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by gregjor 6y ago
One possible way, but the one best supported by evidence. The west coast of North America continues to yield evidence of human settlement and migration, sometimes just offshore. Genetics also supports the out of Siberia hypothesis.
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by gregjor 6y ago
We know quite a bit about many cultures predating the printing press. Ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Greece, Rome, Persia, China, India. The Bible predates the printing press, so do Homer, Aristotle, Caesar, Buddha, the Vedas, and Confucius. Arthu
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by gregjor 6y ago
You aren’t too old to learn new things unless you suffer from dementia, and I don’t get that impression. I’m probably older (60) and I still learn new things in software development and sys admin constantly. Find out what cloud provider(s)
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by gregjor 6y ago
No one alive will live to see that happen, so it’s a hard sell even if feasible. It’s not that no one has thought of this before, but it’s more science fiction than an imminent reality.
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by gregjor 6y ago
tl;dr Windows sucks, and Go sucks on Windows.
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by gregjor 6y ago
Buzzfeed has editorial standards?
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by gregjor 6y ago
Poll: 1. Wow, can’t wait to see that. I’m 12 years old. 2. Why not remake Casablanca with that kind of talent? 3. What’s Quibi?
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by gregjor 6y ago
And then what? Supposing humans can survive a trip to Mars — far more dangerous than crossing an ocean — can we bring any resources back in meaningful quantities? Can we establish colonies and industry? Not now, not anytime soon. Like I alr
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by gregjor 6y ago
The resources are far away, we have no way to get to them right now. Will we reach those resources before we run out on this planet? Before a catastrophe wipes us out? Who knows. By comparison sailing across the oceans seems trivial.
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by gregjor 6y ago
The article manages to describe tail risk without using the term, and the author avoids mentioning Nasim Taleb, the current leading author/speaker on low probability/high risk events, so-called Black Swans. I suppose Taleb has off
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by gregjor 6y ago
That much is obvious, but can we get there before a catastrophe wipes us out or sets us back hundreds of years? Colonizing other planets is not going to happen in our lifetimes or in my grandchildren's lifetimes. We don't even hav
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by gregjor 6y ago
Homeschooled does not mean “confined to home.” Most of us have made friends and dealt with strangers since we got out of school. Spend some time with homeschoolers before forming incorrect theories about how they spend their time.
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by gregjor 6y ago
travelingmailbox.com
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by gregjor 6y ago
Why do people think this is interesting enough to post it every week?
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by gregjor 6y ago
I don't experience problems with cron itself failing to start jobs, but it doesn't have any monitoring built-in. Solutions exist for that, including wrapping cron scripts to notify or log when they start and stop. Implementing ret
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by gregjor 6y ago
UptimeRobot lets me collect multiple monitors and show just those on a custom status page. I can give that URL to a customer, or set up custom DNS for it so it appears on their domain. Not a deal breaker but some of my customers like it. I
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by gregjor 6y ago
Will compare to UptimeRobot. I monitor about 50 sites for customers. Some of them like the custom status page feature of UptimeRobot, which I didn’t expect until I showed them.
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by gregjor 6y ago
I’ve seen several services just like this. I wouldn’t use a cron service because of the security problems. cron running locally means I can protect the scripts from getting executed when I don’t want them run. If this service can send reque
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by gregjor 6y ago
Ask your parents or grandparents. My grandfather worked a crap job to provide for two kids, while going to med school nights and weekends. My grandmother had a p/t job and a side business. They managed. Their story doesn’t seem unusual
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by gregjor 6y ago
Turning off all of my digital “assistants.” I don’t want corporate mission statements and policies fed to me by an appliance. Politics and religion are best avoided in conversations with mixed company, there’s no reason for a machine I use
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by gregjor 6y ago
First, you need to make a lot of money. Credit to Monty Python for this tip.
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by gregjor 6y ago
Author should study some of the people who already “questioned the narrative.” Ivan Ilich, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto come to mind.
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by gregjor 6y ago
Price is based on demand, competition, value, not on amortizing development cost. Some services are costly to develop, market, and operate. Some aren’t. Customer support requires people, and people don’t work for free. A small number of cus
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by gregjor 6y ago
I didn't mean to get metaphysical. In my experience interviewing for software dev jobs, the interviews are usually conducted by the IT/software dev staff and the hiring manager, not the entire company staff. HR may or may not get
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by gregjor 6y ago
Yes, but company policy and interview decisions don't necessarily match.
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by gregjor 6y ago
I quit Twitter a year ago. I'll remove that link, sorry. Thanks for reading.
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by gregjor 6y ago
I’ve been freelance consulting and developing for more than ten years. http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-ge...
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by gregjor 6y ago
I’ve never known a PM with an MBA (in 40+ years career). I would think an MBA would open doors to more interesting and lucrative careers.
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by gregjor 6y ago
Old and obsolete mean different things. If something comes along significantly and obviously better-suited than COBOL in its domain, with a migration path, we might see COBOL code gradually replaced. Peter Thiel said “ If we are truly talki
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by gregjor 6y ago
I think the age discrimination comes from the mostly younger staff, not so much the company. Works out the same, of course, when you’re told you aren’t a “good cultural fit.”

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