terrywilcox

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by terrywilcox 10y ago
No sarcasm at all. Child abandonment is clearly bad for the child and can see the parent thrown in jail. Adoption is the better choice for both parties. I think you perhaps missed the broader point though. If you're raising children as
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
I can't explain why you're wrong about kids and self-interest. It's something you have to experience for yourself. You may have an epiphany about the 50th time you yell "watch out for that car". I swear she _wants_
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
Correct. Put him up for adoption instead.
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
I recommend not having children if you're only keeping them as long as it serves your self interest.
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
If I kept my longest tenure family members and laid off the new ones, my kid would be pretty unimpressed. Family does not work that way. The term you're looking for is "buddies".
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
So nothing in Linux is new technology?
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
I'm guessing you didn't get past the headline.
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by terrywilcox 10y ago
Which one is which?
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
I don't want to be fired. I want to be downsized with a large compensation package.
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
If phones are no less secure when the existence of a vulnerability is disclosed, why do we prefer security researchers to notify the manufacturer before disclosing the vulnerability? And perhaps the vulnerability in question wouldn't w
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
You've just reinforced my point. You understand that you are unaware of the younger generation's pop culture (pop music is as much part of pop culture as TV is), but you don't understand how people of my generation can be una
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
Learning doesn't get much harder. Making time to learn gets much harder. The real problem is that while the 50 year old has already had 30 years more learning than the 20 year old, the 50 year old probably doesn't know who the Kar
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
> Technologies change, syntax evolves, semantics improve, but your deep understanding of how to ask just the right question of a business person that turns a mathematically unsolvable problem, into something you can build in three days.
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
Hunting yes. Protection from wild animals? Contrary to popular belief, we don't all have polar bears in our yard. We had a coyote on our street last year, but nobody felt threatened enough to pull out a gun.
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
Canada has all those things...
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
I'd hate to be the developer who has to maintain this guy's code.
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
It's actually been a pretty mild winter here so far. I can't remember any really cold days.
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
Quite a valid comparison. The damage caused by the lack of Navigation Transitions in web browsers has made the news repeatedly for decades. My great grandfather died in the hospital after he was crushed by a non-animated change to a differe
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
If you think Stack Overflow hates new users, go look at Usenet in the early 90's. RTFM was the polite response to new users. Asking a question was an invitation for abuse. This is nothing new. Established communities eventually become
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
Sites like Hacker News?
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by terrywilcox 11y ago
If you told me my product was the new Win32, the new Java, and the new Flash, I'd immediately apologize and kill it. It's like being labeled "a young Justin Bieber".
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
April Fool's Day needs to be cancelled.
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
You're not the target market. People who spend $10k on a watch exist. They're the target market.
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
I certainly didn't impose that criteria. I wanted the job. I certainly had the experience they were looking for. And no, nobody came out and said I was too old. They just reacted like I used to react when old people told me they unders
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
I've been a programmer for 20+ years. For the longest time I didn't see any discrimination in tech, probably because everybody I worked with was also a young white guy. Except those over the hill freaks with their comb overs and s
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
Why would anybody writing a new VCS use Github to host it? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the new VCS itself. You know, eat your own dogfood?
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
There's a word for judging people by what they wear or how they look...
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
You also missed the satire, even though it was expressly pointed out.
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
Why would they? Those customers have already paid for their old device. There's no more value to be had there. Except repeat business from happy customers, but who cares about that?
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde

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