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by tsotha 16y ago
I missed the date initially and was thinking "Slackware? Whaaaa?"
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by tsotha 16y ago
That was the dotcom bubble for ya. Everybody was swinging for the bleachers and using VC money to pay the bills. It made some sense - you had something brand new and the first-mover advantage was a big advantage. So the important thing
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by tsotha 16y ago
I think you could do it pretty easily in NYC if you started riding limos around, buying designer clothing, and going to tony restaurants.
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by tsotha 16y ago
Admittedly, I'm a bit more conservative than most. But for me this amount would have to cover twenty years of potential problems.
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by tsotha 16y ago
Where I work we have a super fast SAN for our storage, with a giant cache, fiber everything, and separate channels for backups. The cost works out to something like $1k/GB. Beyond that we're perennially short on rack space, so there's a c
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by tsotha 16y ago
>Over time, the shape of your nest egg would resemble a bell curve, growing in the early years, and then declining as inflation required you to withdraw more money to maintain a lifestyle equivalent to $300,000 in 2010. The $12 million
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by tsotha 16y ago
I'm inclined to believe the petition is worth signing just because Leahy seems to have taken over for Fritz Hollings (D-Disney).
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by tsotha 16y ago
The x86 architecture will win out for the same reason it won out decades ago. Most of the world's software was compiled for x86. I have all sorts of software I've been running on my Windows laptop. When I go to buy a new laptop, it'll be
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by tsotha 16y ago
If I wanted to use other versions of Lisp, I would be using them. For my environment (lots of legacy java code) clojure is the right language, and I can't reasonably change to Haskell or Scheme (or whatever) because working from files is a
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by tsotha 16y ago
So... if the machine goes down, I need to rewrite my code? And how do I distribute it?
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by tsotha 16y ago
First of all, the repl is a killer. This is not something that is unique to clojure, but that doesnt make it less good. Beeing able to try out new api’s and fumble forward is great. Spell checker, man! I don't understand all the REPL love
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by tsotha 16y ago
Oh, of course it could work in the US. But it will never happen - national and state bar associations have far too much political clout.
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by tsotha 16y ago
This comment brings back memories. I was pretty serious for a decade or so, and I remember how long the losing streaks can be ("Oh my God. This is my first set in a week and you just cracked it with a one-outer on the river.") I had a gir
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by tsotha 16y ago
A reputation among the local hookers and drug dealers.
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by tsotha 16y ago
Or you could just pay the fee and pretend it's a tax.
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by tsotha 16y ago
>Why would I want something produced by a human when I can instead get something produced by a robot to within 0.001" tolerances? The problem here is you're thinking like a technical person. You don't buy a Rolex to keep time. You buy
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by tsotha 16y ago
The sales organization gets priority in Oracle. They're never going to start a project by asking "what would be cool?", but rather "what do our customers want?". Not the path to the most technically satisfying jobs, but companies like tha
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by tsotha 16y ago
The contracting money isn't what is was. When I started contracting in 2000 you could write your own ticket - obscene wages and all the hours you want. Now I'm an employee at the same company, and the contractors make less than I do if yo
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by tsotha 16y ago
I had the same problem at a mutual fund company, which is funny when you think about it. What is financial services company but a group of people that manages information?
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by tsotha 16y ago
Retraining for what? From what I can see retraining efforts are mostly a waste of money - you can apply for as many jobs as you want with a training certificate, but in this economy there are no jobs for people without actual experience.
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by tsotha 16y ago
At one time there was a stigma to changing jobs too often. Well, that's still true, but whereas people look at you funny for changing jobs every few months in 2010, in 1970 people who changed jobs every four or five years were regarded wit
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by tsotha 16y ago
I think it is perfectly okay for people to use obsolete software that does the job. You can always drop support for browser versions you don't want to support, but I think it's bad business and also a bit rude to try to dictate what soft