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by jcadam 6y ago
As a former Army officer, I completely agree with the CJCS recent statement that the military will play no role in the election process. Anything short of a clear landslide for one of the two candidates is going to result in a seriously ten
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by jcadam 6y ago
Drug addicts do dumb things all the time.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I don't think facebook and twitter would have acted this quickly and this brazenly if it were 100% BS. This reaction just reeks of "Oh @#$!! Kill it!"
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by jcadam 6y ago
And, if the NYP really does have an entire hard drive o' shame on its hands, this story is only the appetizer.
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by jcadam 6y ago
> America the same type of group exists and it's private You gotta admire the genius of it all. The state gets to control speech and the press via willing private citizens and corporations, whilst keeping its hands clean.
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by jcadam 6y ago
No, they're just extremely confident there will be no consequences. They're doing Biden a solid here, and now he owes them.
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by jcadam 6y ago
If it's a fully compatible clone - complete with kickstart and able to run an unmodified build of Workbench, I'll buy one. I'd personally rather it be an A1200 clone rather than an A500, but maybe that's just me :)
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by jcadam 6y ago
Not to mention, the 1-ply sandpaper most offices stock in their bathrooms instead of proper toilet paper. I imagine they use the 3 seashells at FAANG companies, but I'll settle for Charmin.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yes. After years of dreaming about it, I finally have a remote job and it was everything I hoped it could be. I have a den set up as an office with a standing desk, white board, and a DOOR THAT SHUTS . I love it. My employer keeps throw
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by jcadam 6y ago
History is written by the victors, eh? I guess we'll just have to wait and see (or, rather our descendants will).
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by jcadam 6y ago
To save free speech, we have to destroy free speech. In the future, some historian is going to write the seminal work on the decline and dissolution of the United States - and there's going to be an entire chapter dedicated to social m
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by jcadam 6y ago
I fully expect something to be done, but only if Trump wins the next election. Facebook/Twitter/et. al., aren't throwing all of their support behind Biden because they think he's going to hurt them.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yep, I have a few google minis (freebies, hmm...), I'm thinking about tossing them, honestly. Beyond asking about the weather or setting a kitchen timer they just aren't very useful. And I fully believe such devices are going to
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by jcadam 6y ago
I've encountered one genuine compiler bug in my (now 14+ year) career. I was working on a defense contract, on a government system, where I was constrained by local IA policy to specific versions of various tools, including a relativel
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by jcadam 6y ago
This was years ago, so my memory is fuzzy on this - not sure how much I really heard after I knew I was being told no :) There was a decision point about halfway through the day (after being grilled by engineers) where I was going to be e
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by jcadam 6y ago
It's a specific kind of work - I assure you I spend a lot of my spare time learning and working on hobby projects. The grind of drilling on brain teasers and toy interview problems is something I have little patience for anymore.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they pu
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by jcadam 6y ago
> the atmosphere of Venus is the only place outside of Earth where humans could walk outside with just a simple oxygen mask The clouds of sulfuric acid might sting a bit. > floating cities on Venus are not as cool as "normal&qu
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'll clarify: I'm specifically talking about junior devs who are having a lot of trouble with their IDE, have no experience with anything else, and aren't willing to give any other options a shot. It shows a lack of curiosit
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by jcadam 6y ago
> Go's mediocrity is a feature, since it's supposed to allow larger teams to get more work done. I get it. Most software is boring, doesn't break new ground, and Go is well suited for those kinds of projects. But I'm
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by jcadam 6y ago
The only time I've ever used Eclipse was when it was mandated by my employer. That happened to me twice. I didn't stay long at either place - for some reason both companies were horrible places to work. I have noticed a lot of ne
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'm doing server-side Kotlin as well, with Spring Boot. I initially was against the idea of Spring Boot, because I had memories of using the old bloated Spring Framework from 10+ years ago with giant XML files full of bean definitions
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Show HN: Lockdown Project – A Data Management Tool(github.com)
2 points by jcadam 6y ago|1 comments
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by jcadam 6y ago
This might be on the edge of being a bit early for a Show HN, but I thought I'd share what I've been doing with all of this unexpected free time: An open source data management tool. See Github: https://github.com&#x2F
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by jcadam 6y ago
I still have a basic alarm clock with a battery for back-up. Back when I was in the Army and oversleeping carried somewhat harsher consequences, I also had a mechanical wind-up clock as a backup. I would absolutely never trust a software-c
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by jcadam 6y ago
You know, when somebody mentions Swordfish the first thing I think of is the "Interview" scene. There's a joke in there somewhere about high-pressure SV technical interviews.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yes! Not to mention, Sneakers is slightly(ha!) more realistic than "Hackers." And also Swordfish while I'm thinking about it. Now I need to watch it again.
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by jcadam 6y ago
The first computer I ever used was a second-hand Apple ][e my parents brought home one day when I was little. I got started with BASIC on that thing. I actually didn't realize until I had to use a ][+ at school later that some compute
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by jcadam 6y ago
Well, parler is seeing explosive growth for a reason (though parler is more of a twitter clone). Looks like the two tribes just can't handle being on the same social networks together anymore. So we're retreating further into ou
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by jcadam 6y ago
> When I was more active on Facebook, there was a lot of left-wing direct action, and zero Fox News stuff. I saw a good mix of both, given I have friends and family that span the political spectrum. In any case, I've suspended my a

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