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by pnathan 8y ago
That really stinks . It's not the original Aroma, but there's often a certain odor in the air in the morning. Not that other major cities don't have issues there too.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I would like to see Tacoma, WA take this route. There's a lot of cheap housing there, and it's close enough to Seattle to be able to reasonably haul in some of the software engineers that might be a bit more financially constraine
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by pnathan 8y ago
I would agree that there exists a distinct and mostly disjoint set of people: flaggers vs debaters, to use the OP's terminology. I don't see that tension going away. It's certainly a long-standing tension online. I disagree f
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by pnathan 8y ago
I consider that spectacularly dumb, but it's a second order problem caused by the lack of legal recognizance of contacts signed by minors.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Adulting is not evil; it is a consequence of discharging your responsibility and functioning as a human being. Kids will be kids, that has nothing to do with responsibility. I could ask my child to go to work - he'll be completely
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by pnathan 8y ago
It's very hard to compare a hunter gatherer / traditional village society to the modern urban & educated society and have meaningful takeaways. The crux of the matter is the requirement for responsibility. Rather than have thi
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by pnathan 8y ago
There aren't very many DBAs practicing in modern shops and devs don't seem to be too into SQL and delivering excellent SQL queries and schemas. It's its own skillset. I would also call out the NoSQL hype train here. NoSQL ha
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by pnathan 8y ago
Don't read your page. Expect your students to read the page. Then go deep and discuss concepts in-class. Keep homework interesting , but don't ask for more than 1/wk or expect hours to be willingly ground out on make-work pr
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by pnathan 8y ago
I see what you mean, but the raw volume of work is an enormous load to carry for a dedicated few.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Thank you! I must have read that page years ago, and I lost the link.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Broad agreement about the network parity aspect. If you can have a working TCP/IP stack /and/ can run Chrome, you have the ability to pretty much be "usable" by many users. I'd like to stop the argument there t
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by pnathan 8y ago
I realized this evening I should have said Lisp/Smalltalk. I would also agree regarding market conditions. One other thing, since this textbox is here and you're contemplating similar thoughts: the Modula-2/Oberon OS system
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by pnathan 8y ago
AWS has excellent customer service offerings after a certain price point. I would check the "Business" and "Enterprise" plans for examples of how to get the good support. You get an account manager rep and upon occasion,
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by pnathan 8y ago
If I understand properly, you're violating an NDA, or an alternative agreement to not copy and publish their docs. This is the legal enforcement of same. You can, f'instance, not do it. Now that you've made frontpage on a maj
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by pnathan 8y ago
Oh, DOS. It's always sad to read histories of computing during the 80s. It was a lost decade in many ways. Much more powerful and competent paradigms were alive and vital at the start, but by the end, they were all collapsing. A few di
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by pnathan 8y ago
when I contemplate the available resources for a starting programmer, my mind is always stunned.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Is there a decent write up? Sounds, from what you say, like a lucrative business with someone who has a decent set of ethics. It's always useful to read people's stories like that.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> really learning computer science outside top well known schools Eh... no. It's not 1975 anymore. This knowledge is widely distributed.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> make sure your holdings are prepared for a recession Make sure your bond / stock / cash / etc holdings are properly balanced. Don't overweight in one area. If you've not paid attention to your risk exposure ove
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yep. "We're due" is my perspective on bear markets. We've had a bull for a long time now, and there's adequate macro factors that a tipoff into a bear is a fairly reasonable expectation. In other words, it's qu
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by pnathan 8y ago
A ton of weird stuff from that time seems to run through Esalen. I will read this or that history of computing/hippies/etc and boom, Esalen. Strange how influence works. Anyway, beyond that... this is something I've been co
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by pnathan 8y ago
It reads like a walkback to me as well.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Shutting down the "I think our users will want" comment without experience or discussion with said users is a good thing, and a lesson many teams should take to heart.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I would nuance that somewhat: if you have a Condition, you pretty much need to work for The Man, or life's gonna be pretty rough. If you're basically healthy..... you'll probably be fine.
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by pnathan 8y ago
ACA helps. It needs an overhaul, along with a medicaid expansion everywhere to manage the risk pools. If we had done ACA 1.1 with appropriate adjustments, it might not be a concern. but the actual inflight plans are to reverse the ACA and,
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by pnathan 8y ago
My arbitrarily guesstimated number would be 2.0 on a 4.0 scale. Students who scored under that at my alma mater (U of Idaho, go go State School!) really had issues of one kind or another, whether it be health, disinterest, family, etc. Over
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by pnathan 8y ago
I would agree! I vaguely plan to shift to consulting out my experience and competence at age 60 or so, then do that on a part time basis until I topple over. No sense in vegging at home, and I expect have the time and network at that time t
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by pnathan 8y ago
I've heard that too. And reading stories by the enlisted about the waste and inefficiency in the military make me groan as a citizen and a taxpayer. They don't like the waste, the bipartisan consensus in congress doesn't like
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by pnathan 8y ago
I said to make college free: tuition, room, and board, so long as you keep adequate grades. Stop the loan system entirely . Sorry, I must have been unclear.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Oh yes, that! This is much worse if you actually have to address health issues! I was considering the best case median-paid person and their calculations! If you have real health issues in your family, your best bet IMO is to work your tail

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