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by nocman 10y ago
"perhaps even via rouge admin" Those dang rouge admins (sorry, but I found that typo particularly amusing :-D). So, is a rouge admin embarrassed? Or is he just so terribly mad at the world that he has turned red?
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by nocman 10y ago
Except that it is definitely NOT wrong in life overall. There is a big difference between saying "violence doesn't solve anything" and saying that "violence solves everything". There are many situations in which a
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by nocman 10y ago
Might be of help to someone else to realize that you are talking about Martin Shkreli, rather than Spolsky. I missed the parent you were referencing, and thought one of the child comments was saying that Joel Spolsky was out on bail for sec
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by nocman 10y ago
One problem with pgrep is it has no option to ignore case. Yes, I do sometimes have processes with camel-cased names which I may or may not remember exactly. So you: ps auwx | grep -i {lc-version-of-camel-cased-name}
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by nocman 10y ago
You can use all the legal definitions you want (which, btw, I already knew all about exempt vs non-exempt employees). When did I say "salaried" was a "legally meaningful designation of employment"? No one I know uses &
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by nocman 10y ago
Huh? That's exactly what I was refuting. He was saying working 35 hours a week (7 hour days with lunch being paid) is "the old standard". My whole life I don't think I've ever known someone who got a paid lunch.
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by nocman 10y ago
Maybe that's why I didn't immediately recognize any of the books on the list as being mentioned regularly on Hacker News. There were some (but not many) that I recognized, but I don't remember them being mentioned.
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by nocman 10y ago
What "old standard"? For Europe maybe? (I honestly don't know if that's what you meant). If you are talking about the United States, people have had a 40 hour work week for much longer than I've been alive.
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by nocman 10y ago
Perhaps this is regional, but I don't know anyone in a salaried position that gets paid for lunch time. It is always expected that you are working 8 hours a day outside of the lunch hour. To be clear, I live in the United States.
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by nocman 10y ago
I've never worked in salaried position where this WASN'T true. Lunch was never considered to be paid time.
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by nocman 10y ago
I agree with many of the comments on that video. By that line of reasoning almost any kind of formatted data could be considered a "programming language". I'm not buying it. I think there is a valuable distinction between a
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by nocman 10y ago
Couple of things I found amusing: First, the article says "The 2016 Top Programming Languages" (emphasis mine), and yet HTML is on the list -- which is not a programming language, but a markup language. Second, if you decide to
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by nocman 10y ago
Unless something has changed since last year, it is not truly "open source" if you're going by the Open Source Initiative's definition of "open source". Evidently there are a number of restrictions placed on th
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by nocman 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder if there will be any trademark issues with the IT consulting company that uses the same name ( http://cloud9.net ).
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by nocman 10y ago
It always bugged me EVERY time ANYONE every used the term "Information Superhighway" -- and still does. Marketing people make me want to puke -- that's where terminology like that comes from. Just call it the internet an
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by nocman 10y ago
"...which duplicate much of the C++11 functionality." In all fairness to Qt, the original version of the library predates the ISO approval of C++11 by 16 years! Much of the functionality the library provides was not even close
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by nocman 10y ago
"Haters are going to hate." -- by using that phrase you make it sound like people are criticizing WordPress without cause. I haven't looked into it recently, but as I remember it, in the last 13 years there have been abundan
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by nocman 10y ago
"Dad is on his way to the store to buy that much-needed additional 2K memory he and the wife have been meaning to get." HAHAHAHA!!! 2K -- that's funny. Just goes to show you they never dreamed how dirt cheap and huge memory
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by nocman 10y ago
or the band "Green"'s response to the R.E.M album "Green": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_(band) (look under the heading "Singles") xD
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by nocman 11y ago
I think we are mostly on the same page. My point is that the title should not frame the expectations at all, because so many people plaster "Software Engineer" or "Software Architect" on their resumes that the terms ha
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by nocman 11y ago
I never said "demanding a premium for their time" was hype. I said having to call yourself a "Software Engineer" or "Architect" instead of a programmer was hype, and I still think it is. I'd personally ra
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by nocman 11y ago
Gag me with an entire place setting. Might as well add "Rock Star" to the list of meaningless drivel. There is absolutely nothing wrong with describing yourself as a "programmer" when that is indeed what you've been
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by nocman 11y ago
Actually it doesn't buy time or freedom, usually. In my experience, most (not all, but most) of the people who have a lots of money acquire it by working long days and having little free time. They also have little freedom because the
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by nocman 11y ago
There are examples of code which is unnecessarily complex, or difficult to read, but this is not a very good example. I'll join the chorus of those who say they don't even know Ruby and yet they could easily figure out what the e
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by nocman 11y ago
Sounds to me like they didn't actually get married. From his wikipedia article: 'Ayyadurai later said it was not "a formal wedding or marriage", but a celebration of their "friendship in a spiritual ceremony with c
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by nocman 11y ago
Well, you know what they say, "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be". :-D
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by nocman 11y ago
Call me a dinosaur, but I'll keep using it as long as it is available. Web email clients SUCK . And there's about 10 million users that evidently have a reason to keep using it: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbi
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by nocman 11y ago
While I understand that everyone has their own idea of what should and should not be on Hacker News, must everything be regulated down to the gnat's whiskers? I know everyone's afraid of the conversations deteriorating to the po
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by nocman 11y ago
Except people do hold it for different lengths of time. Yes, there may be many people who hold it for about the same length of time, but an extra beat's worth of time is by no means universal. It's a fermata.
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by nocman 11y ago
That's the first time I've ever heard that. You got a source for that claim? (I'm not suggesting I've researched it, I just have heard a fair amount about the whole thing, and I've just never heard that he tried &

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