jcadam

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by jcadam 7y ago
Since I can find groups of people who share the same beliefs, values, hobbies, and interests as I do online, I don't have to mix with icky people from different backgrounds in real life just because they're all that's availab
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by jcadam 7y ago
Curing aging doesn't mean you'll live forever. Something will eventually get you. I'd be surprised if the median lifespan were more than a few hundred years once age and age-related diseases are eliminated as causes of de
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by jcadam 7y ago
well, did dig up this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016850/ Though, I've had my neck cracked several times now, so a little late to be doing research. There seems to be a suggestion in
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, L5/S1 pain here for years. Finally started seeing a chiropractor. So far, I've gone from constant pain to occasional pain, so that's an improvement. I've had to make some lifestyle changes too. No more lifting wi
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by jcadam 7y ago
I abstain from red meat, but I eat plenty of chicken and fish...
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by jcadam 7y ago
If I'm healthy enough to keep working, retirement isn't really necessary. Also, given enough time, I ought to be able to amass a self-sustaining pile of wealth and then I can retire :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
They need to hurry up with this, I'm not getting any younger and I haven't saved enough for retirement :O
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by jcadam 7y ago
I hope you mean "My former bank."
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by jcadam 7y ago
I thought they were the same thing.
820.
by jcadam 7y ago
...and never being promoted.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> The least appreciated team member is the one who amplifies everyone's output. I'll never forget the first time I saw a person like this get fired. At a previous job, we had a senior engineer who was an expert in the type of
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yep, I'm turning 40 in a few months and have been working in the defense industry my entire career (and I spent 4 years in the Army before that, so I suppose that counts too). Most of my jobs have lasted 1-2 years. I get fed up and le
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASS
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by jcadam 7y ago
There are a lot of us with the technical chops (and/or can get a team together) to make a good software solution/product/service that are stuck on step 1: Identifying a real problem that companies will pay money to have solve
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by jcadam 7y ago
Bah, of course someone is already trying it :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
> 7. Software-only defense contractor. Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw. > ..
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by jcadam 7y ago
And the last few years I've taken to blowing off recruiters from SV (including FAANG companies). I'm earning very good money for a software engineer where I live, but... dang, "other-worldly" is a good term for the mone
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by jcadam 7y ago
Also, this has Amazon's location listed as "Seattle, CA"
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by jcadam 7y ago
I developed an allergy to tumbleweed whilst living in Colorado. So I moved to the east coast. Ok, it wasn't just because of the tumbleweeds. The sound a tumbleweed makes when it gets caught in your undercarriage and drug down the hi
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Why is this being downvoted? So was the other comment by the same user. They're being downvoted because they're critical of a Democratic presidential candidate.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I don't hate the JVM, but there are certain applications where I'd like to have something that compiles to native code. And of course, the fact that the current steward of Java and the JVM is Oracle makes me a bit uneasy.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, I've been using Clojure for years now as my default language of choice. That was after several years of trying out various different "newfangled" languages like Scala, Golang, Haskell (ok, Haskell isn't very new), e
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, and Beta was technically superior to VHS.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Blech. Somebody get docker working on *BSD so I can drop Linux.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Well, at least wait a few days, eh.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible. They choose a grand sounding topic then the talk turns out to be incredibly shallow and pointless. Yea, I'd like to speak at a conference some day, maybe when I'm more experienc
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by jcadam 7y ago
Well, I hadn't heard about Crystal until... just now. So projects like this are great marketing. I'm reading up on it and liking what I'm seeing so far. This could be a great Golang (which I detest) replacement for me when
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by jcadam 7y ago
It's probably going to take me about 2 months after the new year stop writing/entering "2019" on forms. And checks. And anything else that calls for a date. Pretty much the same thing happens to me every year.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Why can't you be grateful for the gift of canceled vacations and overtime pay? Cisco cares - making sure you're home (in your data center) for the holidays.
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by jcadam 7y ago
My mobile number has an area code for a place I haven't lived since 2012. I'd thought about changing it to match my new location, but then I realized that since I'm no longer in contact with anyone in my old area, I'm a

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