hondo77

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by hondo77 3y ago
> Even the metro line is about a mile walk. The nearest grocery store is over a mile away. The horror.
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by hondo77 3y ago
You clearly have never known a great athlete. They're mostly born. Sure, it takes a lot of work to be great but if you aren't born with it, no amount of work and dedication is going to make you great.
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by hondo77 3y ago
That was one of the takeaways from this whole episode. In its wake, the Technology Transformation Services and 18F resulted. Part of what they do is show government agencies a better way of procurement (a "modular" or "agile&
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by hondo77 3y ago
Sounds incredibly like a non-starter for people who aren't completely desperate. Then again, maybe that's who they're looking for.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Not having a side project going on in the background.
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by hondo77 3y ago
I have my music download stores set to give me ALAC so that's a normal store for me. :-)
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by hondo77 3y ago
Too bad their prices for lossless downloads for the quick searches I just did are outrageous. Don't even need to get into the very limited catalog.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Disney is a very big company. Maybe there are parts of it that our dinosaur-like but there are other parts that are doing the sharpening of the cutting edge. They'll fall behind every so often but then they catch back up and have been
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by hondo77 3y ago
...with no backups.
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by hondo77 3y ago
As I type this I'm listening to mp3's playing from my iPod classic, line out from the dock, into desktop speakers in my home office. Love it. I started buying CDs in 1985 (and vinyl before that). I guarantee you I have music that
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by hondo77 3y ago
I can find neither "mewling" nor "quim". Disappointed.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Lots. Of. Wood.
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by hondo77 3y ago
This. I was hospitalized for 12 days a couple months ago. At the end, I was going to leave if I wasn't discharged by a certain day because I couldn't take the food anymore. Fortunately, it didn't come to that but, my god, the
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by hondo77 3y ago
During my hospitalization for thyroid storm/afib, they had the heart monitor alarm set to too low a heart rate for what I had. It was loudly beeping constantly. I kept asking the nurses to fix it but was given various excuses. Finally
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by hondo77 3y ago
> “I need to say something every day, but I don’t have something to say every day” Hello talk radio and 24-hour news networks.
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by hondo77 3y ago
In retrospect: hiring managers having Ayn Rand books at work.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Because humans hadn't eaten bread before the last 30 years? Try again.
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by hondo77 3y ago
I worked with Stan during his Disney days. We brought him out to teach a C++ class and he liked it so much that he decided to work there for several years. He was a good guy. I didn't know he passed away last year until I saw this.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Why isn't there enough supply in Atlanta?
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by hondo77 3y ago
It's easier to imagine the drought conditions of recent years/decades repeating.
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by hondo77 3y ago
Foxes guarding henhouses. Lawyers disciplining lawyers. Cops disciplining cops. Do any of these sound like good ideas? If so, do they work in practice?
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by hondo77 3y ago
> A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school. Into that medical school. There are others.
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by hondo77 3y ago
> Meanwhile some white or asian person gets bumped off, and instead of their kids growing up in that area, they grow up in a worse school district. Because if someone can't go to MIT, they're doomed to a life of abject poverty?
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by hondo77 3y ago
No, it means it prevented someone else's father from attending that school. There are others. That's why you apply to more than one.
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by hondo77 3y ago
The problems that you work to solve are not the usual "I need a new parameter for this API endpoint" type of work. It's fun (for a while) and crazy and even glamorous (watching something you've worked on in a theater wit
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by hondo77 3y ago
Or Michael Pinder from The Moody Blues. You know, the guy who also introduced the Mellotron to The Beatles?
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The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests(livescience.com)
30 points by hondo77 3y ago|2 comments
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by hondo77 3y ago
Suggest they watch "Moneyball".
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by hondo77 3y ago
Like birds in cages. Birds are meant to fly, toys are meant to be played with by children, and musical instruments are meant to be played.
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by hondo77 3y ago
It can also do things my watch, refrigerator, car, iPod, washer & dryer, and smart lightbulbs can't do. Know why? Because they're not meant to write and compile programs on. Why would anyone want to write software on the ergon

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