ataturk

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by ataturk 7y ago
Not sure why the downvote when it is abundantly clear that in every corner of the USA there is this general trend towards decay with very little offsetting it. All our infrastructure is falling apart. I blame the pension crisis. All avai
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by ataturk 7y ago
Am tired, just dead bones tired of all of it. It's all just this or that money making scheme with guys like me caught in the middle. I despised Waterfall, fell into scrum and in the past ten or so years kinda sorta saw one project wh
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by ataturk 7y ago
I wouldn't say "let things go" but let's face facts: The US has bases all over the world. We occupy dozens of countries for nebulous reasons. If global security is that fragile, when is it ever going to not be? My sec
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by ataturk 7y ago
Watch Louis Rossman on YT, he pokes his finger in Apple's eye constantly. What's most unfortunate is that millions of professionals want and need solid computers to do their work on. This is why we went to Apple from the horrible
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by ataturk 7y ago
TV was very mysterious back then. I would not see most of the episodes in a series as I had no way to record anything nor any idea when they were on besides having a TV Guide (which we never bought) or the local newspaper tv listings which
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by ataturk 8y ago
My observations are as follows: 1) Vice.com, so it is automatically edgy, scant on actual facts and details, and often just completely wrong. 2) SV has a lot of people who work too damn much. 3) Not everyone in SV has "money" as i
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by ataturk 8y ago
It doesn't matter. It didn't matter for all the people in East Germany the communists took away and tortured and often murdered. It certainly didn't matter in the Soviet Union, either. Your silence and self-censorship won&
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by ataturk 8y ago
Which billionaires came from "dirty poverty?" List them, please. Extra credit: I'm a lowly millionaire, how do I get a seat on a Board of Directors? I have a PhD, 20+ years in the technology field. Am more than qualified f
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by ataturk 8y ago
I work in Big Data at a Fortune 10 company. We don't even do what you suggest. There is very little appetite for niche languages that are difficult to just hire for. For example, we have a ton of Scala code due to a misguided belief
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by ataturk 8y ago
I'm glad you're still earning income from it. It was my favorite of the JVM alt-languages, but it just seemed to have died around 2015 with all the others. I say "died" but I know that people still write in Scala and Gr
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by ataturk 8y ago
Seems like everyone "knows a guy" that does that but when I attempted the same thing it failed miserably. I took a paltry three months off and then every recruiter and hiring manager was immediately suspicious of me when I starte
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by ataturk 8y ago
There was a fair bit of teetotaling going on in the late 1800s, but I think they probably just got sick and tired of high assholes running all over, dangerously operating heavy machinery, crashing their carts, and falling off their horses.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Not just Mexico, but also countries in Africa with very sophisticated production facilities. But I have to go begging for working cold medicine.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Sure, except the bill rate for my services hasn't changed since like 1998. It sucks, dude. Reading through the comments, people already said it all, but I came back to vent. After 20 years in this shitty business I can vent if I want
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by ataturk 8y ago
What you describe is exactly the problem I have with index funds. I manage a decent amount of money through Vanguard. The index funds in my portfolio fell less and recovered sooner, but at the cost of raw gains. The managed funds I have
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by ataturk 8y ago
That whole thing was so stupid, though. A tempest in a teapot. US emissions regs are ridiculous and gaming them was the last possible outcome. The US brought this on itself as we always do, but it was more enterprising to blame the peopl
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by ataturk 8y ago
Not sure why downvoted. While I object to "everything I don't like is racist" bullshit, this one is actually true--unions are not only xenophibic, by misogynistic. The union my Dad was a member of bragged about how it ran w
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by ataturk 8y ago
The state of Illinois, the state of California, probably most other states, too, all in the same bad situation. If you look at the budgets for school districts, same thing--a lot of $$$ going to pension obligations, starving the rest of th
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by ataturk 8y ago
Well I'm glad somebody does! Regular people are losing big time here--facial recognition tech has a huge false positive rate, and probably a ridiculous false negative, rate, too. It's junk, but they keep pushing and pushing for
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by ataturk 8y ago
People have choices. You don't have to be a beat down slave all your life. You can revolt. It's just that the will to revolt hasn't risen in recent times. But it would be interesting to see it happen again because I simpl
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by ataturk 8y ago
Just because WaPo and NYT are more verbose doesn't mean what they are feeding you isn't lies you know. Which of Trump's tweets do you take issue with? That the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt (it is)? That FBI agents
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by ataturk 8y ago
Exactly--I don't care if people downvote me because I understand a lot of my opinions are unpopular. But I think as a marketplace of ideas, the Internet exists to help open minds and tear down foregone conclusions. I like to think I
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by ataturk 8y ago
I spent my 20s getting a PhD. I don't think I've ever gotten the most out of my degree professionally, but as a way to spend one ones 20s, it wasn't too bad. I never had more than about $10K to my name until sometime in my
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by ataturk 8y ago
"Elbow grease" isn't going to fix major structural or infrastructural issues. I'm sure you were being funny, but most of those structures are tear downs.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Yes, but it is upgradeable again, so Apple listened a little to us raising a stink about it.
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by ataturk 8y ago
I'm teaching it to my kids already: Lesson #1: Everything you see, hear, or read is someone else's agenda.
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by ataturk 8y ago
I don't buy it. Facial recognition has had as many failures as successes, probably more because we only hear about the times it works, not all the times it fails. It seems like it is something ridiculously easy to fool. I know you a
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by ataturk 8y ago
We are living in another "Gilded Age" whether we realize it or not. And when populations hit a tipping point, the elite will start a big war to thin out a few hundred million people or maybe 3-4 billion this time. It is the same a
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by ataturk 8y ago
Does no one else find it deeply distressing that all our tech has been so completely co-opted by outside agents? How can we live this lie that we are free while every day we see how we are controlled and watched?
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by ataturk 8y ago
This whole bull market was built not on growth but on stock buybacks by the companies themselves, using free money printed by the Fed. There has not been any real growth. I hate to sound gloomy, but the more I look around, the more I see t

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