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by readingnews 8y ago
I wish I worked at your firm. I once worked at a place and saved them millions in one year. At the yearly review, they said "well, that was some good work". That was the entire review. When I said "how about giving me an extr
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Saying things like "I could make 50k more at blah" seems to be taken so lightly these days. I would party/panic/freak out like I won the lotto if you told me I could make 50k more somewhere else. 50k... do you have any i
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You are assuming that there are people around to be a liability. I am assuming there will be no people in this warehouse.
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That is an interesting approach. Care to let us know how you go from https://github.com/ronomon/mime to some kind of SMTP server plugin (like for postfix for example)?
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The author seems to equate facebook, google, twitter, etc with "the internet". I agree, those are some major heavy hitting players on the network, but it seems the author wants the internet of yore, where it was the wild wild west
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by readingnews 8y ago
Soooo, when is the kickstarter? I have had so many countless sysadmins ask for a keyboard similar to that one (perhaps not the keyboard layout). I think the primary interests are: serial port (yes, even today not having to carry a dongle is
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Not sure why there was no direct link to the style files in the pdf... http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349
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Best part of the project is at the bottom, in the FAQ: > Q: Why did you make this? A: I thought it would be funny.
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Exactly. They can not break out the "my codes compiling" argument. Lost morale over a 2 year old laptop?? Wow, they should work in education. Try a 10 year old laptop and no hope of every buying a new "high end" machine.
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Agree, and love that guys domain name.
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That is certainly not common. I am a mechanical kb enthusiast, and most splits I see rearrange the function/control keys... but the pad in the middle is quite different. That is an interesting take on it for sure. And the sidecar numpa
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I agree with you. Had to work in another office without my main rig and the monitors had low pixel density, a bad pair of bad monitors or something. It was not as sharp as my others. After a few hours it started to get to me. It felt like m
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From the article > I had been worried that a 43-inch monitor might feel too huge. Have a friend at work with a 55inch TV/monitor. On his desk. At first, we were like "be serious, get rid of that thing". After a few weeks,
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> Those are the "smooth talkers" of the engineering world. Those are the people you can't catch just through a verbal interview. I agree with this. I was a hiring manager, and there are those that can really talk technical
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Hrm, agree, but the OP said some of these were written for complete newbies. A newbie at software development is not going to know what VCS stands for.
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I suppose perhaps that is what I was also thinking. I too was doing nutty stuff at 12 years of age, soldering together computers, writing code, creating software. When I interview or talk to people, that would not matter much. Perhaps it ju
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by readingnews 8y ago
No offense, but you claim you have been "officially coding for 25 years now". You state you are 36. Were you really, officially doing anything at 11 years of age. What does that mean? I was a solder tech at 13 years old. I NEVER t
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Have not been there, but I suspect this is very true. Couple that with the authors assumption that those in the flyover area will ever get a raise (he makes the comparison of the person in atlanta eventually making 40k more a year). I live
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I think the author is in fact unhumble bragging. I have been in IT for 26 years, have managed IT teams, every boss I have had would hire me back. I live in a mid sized city. I don't make close to half those numbers. I have no idea how
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Some people put up websites with dmesg output on them. http://www.dimlight.org/number9/dmesg_index.html That altix machine is crazy.
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I see your point: " Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complai
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by readingnews 8y ago
Not sure how to say this: HN keeps linking to articles that are behind "the first ones free" paywalls. Admittedly, I recently read two articles on New Yorker that were thought provoking, and perhaps that is why people subscribe, b
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by readingnews 8y ago
Agree with nomy99. I work on a college campus. There was 1 African American in our CS graduate school. He was hired by Google before he even graduated. Out of several hundred undergrads, the number of "other" students is statistic
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Four out of twenty-one 2nd graders (19%) say they wish the phone had not been invented. Because their parents are on it all of the time. That is all fine, but this is BBC worthy news? The BBC claim they see news reports of how our phones ar
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While we can all bash it, I am reading this on X right now. So the modular idea still holds to some degree. :)
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Things I no longer read: One weird trick One simple trick _____'s hate him!