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by nemacol 9y ago
That is very entertaining. Thank you for the link.
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In my experience, in IT not software dev, you need mgmt to buy in that those hours are worth it and that they need to build those hours into everyday. Can be sold as an on-boarding tool if you are in a large team some moderate turn over. Or
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by nemacol 9y ago
Some friends and I have been talking and we think the better choice would be to write something that would flood your profile with data. Your stuff may still be there but with that much noise it would make the data useless.
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This is a critical point to the whole conversation around automation and globalization. Ask my neighbor the ex-steel worker how his work in Oncology is going. There are benefits, for sure. But the cycle is too fast and people get push aside
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by nemacol 9y ago
Youtube's SciShow gave me my introduction to epigenetics. Perhaps the science has advanced since this video was created, but I think it is a fine primer on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI
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Thank you for the link.
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by nemacol 9y ago
When CB went down for a bit today I had the recent news of NiceHash in my mind. Sure was a breath holding moment.
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by nemacol 9y ago
You can disable startup programs from task manager in W10. Or msconfig in older versions.
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by nemacol 9y ago
Hello from WV. (Northern panhandle here) Most of my family were steel mill folks but before the mills took off they were miners. Coal and mining (in general) are hell on the body.
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I watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI http://www.metastatic.org/text/This%20is%20Water.pdf This is Water - David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech. I watch this from time to time for a s
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by nemacol 9y ago
I have been a sys admin for ~5.5 years (in IT for 7). I took a MEAN stack boot camp Jan2015 - Mar2015. I am still a sys admin. If I had to do it over again I would still take the class. I know that is not 3+ years ago. Even though I am n
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by nemacol 9y ago
This is the first thing I thought of when I read about this. It made me quite angry and then a little satisfied finally knowing why this happens.
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‘Active Shooter’ North Lake College in Texas, Campus on Lockdown(ktla.com)
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http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can n
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by nemacol 9y ago
I get what you are saying, but a turd on the ground is pretty immediate. :P
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by nemacol 9y ago
Remember the time that the yellow cab was tracking our location? No? Me either.
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by nemacol 10y ago
Went to a JS meetup in Pittsburgh. The co-host asked me if I was there just to ride the coat tales of actual programmers (because I was/am new to programming). That experience has been enough to keep me away from them. I ate their piz
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by nemacol 10y ago
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php When looking at the turnout over the years. The engagement has rarely been > 65%. Last time was 1904. Your point is well taken though. I am not a political science exp
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by nemacol 10y ago
I would argue that the withdrawal is the core problem and the money is the symptom of that problem. Same with gerrymandering, election systems, distribution of power, and other key talking points. Active and rational political conversations
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by nemacol 10y ago
This is my experience as well. Started with a boot camp that made me feel like I could actually get stuff done only to struggle with core concepts, debugging, and actually doing things on my own. I recently enrolled in FreeCodeCamp (2 week
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by nemacol 10y ago
I have no intentions of dealing exclusively with web, but it seems to be the most accessible and it is easy to come up with projects to do. Where sitting down in front of visual studio trying to learn C# or similar is just way too big and
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by nemacol 10y ago
As someone who is trying to learn to code on their own, I feel like I understand this. The first question of "which language/stack/etc should I learn first?" has haunted me for the years I have been trying and getting
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by nemacol 10y ago
You are not so smart podcast did a great 3 parter on this topic. https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/ #93, #94, #95
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by nemacol 10y ago
I wonder how many Uber drivers and riders vote? ~160k drivers in USA (according to their twitter posts). How many users? Where is the pro Uber Lobby? Don't have one? Start one! You are clearly in favor of this type of program. I
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by nemacol 10y ago
You are speaking in broad terms and are making an assessment based on them. "drivers stampeded" "riders stampeded" "most parties" and you round all that off by saying that the value of the services offered were
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by nemacol 10y ago
It is frustrating, I agree. But those days can be had again if we get people to pay attention, focus on facts, and become engaged in the process. The reason gerrymandering, (I will not include voter fraud), access restrictions, etc etc is
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by nemacol 10y ago
Sure, if we stick with Uber and transportation topic. Labor laws, minimum wage, vehicle inspections, registration. systems and rules that were put in place as a response to what citizens felt were "wrongs" that needed to be addres
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by nemacol 10y ago
Then we get President Trump.
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You can choose not to use Uber and effectively ignore them but that does not stop them from having an influence on you, your community, and your country. It is true that being part of a government system is not a choice but without that com
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by nemacol 10y ago
I think I understand your point. Trying to compare a persons influence in government, a system designed to encourage citizen participation, to that of a corporation, a system designed to make as much money as possible and answer to share ho

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