bougiefever

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by bougiefever 6y ago
Or rural Wisconsin
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by bougiefever 6y ago
There's an old saying that whatever is worth doing is worth doing badly. So true. When I was in Germany, they have a saying that you start with "something to hate". Already knowing that what you're about to do is going t
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by bougiefever 6y ago
I think if you are compensated for it, and allowed to recuperate from middle-of-the-night working, it's ok. If the employee knew this was part of the job though, and not something that was thrust upon them after they were hired.
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by bougiefever 6y ago
I was a contractor at a company that announced that developers would have to work through the nights and on weekends at times, and they couldn't take any extra work days off. So, if you had to do an upgrade to production and it took al
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by bougiefever 6y ago
There was one period in my life at a 401k administration place where I was responsible for making sure the transaction data for all of the clients made it to AIG every night. For months, I had to do the transmission manually at 7pm each nig
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by bougiefever 6y ago
Yea, that is not very good for such a wealthy company. Other companies match up to the max allowable with no vesting period.
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by bougiefever 7y ago
For example, there are a number of songs that include a rendition of Tom's Diner within a larger melody. Also popular to add to a song is the Arabian riff melody (which is so old it's not copyrightable, but you get my point) I don
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by bougiefever 7y ago
It's no mistake that they select the most unsympathetic people to try to weaken the protections for us all.
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by bougiefever 7y ago
I've been developing software for over 20 years, and I still can't estimate how long something will take me when I've never done it before. This uncertainty needs to become more than just a stick to beat developers about the
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Tilburg University Twitter dashboard continuously measures political mood in EU(tilburguniversity.edu)
2 points by bougiefever 7y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 7y ago
I like the list of things you can do to combat procrastination. It's all good to understand what drives it, but even better to know tactics that work to help you overcome it.
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PayPal Policy Updates(paypal.com)
2 points by bougiefever 8y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 8y ago
My grandmother died from this, and it is a horrible death. I really fear becoming a victim to this disease. Anything that can help, even a little, is so encouraging.
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by bougiefever 8y ago
Every chance I get, I tell people not to use PayPal. They have done this repeatedly, and the people who are affected have absolutely no recourse unless they happen to own a popular newspaper. PayPal has been shamed into doing the right thin
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Azure Blob Storage GUID migration and name changes(azure.microsoft.com)
1 points by bougiefever 8y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 8y ago
I would like to know how they eliminated confounding. Was there an increase in other risky behaviors at the same time, like texting while driving? How many of the deaths caused by accidents involved Uber or Lyft drivers? Maybe it's cli
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by bougiefever 8y ago
Did people here read the whole thing? This is some good reading! "The whole state would be evacuated" if even one live spider, as opposed to an "ex-spider" were found. That is good stuff! This made my day.
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by bougiefever 8y ago
Everything in the 70s was strange. I received a lot of my mother's things when she moved, and it's all avocado and orange.
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by bougiefever 8y ago
I would have bought an electric car when I needed a new car, but there are not enough charging stations. I need to occasionally drive 400 mi, and it's just not feasible.
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by bougiefever 8y ago
Is this what you are talking about? https://www.dukascopy.com/fxcomm/fx-article-contest/?Automat...
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Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker [pdf](papers.nips.cc)
2 points by bougiefever 8y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 8y ago
This is truly an amazing read. I also enjoyed this book immensely. It is required reading for my teenage children.
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by bougiefever 8y ago
These are among my favorite books, and I've read thousands of books. It was written in the 90s or early 2000s, so the tech that was so futuristic now exists everywhere (IoT). You question believability? The tech is so not "just wa
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Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts(politico.com)
118 points by bougiefever 8y ago|50 comments
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Software beats animal tests at predicting toxicity of chemicals(nature.com)
2 points by bougiefever 8y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 9y ago
Personality tests are bogus. You can have completely different results on different days based on your mood, what you've read recently, etc. They should just go ahead and use psychics. It's probably just as good at predicting who
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Senators Ask FCC to Prevent Rise of 'Ringless Voicemail' Spam(dslreports.com)
21 points by bougiefever 9y ago|1 comments
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Schema-Agnostic Indexing with Azure DocumentDB (2015) [pdf](vldb.org)
8 points by bougiefever 9y ago|0 comments
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by bougiefever 9y ago
Right? A fall from a ladder is "potentially" as fatal as a fall from an airplane, amirite?
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by bougiefever 9y ago
The researcher was equating 20 puffs to one cigarette, but the article doesn't say how that figure got selected. For a pack-a-day smoker, that would be 400 puffs a day. In a 10 hour period, 40 puffs each hour. I don't smoke or use

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