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>"It seems that he was an unrepentant asshole, but I don't think that all of his success came down to just being in the right place at the right time." Sure. Again relating this more to what I've experienced than an
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Every time I read something about Jobs I'm struck by how similar he is to various assholes I've worked for over the years. This scenario, pretty much every nasty behavior described in the Isaacson biography, the recent salary-fixi
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I wouldn't call myself a developer, more of a generalist. I started my first real job in technology in the mid-late 90s and spent roughly the first half of my career maintaining systems that were built by other people. Eventually, I ju
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>"Are you sure that's what sysadmins themselves do?" By my standard yes, that's what they do. Of course, I expect there are a whole host of common definitions and countless pet ones. >"In practice, the &quo
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>"Is it a possibility that someone has controversial opinions but could be unafraid of expressing them to a group of peers?" Sure, but if you want to be able to do it more than once you need to be... 1.) Useful enough to some
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I'm a bit surprised at the amount of positive response. This impresses me as rather obnoxious, probably effective, but obnoxious. Something between the pop-over ad and the ever-present network TV promotional crawl brought to the masses
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When I read this I can't help but think about how often I run across people in development or design who don't seem to see difficulty in or value of system administration. It's pretty trivial to turn up systems that work in t
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>"Any problems you've experienced with it?" Politics. Technical hurdles (getting / massaging data) might be challenging or time-consuming but they're straightforward problems. Dealing with people who feel posse
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I get the impression you've created and become fixated on some notion about what you're "supposed" to know / do based on and relative to what you see online. Basically, A tech-centric version of Facebook angst - &qu
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1.) Nurture my family. 2.) Enable people to educate themselves. Public libraries were essential in building the mindset and providing the place and materials for me to drag myself out of poverty.
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Generally not an early adopter, but after backing, using and being blown away by the original kit this was an easy decision. Interestingly, the checkout page reflected my Oculus Store Credit discount, but the confirmation email I received d
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>"But that hope is quickly vanishing the more and more I read about these individuals' backgrounds." I can relate, I've felt some of that over the years. Today, I look back at it as self-defeating nonsense that caus
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>"Well, they aren't really charging a one time fee, they're charging per notebook." Sure, a one time fee per notebook. The "per" doesn't make it a different model.
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">It fostered a sense of being able to talk without worrying that it might be misinterpreted as romantic intimacy." I'd never considered this in detail before, but I'm nearly certain that this is why I prefer those
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>"We’d kill the subscription model..." I tend to be wary of any service with ongoing running costs sold as a one-time fee. As long as new sales exceed the cost of servicing the existing population everything is fine. Once tha
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> "When is the last time you heard of a system administrator writing down problems on a whiteboard as opposed to asking a colleague or Googling the answer?" Once you move beyond roles which are effectively operations, maintena
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The parent isn't referring to juicing with medication, rather seeking a diagnosis in order to receive accommodations like extra exam time [0]. The most notable example of this is probably the 2000 California audit: " An analysis
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I can see my window in that pic, yet had no idea ICANN is over there on 17th. You're right about proximity. Within that radius chances are you're a government employee, lobbyist or lawyer.
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>"...because nobody can tell the good from the bad." This has been one of the most persistent and extreme frustrations in my working life - working for people who are so out of touch with the technology which they ostensibly
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At a glance, it all seems fairly logical to me. Sanitation as we know it in the US at least depends on a lot of very expensive infrastructure with annual spending of about $100 per capita. It's surely far cheaper to stand up a cell tow
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>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very
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I enjoyed Europa Report (It's on Neflix [0]) thoroughly I and I feel compelled to link this invigorating (2007) talk from Bill Stone [0]. 0: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Europa_Report/70276016 1: http:&#x2
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Neat. Satellite imagery isn't terribly expensive and Lowes has 1830 stores. I'd bet it's a lot more efficient in the end to just buy a consistent set of images for X stores of interest, X times a year than worry about the ins
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At a glance, this looks like AWS being used like a dedicated host, which as demonstrated, isn't exactly cheap. There's no spot or even reserved pricing, just a bunch of on-demand instances that were up 24/7 for all 28 days in
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I'm thinking more among the community than from Reddit directly. You already see a fair bit of that kind of peer pressure in some circles [0][1]. 0: http://www.reddit.com/r/CoDCompetitive/comments/1ssvjm&
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>"... spend 10% of a new form of marketing..." Exactly. Seems a big part of the Reddit appeal is the love for feeling a part of the collective. All at once this reinforces that sense, lends a suggestion of passive nobility to
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - Generally attributed to Malcolm S. Forbes.
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>"...if I shared my 960+ LinkedIn connections with you - a total stranger who has nothing to offer me." It never occurred to me that someone could have so much self-worth tied up in their LinkedIn connection list. Funny thing
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Historically, I've been accessing documentation as an administrator rather than a programmer. There are a couple of documentation habits that have driven me half mad over the years. * Broken Usage Examples: It's bad enough when an
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All so true. I still have my copy of "HTML: The Definitive Guide" [0]. I thought I was hot stuff when I figured out how to pre-cache images by making invisible references to them on my landing page. I really enjoyed trying to make

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