remotehack

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by remotehack 9y ago
> I’d be hugely surprised if there isn’t a huge rise over the next 4 months followed by a collapse. It's because bitcoin is a pyramid scheme.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Who are liberal, modern day liberal, which is worse.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Considering Fox is the only reputable news outlet left, I don't support the negative connotation you imply.
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by remotehack 9y ago
The question then becomes which is better, the current big 6 or the new big 6 headed by Netflix.
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by remotehack 9y ago
What other sources do you use, I ask as an over 30 something who wants to see how the other half lives?
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by remotehack 9y ago
Industrial and Residential Electricity. We learned mainly residential but our instructor wanted us to be prepared for industrial as well. In the end, I was accepted to a small college but didn't want to work a FT job and attend college
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by remotehack 9y ago
It sounds like someone is trying to sell something.
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by remotehack 9y ago
> iterations The property of iterations is that things change, outcomes change, ideas change, requirements change. Iterations are not black boxes that we tuck away as 100% complete; they often require re-examination as the iteration proc
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by remotehack 9y ago
Software obeys its own dynamics. Some things work well. Some not quite the same. It's nice to see someone admitting that testing is good, rigid TDD; like rigid Agile or rigid Waterfall, are bad. Corollary, what our parents said still h
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by remotehack 9y ago
When I was in High School, I went to 2 years of Vocational School at the same time and took advanced studies for college so I'd have something to fall back on one way or the other.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Agree, use it often too and a good alternative I also use often is: https://git-for-windows.github.io/ It gives you a Bash shell with hundreds of useful utilities you used to get only in Cygwin. Though the most complete is
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by remotehack 9y ago
VR is klunky, about 20 years away from being a fun experience.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Emotions aside, it's hard to deny facts: "Walmart employs an astounding 2.1 million people. In the United States alone, the company employs 1.4 million people. This is a staggering 1% of the U.S.'s 140 million working populat
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by remotehack 9y ago
Actually just went back and re-read what I wrote, I'm not entirely sure what the point was I was trying to get across now.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Are you equating a fair American Presidential campaign to people who cut people's heads off and record it?
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by remotehack 9y ago
Supporting violence and hate isn't acceptable in any other format, why should the Internet be excluded.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Consumer unfriendly behavior, your words, strongly suggests that it isn't a communications issue; rather it is likely a consumer affairs issue. https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consume...
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by remotehack 9y ago
Is Net Neutrality a 100% known quantity? I'm pretty sure it isn't. There are a lot of subjective considerations surrounding it and how it's perceived by both technical and non-technical people.
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by remotehack 9y ago
> I think if you work on greenfield projects your whole career you're likely the one who's creating these 'steaming piles of manure'. Eggzactly, well stated.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Microsoft has tens of thousands. Does Windows do more for its users than Ubuntu Linux?
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by remotehack 9y ago
Your post is great, well made and articulated, sort of the anti-plunger post.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Java would work much better for VLC.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Did a double take on the title.
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by remotehack 9y ago
Wow. Let the maintenance begin.
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by remotehack 9y ago
> I've been toying with the idea of a language where queries are expressed as a pipeline of operations on result sets That is what the relational database engine does in the first place. In fact, many really smart people have figure
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by remotehack 9y ago
SQL is about relational theory; all that matters is the data. > Instead wouldn't it be better for the language to explicitly allow the user to apply algorithms or procedures to make things more efficient That...is hacking.
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by remotehack 9y ago
An ORM is a gateway...not a good gateway.
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by remotehack 9y ago
You don't like languages that the average human being can make sense out of but you do like Clojure? Did I read that right? Then, "make them declarative and have software generate the diff". So you want the benefits of relati
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by remotehack 9y ago
The US should be in on, or leading, this.
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by remotehack 9y ago
When I work remotely (a.k.a. WFH), I exercise on the treadmill at lunch every day. I feel better and my blood test numbers prove it. When I have to work in an office, I am too tired to exercise when I get home and my health suffers for it.

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