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by devnull255 3y ago
Has Halo and Master Chief appeared on any of the other consoles in the contest? No? Then the war is far from over.
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by devnull255 3y ago
If I try giving this as an explanation for churn on any issue I'm investigating, they'll probably take longer paying me ...
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by devnull255 3y ago
Right? And King Crimson sold one of theirs to Tony Banks of Genesis. At least that's a claim here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron I loved its use on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
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by devnull255 3y ago
Maybe one reason a job becomes a bullshit job is because the objectives such a job is defined to achieve are themselves bullshit. And whoever has stated the objectives are critical to the mission of the enterprise is either bullshitting th
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by devnull255 3y ago
Why don't more people see this capability as an accelerator and/or amplifier? To borrow from the book "Smarter Than You Think" by Clive Thompson, it can turn us into "centaurs", fusing the minds of humans with
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by devnull255 4y ago
Wasn't it this kind of desperation that led to the apocalyptic conditions of "Snow Piercer" ?
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by devnull255 4y ago
The information technology industry is a disruptive force in this economy. The way it has disrupted the global economy has changed over time as newer generations of technological innovations (e.g., software, programming languages and develo
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by devnull255 4y ago
My first employer, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) had a repayment agreement which stipulated that any employee accepted into the Systems Engineering Development (SED) program would be required to fulfill three more years of employment follow
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by devnull255 4y ago
I created a password management utility using shelve and the rsa library for a company that is still using it after 15 years. Though today the company is transitioning to Hashicorp Vault, the utility will still serve as an interface to Vau
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by devnull255 4y ago
When I worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in the 90s, I was doing development on applications that both produced and ingested EDI documents based on a custom EDI standard General Motors imposed on both internal and external suppliers f
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by devnull255 4y ago
I really loved this episode. Especially when someone pointed out the fallacy of believing north = up and south = down, which is that way only because we live in a world where most map projections on a wall show north as up and south as down
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by devnull255 4y ago
The Mercator projection map was the map I was most exposed to in school and was on my bedroom wall at home when I was going to Elementary school. Later on when I went to college, I saw the Peters Projection map (and had that on the wall ab
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by devnull255 4y ago
Sounds to me like Viking is as Viking does. Raiding and pillaging still inflicts the same result on victims whether carried out under a monarch's banner or by independent agents. Maybe use of his word describing where the pillaging an
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by devnull255 4y ago
I was introduced to programming in *NIX environments by Informix 4GL, which after learning I could generate the intermediary C code files with an option provided by its 4glcc (or something like that) command, led me to C. I was fascinated
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by devnull255 4y ago
You can read about many of these historical methods of organization in Judith Flanders' A Place for Everything: The Curious history of Alphabetical Order - https://www.amazon.com/Place-Everything-Curious-History-Alph...
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by devnull255 4y ago
These are still good guidelines. I would propose some additional guidelines, that as a tool developer myself, will make the tool more accessible and useful. Provide custom format options, such as --format-json or format--<x> to produc
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by devnull255 5y ago
After exploring this for a while, scrolling through these comments with the up and down arrows was a bit disorienting for me. The illusion of of navigating more than 2 dimensions persisted a little while on this page for me.
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by devnull255 5y ago
Unless you consider the result of two tasks performed simultaneously a product of two tasks rather than the sum of two tasks.
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by devnull255 5y ago
I live in the Twin Cities, but moved there from Detroit over twenty years ago when a Minnesota-based company bought the company where I was a contract developer and offered me a permanent position if I relocated (which they completely expen
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by devnull255 5y ago
Moral Politics, by George Lakoff: this book offered a new perspective on not just the discussion and language of politics, but sent me down the rabbit hole of cognitive linguistics and "embedded mind" in books he authored or co-au
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by devnull255 5y ago
The _Autobiography of Malcom X_ was co-written by Alex Haley, the author of _Roots_. _Autobiography_ was required reading in a "Black Political Thought" course I took years ago. But it was inspirational for me too.
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by devnull255 5y ago
At our company, we actually built ETL-Framework-agnostic wrappers, monitoring, logging and scheduling tooling around the different ETL tools we used for four different ETL Product Frameworks we used: Microfocus COBOL, Torrent Orchestrate, D
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by devnull255 5y ago
That would be invoke tasks. https://docs.pyinvoke.org/en/stable/getting-started.html , which I first encountered in fabric: fabfile.org, which has the fab utility and fabfiles (analogous to Makefiles) but is so mu
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by devnull255 5y ago
Awk is advanced in the sense that it is a programming language by itself. Years ago I had to migrate an old version of an Informix database to a newer version. The old version did not have tools to export the database as DDL and DML statem
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by devnull255 5y ago
Generally, that mutable data is on externally mounted volumes or stores though and not in the container itself, right? Except for what is read into container memory and written out to temporary or work files.
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by devnull255 5y ago
"Scrumfall" sounds like a rejected James Bond movie script.
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by devnull255 5y ago
Is this post about being willing to look stupid or about not being afraid to ask questions? In my own experience, I was more afraid of asking questions because I was afraid it would expose me as not paying attention in class or not being p
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by devnull255 5y ago
Yes. I bought this on vinyl when it first came out. This was my first introduction to King Crimson. And surprisingly, when I bought Court of the Crimson King in college, I could hear the thread that connected their first album to the firs
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by devnull255 5y ago
One of the links to wind cowls in London suggests they finally found a peaceful use for the Daleks!
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by devnull255 5y ago
Incorporating the "learning x the hard way approach", which is about typing the code, rather than just copying and pasting the code, also aids with learning quickly and giving more lasting power to the lesson. The best part of th

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