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by glonq 7y ago
...and shows bias by using the term "the party line" so frequently.
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by glonq 7y ago
Back in the early 90's, I worked for a company that made parking meters. The big yellow kind with displays and buttons. We sent TRS80 Model 102's to customers for editing rates and messages and uploading them into the meters. It
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by glonq 7y ago
"with friends, no experience required" ...but what if I've got experience but no friends?
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by glonq 7y ago
Agreed. I actually "retired" from programming when WPF was released and got into management. Framework fatigue was definitely a factor in my decision -- having to toss out a bunch of knowledge and then learn something new that
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by glonq 7y ago
They forgot to consider the 'brave new world' effect -- society crumbles if people don't get their soma.
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by glonq 8y ago
It could have easily been designed to work both offline or online. But it only works online. That's a bad technical idea. And "open washing" is ethically terrible. So is patenting an idea that takes a weekend to code. So
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by glonq 8y ago
Words do have value, but what W3W takes away from you (money!) has more value.
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by glonq 8y ago
Ditto, and I've worked with GIS for over a decade. Heard of plus codes, though. Which is definitely what I'll use if/when I need something more human-friendly than lat&lon.
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by glonq 8y ago
So they are 'too big to fail' ?
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by glonq 8y ago
Very thorough. Nice job.
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by glonq 8y ago
Yes, anything that eventually got patented.
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by glonq 8y ago
Let's be honest: the ones that helped me get the biggest raises. I work to live; not live to work.
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by glonq 8y ago
In the words of Raymond Chen, "I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature."
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by glonq 8y ago
It appears that Intel wanted to trump AMD. ...and also wanted to Trump AMD.
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by glonq 9y ago
If amazon is going to be anti-consumer and anti-competitive (by refusing to sell certain products), then this is a very reasonable response from Google.
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by glonq 9y ago
+1 TP by math teacher. Without him, I'd never have become a real programmer.
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by glonq 9y ago
> Most jobs don't care what degree you have as long as you have a degree Then why do they require a degree at all? What specific skills will a degreed applicant have that a high school grad won't?
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by glonq 9y ago
I'd do "Traitor Joe's"
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by glonq 9y ago
That's the one I shop at. Thanks for tolerating so many canucks in your city! Sorry about bogarting all the milk.
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by glonq 10y ago
I was waiting (cash in hand!) for a new Macbook Air model, so am disappointed that none materialized.
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by glonq 10y ago
Can confirm. My boss killed everybody's 'work from home one day per week' policy and cited Yahoo's actions as his justification for it. Sadly, that used to be the most productive day of the week for me.
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by glonq 11y ago
Compared to other technical and scientific efforts, programming is still in its infancy. It has a long way to go before it is as refined and disciplined as other occupations. We are getting there slowly, but it's still the wild west.
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by glonq 11y ago
Even though I'm pretty disappointed in the quality/quantity of apps in the Windows app store, 'crapware' is the biggest reason why the app store needs to exist. You can't expect non-experts to find, download, and in
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by glonq 11y ago
Lisp in sed? There are two things wrong with that ;)
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by glonq 11y ago
I lucked out and was accepted as a public alpha (and later beta) tester for Ultima Online. I remember it being very laggy and a bit glitchy, despite having a high-end PC (50mhz 80486, 28.8k modem). But I was still mesmerized with the conce
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by glonq 11y ago
Nice. Ultima 'offline' is directly responsible for me being a programmer. Inspired to build ultima-like games in high school (w00 turbo pascal!), I eventually ended up as a professional software thingamajiggy. ...I'm still
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by glonq 11y ago
Time heals all wounds. Microsoft is like a senior citizen with a dark criminal past. We look at him and seem somebody who is feeble and harmless, and forget that he's served time for rape and murder. Google is young and fit and strong