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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
My god I hope you're correct. The problem is I'm not given a "new employee time buffer": the SLA is king, and even though I get budget to train (free lunches!!!) it isn't fully internalized that increasing customers
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
From 1990, these guys were so ahead of their time (yea, I know, institutional racism != IT infrastructure, but still...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Oh hell, software dev is so, so very overloaded with underskilled programmers with fragile egos. They come out of college knowing a little python and javascript and can't do jack shit for at least a year, and just come to a screeching
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Still better than Word 2017. ;) I mean, come on, it still screws up fonts on macOS and it's 30+ years old?!?
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
" It's easy to forget to handle one of these five cases." /feels cold shiver wondering if i've every used read()/
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
Thanks for finding that! I forgot about the wayback machine. I also forgot that is what websites looked like in the late 90's. /r/blunderyearsforwebsites
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
agreed: my investment bank (real "real" money) finally started offering an authenticator (that adds random numbers to your password every login) two years ago. i worked at a major semiconductor company in the late 1990's and
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
"If you look at the US for example for the first time in 30 years. They've been oil reserves. Oil they save for nation security to turn it into profit before it's worthless." Huh? We've had reserves for practically
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
I love this part: "The USGS said its estimates are for “continuous unconventional oil,” meaning it’s spread throughout the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations rather than concentrated in one place. It said the reserves are “undiscovere
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by iheartpotatoes 8y ago
The first link, "Flo Control" (named after Flo the cat) was built in the late 1990's, and this link on MetaFilter ( https://www.metafilter.com/15802/ ) is from 2002, but the host link appears to be dead. T