bproctor

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by bproctor 7mo ago
I've lived 40+ years in several places in the northern US, mostly in rural areas and this isn't my experience at all.
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by bproctor 1y ago
Having wasted 6 years of my life intensively working to create an algorithmic trading system (and failing to make it consistently profitable), what they have here is the easy part. You need a system for discovering strategies. That's w
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by bproctor 4y ago
I still regret missing Michael Scott's 05-05-05 party. It only happens once every billion years.
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by bproctor 5y ago
I don't know what I'm missing, but I've tried to use Time Machine many times over the past decade and every time it's the same thing. After a few weeks, it forgets what it's doing and has to rebuild the backup from
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by bproctor 5y ago
If you keep prying after "I'm fine... leave me alone" then you'll quickly become the reason for them going from "fine" to "not fine".
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by bproctor 5y ago
As a former TSA agent, it's most definitely theater. We used to practice by trying to hide something and see if we could get through. The xray operator didn't stand a chance even when they knew it was coming. This was over 10 y
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by bproctor 6y ago
Well sure, if you're writing a generic CSV parser, it's very complicated. But if you know what your input looks like, CSV can be one of the simplest format to parse.
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by bproctor 6y ago
I thought he explained why not in the second paragraph.
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by bproctor 6y ago
I think the analogy to energy is pretty good. Like the FizzBuzz thing, you can also build a machine that has a lot of energy but doesn't accomplish anything useful.
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by bproctor 6y ago
Agree, I love the idea and wanted to make this work for my home, but from personal experience I'd say most people would find this more trouble than it's worth. I wrote something very similar to this a couple years ago for our hous
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by bproctor 7y ago
I agree that having a routine is important. But I think what makes the routine is up to the individual, clothes may be important for some, but not for others.
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by bproctor 7y ago
There are a lot of porn friendly payment systems. The big issue is chargebacks and fraud.
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by bproctor 7y ago
Of course they do. This post says nothing to the contrary.
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by bproctor 7y ago
A happy idiot I guess. Since the miserable know-it-all is actually also an idiot, they just don't know it. So they're just a miserable idiot.
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by bproctor 7y ago
Took me a bit to understand, courier doesn't have the bill, the drop does. Boss: "Courier, deliver this money to <address>, code is 12345678" Courier: at <address>, "Hey Drop, what is the code?" Drop: &q
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by bproctor 7y ago
"Everyone"
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by bproctor 8y ago
I've been using both lately. VSCode for when I'm working on a project and the editor ends up staying open all day. I also often have to work with large files, so I use Sublime to pop them open and make a quick change.
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by bproctor 10y ago
...Thank God I'm married.
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by bproctor 10y ago
I like that attitude very much and I think it can be extended to everyone. As someone who's straddling the line between developer and manager I've sometime found that difficult but try to be as supportive as possible. The projec
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by bproctor 10y ago
It's been nearly a decade since I worked for the TSA, but back then the procedure was: 1) Put the bag through the CT scanner 2) If it beeps, open the bag and find the offending object and make sure it's not an explosive or whateve
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by bproctor 11y ago
It's never too late. I was a D student through most of high school, just barely graduated. I didn't care. Drank through three different colleges without getting a degree and spent most of my twenties bumming around. It wasn&#x
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by bproctor 11y ago
I really really want to love this editor, it's beautiful, but it burns me every time I use it and I end up going back to sublime text. Slow, buggy, hangs, 100% cpu usage, huge amounts of memory usage...
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by bproctor 11y ago
The language wars get exhausting. Several years ago Ruby was the coolest thing ever, now I guess people think it's just boring. Also, PHP got really unpopular and all you heard about was how it would kill your dog and sacrifice it to
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by bproctor 11y ago
Good point. I don't understand it very well, and haven't really spent a lot of time trying. When I need to get something going, I have the option of doing IPv4 only and being confident I've done it well. Or, also include a
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by bproctor 11y ago
I agree with you that the TSA is a joke, but as someone who worked as a TSA agent before, I never stole anything, nor to the best of my knowledge did anyone I worked with steal anything. Stealing, in fact, would be kind of difficult, even
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by bproctor 11y ago
fixed link: http://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-become-a-better-programm...
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by bproctor 11y ago
Wow, that's awesome! My wife and I just recently did the same thing. We are 3 months in and really loving it. Currently in Carson City, NV.
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by bproctor 12y ago
I probably have an unpopular opinion on this, but I feel that people who wish to commit suicide should not be prevented from doing so. By all means, if someone wants to get help or needs counseling they should be able to get it. But if in
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by bproctor 12y ago
It's kind of sad that this project has become so dead that an update to a dev build is news worthy.
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by bproctor 12y ago
Some of the best developers I've hired don't have a degree. When looking at resumes, I don't really care about their academics.

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