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by throwaway1492 3y ago
My daughter will be nine next month. My kids have freedom and do a lot of stuff, but I don't let my kids out of my sight. I'm benign about it so they don't notice. People say I'm a helicopter parent. Those people can pis
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
Who thought the crypto currency killer app would be payouts to corrupt politicians and influencers?
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understa
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
> Gut from the top if you want to get rid of the problem. It’s not the L5 engineer or the first line manager that’s holding any product back. I tend to agree but there's a real danger in leaving engineers to their own devices. I kno
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
My only encounter with drugs (pain killers) for the past 10 years was fentanyl as part of colonoscopy. That was no joke. Just one dose had noticeable effects for a few days later. I felt fucking great waking up from that colonoscopy but man
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
As someone who worked professionally on a c++ application for two years around 2010, I took c++ off my resume. C++ is the ultimate "stump the chump" language with tons of corner cases and esoteric gotchas. I hated it and I hate in
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
> But really after living together for that long, does that even matter? FYI she’s not joking, you should surprise her and do it.
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
Falling in or out of love is really a lot of fantasy BS though really. Disney marketing. Anyone in a long term relationship doesn’t love the other all the time, wether married or not. Marriage is about declaring to your social group and eac
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
I’ll risk it and defend marriage to this crowd. To me getting married was about getting out of myself. As someone who got married later in life, I’d spent decades living only for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Rel
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
I had a similar background. Grew up doing manual labor on a family farm, then college then active duty military for several years. There's a huge difference between "manual labor indoors normal hours" and "manual labor o
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by throwaway1492 3y ago
> The military is also rife with ass-covering careerists This is true, and I believe it's nigh impossible for a normal person to understand the level of politics and fuckery that goes on at all levels of the military; hence the down
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
I hope you understand that not everyone shares your pre-occupation with the current era of culture wars that you show here. To one not in your "space" this comment reads very odd indeed; as in attributing malice where this is, imp
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
There was a financial services company that created a stock transfer service in smalltalk in the mid to late 90's; apparently they had some folks who were very forward thinking. They used IBMs visual age products. The product had some
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
I’m sincere when I type this so I hope someone can help me understand. This type of “art” seems exploitative to me. Certainly many viewers are shocked by the poverty on display in the richest nation on earth. And that’s valid and understand
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
The reality is that young men have always been “optional” in society. Biology looms large. Women seek to mate with the most high status males, evidenced by the fraction of men who get the majority of the “action” on dating apps and in life.
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Shout out to all the peeps who never left firefox, and recognized Chrome for what it was. A cynical grab for influence and surveillance dominance it was from the beginning. Chrome always offered technical and ui excellence in exchange for y
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
In this vein I made a sort of tile maps and sprites game engine in JavaScript that also has code editing on the same page. My kids used it to learn some JavaScript. Would this be of interest to anyone?
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Russia military is a pitiful shell of the former Soviet glory. Putin’s actions in Ukraine have effectively demilitarized them. They squandered their inheritance of Soviet equipment like an 18 year old in Vegas. Their nuclear force is a gian
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
I went through a mainframe cobol bootcamp at a company in the 90's and worked on their code for a few years. The thing to know today is most all the jobs (in the US) were offshored, very few of those jobs are left in the US today. The
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
What's hilarious is what you're actually saying (and don't realize it). I didn’t mention gender, you did. GP didn’t either.
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Not just the BO, a big part of it is the personalities; aggressive know it all nerds are the worst. This is anecdotabl buy my now wife has always said she felt like she was taking a chance on me due to my job in software. And judging from t
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Ok so we’re adding “developer productivity” on to the list. Aside from moving the goal, one does not have faith a lot faith in the knowledge of people making these claims, like where’s the proof? Hint read Joe Armstrong’s dissertation.
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
That quote is absurd because the vast majority of applications on the planet are not written in Erlang and work just fine. Working and fault tolerance are in no way related. Being generous the majority of applications with very high uptime
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Clearly humans are that dumb.
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Former US Army 19k here. Tanks are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, expensive to operate, hard to transport and require certain levels of infrastructure to operate in theater (bridges to support their weight). With current threats
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
Exactly, this bizarre blaming the victim for provoking more violence from the aggressor is pernicious and ill conceived imo. But they might go nuclear or attack the NATO/US! Maniacs will do what maniacs do, that genie is out of the bot
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by throwaway1492 4y ago
I’d like to note for anyone reading this that the Catholic Church (and Anglican I presume ) don’t teach all the dreadful creation science and king James literalism so many Protestant denominations do. You can have Jesus and your brain too.
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by throwaway1492 5y ago
> distortion-loaded shaming definitely isn't the way to accomplish that. I'd go further and say the poster you're responding to is non charitable and down right hateful, violating at least two community guidelines: > Be
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by throwaway1492 5y ago
I've done this as well, multiple swe jobs, I also did not find ways to automate. Just trying to get a little something done every day to report in the stand ups is what I did. Most teams are so low performing it was easy. Every so ofte
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by throwaway1492 5y ago
What does “operate” mean in this context? I’m generally curious why one should consider this comment to be anything other than low effort flame bait?

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