burlesonK

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by burlesonK 6y ago
I disagree, incompetance is rampant. I worked for a healthcare company who kept it's data at a Dell security center. One of their people ran a SQL script that deleted millions of billing records. They informed us later that they could
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by burlesonK 6y ago
Yep, I have the 13". Oh how I miss Snow Leopard...
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by burlesonK 6y ago
It is when you break windows or otherwise damage property to enable the theft.
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by burlesonK 6y ago
Overturning an election is not effectively overthrowing the government, and it's certainly not sedition. I also think most people who entered the Capitol building did so because they were just following the people in front of them; not
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by burlesonK 6y ago
I'm starting to believe down-voting has gotten more useless and should be removed. Perhaps up-voting is sufficient, but maybe not.
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by burlesonK 6y ago
I agree. The article came across as a programmer griping about Excel and VBA, while praising his/her favorite tooling as the answer to some programmer-centric greivances.
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by burlesonK 6y ago
I don't think what he described is captured at all by the third "tribe." He clearly does it for money and there should be a fourth "tribe" for that category. I agree with you that "tribe" is a poor choic
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by burlesonK 6y ago
After reading this, it appears to specifically target people that provide a streaming service for copyrighted material protected under title 17 for the purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, without permission of the co
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by burlesonK 6y ago
Semicolons aren't noise; you've read the statement before you even get to them so how can they be noise? Noise would be type info added to languages that didn't have it before, such as TypeScript. Generics can get pretty gn
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by burlesonK 6y ago
I've never seen people produce crap code because they don't care; it's always a lack of education, a last minute fix, or it's just declared crap code because it doesn't meet the reader's threshold for maintaina
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by burlesonK 6y ago
Yeah, I hear you. I'm 49 and it took 2 years before I landed another dev job. I gave up looking after a year and trained for an HVAC career only to find out I was too old to start in that field; I suppose my previous salaries scared em