mech422

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by mech422 5y ago
>>That's pretty weaselspeak as a more concrete example, as I get older I'm less interested in working on the computer off hours. I've noticed I don't even play video games as much as I used to. I actually started
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - it surprising how much demand there (still!) is for 'C'. It doesn't get all the press the 'sexy' languages get. But there's still a lot of work...
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by mech422 5y ago
I'm well past 50, and currently interviewing... Age hasn't been a problem. I got my last job 18 months ago, and had no problems then either. I think its a matter of keeping your skills current. If your cranking out accounting rep
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by mech422 5y ago
I couldn't tell you...which is why I put question marks in :-) I just remember seeing comments about it being a bit behind some of the mobile support offered by other systems. I do everything on desktop, so I ignored it. This was a wh
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by mech422 5y ago
I actually sync my instances so when it does the git pull, it puts me in the last note I was working on, regardless of what machine it was. I use the calendar, and tasks stuff to give me a daily/weekly view in the sidebar for quick nav
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by mech422 5y ago
Another vote for Obsidian here. Its the first 'note taking' system I actually _use_ (even evernote wasn't as frictionless for me). Not an issue for me, but others might be concerned about its (lack of??) mobile support. I
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by mech422 5y ago
>It'd also be nice to be able to downvote certain results. When I'm researching stuff, I go thru a whole page of google result, and 'open in new tab'...90% of the time it's crap, and I really wish I could signal
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by mech422 5y ago
I loved altavista query language.. For me, the draw in to Google was just the sheer size of the index.
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by mech422 5y ago
I had the opposite reaction...Google search was so 'generic' compared to how you could do laser focused searches with altavista... What pushed Google over the top for me was the sheer size of their index...
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by mech422 5y ago
The old commodore serial bus was like that ... Everything had 'smarts' built-in
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by mech422 5y ago
Hmm - it appears I was mistaken: "regional offices in London, Berlin and San Francisco." But the gentleman that interviewed me was in Austria. They are remote first, and have people all over from our conversation.
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by mech422 5y ago
Hmm - it was QuestDB, but maybe I didn't see it on HN (can't find it now..) Anyway here is the job link: https://questdb.io/careers/senior-cloud-engineer/
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by mech422 5y ago
I just interviewed yesterday with an Austrian company from here on HN, that was 100% remote... I guess it depends on your region/vertical ?
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by mech422 5y ago
I love that column :-) 'foof' is more then a cpu bug :-P
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by mech422 5y ago
I wasn't aware it was up to Putin.. But assuming your logic is correct, we're screwed anyway. Putin has always wanted to rebuild the USSR. He's annexed territory in the past, he's attempting to annex it now, and he&#x27
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by mech422 5y ago
I think it stands a better chance of keeping us OUT of a NATO conflict then starting one.. Violating a no-fly zone requires authorization, and hopefully thought.. Whereas, right now, we're simply waiting for a bomb to mistakenly land o
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by mech422 5y ago
That depends if you violate the no fly zone... No one would be forcing Putin to violate it.
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by mech422 5y ago
Firefox? Konqueror seems to still support the KHTML renderer - not sure how well that works though. Opera moved to webkit. I used to use lynx/links on the terminal.
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by mech422 5y ago
>>There is also some contribution from lack of technical literacy but honestly even some of my 30s IT coworkers lack that My favorite explanation of this was an analogy to cars. Early drivers had to be mechanics, able not only to dri
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by mech422 5y ago
I don't know about 'fluid intelligence', but due to 40 years+ of neglecting education, I wouldn't want to bet on 'better critical thinking'. Just looking at any social media site, will show you how many people
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by mech422 5y ago
I use full on custom profiles for stuff like banking, shopping, etc... and containers within the profiles to separate amazon from walmart, etc. edit: I probably should have mentioned, this is on Firefox
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by mech422 5y ago
Enlightenment is still going :-) (1) and E16 had a release last November(2). Seems like Raster is still active as well ! :-D 'dharrop' seems to have a big repo of E16 themes (3) 1) https://www.enlightenment.org 2) ht
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by mech422 5y ago
I actually thought it was just one of those AI bot rambles... I keep seeing articles on here about how good the new AIs are at writing, but it always seems pretty incoherent to me...
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by mech422 5y ago
At 55, I vastly prefer dark modes...I generally find light modes too bright, too harsh.. Also, 'light modes' seem to differ a lot more in color then dark modes. Seems like you always have to fiddle with the contrast since some si
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by mech422 5y ago
My fav was "Emacs Makes A Computer Slow" ... though, that was 20 years ago :-D
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by mech422 5y ago
FWIW, I do "[ 1,2,3 ]". So we exist, perhaps you just haven't bumped into us :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
I would love an alta-vista rebirth..I have yet to see a search engine that allowed you do target searches so specifically. I also loved the 'near' keyword for dealing names - "john near smith" would match "john smi
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - Phoenix has a basically 1 mile grid, with lil side streets in-between the major intersections. I hate it, because if you miss a turn, you basically have to go another full mile to hit another 'cross street'.
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by mech422 5y ago
I tend to think this is a lot of what people consider 'ageism' - more like 'wageism'.. I've gotten multiple offers/jobs after turning 50, and still continue to get them. No one ever seems to bat an eye about m
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by mech422 5y ago
Yep, we sometime forget how lucky we are to be doing 'fun' stuff... When I worked on Wall St., I did soooo many accounting reports I wanted to pull my hair out :-P I'm guessing most programmers are in that boat, doing mainte

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