sullenpaladin

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by sullenpaladin 8y ago
The head bobble just means that they hear you. It does not mean yes or no or anything else really.
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by sullenpaladin 8y ago
Originally, the carbine was invented for cavalry use, since a shorter stock is easier to handle on horseback.
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
I have been using DoggCatcher for years now, and I have no complaints.
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
Joe's daily podcast is 3 hours long on average, so he doesn't come close, he exceeds by a factor of 3!
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
Me at 25 would be 20 years ago. That would have been an awesome time to buy a house. Today, not so much.
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
Totally agree. You always need substantial cash on hand. I got caught fully invested during the financial crisis and I was not in a position to invest at all-time lows.
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
> if you control the database That is a big if in the enterprise. It is getting better, but for most enterprise apps I have worked on, there is a db team that owns the db and you have to go through them for all changes. Perhaps db abstr
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
Abstracting the database has another benefit you are neglecting. It is easy to mock the database and test your application use cases if the database layer is abstracted. This is nearly impossible if database access is baked into the app.
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by sullenpaladin 9y ago
White middle class non-dissident man with a wife and kids here. I have had my hands swabbed for explosive residue on multiple occasions for domestic flights. We were also pulled aside for additional screening once (the whole family), but i
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by sullenpaladin 10y ago
I share a bubble with eterm, in a Fortune 100 enterprise. I have heard React mentioned once by a particularly engaged front-end developer, but everything I know of in production is JQuery, a couple Angular 1 apps, and a whole lot of horribl
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by sullenpaladin 10y ago
Interest rates are all directly or indirectly based on rates set by the Federal Reserve (in the US). Market forces have no say in interest rates.