
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by eej71 7y ago
Nicolai Josuttis is writing a (not yet completed) book to it. I plan to read it. Maybe then it can be "simple". http://www.cppmove.com/
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by eej71 7y ago
Billionaires aren't buying any election. Bloomberg will spend a considerable amount of money, but will not get very far. It's a lot of money to burn. But it won't net him anything. Trump, to the extent that one can consider h
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by eej71 7y ago
I bet those old school terminals are faster than what most corporate IT systems would deliver with an over the top modern framework. It's probably cheaper to train new employees than give away millions of dollars to an outside IT tech
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by eej71 7y ago
Database? Heck, I would think each precinct could have uploaded their own csv file in a common format. Concatenate all of those, pop it into excel, and pivot table away. But what do I know.
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by eej71 7y ago
For me a single monolithic stack is far more debugable.
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by eej71 7y ago
Calling this "work for free" seems a bit misleading. It's not like the take home assignment is helping the employer build something. I don't see it as unpaid labor anymore than I would see the interview process itself as
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by eej71 7y ago
I agree. I think the other dynamic that I've observed in these situations is that the technologists who oppose the big rewrite often sound like a wet blanket who are just opposed to the excitement. The old curmudgeons are just raining
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by eej71 7y ago
While its not a universal construct - it is challenging to look at the history of many cultures who arrived at a similar distribution of labor and the behavior of other mammals and not wonder if men and women aren't inherently differen
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by eej71 7y ago
It sounds like one must still assume they correctly accounted for all confounders.

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