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by jcadam 6y ago
I was stationed in Germany while in the Army and always wondered how Europeans manage to make ends meet. Compared to the US, prices are higher (since adopting the Euro, at least), taxes are higher, but salaries are lower. US troops are giv
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by jcadam 6y ago
When I was younger I briefly flirted with the notion (and eventually decided against) of working abroad as a dev and came to the conclusion the UK has the worst software engineering salaries in the developed world. For an American, finding
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by jcadam 6y ago
Big sticking point for me is I'm doing development targeting Linux. As much as I feel *BSD is superior, I need the right tools to do my job.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Installing slackware from a stack o' floppies. Fond HS memories...
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by jcadam 6y ago
> It’s unclear to me how HR is any different from the CEO here. If any employee at my company experienced sexual harassment I would expect them to come to me, and said Director would be out the door within minutes. No need for HR there.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Good. Worked for a few big companies where HR ruled with an iron fist. Even senior executives were afraid of them.
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by jcadam 6y ago
So by April we'll have a new crisis in order to keep the lock-downs rolling.
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by jcadam 6y ago
> Also 95/98/Me were woefully insecure. To be (somewhat) fair, those Operating Systems were intended to run on standalone consumer machines that weren't permanently attached to a network. The most likely means of getting
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, I'm doing well enough in my career to have some disposable income now, and was thinking maybe I should outsource to some freelancers next time I get a new software idea, and just play project manager / salesman. However, the
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by jcadam 6y ago
All my attempts at entrepreneurship have been via moonlighting, and have failed. There just aren't enough hours in the day. But I can't just quit my day job and take my income down to $0 to pursue a startup.
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by jcadam 6y ago
> It's offensive to minimize what happened on January 6th. That's what you do when you mock the notion that the president incited violence. No, that doesn't follow.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Allowing the riots to continue unabated over the summer was a serious mistake. It fed a perception that political violence and intimidation was a viable means to get what you want.
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Well, personally, I'll never do business with AWS again, and I'll advocate against using them every place I work from now on (I already argue against using proprietary AWS services in order to keep things portable). Does that mat
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by jcadam 6y ago
1. Halt counting (or at least 'reporting') in critical swing states simultaneously. We all saw this happen. 2. Kick out poll watchers 3. Figure out how many votes your preferred candidate needs. 4. Examine the voter rolls and see
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People are being willfully obtuse when they say the kind of fraud being alleged isn't possible. A certain political party spent that last six months forcing rule changes on swing states vis a vis mail in voting that you can't com
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> big payout/nice salary/more usage/more resources if you get the actual payout and your project doesn't just get AWS-ified. :)
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by jcadam 6y ago
Time to de-digitize, BSG-style. Back to paper records for anything remotely sensitive. And no networked computers for processing anything important.
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Show HN: An Open Source Data Management Solution(github.com)
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I started working on this during the COVID lockdown - with all that extra time. Helped keep me sane(ish). I call it OpenDMP: https://github.com/rhinoman/odmp Anyway - this project is meant to help with a lot of the l
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The hacker ethos is dead. Now contributing to open source is just like working for a corporation. Except for free.
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> And corporate resources dominate open source -- without them we go back to dorm-room side projects of questionable maintenance. I imagine the transition from "side project" to "I might as well be working for a MegaCorp w
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Social media platforms definitely are exerting undue influence over our society and I don't think, after the last couple of weeks, anyone can seriously claim that these companies aren't using their market position to shape public
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by jcadam 6y ago
I got a perfect score. If we're being honest, it's more because I know my hair care products than my Dr. Who planets.
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Personally, I plan to try making the apple dumplings.
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I also have happened upon an innovative solution to avoid the HN hug of death: Nobody reads my blog.
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I may date myself here, but the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of this post was this scene from ST IV: https://youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE It's kinda funny watching someone without a background in
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by jcadam 6y ago
If you ask me, Fox News, aside from its evening opinion-based shows, has been moving toward the center since Ailes left. And CNN's home page looks more like an anti-GOP blog than a legit news site these days. Given that CNN was once m
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by jcadam 6y ago
I remember when RG was universally considered a hero for cleaning up NYC and his leadership on 9/11. Now apparently he's a befuddled old man allowing himself to be easily manipulated and led around by the nose by foreign intellige
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by jcadam 6y ago
Stress will eat you alive. I didn't realize how badly a situation that was subjecting me to a constant amount of low-level stress was affecting my health until the source of said stress was removed. My tolerance for toxic people and e
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by jcadam 6y ago
Can't wait for the 2AM knock on my door, and finding an armed group on my front porch demanding to know how I voted in the last election (I'm surprised people are still putting campaign signs on their lawns or stickers on their ca

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