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811.
by jqm 12y ago
So... the solution to pollution is dilution?
812.
by jqm 12y ago
What is the alternative? Leave criminals alone to continue their crimes? Give them medals maybe even?
813.
by jqm 12y ago
Can these be retrieved and used or are they deep enough (hopefully) that retrieval is impractical? Horrible either way. Not just pollution, not just the nasty purpose in the first place... but the waste. Just imagine the good that could hav
814.
by jqm 12y ago
If even a little bit of this is true, it is absolutely appalling. People involved in this activity need to be brought to justice. I don't care what the motive for said behavior is.
815.
by jqm 12y ago
I've never had a Facebook page. Which is probably reveals something about personality in and of itself.
816.
by jqm 12y ago
Nick should headhunt someone to fix that site up a bit. Awful.
817.
by jqm 12y ago
Just to expand a bit... here are a few things I have built over the past several years (part time now... I have a full time job)... -A load builder, temporary placement scheme creator, and shipping router for a large cattle feedlot in the M
818.
by jqm 12y ago
Oh, I agree 100%. Python is referenced because I personally knew I could do much more compact re-writes in it. Also, I'm not sure, but I believe, had the original hacks not been done in Perl, the authors (and others after them) would h
819.
by jqm 12y ago
Don't contract as a contractor to businesses that are programming themselves. Build things for businesses that will be the end user. Most of these types of businesses have less of a notion of how to go about getting tools that will hel
820.
by jqm 12y ago
I've had to go through a bunch of "cowboy" Perl scripts at work. Some are a ridiculous 2-3000 lines doing things a decently written Python script could do in a 100 lines or less. (I don't fault the language for this... i
821.
by jqm 12y ago
I thought the first ending you had was gold... (Very rough Paraphrase).. It sucks in this business when our knowledge base starts becoming obsolete, and we are sometimes tempted to think of reasons we don't have to learn new things, an
822.
by jqm 12y ago
I'm sure there is good perl and good perl programmers. But, having spent a portion of the last several months going through 3000+ line perl scripts written by a person with no formal training who had figured out just enough to hack som
823.
by jqm 12y ago
Great summation. Especially the island part. That is exactly what it's like. Living on an island. The surrounding desert is the ocean. Three hours to get anywhere (and it's not much of anywhere when you get there). 8 hours to a re
824.
by jqm 12y ago
Internet connection is wireless only (unless you get a phone line to property). No broadband and cell coverage is hit and miss. 5Mbps is about as fast as you can reasonably get and runs about $80/month. It lags very slightly, and the r
825.
by jqm 12y ago
I live in Roswell, and am trying to think of a reason to disagree with you.... If you really value remoteness and open space it's good. I live on a hill on some acreage outside of town and can see nearly 40 miles off my back patio with
826.
by jqm 12y ago
The square patches and mysterious dirt roads are for oil wells.
827.
by jqm 12y ago
The fairness angle (regarding immigration) is kind of strange. If the country was actually concerned about "fairness" for non-citizens, it would have had a substantially different foreign policy over the last 50 years. "Don&#
828.
by jqm 12y ago
"After a car has been added to the wish list, the select box should default to the first alphabetically available car from the same make". Doesn't happen. Leaves the make and returns to top make after selection.
829.
by jqm 12y ago
"Gone in an instant". That's why we have books.
830.
by jqm 12y ago
Part of it might also be that employers may not feel a 62 year old can do what a 32 year old can. (Unmarried at 30 is an unrelated issue.) Are they wrong? Where are 95 years olds going to work? What are the going to be capable of doing? Ube
831.
by jqm 12y ago
That's a rather bizarre comment. Would you care to qualify? Or maybe add just a little bit of substance? My attitude doesn't have anything to do with statistical reality.
832.
by jqm 12y ago
well, to be fair, if not an outright disaster, we are creating a bit of mess with so many people at this standard of living...
833.
by jqm 12y ago
It's a problem that is far more acute for certain ages than others....
834.
by jqm 12y ago
There are so many inter-related factors involved with changing a system of this complexity. My fear is the creation of half living zombies that don't die, but who's brains have long since moved on. Zombies, who not incidentally, k
835.
by jqm 12y ago
Who is going to hire you? Try getting a job at 62 right now.
836.
by jqm 12y ago
Agreed, although I'm holding out for 30 year old physique. I would rather live 60 years in a 30 year old body/mind than 120 years in an 80 year old body/mind. From my perspective, aging is a more serious problem to be solved
837.
by jqm 12y ago
Should make one for babies. Swap them out at 2. Be interesting to see how many sign ups you get.
838.
by jqm 12y ago
Getting started with side projects is the easy part. Getting finished is the real trick. And the payment part seems to come largely after the second step (if at all). I build small web apps for companies on the side. Little data management
839.
by jqm 12y ago
I've always wondered if it would be possible to incorporate carbon fixation schemes similar to those used by cactus into food plants (Grains might be difficult, but maybe different types of fruit and vegetables, citrus, which I underst
840.
by jqm 12y ago
You get no more than you pay for. You don't always get what you pay for.

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