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by hiram112 10y ago
I've also tried to use a Linux VM on Widnows due to issues with Node, paths in various Scala libs, and a dozen other problems. Cygwin works for 50%, but not for everything. I've tried Win 10 with Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu Bash)
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by hiram112 10y ago
I think it became harder to write true desktop apps once VB6 was killed off in favor of .Net with its higher learning curve. As bad as a real language VB6 and it's GUI builder were, it did allow even amateurs to write a decent workin
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by hiram112 10y ago
I was interested too with the Latitudes. The article is vague, but it does mention latest models. I just picked up an e7440 - new but a few generations old - from the Dell business outlet. The touchpad (along with the battery) is the bigg
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by hiram112 10y ago
Honestly, this has been one of the reasons I've chosen to avoid buying a home even though I could easily afford it now. Seems like, besides lack of mobility in a era of never stable employers, owning a home essentially weds you to your
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by hiram112 10y ago
Same, though I used to use Fedora. The Win 10 Linux subsystem is still a mess, though it is improving in beta versions.
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by hiram112 10y ago
It comes with the Linux subsystem. Honestly, I haven't had much luck with it as it is still lacking serious features. It has improved in beta versions, but I think it is going to be a while 'till it is stable enough to use instead
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by hiram112 10y ago
The 'sex trafficking' angle has become a straw-man for the anti-prostitution crusaders. Does it exist? Of course. But most non-biased studies show that it is not involved in the vast majority of prostitution related transactions.
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by hiram112 10y ago
It all depends on your own situation. I, myself, moved from the Midwest to a very high COL East Coast city 7 or 8 years ago. My salary has pretty much doubled, though I imagine at this point it is about $40K more than I could get back home.
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by hiram112 10y ago
Spot on. And really the subsidized roads and trains are less about getting fresh produce to the cities and more about getting the trillions of dollars of agricultural products to the sea for export, our single largest source of income by fa
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by hiram112 10y ago
I agree with you. I constantly hear (especially during election season) about how the blue coastal states are basically 'subsidizing' the idiots from fly over country - some statistics about tax payments and farm subsidies tossed
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by hiram112 10y ago
A few of the Midwest states in the corn belt consistently out performed the rest of the nation in the pre college tests that used to be given to most of the nations students, though part of this was due to the lack of minority students.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard the claim that even pushing up tax rates to Eisenhower-era levels (without deductions) would still not solve the problem fully. Instead, we simply have a demographics issue: To
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by hiram112 10y ago
Interestingly, I remember in the 90s when offshoring really started to take off beyond just steel and some manufacturing, the response from the politicians was that BS about rising tide lifting all boats. Then somewhere in the last 10 years
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by hiram112 10y ago
Yep. Moved to high cost of living city almost a decade ago. Always lived frugally, even though I'm now making decent money. The plan was to get the hell out of this overpriced, over crowded area with a stash of cash and head back to Mi
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by hiram112 10y ago
Yes, but only if the salary is in my range. I get so many recruiter spams, LinkedIn junk mail, contacts from former associates, etc. - most of which have absolutely no salary range - those that do and are high enough tend to stand-out in my
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by hiram112 10y ago
Just got the same one. More information and a link to the purchase site here: https://slickdeals.net/f/9330575-asus-tm-ac1900-wireless-ac1... I have yet to open it as I'm using my landlord's Verizon crap mode
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by hiram112 10y ago
Seems like this would be a nightmare with a lot of languages' build cycles. Dropbox is already quite a CPU hog, and I'd imagine it'd be a nightmare to run something like a typical Maven build that was producing all sorts of t
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by hiram112 10y ago
Out of serious curiosity, what are these new apps that are using more and more RAM, at least for the last few cycles? It seems like 8 GB has been the default amount for most consumer PCs for years now. This is in contrast to 15-20 years ago
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by hiram112 10y ago
On a rooted Android I use Greenify for all apps that I don't want running while I'm not using. Without root, you could force disable the app when not using, but you would have to re-enable it manually.
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by hiram112 10y ago
Also you can deduct the taxes paid in the EU so you are not going to be paying US taxes if you are being taxed legitimately.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I did not find this to be the case at all when I lived in Germany (Hesse), though being paid in US dollars for a US firm. I would say the prices of food were at least as high as in the US, and while apartments were not SF expensive, but pro
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by hiram112 10y ago
I've been successful in getting a few friends to use Blackberry Messenger. It's polished, has a lot of useful features, and is now free.
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by hiram112 10y ago
What's the long-term business goal for Azure lock-in? If .Net runs as well on Linux as it does on Windows, then there really is no reason to use Azure over any other cloud provider like AWS where generic CentOS or Ubuntu boxes are no d
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by hiram112 10y ago
Well most of the state and city bans to limit the 2nd amendment were struck down by the courts. So the left has been pushing 'back-door' laws that would do the same thing, effectively: huge taxes on ammo, letting manufactures be l
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by hiram112 10y ago
No the older plans mostly had out-of-pocket limits, too. At least the standard employment sponsored plans.
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by hiram112 10y ago
That's very true. Not for any political reasons, but I've always wanted to work in the EU (I lived there several times but was working) but everytime I look at salaries in Berlin or the NL or similar, it occurs to me that'd i
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by hiram112 10y ago
"Comparitive advantage" was about growing bananas in the tropics vs the tundra. What we've had for the last three generations is a race to the bottom.
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by hiram112 10y ago
I would be happy with an organization that would group together to avoid the use of body shops that push wages down across the board. The things that are happening Disney, Edison, and a lot of other places shouldn't be tolerated by sof
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Why a federal high-tech startup is a money loser(washingtonpost.com)
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by hiram112 10y ago
2 more ram slots.

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