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by grigjd3 10y ago
Mint 17 was vastly more compatible as a desktop VM than Ubuntu 14.04, so I definitely used it when I needed to test code with gcc 4.8.
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I have my doubts as to what can be accomplished with only 51 Senators. Just like with the Democrats in 2008, the Republicans are not as monolithic as they would like you to believe. They face reelection as much as anyone and if they start m
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The dollar is going up because of the prospect of a lower corporate tax rate and increased infrastructure spending. The first means companies will have more motivation to bring profits into the United States and the second is believed to le
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When a school with ~4000 students has a multimillion dollar flower replacement budget, it says a lot.
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I saw academic bloat run sky-high when I was a post-doc. Today, I think about saving for my daughter's college, which I am fortunate enough to be able to do. It's infuriating that the money is going to paying for self-preserving b
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I like how well thought out your questions are. I generally ask about the company having an open culture for questions and ability to learn, but I'll keep track of those questions in the future.
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I don't think enough can be said about having good mentors and having good mentors that are good at things you aren't good at. My direct manager and I complement each other pretty well and in addition to it being good for our depa
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by grigjd3 10y ago
I think one has to be fairly pedantic to hear the open source argument and not realize that some open source projects are better than others. That said, the philosophy is a bit dated. Good, solid software often comes from having a large use
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by grigjd3 10y ago
Well I certainly don't dig into the depths of what I can make emacs do (and hence load) but I find it opens seemingly instantly for me unless I am doing something like using the window mode on a VM that mimics a video card.
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I still hear the old joke sometimes: Emacs user: You should never turn off emacs. Vim user: because it takes too long to load emacs. The irony being the points behind both sides of this joke pretty much have no meaning with the current stat
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4 - I get projects where I spend two or three months getting something really noteworthy accomplished only to see my efforts wasted as leadership changes their minds on what they want. My most important contributions lately have been ways t
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Sure, the nature of work isn't static. Before there were permanent settlements, people hunted and gathered. Then we started agriculture, then construction and this leads to writing and scholarship. These articles are simply bemoaning c
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Some variance of the end of labor seems to work its way around every five or so years. The focus of these articles are always the abstract concepts of labor that make it into politidal campaigns and economics. They never seem to notice that