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by SystemOut 4y ago
This is what my first PC was my freshman year of college back in 1990. Felt damn good I got the 65MB hard drive instead of the typical 40MB that most machines had back then.
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by SystemOut 5y ago
Thank you! I thought the word Alloc was in there but couldn't remember the right combination of Alias/Alloc/etc.
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by SystemOut 5y ago
This reminded me of the old days working in Windows 3.1 and my first professional project was to write a SOCKS client that could be loaded up and intercept all calls to Winsock's connect() function. It needed to do this without modify
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by SystemOut 5y ago
At 30 days they gain rights as a tenant. There was a case years ago of someone with an AirBnB I believe where they stayed longer than 30 days and then refused to leave claiming they had established the place as their residence.
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by SystemOut 6y ago
I hated this part of being on-call for government customers. I had to go through some crazy adjudication process all for the privilege of having to change my passwords every 60 days. And even though I used a password manager for them I co
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by SystemOut 6y ago
You're looking at it from the wrong angle. It's not that an engineer says no but rather, other projects that are growing and have more resources/weight behind them come calling and looking for engineers that want to transfer
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by SystemOut 6y ago
This. Spent almost 3 years at Google and my view is that it is an intended side benefit of how they do development. If something that relies on say, one of their log services, and that log service is getting end-of-lifed then all the depend
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by SystemOut 6y ago
They have a real problem finding developers that will want to work on it. You don't get promoted at Google for maintaining a product that isn't growing.
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by SystemOut 6y ago
Was at a very fast growing tech company until a couple of months ago on one of the core teams and while we did put engineering managers through coding and design interviews, they were not held to the same standard as a staff or sr staff lev
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by SystemOut 6y ago
But they haven't said where the jobs are being eliminated and not all are coming out of the Bay ARea. The article mentions they are closing a center in Taipei. They also have a pretty distributed workforce with only part of it being i
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by SystemOut 6y ago
Same thing with Yahoo for me. My last name is too short for gmail, though. My last name also happens to be shared with the name of a large multi-national manufacturer. For some bizarre reason I get semi-regular emails looking for support
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by SystemOut 6y ago
I have something similar. So imagine you have johnsmith.com as a domain name. And then someone with the same name gets johnasmith.com (there's an a in there for a middle initial). And they use john@johnasmith.com but they and probab
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by SystemOut 6y ago
We might work at the same company! I lead one of our teams and that's pretty much the explicit directions my VP gave us. Actually, the entire leadership team gave those directions. It's made me glad I switched jobs 18 months ago.
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by SystemOut 6y ago
As someone who has been in a team lead role and hiring for many years I can't imagine a more toxic viewpoint to team building.
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by SystemOut 7y ago
Supposedly this company was profitable in March. From https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/here-are-the-85-startups-t... "Unicorn rents scooters by the week or month and is already profitable" So what
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by SystemOut 7y ago
Landfills do collect and burn methane. Those pipe like structures you see sticking out of a completed landfill are part of the process. https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/solutions/technol...
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by SystemOut 7y ago
For those of us that are bald and have to put on sunscreen pretty much all the time....this could potentially help prevent some cancer.
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by SystemOut 7y ago
Can't recommend this option enough. I got a Steelcase Leap V2 from a used office furniture dealer for $200 or so after negotiating a bit. For another $50 or $75 they would have replaced the fabric as well but it didn't need it a
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by SystemOut 7y ago
So I'm not at a fortune 500 (fortune 1000 yeah) but we are expanding into a new city and waiting until our office population is enough to move into a full time space. I can not wait for that since we've completely outgrown their l
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by SystemOut 7y ago
That's probably utilities, cell phone, tv, after school/nanny/sports/etc for kids activities, Starbucks, food, etc. Not that it isn't a lot but I don't see any other line items for all the stuff and it can add
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by SystemOut 8y ago
The incentive system at Google for promotion (which is where the dollars get much bigger) rewards launches, not maintenance work. You'll see hundreds of people on new products that are launching and hardly any full time engineers, exc
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by SystemOut 8y ago
I've been doing this for the last few months and it really helps. In my case it's a set of OneNote grouped tabs for each story/project/etc that I'm working on. I have tabs for re-creating, background, ways to setu
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by SystemOut 8y ago
I don't understand why Americans love their cars so much. I grew up in Oklahoma and you pretty much have to have a car. Huge amount of land, not many people. Virtually no public transportation. I moved to the Bay Area back in 2000 an
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by SystemOut 8y ago
Our elementary schools have specifically dialed it back to at most 30-40 minutes of homework and that includes the 20 minutes of reading they want them to do. I say this without it being critical of you but you really need to get your daugh
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by SystemOut 8y ago
Normally I wouldn't expect consider Chicago a "smaller market" but for software it is. Moved from SF to Chicago about 18 months ago after working in the Bay Area for 17 years. I can't speak for other cities but Chicago
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by SystemOut 8y ago
You see it mostly with smaller homes in areas that are desirable. The smaller homes, usually built 50-60 years, tend to have low ceilings, small kitchens, no master bedroom, etc. Some have structural issues due to neglect but most are fine
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by SystemOut 8y ago
There are other search engines and one can easily just type bing.com into their browser and set it as the default. Even on Chrome. I'm not sure why you remember MS the way you do. There was a much much larger barrier for consumers to
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by SystemOut 8y ago
Uptake has real (paying) customers specifically for their ML based solutions.
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by SystemOut 8y ago
Here it's the opposite. Elementary starts earlier than middle school. I actually prefer this because our middle school age kid is fine to get out to the bus on her own. The elementary school twins not as much. I can leave for my tr
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by SystemOut 8y ago
1) Fox News 2) No one has to ask John Oliver to publish more anti-Trump topics

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