chrisbennet

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   by chrisbennet 4y ago

   Oops! I meant 15 years.
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   by chrisbennet 4y ago

   I retired a several years ago (2018). I'm 60 (2022) now. I was getting $150/hour. I charged by the hour. I live in Nashua, NH. I think location really effects what you can charge. Over the 4+ years I worked as contractor, among th
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   I love these pens (TUL). I was also surprised that they weren’t mentioned.
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   I have played with Python on my tablet (Pythonista). Does that make me an “em-bedded” programmer?
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   As the “man of the household”, my jobs include repairing the mailbox and putting spiders outside. When the wife tells me there is a spider in the shower I reply: "Oh, you mean Steve?" Spiders eat the mosquitos so that's plus.
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   What Is the Mass Effect Gravity Assist(owlcation.com)

   1 points by chrisbennet 5y ago|0 comments
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   I'm a lazy software developer. I can't take a book and make myself learn ("push"). Instead, I find a project I'm interested in and let it "pull" me in. Sort of the difference between studying a French book
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   Not sure what's going with your account but I upvoted you.
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   by chrisbennet 5y ago

   I use Waze (on the iPhone) and it doesn't have that problem.
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    Auto play!
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    I use Visual Studio to trace through code I’ve written recently to see if it’s doing what I meant it to. It’s like proof reading. (Professional coder since 1987.)
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    I can't believe Apple blew her off like that.
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    I believe he/she is being sarcastic.
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    I love foxes too. Here are a couple of books on them I liked: "The Sprite: The Story of a Red Fox" https://www.amazon.com/Sprite-Story-Red-Fox/dp/B001JL4JWY "Red fox: The Catlike Canine" https
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will. As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble. (I upvoted you.)
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    184cm = 6ft
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    I didn't see it mentioned, but the whale shark is even larger. One whale shark was found to be 62 feet long. (Yes, I know: "one of the world's largest") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    When we kill all the predators, deer will eat everything and then starve. You can hunt them or reintroduce their predators.
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    My IDE is VS2017. I'd like a couple of things: 1. It would be nice to right click on a file in the solution explorer and have the menu include "Open File Location". 2. When working with C++, it would be nice is it helped with
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    by chrisbennet 5y ago

    For other spam, I forward it to "abuse@comcast.net".
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    Very sad.
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    Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the Nürburgring, Has Died at 51(jalopnik.com)

    222 points by chrisbennet 6y ago|32 comments
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    It's the original "ad supported" business.
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    As opposed to insurance companies determining who would die?
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    "The good news is this means the recruiter is incentivized to help you negotiate higher pay" Not really. Like realters, "Real estate agents do not generally represent the buyer," says Florida real-estate attorney Barry
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-an-osteopath#train... "After graduating from medical school, DOs take a rigorous national licensure exam, which contains the same material as the exam to become an MD. Bot
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    Only people who don't wear tin foil hats would be employed I guess.
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    ".., and I have to wonder if “location-based pay” works in both directions. I live in suburban London, ten-ish Tube stops from the belly of the beast. If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents a
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    The Best Investment advice you’ll never get (2014)(ritholtz.com)

    1 points by chrisbennet 6y ago|0 comments
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    by chrisbennet 6y ago

    Put you retirement funds in something like Vanguard. Vanguard is customer owned but any low load broad based index fund will work. https://ritholtz.com/2014/02/the-best-investment-advice-youl...