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by turk73 7y ago
My wife works at a library. The homeless are a problem that the city and the county refuse to address because the library is "open to all" but does bad behavior have to be acceptable? Public drunkenness, abuse of other patrons,
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by turk73 7y ago
Love the citations at the end of the blog article. Getting a PhD was a waste for me, but I loved it anyways. It's been a liability for my career and it cost me ~5 years of income. I am older than my managers, and just a misfit overal
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by turk73 7y ago
Before containers, I had sysadmins who ran our AIX cluster. Three nodes, not a single one configured like the other. There was zero consistency where it counted and these jokers would go on a terminal and manually configure Websphere and
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by turk73 7y ago
I mostly agree. My dad was in a union and it was terrible and sometimes even violent. However, if knowledge workers don't change something soon, we're looking at a low wage future. We already lack a seat at the table as managem
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by turk73 7y ago
But with these "better than average" types, what is the culture like other than constant, non-stop work? People died to get us a 40 hour work week and here we have all these brilliant folks putting us right back in chains. They t
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by turk73 7y ago
You misunderstand: The only hospital managers are former doctors. As in, they pretty prevent any non-doctor from managing them and that's what we need to do, too. We could use a cartel at this point, the job has gotten pretty lame a
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by turk73 7y ago
Going on about 17 years here. It's not looking great for the future in terms of staying a developer. It's getting harder to find reasonable jobs anymore. My current one and the last one are/were disappointments. I think the
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by turk73 7y ago
I'll take a Joy, I guess. Oh, wait, that was 2049. What really baked my brain is that I showed Back to the Future to my 9 year old son this week and realized that 2019 is already more than 30 years from 1985 and in the movie, Marty we
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by turk73 7y ago
Eastern Montana looks and feels like the surface of the moon, albeit with air to breathe. Hundreds of square miles of nothing.
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by turk73 7y ago
I don't subscribe to the "Noble Savage" mythology. I'm not of the mind that European culture is all that great but somehow the technological leaps happened and those who stayed low-tech got crushed. The cycle will repe
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by turk73 7y ago
As soon as you have kids you recognize a pattern: Every car seat, stroller, high chair, and crib gets recalled. Every single one. The companies want to eliminate the secondary market for these products and they are damn good at it using la
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by turk73 7y ago
One year in the black? I guess Trump actually got some good people in there, eh? Outside of the Eastern Seaboard, has anyone ever attempted to book a rail trip? It's insane. You have to really work at it and you are losing a ton of
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by turk73 7y ago
The skill floor is under the house: I have a 3-series BMW that was having odd engine hesitation but not throwing any codes. The dealership's mechanics could not fix it! They ended up throwing a ludicrous amount of parts at my car in
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by turk73 7y ago
I had this idea. I had a new car in 2014 and I had to park it outdoors for awhile while I was working on a different car in my garage. Anyhow, I didn't want hail damage so I put a car cover over the car, then piled a bunch of cardboa
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by turk73 7y ago
From my own experiences in NY, it was normally the first three numbers of the winning horses at a particular race at a particular track. It varied depending on whose numbers game you were talking about. I had an uncle who was involved wit
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by turk73 7y ago
Line breaks are the most difficult issue. I was writing notes about investing and about my career using Atom and realized how shitty it is to use for that. I'm anti-cloud for certain types of documents and I wanted it to be as portab
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by turk73 7y ago
Wow, I wish the Fortune 10 company I work for had this kind of insight! The "agile" process I work under is causing horrible outcomes. It's basically a sweat shop operation is what it really is. I'm a tech lead and am
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by turk73 7y ago
How timely. Currently am frustrated by indy consulting. I have watched several colleagues successfully launch into independent consulting. Honestly, it's a mixed bag. They speak very positively about it, but when I ask more direct
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by turk73 7y ago
I think you're missing a key ingredient--your network of colleagues. I don't think companies care that much about technical skills after a certain level. The way you get work is by having associates who know you and can get you
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by turk73 7y ago
IPO is the search for the final bag holders. It's been that way for years now.
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by turk73 7y ago
I don't think it is possible to back up that statement. In 1999, machine interoperability was not as critical as it is today. Last time I worked with OpenVMS was 2014 going into 2015. The system in question was an orders management s
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by turk73 7y ago
Nothing, really. The world moved on but a lot of fanbois didn't. I learned to code C on a VT420 and used VMS for quite a few years, many professionally. I never felt it was anything superb at all. As soon as I learned UNIX (and I&#
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by turk73 7y ago
What does "a lot of woo" even mean? Is that even English?
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by turk73 7y ago
Self-censorship is still censorship. If these companies crater to the least common denominator, then free speech in the West is also doomed. We can't allow that to happen. Putting profits ahead of everything else is a sure way to go
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by turk73 7y ago
So why isn't Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead yet, then? She's had it 2x. My father-in-law succumbed to it a mere six months after his diagnosis, albeit a late one because his doctors sucked.
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by turk73 7y ago
Orwell was a communist, though. It sort of confuses me what he meant by all that. Did he not understand that the kind of mistreatment of humanity was what he supported? I have read his memoirs and articles, I know he was a smart guy who
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by turk73 7y ago
It is sick that our society is making architectural decisions based on liability as described. A surveillance society is an ugly, anti-human place. We are not only headed there, we are there.
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by turk73 7y ago
I wanted to be an Optometrist but went into software engineering instead. I think Optometry is fertile ground for disruption by technology. Similar to pharmacists, the only thing keeping so many employed is a cartel.
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by turk73 7y ago
Slightly different pupillary distance I would bet.
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by turk73 7y ago
Paypal's original patented business plan was to do this, too.

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