jcadam

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541.
by jcadam 5y ago
Makes sense considering the state of rural internet in many places.
542.
by jcadam 5y ago
Are we just ignoring all of the doctors and nurses who were fired for refusing vaccinations? They don't count?
543.
by jcadam 5y ago
I met my wife when she tapped me on the shoulder in a public place and introduced herself. I just smiled and nodded and ended up with a date - I think I might have gotten my name out at some point -- not sure. She calls me by the correct
544.
by jcadam 5y ago
It's a cycle, like anything else. Tech was largely spared during the last recession. Who knows what's going to happen during the next?
545.
by jcadam 5y ago
The current job market is punishing poorly run companies. It's too easy to pick up the phone and get a new job quick these days if you're unhappy, contributing to churn.
546.
by jcadam 5y ago
High turnover also contributes to tech debt. When turnover becomes ingrained in company culture, engineers have no incentive to care overly much about the overall health of the code base.
547.
by jcadam 5y ago
In theory, the US is a federation of sovereign states (i.e., the federal government is a creature of the states, states are not supposed to be merely political subdivisions of the central government). Domestic affairs are supposed to be
548.
by jcadam 5y ago
I received an invite to pullrequest nearly a year ago, filled out the application, and never heard from them again.
549.
by jcadam 5y ago
Speed cameras do that, and without my own car spying on me.
550.
by jcadam 5y ago
We have IDs at the state level, which is where they belong.
551.
by jcadam 5y ago
My greatest success so far was a product that earned enough to cover its own hosting fees but not much beyond that :)
552.
by jcadam 5y ago
Life, uh.. finds a way.
553.
by jcadam 5y ago
I think they're already there. Further, I think section 230 protection should be limited to smaller companies.
554.
by jcadam 5y ago
Yep, love my Moonlander - it has really helped with my wrist issues. The only trouble I have is when I have to switch to a standard keyboard (e.g., on a laptop).
555.
by jcadam 5y ago
I didn't know the thumb cluster lifted upwards. Just tried it on mine, wow is that uncomfortable.
556.
by jcadam 5y ago
Just you try not being up-to-date in a coding interview.
557.
by jcadam 5y ago
> selection pressure is for more-contagious and less-deadly If left alone, yes. We are not leaving it alone.
558.
by jcadam 5y ago
I am happy to report that winters up here in the sub-arctic part of Alaska are cold AF. Winter even arrived a bit early this year.
559.
by jcadam 5y ago
That's the family rate. I think I'm paying 70% of the premium - still cheaper than buying direct, I suppose.
560.
by jcadam 5y ago
Generally, when the boss asks you which logging library your Javaland project uses, the answer is "all of them."
561.
by jcadam 5y ago
I'm going to have to recommend against Florida. Remember, the last gubernatorial election there was decided by ~50k votes. And blue-staters have been migrating there en masse since last summer. I sold my house to one of them sever
562.
by jcadam 5y ago
I'm paying over $1000/month through my employer for a high deductible health plan. So I'm contributing to an HSA on top of that.
563.
by jcadam 5y ago
Moved out of the city (Tampa) to rural Alaska. Currently working remotely with the help of a local ISP that does wireless internet (on the waiting list for Starlink).
564.
by jcadam 5y ago
OTOH, sometimes you get stuck working for the CEO's nephew who just graduated with his BA in business management and has zero domain knowledge.
565.
by jcadam 5y ago
Some companies have a technical track culminating in "Technical Fellow." Supposedly equivalent to a VP level executive. I worked at Boeing many years ago, back before the engineering culture had been fully snuffed out, and techn
566.
by jcadam 5y ago
I've known several who did the same. I was an Army officer before I went into software development, and have little interest in being in charge of other people again. The only painful aspect of this is being subjected to the poor &qu
567.
by jcadam 5y ago
The only time I had contact with the end user as a defense contractor was when I was working on-site in an R&D shop, where we were creating software for users that were all in the same "integrated" team with us. That was the
568.
by jcadam 5y ago
Well, shoot everybody knows who you are now that that drunken tweet of yours from three years ago went viral thanks to a twitter rage mob. So, we reckon that makes you a public figure.
569.
by jcadam 5y ago
These rules seem targeted at independent/citizen journalists like Andy Ngo.
570.
by jcadam 5y ago
I see others have mentioned DuckDuckGo. Allow me to suggest swisscows: https://swisscows.com/ I've been using it as my default search engine the last couple of months and it seems to do a pretty good job.

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