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by steverb 12y ago
Which explains the critical shortage of Ferraris in my driveway.
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by steverb 12y ago
Yeah, the original headline is clearer.
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by steverb 12y ago
Oddly enough, we just always called that Thanksgiving. Sometimes we visited family, sometimes family visited us, sometimes we just gathered with whoever was around. The need to create some sort of alternative label confuses me, but then aga
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by steverb 12y ago
Norwood. We have Comcast, AT+T fiber and Wow.
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by steverb 12y ago
I am currently in one of the test markets for this (Knoxville, TN) and am actively looking for another provider since we hit the bandwidth cap for the third time this month (2 adults, 4 teenagers). Fortunately, I have three providers in my
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by steverb 12y ago
So probably not.
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by steverb 12y ago
I doubt he really meant addiction in the classical sense. I read it more as "Worst of all, becoming one of those assholes who can't put down their device and have a conversation like a normal human being". But I also limit my
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by steverb 12y ago
I give my developers to leave (paid) if they want/need to, and if they can come up with a decent excuse for why a conference or class will make them a better developer then I pay for that too. These people are professionals, and I trea
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by steverb 12y ago
As somebody who manages developers, I let them choose their own conferences/classes and if they can come up with a justification of how it will improve their work performance I pay for it. I haven't had anyone try and justify me p
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by steverb 12y ago
Better than nothing, but your employer should be happy to pay you to attend those events that improve your skill set and make you a better employee.
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by steverb 12y ago
"outside of large scale public infrastructure projects construction is entirely predictable and safe now." My last three home remodels and the recent corporate construction we are in the process of finishing beg to differ with you
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by steverb 12y ago
I wonder what the chances are of getting a pair with differing lift heights? My son has one short leg and is very conscious of how odd his one lifted shoe looks in comparison to the other.
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by steverb 12y ago
I made the switch a year and a half ago and I don't regret it at all. I'd been programming professionally for > 12 years and had gotten to the point where I didn't really feel like I was encountering enough challenging pro
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by steverb 12y ago
Dear Lord in heaven, no. Yes, the data language and the application language were all the same language, which led to some awful spaghetti code where data access was strewn all over the place. Then you also get to deal with scaling issues b
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by steverb 12y ago
Don't forget the Gadgeteer stuff MS has had for quite a while. It's pretty cool for rapidly prototyping "things". http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gadgeteer/
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by steverb 12y ago
The first forum software I wrote way back in 1998 didn't use a db. Basically I just marked up the html file with some data to tell me where the posts were and then when someone would post a new comment the perl script would just insert
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by steverb 12y ago
As a man who maintains an acre of yard/garden + chickens, that shovel looks pretty nice. Better leverage/ergonomics. Not sure about the tiller though, in my experience the weight of the tiller makes a big difference into how well
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by steverb 12y ago
The article had a lot of good points that were over-shadowed by the bitter tone the author chose to use. It's a shame really.
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by steverb 12y ago
Another plug for Dapper. I tell people it's an ORM for developers who aren't afraid of SQL. It doesn't hide the database, or force you to pretend it's not there. It excels at taking your rows of data and transmogrifying
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by steverb 12y ago
Sadly, if you know what a design pattern is and can name two then you are head and shoulders above 95% of developers. Source: Been interviewing supposedly senior level candidates for the last three weeks.
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by steverb 13y ago
I was raised in the south with the understanding that dinner refers to the largest meal of the day. Typically coinciding with supper, except on Sunday when we ate dinner at lunch time. Never had dinner at breakfast, but we did occasionally
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by steverb 13y ago
I love my people. I took the management gig because I was tired of seeing other people do it poorly. I figured I could do it at least little better than they were. Results are currently mixed. :-)
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by steverb 13y ago
As a manager in tech, it's not my fault. I've complained so much about the open office layout that I've been told point blank to shut up about it.
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by steverb 13y ago
The search for Special Unit 2, for some reason pegged an episode of "The Unit" for Ep1. A way to tag a show/episode as incorrect would probably be helpful.
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by steverb 13y ago
My wife has Celiac's and all I can say is that I am very glad that gluten-free has become a bit of a fad. There is a much larger variety of gluten free foods than there were 6 years ago when she was first diagnosed, and the prices of m
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by steverb 13y ago
I believe the fact that salaries in STEM fields aren't insanely high is a symptom that we generally have enough STEM educated people to fill the jobs.
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by steverb 13y ago
Actually, the study guide is pretty much the right length for the book. They are all useful points, but the book itself beats the horse until it is very thoroughly dead.
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by steverb 13y ago
Urls aren't encrypted. If you're on an entirely secure network, and you don't mind users seeing user name + password in the url then it might not be a problem.
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by steverb 13y ago
Barter is taxable. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
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by steverb 13y ago
I've experienced sleep running while in the military during training exercises. In one they kept us going for a week on minimal sleep (four hours of "rest" out of every twenty-four). On day four I fell asleep while running in

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