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by rplst8 10y ago
I thought age 40 and over was the protected class WRT age.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Pushing 40 now, I agree with most of this. However, I will say that the way recruiting works for devs is just atrocious.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Having watched the industry for 25 odd years, it just feels like the tech is not there yet. The short battery life, the less than stellar looks (cigarette butt ears) and whatnot. Two extra months isn't going to fix that IMHO. If you
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by rplst8 10y ago
If you have a set of headphones that put pressure on your eardrum, you either have them turned up way to loud, or some other really big problem that you should see a doctor for. No headphone should put pressure on your eardrum other than
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah this feature sounds rife with good intention but no basis in reality as to how people actually use their computer/devices.
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by rplst8 10y ago
This should be the top answer. The product is simply not ready - as evidenced by a two month delay.
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by rplst8 10y ago
State? Try county! A lot of the public records for homes are held in county courthouses.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah, even with a buyers agent, the buyer doesn't get much. Both agents (if being paid out of the 6% commission) have a fiduciary responsibility to the seller. About the only thing a buyer gets out of the whole deal is a title search
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah someone needs to tell the real estate people their jobs aren't safe from the robot apocalypse either.
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by rplst8 10y ago
The level of service is pretty low too. Its basically handling setting up a few appointments to see houses, helping grease the skids for inspections, and setting up a closing with a settlement company/lawyer. Stuff that really doesn&
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by rplst8 10y ago
Check out these charts: Injured persons by transportation mode: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub... Total Accidents by mode: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/s
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by rplst8 10y ago
Maybe the figure was 10 times safer then. A plane carries an average of 200-300 people. One flight per month is somewhere between 2400-3600. Current highway fatalities number about 35,000. So the ten times figure works. That said, I fee
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by rplst8 10y ago
This sort of thing is exactly what some of the software development processes are all about. When I was in a CMMI training class 10 or more years ago, the instructor we had said basically that much. By instantiating a process, it takes the
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by rplst8 10y ago
You have to look at total passenger-miles. Currently planes are over 1000 times safer. I think it actually might approach 10,000.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I agree. I think it's a regulatory crutch that can be abused and therefore requires more regulation. The patent system is a left over from monarchial rule and should be abolished.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think a lot of software engineers would be blown away at how strict software standards are for avionic systems. Like 100% modified condition/decision coverage for all software tests, strict. No pointer math and no dynamic memory all
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by rplst8 10y ago
> Really? 'dozens died' is ok, but 100s died is not? Are we cattle? Yes. Some people are choosing to pay less for a little more risk. The market should allow for that in the fringes. The vast majority of flying happens on the
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by rplst8 10y ago
We could lose an entire airliner once a month to terrorism, with everyone on board dying, and air travel would still be 100 times safer than driving a car.
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by rplst8 10y ago
One word. DO-178B.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah the term engineer is thrown around pretty casually in the software world. You can apprentice and take the PE (Professional Engineer) test, but it's often hard to find software engineers with their PE certificate. It's much
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by rplst8 10y ago
There is a quote out there about how people who put out their own controlled burns get more visibility than those that are sweeping up dead leaves and paper from the factory floor. I can't remember where I saw it or who said it. That
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by rplst8 10y ago
> If you are hired as a programmer, then yes, just do whatever we ask of you. But if you are hired as an engineer, everything the business asks of you comes with an implicit: "and make sure it's done in a proper way that won&#x
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by rplst8 10y ago
> I agree with those who say those improvements should maybe have been demanded immediately after the fire was out, but those who would have delayed the firefighting out of blind allegiance to the rules seemed, to me, to have forgotten t
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by rplst8 10y ago
P.S. looks like they fixed it. I have Google Cloud Print re-enabled and it's working fine.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I've had the same thing happen with my Epson WF-3540. It's been a totally solid printer up until this point. To fix it I started it up and immediately disabled the Wi-Fi. Then I "suspended" Google Cloud Print and Epson
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yeah, centralization of the economy is great. So we all get to sit in traffic. Or walk and live in a closet sized apartment.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm saying out of all the possibilities, that's what could have happened. Either millions of girls weren't born because they selectively picked boys... OR as the article asserts, people ignored the policy entirely and hid
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by rplst8 10y ago
So either the missing girls where aborted, killed, or once the family had a boy as the first child, they stopped having kids. Or people just ignored the policy altogether. And central planning works how exactly?
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by rplst8 10y ago
The gas gets them in the door. People are a lot less likely to stop if they don't have to. Since electric cars take a lot longer to charge, they don't mesh well with the convenience store model. More like restaurants. I think c
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by rplst8 10y ago
20% of the population is still a huge number.

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