jcadam

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by jcadam 4y ago
Once lived very close to an Air Force Base that got quite a bit of C-17 traffic. Not the quietest place to live.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I flew on a 747 only once, a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Denver back in 2006 (returning to the US after being stationed in Germany for 3 years). Absolutely huge. I only fly domestically nowadays. Rarely do I end up on anything bigg
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by jcadam 4y ago
> attack until the pilot instructs them to... Woah, that's... a bad idea.
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by jcadam 4y ago
True. I hope you like negative interest rates on your savings account.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> "I'm old enough to have read Snow Crash the week it came out and IT WAS A DYSTOPIA, why are we building it?" But at least it was a dystopia where pizza delivery was an exciting business.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Booz Allen has got winning federal contracts down. Their proposal teams are second to none. Now, they absolutely suck at delivering, and everyone who has to deal with their consultants on the job hates them and thinks they’re useless, but
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by jcadam 4y ago
> It is not like there is a pressure for you to eat lab grown meats. Oh, just you wait.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Still have some Gore-TEX gear I bought years ago while I was in the army (including a pair of Matterhorn boots). It works well up here in Alaska.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I wish they would spin off their hardware business. Or at least their Mac business.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Quantity has its own quality :) ...except Franzia, which sucks. For those among us who have recently been laid off - Bota Box Nighthawk Black is a decent/drinkable red if you're on a budget.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep. I start a new job on Monday. Job hunting turns into a funnel quick - slow at the beginning, so you apply to everything - but at a certain point you start getting overwhelmed with interviews and you become more discriminating about wh
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by jcadam 4y ago
I graduated in 2002 with a BSCS. Went into the Army for 4 years, and was able to get an entry level CS job afterwards with a defense contractor (left the Army with a clearance). Though, at that point, it was actually a pretty significant p
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by jcadam 4y ago
Exploding energy costs will do that.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Hey, The Thirteenth Floor( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/ ) already covered this. Just get up and spontaneously go somewhere that you have absolutely no reason or desire to go and you'll find the limits
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by jcadam 4y ago
Smartphones have been a boon for chiropractors, though. "Why does my neck hurt all the time?"
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by jcadam 4y ago
If I were at 5-10 years experience, I'd probably have much better luck. That seems to be the sweet spot.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I was always told obfuscating the dates and/or going with a "functional" resume just screamed "old" :)
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by jcadam 4y ago
Heh, I actually interviewed with Reify during my last job search (where I ended up taking the job I was eventually laid off from). They weren't interested back then :/
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by jcadam 4y ago
I guess I need to figure out how to do this without it being obvious.
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by jcadam 4y ago
You use inexperienced and/or cheap programmers to build the foundation of your company. Then you bring in experienced folks to keep the barely-functional ball of mud shambling along for the next 10 years. It's the SV way.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Hey if you don’t pay top dollar for quality executive talent, you might end up with people who run the company into the ground slightly faster.
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by jcadam 4y ago
16 years. Working at the Senior/Staff level. Most recently Clojure work. I’ve done a lot of Java of course, although I’ve been rejected from some of those jobs because I spent the last year doing Clojure full time instead of Java.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I was laid off at the beginning of October and still can’t find anything. It’s definitely a buyer’s market for senior level engineering talent.
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by jcadam 4y ago
They will always tell you your job is secure up until the day you're let go.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Ha! It means all the people that jumped at the chance to exercise their authoritarian fantasies and destroy peoples' lives get to escape any consequences for their actions. That's gonna be a hard no from me.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> so the algorithm promotes positive tweets and downranks negative ones Will have to prefix tweets with I positively hate...
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by jcadam 4y ago
Congress tried passing limits on Free Speech almost immediately with the Sedition Act of 1798. It was very unpopular and eventually allowed to expire.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> Do journalists find him threatening in some way? Do the leftwing-dominated media resent him for supporting Republicans? Do they think we’re not smart enough to critically appraise Musk ourselves? maybe, yes, most definitely yes.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> Haven't you ever worked at a company where the only thing that keeps the product going is ongoing heroic intervention by people with deep subject matter expertise; even in the absence of any actual feature-driven change? Often cou
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yep. Can they talk at length and in reasonable detail about previous projects they've worked on? You can usually figure out if they were actively engaged and involved in the work vs ...just kinda there. Also, do they try to BS you wh

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