jcadam

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   by jcadam 5y ago

   My last two jobs (previous and current) I got via recruiters who contacted me via LinkedIn. That said, about 90% of the recruiter messages I get are crap :)
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   Absolutely. I think we're returning to a multi-polar situation like we had prior to WWI. Without a clear global hegemon - great power competition could definitely lead to a major war.
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   Hey, it's possibly cyclical. The end of the Pax Romana resulted in the collapse of Mediterranean trade for centuries - if you think of the ancient mediterranean world as a smaller form of "global" there might be some histori
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   I'm 41 and still working a software engineer. When I was younger I wanted to get a job in SV but could never pass those interviews - now I no longer care and work remotely from rural Alaska :) I may step away from being a FTE and go
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   Good. Any attempt to explain macros in a slightly different way is appreciated. I work in clojure at my day job and still don't feel 100% comfortable with macros.
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   Mainly it gives me a "standard" config that's highly usable, easy to install, and that I no longer have to maintain myself :)
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   I keep coming back to emacs. Used to have a custom .emacs.d I kept in github, but eventually just gave that up and went with spacemacs :) Employers that standardize on a single IDE (e.g., enterprise Java shops and eclipse - blech) are alwa
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   by jcadam 5y ago

   There are govt programs to fund more "speculative" projects. See DARPA, IARPA, NASA SBIR, etc. if you don't mind working with the govt, that is.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Soon to be ex-Googlers to be sure, given they just handed their management a signed list. What are decent folks still doing working for those scumbags, anyway? I just quit my job due to a vaccine mandate, only a few months after the manage
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    I always do better with take-home assignments than I do with a whiteboard or live-coding interview.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    I'd take an on-prem solution for cheap archival storage any day over Glacier.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    I use NatGas to heat my house here in Alaska (in-floor radiant heat, quite efficient). But I also have wood burning stoves and am surrounded by forest. If the price of NatGas increases to the point it becomes unaffordable, trust me when I
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    If a large number of the new MBPs start showing up in the refurb store in the very near future... that's probably not a good sign.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    That is the worst idea I've ever heard.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Hey mid-30's to 40's is young..ish.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Any money I've saved has been more than cancelled out by inflation (particularly food prices). So now, going back to the office would be unaffordable.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Show HNs were great years ago, but due to the sheer size of the community here nowadays nobody gets noticed without a prearranged horde of up-voters at the ready and/or a little "help" from the mods.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    The lines between "big tech" and "big government" seem a bit blurry these days.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Yep, I'm old enough to remember when the general advice was to never use your real name on the internet. Then social media came along and suddenly that changed. And now we're seeing the results of the naive trust we placed in the
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Didn't know this. And I'm an expressvpn user. Anyone know of any good alternatives?
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    My ancestor's discharge papers from the US Army during the civil war make use of the "pointed finger" where nowadays one would naturally use bullet points.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    I like Ruby. Rails, not so much.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    I suppose it's time to stop carrying tracking devices around with us everywhere we go.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    By this logic, we should also turn away the morbidly obese, all smokers, anyone who injured themselves while participating in risky activities (e.g, skiing), and so on and so forth.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    So now anyone can frame you by sending unsolicited child porn to your iPhone.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Eh? According to this article by Nate Silver, Trafalgar did reasonably well in 2020: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-death-of-polling-is... Especially considering polling in 2020 was way off across the board.
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Ok here's one poll on vaccine mandates: https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-vaccines-0... If we believe these results, vaccine mandates are about as unpopular as TARP was back in 2008 (opposition to
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    > I hope that one day you'll experience an actual tyranny for comparison. Something like Belarus or North Korea. Cool. We should submit to any and all amounts of government overreach and abuse of power until our rulers decide to go
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    by jcadam 5y ago

    Yep. I just signed up for a paid email service too. Time to migrate everything off of google services.