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Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs(wraltechwire.com)
281 points by pmcollins 6y ago|193 comments
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by pmcollins 6y ago
Possibly unpopular opinion: Java's biggest mistake, by far, was annotations that define behavior at runtime . So now we have consultingware like Spring where if something isn't working, it could because you missed an annotation s
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by pmcollins 6y ago
This is a quote from Puerto Rican attorney and politician Pedro Campos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Albizu_Campos
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by pmcollins 6y ago
I thought so too at first about the editorialized title, but there's this quote from the document: > Epic fired the first shot in this dispute, and its willful, brazen, and unlawful conduct cannot be left unchecked.
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by pmcollins 6y ago
The interesting thing is that this may not have been a heartless move, it seems to have been, from what I can tell, a well-meaning move that is going to hurt the very people politicians were trying to help. I feel like this is a theme of th
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by pmcollins 6y ago
What if you take the App Store to an extreme? Say, the App Store is so successful that iPhones and Macs are almost free -- paid for by the lifetime expected amount Apple will make from any and all apps sold on those devices. Would this be b
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by pmcollins 6y ago
Is this the same author that wrote this legendary StackOverflow response? https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 Same style, methinks.
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by pmcollins 6y ago
This Elon tweet adds context: > San Joaquin County, right next door to Alameda, has been sensible & reasonable, whereas Alameda has been irrational & detached from reality. Our castings foundry and other faculties in San Joaquin
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by pmcollins 7y ago
Texting while driving should be treated with the same severity as drunk driving. Full stop.
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by pmcollins 7y ago
Unpopular opinion: though a cause for concern, a video playing near a driver's windshield is far less dangerous than a driver taking their eyes off the road, looking down at their phone, context switching, and interacting with it. In m
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by pmcollins 7y ago
It has a two-speed transmission, which should help with high-speed performance. https://insideevs.com/news/343827/porsche-taycan-2-speed-rea... But one of the advantages of an electric car for me is the possibilit
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by pmcollins 7y ago
I'm not a cyclist, but I want to be. I don't bike because doing so is way too dangerous with the number of drivers who are paying extremely close attention to their phones and not to driving. And yeah, some drivers are rude too. I
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by pmcollins 7y ago
When I want to buy something from Apple I can buy it from apple.com and have it shipped to me, but the last time I did this their "two day shipping" took a full week. Never again. Or I can buy it from Amazon, but last time I bough
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by pmcollins 7y ago
I used to listen to a radio show hosted by a law professor and iirc he said that airport security doesn't violate the privacy amendment because you don't have to fly. When you choose to fly you implicitly wave those rights. How i
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by pmcollins 8y ago
So if a very capable, a hard working, effective person is able to increase their wealth by 20x, and in so doing increases my wealth by 2x without my doing anything, you'd be in favor of using the power of the state to prevent this from
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by pmcollins 8y ago
Looks like they climbed and maintained ~5000 feet after takeoff, presumably to figure out what was going on before returning to the airport. Wouldn't call that crazy low.
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by pmcollins 8y ago
In my state, the phenomenon of attempting to drive while looking at and manipulating one's phone is absolutely epidemic . When a light turns green, the cars in front often don't move and the cars behind them often don't honk
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by pmcollins 8y ago
I bought a problematic item on Amazon and left a negative review. The seller contacted me three times via email and offered me $30 (the cost of the item) to remove the review. I didn't take it but maybe others had. And I wonder if I wa
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by pmcollins 8y ago
Most code review ends up being pair/team programming gone horribly awry. There's a lot of ego involved, it's slow and cumbersome, it's emotionally painful, and the metaphor is wrong (a panel of judges inspecting a lone d
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by pmcollins 8y ago
> Musk tweeted in an effort to destroy the shorts Is there any evidence that this was his intent? How do you know that he didn't actually intend to take the company private?
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by pmcollins 8y ago
I was puzzled this week when I received an email offering me $30 to delete an accurate, but negative review I posted a few weeks ago. I also received yet another counterfeit item recently. Retailers should be happy about the rate at which A
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We took to the sky in Kitty Hawk's flying car(money.cnn.com)
2 points by pmcollins 8y ago|0 comments
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by pmcollins 8y ago
My wife is a data scientist and this is one of her favorite quotes, from Dan Ariely: Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they
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by pmcollins 8y ago
The MacBook is (at least in theory) noiseless as well. It has an SSD and no fans.
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by pmcollins 8y ago
I'm baffled that telcos allow this, regardless of regulations. I get so many robocalls, I stopped answering my phone. But when I get a FaceTime call or an iMessage, I'm on it. Robocalls dilute the trust consumers have in the phone
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by pmcollins 8y ago
No, but I will let you put what you created on GitHub. That becomes part of your portfolio. Put a link to your GitHub account on your resume. If you already have enough sample code, there may not be a need to provide more.
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by pmcollins 8y ago
Lately, I've started thinking of programming as an art form. If you substitute programming with music, how would you make all of these evaluations about the craft and of its practicioners? You may be hiring for guitarist and require at
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by pmcollins 9y ago
Here's the page if you want to buy the one in the video or learn more about its structure http://f3j.in.ua/snipe-2.html Get a load of those prices. :-) Also, I love how the minimalism even extends to the domain name.
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Welcome to Zucktown(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by pmcollins 9y ago|0 comments
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by pmcollins 9y ago
I had to google this: FANG == Facebook Amazon Netflix Google

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