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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
They're not just behind on paying, they straight up stopped giving the MAP grant last year which had paid about 30% of my undergrad costs at state school. If I wanted to go to college now I would have had to move out of Illinois until
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I once worked at a hybrid IT/consulting shop. A lot of companies still run Windows Server, but the space is being rapidly cannibalized by cloud services. In the few years I worked there we had already lost maybe 20% of our IT contracts
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
IKVM is the best I know of, but I heard rumors last year that unfortunately it's main maintainer is moving on to other projects. There's others that cost money but I don't really pay attention to them
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Your customers are many years behind the times then, which isn't unusual if you're doing consulting. Windows Server only does well in the consulting bubble and in backwards industries like finance, it's basically dead everywh
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I moved from Illinois years ago because of taxes and bad job climate. My parents paid about 20% more in property taxes than their mortgage, and we had just an average sized lot. It's not uncommon at all in Illinois. Most of my family a
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Lol this is so true. Everyone I knew had relatives or a small place somewhere warmer
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
This may be how Kong does it but it's not really 'high performance'. The right way to do rate limiting is to limit by IP using a counting Bloom Filter or Cuckoo filter along with random samples. When you hit a false positive
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Same. Except I'm not as optimistic about Atlanta because the state is mostly poor and it's farther from the huge cities on the upper east coast. NC and Texas are both booming state-wide and have 'world cities' in reasona
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
North Carolina has the 'triangle' area which has seen huge growth for many years. Texas has Austin, which is probably the closest to SV of any place I've ever been. It looks so much like SV you could probably confuse the two
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
The Midwest has crappy weather, and rich people as a rule don't like crappy weather. This alone will prevent many investors from moving to the Midwest. Geographically, Texas and the east coast near North/South Carolina are the mos
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
It's been precedent for a long time. For example, we could have much better satellite photos but it's illegal to sell footage with resolution better than 1 pixel/meter. If they're doing it publicly for commercial satelli
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
They intentionally degrade the quality of to avoid giving competitors data. I'm sure Congress has seen the original, and it's pretty startling that they still think the object is a legit UFO
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
A lot of sites are transpired these days, so you have the 'source' but it's generated code
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I disagree strongly. I used .NET for years before jumping ship to Java. Guava and Apache commons dwarf anything available for C# at any price. I know because I went looking many times for libraries with similar algorithms and Bloom filters.
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I hadn't, but the primary problem is the inverse case. Java programmers have no problem switching to C# and vice versa. The languages are really similar. The problem is that many millions of lines of open source software have already b
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Google heavy promotes articles that use their Google Analytics and have high time-on-page scores. Everything Google does with search ranking is gameable but built to focus on high quality content. The best thing about having a couple high r
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Medium in it's purest form is a blatant SEO siphon from your website. Well written articles will generally place highly on Google's search results no matter the domain(unless you've got shady shit going on). God knows what me
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
The JVM has simply has a lot more resources poured into it. C# and the CLR is a more modern clone of Java and it shines in the great usability of C# and to some extent the more sane op-codes of the CLR. Transforming between the two is actua
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Out of compassion (and possibly not wanting to get sued), doctors and pharmacies will provide you will lifesaving medicine in the US, no matter your ability to pay. I have seen this happen in pharmacies and have firsthand experience with th