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by mcgrath_sh 8y ago
My RSS feed basically acts as my newspaper. I have feeds from the local papers, lots of sports news, tech news, news for my hobbies, etc.
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by mcgrath_sh 8y ago
Frasier. There are scenes and episodes I have seen tens of times and stil laugh out loud at.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
This story [1] from Anthony Breznican stuck with me after he shared it on twitter. I firmly believe that the actions Mister Rodgers took would come across as insincere and self-serving if it were basically any other “celebrity”. However, th
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
A couple ways to dress down your current look: - Wear sneakers instead of dress shoes - Wear a tshirt or hoodie instead of a dress shirt with khaki pants. - Wear jeans with a polo or dress shirt. This dresses both of those options down. I’d
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I am an avid user of markdown files for notes that are saved in a Dropbox folder. I am quite happy with my setup and it works across any platform. That said, if there was an objectively perfect note taking system that worked on every platfo
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
One thing I haven’t seen in the comments is the pressure and expectation that you are supposed to be an excellent student and get into a good school and/or get scholarships. The pressure and work pushed onto kids from a young age is st
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I actually took screenshots of my buddy list for just this reason. I will eventually put it into a text document. Seeing all my friends’ old screen names brought back so many memories. Was well worth the ~15 minutes it took me.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Define “remote area.” I can name a half dozen cities with cheaper cost of living within ~6 hours drive time of NYC. Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Rochester. Philly. Newark, DE. I don’t think communication systems are the problem. There are cities th
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
iOS 11 was the same way on my 6s+. Then I swapped the device for a new one. It doesn’t feel nearly as sluggish. My battery works like it did on iOS 10. My old device had a battery that was barely in the acceptable range. Obviously, my exper
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Well, if Pittsburgh is using it, it is terrible. We have so many potholes (and huge ones). It has become much worse over the last ~5 years. For several months we had a multi-foot hole blocked off by cones until the city could fix it. It ess
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I know you wanted STEM books, but I loved the Cam Jansen series of mysteries from about 6-10ish. It was to the point that the school librarian wouldn’t put the new one out generally until I read it. Link: http://www.camjansen.c
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I originally went Slackware when diving into Linux. Manual dependency resolution was just a step too far. Installing Calibre became a nightmare. I turned to Arch and have been very happy. I simply don’t have the time to properly maintain a
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
My admittedly anecdotal counter to that... With “begintermeditate” Linux experience, I spun up Arch on a machine with an AMD processor/mobo and dirt cheap graphics card to act as a server in February 2017. I system update when I rememb
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
For me, it is both about the business model and the move to a hosted service. I’m against renting tools. I will gladly buy them, and I will buy frequent-ish updates (18-24 months). I'm not cheap. I simply value ownership of both the so
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I have built my own cheat sheet over the months I have been using Vim. I highly recommend doing that after you are familar with the basics. My next step is to work on putting it in Vim itself via a documentation plugin. I got the idea from
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I actually went to regular headphones and a stand mic (like the Blue Snowball). I get more use out of the headphones and the mic works great.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I have been running Arch for 9 months. The only re-install I had to do was when I wiped the drive completely to get rid of the Windows partition. I have been running that install for about 7 months now. I have not had a single breakage. Gra
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I agree to a certain extent. I think there is an interesting gap between "independent blogger" and "traditional newspaper" that is starting to pop up in sports media and may be able to be successful in typical journalism
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Relatively cheap will go away as soon as ~30,000 new families come in to work at Amazon. Which is a big reason why I'm not sure I want Amazon to come here.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I have mixed feelings about this for Pittsburgh. The main con is 50,000 tech jobs in this city means a lot of new people. Being conservative, we can call it 30,000 new families. I think that will cause chaos in the housing market and increa
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
It is awesome that your son has an interest in this stuff! What in particular fascinates him? I have always found it is easiest to have kids learn when it not just something they are theoretically interested in, but also has a practical app
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but one thing that increased my enjoyment of reddit and twitter was making heavy use of lists and multireddits and unsubscribing from things I didn't want to see without looking for. Fo
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Generally speaking, I have yet to find a solid sports forum. The best I have found so far is /r/AFL. Occasionally, team subreddits are okay, but they can range from dead to meme-tastic. The best solution I have found for sports
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I went from Crash Plan (much too long to back up my files) to BlackBlaze (every time it would hit the end of uploading, my backups would disappear and I would have to re-upload 3 terabytes of data, BB support couldn't figure anything o
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
There was a chart I saw online of the 10 or 20 fastest 100m times in history. Every single one had a line through it (indicating steroids), except for the handful that were Bolt's. Including 3 times directly below his WR.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Best thing I did to quit soda the first time sround was get the True Lemon powder (it is crystallized lemon) and just drink that at water. I always found I would never use actual lemon before it became rotten, but that stuff is super useful
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
So if, for example, you were hiring for a developer in Java and I sent an email essentially saying: "I did this language in school. I haven't done much of it in my current internship, but here is one of my last projects. I liked t
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
RMU in Pittsburgh has a very close working relationship with IBM. They also offer z/OS and DB2 courses.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
This is also true of banks and other old, large companies with well established infrastructure. But, I didn't think to look to the military or federal government. Thanks!
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I am open to any language I have a base in, but to explain my COBOL desires... I took two semesters of it in grad school. I just really enjoyed the language. It made a lot of sense to me, was straightforward in its output, and was structure

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