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by jrjarrett 7y ago
Yes! Will add this to my list. Just going thru this where I work all in the name of "ISO Certification."
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
How much annual / personal / sick / parental / unpaid leave is available? This is a great question; when I have searched for jobs, it's one of the more important benefits to me. Sadly, however, I've fou
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I don't know where you moved to, but is the US anything admirable lately? Guess I should cross the UK off the list of places to flee to.
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I read this article and I have to disagree with one of the major premises that "no one wants to own legacy code" -- it's more that in a lot of organizations, you're not ALLOWED to own legacy code. What I mean is that you
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
A Fire Upon the Deep is SUCH a good book. I loved it; the idea that something like the '90s net news had gone galaxy-wide was a great plot idea....
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
Developers don't need admin rights for much of anything in this decade. No need to bother with that. Please defend this position. My experience, mostly with Linux-like tools, is that those tools are built with the assumption they are
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
This thread hits home. I switched jobs a few years ago because the IT policies on workstations were being ratcheted down to make my job as a developer difficult to impossible. Now, the company I work for, ostensibly a _software_ company, go
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
> Likewise. I've never been to a reunion because fuck those guys (and gals). Oh, do go if you've been able to have any success at all in your professional career. The only way I ever got thru the years of bullying was to know I
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
Does the check engine light come on often with these?
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
So these kinds of posts keep showing up. How are interviews for not-software-engineers conducted? ie. how do you interview for a business analyst role, or a sales and marketing role? I have to assume that those roles suffer from the same so
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
> San Francisco <-> Milan, May 7 - May 20, Norwegian Air+Easy Jet: $598. That's great if you are near a large city like San Francisco. However, Madison, WI <-> Milan, May 7 - May 20, United: $1304 economy, 21h travel tim
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
Aw, here I thought it was an implementation of the 1980's Atari 2600 Activision game :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
I resemble this remark; could you elaborate on just who you feel can be helpful to talk to? I regularly check in with my manager about my performance and he's very forthcoming on it, yet I still don't believe I won't be found
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
Just a few links above this article was this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05719-4 Which seems, like many studies ("Coffee is great! Coffee gives you cancer!"), to show contradictory information
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
Shocking. SHOCKING, I say. The recent tax cuts were touted to generate big raises for American workers. A few companies made some news with one-time payouts, but then the rest of that is just being funneled to shareholders. If a government
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
But he is going about it completely wrong. Imposing tarriffs on things we need to produce when we cannot meet our own demand, and won't ever again only lets other countries impose tarriffs on things we NEED to sell. Take steel for exa
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
Those wily blue cubes, getting out of control.... usually, it's the black disease cubes that outbreak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_(board_game)
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by jrjarrett 8y ago
> Remember that the crime involves having a blood/breath alcohol level WHILE DRIVING. Yep. This. I was on jury duty last year for a case involving this exact scenario. The defense lawyer was able to successfully argue the case &quot
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by jrjarrett 9y ago
I can't even anymore. If this story is anywhere near true -- and I have no reason to believe it is not -- then what the hell do we as citizens DO about it? How can we put an end to ridiculous infringements on rights and wasteful use of
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by jrjarrett 9y ago
I left Rochester in 2004, before the Kodak plane completely augered into the ground next to the Xerox, B&L, etc. I'd moved there after college because it seemed to be the last Upstate place with any life in it but that all drained
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
I don't understand why this author is so vehemently against this kind of debt? We all have to pay SOMETHING to live somewhere. If he's trying to make the point you could end up over time with more assets if you rented and invest
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
Back when I did Mac OS 9 development, we used Metrowerks' PowerPlant framework. Constructor, their GUI editor, made laying out user interfaces a joy. It just worked. When I came back to try iOS development, and saw the sad state of IB,
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
"I have taken big cuts in salary three or four times in my career. I’m talking 10-20 thousand dollars a year." - HOW can you do that? How does one justify that kind of long-term damage to ever being in a position that you don&#x27
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The Algorithms of Discrimination(redqueencoder.com)
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
How DO YOU GET these? The only recruitment calls I ever get are from body-shop class contracting firms that never manage to even come close to my current compensation for scut work.
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
This is a really AWFUL policy. I recently started a new job that has this same policy and I am struggling whether to stay. Everything else is great. However, in 27 years of working, I've never had to worry about sick time. Now, I am a
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
Having read the inspiration article, I chuckled at the seemingly satiristic tone. Then I read this one and cried. There's a lot of truth here (I live in WI). >You try out cost of living calculations and they say you'd need to m
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
There is an implicit assumption in this entire article: That if you can't come to an agreeable negotiation of salary, you can walk away from offer N because there will be an offer N+1. Maybe in The Valley or Manhattan or Austin, but in
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
So are there single English words that are somehow untranslatable into some other language?
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
...except in Brussels. They did it there.

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