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by shagie 7mo ago
Universities typically are in the public sector side of the equation... and the public sector doesn't pay any non-administrative role the Big Tech rate. Pulling up my alma mater... https://www.openthebooks.com/wisconsin
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by shagie 7mo ago
I personally believe that the H1 visa should get split into more distinct fields. That was the way that it started... the H-1A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1A_visa ) was for nurses and H-1B was for other specialty
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by shagie 7mo ago
That makes the assumption that every H1B, L1, and OPT is going into software development. https://apnews.com/article/teacher-jobs-h1b-j1-visa-online-s... Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South C
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by shagie 7mo ago
In older distinctions, there were Systems Developers and Application Developers and Computer Programmers. The distinction largely was around that "Computer Programmers took the specifications from Developers and implemented them.&quot
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by shagie 7mo ago
What about other platforms and stores? The same change has been made on the GOG.com store. All other distribution platforms are unchanged, and you can continue to download OpenTTD from our web site. However if you enjoy playing
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by shagie 7mo ago
Power strips next to them in that photo are fun too.
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by shagie 7mo ago
From my days... this is what an old photo of a "proper" BBS looked like https://beeline.org/beeline/?view=a29ed68f4f4d53 (note the wire wrapped custom modem controller) - the description is "Original App
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by shagie 7mo ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licens
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by shagie 8mo ago
> it becomes readily apparent that infrared light focuses differently from visible light. On old school manual focus capable lenses you'll note a small (often red when colors were used to indicate f stops) dot to the left of the foc
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by shagie 8mo ago
(I was replying to a now deleted response) > Slop has an upside? Not exactly. Rather its is that places where one does want to find pictures of people's cute cats and dogs is now having additional moderation / administration
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by shagie 8mo ago
> I'm looking for a job shoveling pig shit as we speak. https://www.goatops.com
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by shagie 8mo ago
public static void main (String[] args) { Optional<Boolean> n = Optional.ofNullable(null); Optional<Boolean> e = Optional.empty(); System.out.println(n.equals(e)); } true https:/&
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by shagie 8mo ago
For Java developers... you can use Optional<Boolean> to store the elusive four possible booleans.
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by shagie 8mo ago
Ramadan really moves around the calendar. From what I understand, summertime Ramadan can be quite challenging to fast from sunrise to sunset. https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details.aspx?id...
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by shagie 8mo ago
In the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the
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by shagie 8mo ago
One of the things that I recall from that (and written about elsewhere... though I don't recall where) is that the shadows of the shadow squares, when viewed from the surface all subtend the same angle on the Arc of Heaven.
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by shagie 8mo ago
Fictional characters can have their own copyright. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/protecting-fictional... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti...
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by shagie 8mo ago
Some of my early renderings Renderman (high school), Povray (college), and Art ( https://www.abemegahed.com/software/ - at the very end) were trying to visualize the scale of Rama and Ringworld. The scale of it was...
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by shagie 8mo ago
I kind of agree with you on that... and I kind of understand why. The first book was an exploration of humanity in the stars. While there was contact, it had more the traditional science fiction footing that we're familiar with. The s
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by shagie 8mo ago
What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353473 (93 comments, and linking to https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking.
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by shagie 8mo ago
> It can even work for future dates and times too! Morocco has some complex logic around Ramadan... which is a moveable festival. https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L854 Rule Morocco
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by shagie 8mo ago
Who maintains what time it was in Yugoslavia in 1970? Or Serbia? What country maintains the time information for the island of Taiwan? Or Hong Kong while under British rule or while under Japanese rule? It might be possible to use that fo
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by shagie 8mo ago
That would provide the machine readable version... but not the human documentation of time. You wouldn't be able to debug the Moroccan Ramadan rule (which is provided as some elisp code) and its predictions for future changes. Having
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by shagie 8mo ago
It's a term that's been used in financial literature for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy > Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) is a macroeconomic concept describing conditions
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by shagie 8mo ago
I know a lot of developers who have learned their skillset by rote from the early 2010s and have not progressed in competency (they still write code with the same issues as they did a decade ago) or technology (haven't been able to pic
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by shagie 8mo ago
I'd contend that 2020-2023 is a continuation of the slope from... 2017 with a an outlier for 2020. That is especially evident in the software publisher part of the increase. And then there's the significant change in computer inf
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by shagie 8mo ago
Even the ramp up in the late 2010s with the increase in "software publisher" hiring was crazy. Covid put a dent in that, but the increase in the increase in hiring goes back further than the post covid boom.
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by shagie 8mo ago
There's another post for it that went back to the early 90s. I've grabbed it at https://imgur.com/a/kB9CAKF though it's a smaller image (Imgur resizing).
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by shagie 8mo ago
https://imgur.com/a/kB9CAKF via Imgur (though you get resizing - its bigger on my screen) The question that I have for this data though is that its showing the derivative - the change each year in hiring. The dot com c
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by shagie 8mo ago
BLS had some classification changes over the years. I think it's interesting in the "this is how people thought about the role over the decades." Today there are computer programmers (15-1251), and software developers (15-12

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