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by steverb 9y ago
I find it kind of amusing that someone with 5-7 years is generally considered a senior software engineer in SV. Maybe we need a different designation for engineers with 10-20 years of experience? Something other than "the old man/
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by steverb 9y ago
Consider the University of Tennessee, a state school in an inexpensive part of the country. Cost of attendance paying in state tuition is $24,000 to $28,000 depending on which web site you get your data from. How is a full-time student goin
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by steverb 9y ago
It feels inevitable, but it's still a shame. I think the Windows Mobile interface was the most functional of the mobile UIs. I switched to Android years ago, but I still miss it.
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by steverb 9y ago
Unique in that two-thirds of the population experiences it. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... http://www.humorthatworks.com/database/10-frisson-inducing-s...
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by steverb 9y ago
That's an excellent idea. We read to our kids constantly when they were young, and after they got old enough to read themselves we started reading books and plays as a family on holiday weekends. It's still nice, and reading a pla
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by steverb 9y ago
I like the sentiment, but I wish there were more of a suggestion of what a self-discovery system would look like. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to try a lot of different things and a lot of different jobs and eventually fin
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by steverb 9y ago
Correct URL for Reddit NetSec FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/start
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by steverb 9y ago
That's a beautiful piece of work. Nice job!
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by steverb 9y ago
As a right-of-center person I find NPR's news coverage to be really reasonable. Whenever I hear someone earnestly categorize it as the left wing version of Fox "News" I take it as a evidence that the person has never actually
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by steverb 9y ago
That's the way my kids were able to grasp basic math. For fractions we used pizzas. Being able to hang the abstract concept on something that they were used to dealing with made it work for them.
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by steverb 9y ago
Lots of great suggestions. I'd add Leading Snowflakes: http://leadingsnowflakes.com/
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by steverb 9y ago
I think it depends in large on the type of shooting. I didn't have a problem with double peeps for man-shaped targets, but acquisition is harder due to the limited field of view. The military style peep + blade is a good compromise I t
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by steverb 9y ago
When I shot competitively (rifle in HS, almost 30 years ago) I was a big fan of the double peephole sights. All you had to do was center the target in the aperture and make sure the aperture was circular. Takes all the work out of sight ali
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by steverb 9y ago
I'll add: find the requirements documentation for the system. Chances are it doesn't exist, or if it does it is horribly wrong. Go fix it.
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by steverb 9y ago
The whole article seems to be a rehash of the original reddit thread from 5/13. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6azpkv/when_tv_show_l...
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by steverb 9y ago
Yeah, my 79 BMW 528 was positively tiny compared to current models. I also greatly preferred its' handling. Newer BMWs feel (to me) similar to driving my parents' Crown Vic (a comment that irritated the BMW dealer considerably).
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by steverb 9y ago
I haven't looked at it past the one reading, so I may have edited my memory of Wolfram's bombast. I do remember it at times reading like a sales pitch for Mathematica though. :-)
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by steverb 9y ago
I bought it when it came out, and read it (mostly) cover to cover. I remember it as an interesting exploration into cellular automata, and how complex behavior can arise from simple rules. I think a lot of the hate came because of the title
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by steverb 9y ago
Because then you can use it as a bragging point.
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by steverb 9y ago
It's pointlessly divisive to make this a red vs. blue issue. Tennessee, (a red state) has had free community college for its HS graduates for a few years now via last dollar scholarships, and a very good scholarship for four year schoo
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by steverb 10y ago
Not all meetings are for deciding on action items. Sometimes you have to meet so that everyone is exposed to the same information at the same time. Sometimes, you meet to decide action items, even if everyone already knows what the action i
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by steverb 10y ago
Three on the tree is a three speed manual with the shifter mounted on the steering column. Saw it a fair bit on older sedans. I think the intent was to not have the shifter in the floor so you could get that big front bench seat.
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by steverb 10y ago
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/2435/windows-10-... Kinda. Just for scrolling apparently.
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by steverb 10y ago
Yeah, I used to do a lot of financial reporting for a medical group. It eventually got to the point that after the second "those numbers don't look right" that I started asking what they wanted the numbers to show so I didn&#
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by steverb 10y ago
You are correct. I should have said that it's not prohibited.
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by steverb 10y ago
Do those treaties apply only to non-digital attacks?
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by steverb 10y ago
And when a power plant in a region is taken offline via conventional means? That isn't covered by the Current Laws of Land Warfare, why should a digital version be any different?
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by steverb 10y ago
Or taken the other direction, this is equivalent to saying that we need a Geneva Convention for bridges, roads and buildings. I do like the idea of a digital weapons non-proliferation agreement, but I suspect that it would be even less enfo
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by steverb 10y ago
Thanks for the honest and useful response. It'll help me as I counsel my kids on what their options are and what they should do.
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by steverb 10y ago
Ha. Apparently you haven't learned not to pontificate yet.

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