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by kls 7y ago
Given that he is not a US citizen, one could make the argument that he was engaged in cyber warfare against the US, thus legally classified as an enemy combatant, subject to special magistrate court and incarcerate-able at an offshore deten
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by kls 7y ago
While I don't disagree, the crowd is fickle and has at best a short attention span. He would have been better served to face the charges while it was all going on and he had the crowds attention. He is in a far worse position now, give
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by kls 7y ago
We used the term in the US as well, boombox was just more common and TV English. A good deal of kids called them ghettoblasters. Less commonly used but heard from time to time was JamBox and BumpBox. IIRC GhettoBlaster seemed to be used in
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by kls 7y ago
Funny enough I just replaced my MBP 15 with a Sager notebook due to two of the issues they seem to have addressed with this release. First and foremost was lack of ram I have to virtualize a lot of specialty hardware for one of my clients s
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by kls 7y ago
Another item of note was the acceleration of hardware design and manufacturing moving to China. While it did not directly affect the .com boom, a lot of those individuals that where left in hardware saw their jobs dry up due to all the web
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by kls 7y ago
Golden rule is if you exercise sell enough immediately to pay off the tax burden. If you have a lockout get it written into your contract that you can sell them to another private holder (e.g another employee, investor). It's legitimat
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by kls 7y ago
For the record there where a lot of people that where doing the same thing before the XHR object, they where just using an iframe and polling to get the data which was usually an HTML snippet or XML. They would construct the url for data wi
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by kls 7y ago
yep completely forgot about that dark humor of the period. Thanks guys for the throwback.
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by kls 7y ago
Yep I remember them scare mongering with that line. Which really gutted the already short supply of developers available. I also remember when the outsourcing wave came crashing down on their dreams of cheap development labor and they had t
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by kls 7y ago
TLDR - your going to be fine. I lived thru it, I did OK, a few of my friends left the industry some struggled most where ok if they had real software chops. The people that really took the hit where network / sys-admins / corp PC
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by kls 7y ago
Right, they just need to man up. I say that in jest but you hit on an important part of it. While some may not admit fault in the open, Men (I know I am generalizing) do internalize failure, it is a core part of their ego and identity. So i
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by kls 7y ago
If that is the case then consider rephrasing it in your mind from rejected to spared as that is the way I would see it, if they really are that focused on insignificant details, then the company as a whole is going to chase rabbits. That do
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by kls 7y ago
As a person who was a young developer in the .com boom and a middle-age programmer now, I think youth puts too much focus on this and lack experience in this area. I think there is a general opinion that the old guys will ruin everything an
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by kls 7y ago
They are built off of the Clevo based systems, I personally switched from a MBP about 3 years ago. In my opinion the build quality is better than anything Dell offers, I went thru 3 high end Dell's in that time, and switched to a Sagar
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by kls 7y ago
Don't know how old you are but, I was born in the early 70's and it was pretty common slang around my region and most knew the reference. I don't know what we are doing for once, I was just giving some guidance on why someone
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by kls 7y ago
I would agree with this, I came up in the same time period and we just programmed closer to the metal in that period, we did not have the layers and it was just normal to think in terms of the machines hardware (memory addresses, registers,
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by kls 7y ago
While I tend to agree with you, it also depends on your region. In the US south you can take one look at the psychedelic mushroom picture that grows here and pretty readily identify it. It also only grows in cow poop, so if you see one that
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by kls 7y ago
Defiantly not European and if I where the profiling type I would almost bet money on a) that it's a him and b) him living in my region of the US. If I, am wrong on the second follow-up guess would be northwest plains states. But the st
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by kls 7y ago
Just wanted to drop in here and say that I am glad they have worked for you, and I wish you continued success. For those that have not responded to SSRI's there is other options, one that is showing significant success rates is Ketamin
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by kls 7y ago
Be careful with that one, if they where older they could have found it offensive. Ira Hayes an American War hero of WW2 died drunk in a ditch and if IRCC "dead in a ditch" was coined as morbid reference to that event, and was not
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by kls 7y ago
TLDR - Best layoff ever. During the .com boom I was with a start-up with a good idea but the realities of the internet at the time where just not there, and they whole concept relied on the start-up getting enough capital to burn and build
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by kls 7y ago
I see your perspective, I started in small teams doing flight simulator development splitting my time between C and Assembly for 3D and Lisp for AI. I don't disagree that static typing can band-aid over bad process and churn, but it is
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by kls 7y ago
I do understand what orders of magnitude is, I also understand that none of the orders of magnitude predictions have come to pass. If you cannot make accurate predictions, it's not science plain and simple. In less than a week there ha
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by kls 7y ago
You ever though that maybe they have seen this bullshit before and realize it is not the end of the world, That we need to do something just like we did for Acid rain and the Ozone layer but that all of the bullshit predictions that where
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by kls 7y ago
They can and it truly is a huge risk at the moment, the problem is the AGW camp is trying to subvert the research for their gain which is a detriment to what we need to accomplish the fact is agricultural run off, and sunscreen micro metals
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by kls 7y ago
IT is absolutely known, it has been proven that Nitrogen in the presence of phosphorus with the addition of micro metals such as titanium and zinc suspensions found in sunscreen are creating a chemical cocktail that is toxic to the coral.
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by kls 7y ago
See my post above 50 years to regenerate is the only data we have and in that time the Bikini Atolls reef is nothing short of a success story given the fact that it was nuked into oblivion less than 100 years ago.
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by kls 7y ago
You are right it takes about 50 years given the only data we have on how fast they regenerate. The Bikini Atolls being the only data point we have.
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by kls 7y ago
That is strange given how fast the Bikini Atoll reefs regenerated themselves, even after being nuked.
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by kls 7y ago
I provided many references, and have talked to many of them. I live in the heart of US based coral research Mote being literally on my Island and Harbor Branch being where I grew up, as I said my daughter is well on her way in this field. W

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