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by ransom1538 5y ago
"Cool sounding jobs are competitive" Also! The problem with Animators is projects being canceled. Animation takes forever . A project getting cut a year in is normal. That takes a huge toll on you mentally. THEN, you have the
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Hats off to the 0ad team. It is a great game with a fun AI to play against. Give it a try - however, it is pretty addicting. Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad
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by ransom1538 5y ago
If you are out there struggling with addiction I would checkout: Naltrexone. Naltrexone binds to the endorphin receptors in the body, and blocks the effects and feelings of alcohol. IMHO: The addict brain needs to be reprogrammed with che
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"The Makah took the three survivors of the broken ship and held them as slaves for several months before taking them to Fort Vancouver." ^ Their story only got worse! The tribe turned them into slaves. https://en.wikipe
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"Comments are good, but there is also a danger of over-commenting." IMHO The only way to tell if you are able to comment well is to do this: Work on some project - then in 2 years come back to that project and add a feature to i
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"For speaking out, Spriestersbach was deemed “problematic” and given antipsychotic medications, including Haldol, which made him despondent and catatonic." My best friend's father was a guard at Folsom prison. When I was a ki
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by ransom1538 5y ago
FYI to stock option noobs: 83(b) Election: is a provision under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) that gives an employee, or startup founder, the option to pay taxes on the total fair market value of restricted stock at the time of granting.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"What we paid for what we received haunts me. I have never seen such poorly thought out, poorly documented, and just barely working code " I would have tried using agile practices. You would have seen the code that first Friday a
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Agile. Everything is due Friday. Dev: "WELL! I can't finish this by friday!" Ok well divide it in two parts, make first part done by friday. The second part goes in backlog. PM: "When is everything going to be done!!?&qu
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by ransom1538 5y ago
I am also interested in which country pours most plastic trash into the ocean. I am sure no one is working on this.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling" America is militarized due to 20th century European "killing/incarcerat
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by ransom1538 5y ago
We don't want the government to have power! We just want them to be responsible for our education, health care, water, policing, energy, laws, foreign intelligence, taxing, safety, banking, college, protection, transportation, internat
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"Can Redis be used as a primary database" IMHO, no. Unless! you can ensure your data is less than the size of memory. Redis must fit all the data into memory. If you run out of memory Redis doesn't have great options (beside
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?" IMHO, the system is [china builds things] -> [middle man sells it on amazon] -> [consumer buys it on amazon]. Amazon needs these middle man people and has st
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Slightly off topic. My iphone screen cracks every year. Case no case. It just happens. I used to have a flip phone - left it in the snow for a week after I dropped it 30ft off a ski slope. No broken screen. After finding it, it turned on a
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"But be aware that there is no free lunch, and reducing risk right now will most probably reduce your opportunities in the long term." I would buy this t-shirt. This is so true. At certain points in your life you can take wild ris
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by ransom1538 5y ago
They wont get the money - and you are in the same position. So you lost nothing. It wont work all the time. But it is hard for tenants to resist all that cash.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
If you have tenants that are not paying: approach them. Explain to them (not in writing) that you can no longer make payments due to lack of rent - and the bank could foreclose and seize the home. Offer to pay them 2X monthly rent cash to s
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by ransom1538 5y ago
I worked at a 'no code startup' for a few years in 2014. Here is how it goes. 1) Apple will throw out your apps quickly. They say it is a templated app. Our app at them time had 100k active installs. They basically shut down a
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Sure - fork something, call it something else, pretend it is new. There are a ton of dollar signs in the FB source code.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Wordpress. I would google it. It is pretty big. Runs %60 of the internet. (made that part up, but I bet I am close).
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it looks like it is a PHP specific problem. Python does not have it." You can concatenate a sql query just fine in Python anyway you want. Adding a sql injection is just as easy in Python
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by ransom1538 5y ago
If you are going from php to python just remove the dollar signs $ and update how you treat strings. Those languages are cousins. Honestly, within 2 weeks you wont look back. However, Python2 vs Python3 makes php look like a bunch of geniu
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Almost all the information kids are cramming is useless to their future. So, these poor kids study 24/7 useless information in hopes of what? The odds are they will know exactly what all the other kids know -- making it even more usel
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"I think the issue is more with capital appreciation." From the commercial landlords I have talked with SF, the lease term length is the main contributor to vacant retail spaces. When a retail shop moves in the lease term can be
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Interviewee: Check me out! I have 239 twitter followers! Interviewer: Cool. Can you setup mysql replication? What does a read replica mean? Interviewee: Neat! Check out my github on a emoji generator! Interviewer: .... Interviewer: [proceed
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Yes it was misread.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Why the "/s"? -- sounds right.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
Eh. I think people over complicate k8s in their head. Create a bunch of docker files that let your code run, write a bunch of yaml files on how you want your containers to interact, get an endpoint: the end.
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by ransom1538 5y ago
"it's a question of what will happen when extended unemployment ends in September." Anarchy. I don't see this happening. Getting people off those checks sounds impossible - if you want to win another election.

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