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by mdip 6y ago
:: The tone sounds like I'm being harsh (i.e. "stupid scientists!"), that is not intended. Any developer understands that the "actual fix/solution" often looks "really obvious/simple". It doesn
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by mdip 6y ago
Date/Time is frequent topic[0] for me. Generally speaking, a lot of these issues are knowing when it's appropriate to use what format. When displaying a date to a user, you do it in their configured local time, and in their confi
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by mdip 6y ago
> It shouldn't be about squeezing every last ounce out of an employee Apologies for nitpicking, but this statement comes up from time to time and I think it's one that has to be evaluated from both sides to understa
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by mdip 6y ago
Apologies for the delay in reply but there's a few things to unpack here and I wanted to give it some thought. I'm reaching the big four-oh. I'm blessed in that most of my hobbies revolve around software development, which I
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by mdip 6y ago
> Forcing them to provide higher wages will result in higher prices, which will reduce their market viability and result in closure of some locations. And it's done just that every single time it's happened. But it als
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by mdip 6y ago
I don't doubt it's not as fun if I weren't paying my rent. And I've been through times, myself. I'm not currently going through them now, praise Jesus, but I don't delude myself into thinking that I couldn&#x
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by mdip 6y ago
It's not really about "productivity", it's about "wasted time". To be clear, I don't consider idle, leisure, even completely bored time to be "wasted". In fact, my favorite vacation is generall
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by mdip 6y ago
> So we should be talking about how natural gas and coal failed ... That's a fair point, though, that wasn't really the point of the writing. It was simply to understand the enormous complexity of the situation from an
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by mdip 6y ago
I'm having a difficult time understanding why the entire article should be dismissed due to your disagreement with the quoted statement. First, I don't find the quoted statement to be false: (1) Wind turbines/various solar m
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by mdip 6y ago
Is he really laying blame on renewables? I mean, he pointed out the reality that the current weather situation has caused wind generation difficulties and that wind and solar, at least, are fueled by something we have little control over -
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by mdip 6y ago
The devil's in the details. Last week, my wife started doing DoorDash. She's loving it. I accompanied her on one of the trips and I enjoyed it. I thought, ya know, I like people, I enjoyed this a whole lot more than some of
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by mdip 6y ago
I drive a car and a motorcycle. Like most cars, mine is automatic. Like most motorcycles, mine is manual. I wondered why this was the case when I decided to get my license and asked the instructor. Surprisingly, they do make automatic
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by mdip 6y ago
> That coupled with the fact of how heroin is treated in society makes it worse. So this is sort of a problem with treating the thing "Heroin" as bad, versus treating the Heroin Addict as bad. Society makes it worse, m
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by mdip 6y ago
All I can say about this is "Good Luck with That". I have never been addicted to heroine, so I cannot speak from personal experience. But I have seen its impact first-hand, thankfully, a number of times I can only count with one
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by mdip 6y ago
I mostly agree with your statement and your issue with companies wishing to eliminate the QA budget (never a good idea). But I question this bit: "QA Requires a pretty different mindset, one which developers lack entirely." I don&
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by mdip 6y ago
For answers to this and other questions of life, the universe, and everything, stop whatever you are doing and download a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For best results, get the first 5 books of the trilogy and do nothi
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by mdip 6y ago
I don't think you deserved the downvotes as I felt somewhat the same way. Part of that comes from the reporting, which appears to have been done by someone who doesn't understand the things he's reporting on (or, at least, s
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by mdip 6y ago
> In an unusual disclosure for any public company ... We experienced unauthorized intrusions into our network between 2011 and 2018 Seems like the author is trying to create drama where there isn't any, here. Is that an un
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by mdip 6y ago
Oh, man, the only thing better would have been if one of my colleagues was there with me... I was very young in this job (19, first real job, next youngest was 26). Waiting on my bags, traveling for business as a 19-year old kid and fiel
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by mdip 6y ago
You and I sound like we had very similar childhoods . . . I wrote a tool that managed a bunch of information related to the AP Computer Science exam[0] which my High School continued to use for 10 years after I graduated. I had received a
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by mdip 6y ago
Oh man, I learned to code in Pascal writing a BBS in the 90s. Back in the 90s, I had the option of taking a BASIC or Pascal course over at the High School next door to my middle school; I opted for the latter, and started studying C shortly
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Man pages in color, with links (2018)(iamnearlythere.com)
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by mdip 6y ago
Yup, year-round I have a window open in that room. It's 10 outside, today, but a balmy 77 in my office.
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by mdip 6y ago
> Let’s say you hire me for your company in San Francisco and pay me $150K … [blah blah blah, I provide that much value ...] But now if I decide to move to Tulsa, OK, you want to cut my pay and reduce it to 90K, because of “cost o
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by mdip 6y ago
Thanks for summing that up; based on the title, alone, I was considering clicking because I so rarely encounter a sentence such as this: containing so many words I know/use regularly yet when put together in that precise manner, appear
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by mdip 6y ago
You bring up some good points and I'm familiar with the Stratasys products (though it's been a few years). You can only slightly "buy your way out of the speed problem", which is as much dependent on the material as it i
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by mdip 6y ago
The "Teen Dance Club" was one of those good ideas "in theory" that blows up during execution. As a kid, we had a suburban business that provided exactly that. Unfortunately, many of the parents of children who you&#x27
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by mdip 6y ago
I was asked to modify an application to do just this for similar reasons. The issue was that the server was in UTC and someone had noticed that the copyright date was a year in the future on one of our web apps[0], which resulted in a help
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by mdip 6y ago
Yes. When you get into commercial systems, they are faster, but there's going to be a wait time that probably exceeds the time the customer is willing to sit around. At the end of the day, the material/physics[0] have more to do
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by mdip 6y ago
I hear ya. I have a bit of nostalgia for the brand, myself, though did not participate in any of the stock situation. It's a tough spot. (1) 3D Printing -- really good idea; I'm rehabbing my 3D printer for my kids, this evening,

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