ianstallings

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by ianstallings 7y ago
Are you seriously calling me a racist or are you joking? Edit: Sorry didn't see the greyed out comment above yours on my screen.
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by ianstallings 7y ago
I pick through boxes of potatoes/carrots, throwing out the bad ones and bagging up the good ones, then throwing those bag into another box. I do things like this for 2 hours on the weekend at a local charity called harvesters.org. At t
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Agreed. Being of the Libertarian mindset, I was at first completely okay with it under the argument of personal liberty and personal property. It's a private company and they can do what they want. But the closer I looked at it the mor
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by ianstallings 7y ago
It's a tough nut to crack. Think about fields like architecture and engineering, where the historical knowledge is well over three thousand years. Yet they still have failures, go over estimates, and generally suffer the same issues th
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by ianstallings 7y ago
We can still explore them. It's the contamination of them that is at question.
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by ianstallings 7y ago
It's not that we can't or won't. It's that we should study and debate it before we do anything to change the environment. Given how humans have run roughshod over so many environments, I think carefulness might be warran
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by ianstallings 7y ago
There is debate within the scientific community about changing other planets in general. Not everyone is convinced that we should alter or terraform to suit our needs. Some related links: https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov&#x2F
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Get your arguments in order and come back like an adult and make your point. That wall of text is all over the place.
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Do you think that government ownership would lead to more competence and benevolence? If so, just visit the inside of any government agency.
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by ianstallings 7y ago
We do it currently. Holland is a good example of fighting back the sea, but at great expense. And not every country will be able to do this type of engineering. The temp rises are another thing that we can adapt to. Maybe even some global
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Please explain how you put "reflectors in space" without putting them into orbit.
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Basically what it comes down to for me - I don't want to be distracted by my laptop and only bring it to meetings if I feel it's necessary: - Daily stand ups? My laptop is distracting and I use a paper notepad instead. - Long plan
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by ianstallings 7y ago
I was very skeptical of fasting for quite a while, but over winter I was on a contract with a guy that did intermittent fasting and his particular schedule had him eating after 3pm. The guy was like a machine. Just this sense of urgency in
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by ianstallings 7y ago
Agreed and I I think a lot of it comes down to financial factors. In other words, why are we paying someone so much to make design decisions and how can we be assured they are doing it correctly? Because of science .
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by ianstallings 7y ago
I've spent a lot of time in software and I am looking to exit so I can spend more time away from the desk, but I have to say - this is a great attitude to have!
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by ianstallings 7y ago
I've spent 24 years writing software professionally and I often think about my exit . I don't think I'll ever stop writing software, I truly love it. But the career itself is incredibly stressful. The money is compensation f
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by ianstallings 7y ago
This seems to be a problem in general across all social media. They create a platform people like, people join up because they enjoy the format, then they tweak it until it's no longer recognizable. Twitter is a great example of this.
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by ianstallings 8y ago
This has to be the most insane shit I've seen in quite a while.
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by ianstallings 8y ago
This dead argument seems to re-animate itself once a year or so. But my question is this: Why not learn both the IDE of your choice and how to use your terminal/vim? No need to arbitrarily limit your own knowledge and abilities. It jus
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by ianstallings 8y ago
I would counter that those things are not to limit supply, but to ensure quality of service. When you're holding someone's life in your hands the profession can suffer greatly from bad actors or just those with limited skillset. I
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by ianstallings 8y ago
One of the things I do to offset possible interruptions is to write things out or visualize them in some way. It helps me pick back up on the track I was interrupted from, but also has the added benefit of helping visualize the problem, whi
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by ianstallings 8y ago
This may shock you but we have cities out here. I live in one and walk to work. Not the suburbs. That being said, what is your overall point?
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by ianstallings 8y ago
Truth. I took a lower paying job in the midwest, and I can now save a lot more money, while also living a less stressful life. NYC is a really cool city and I enjoyed living there. But I "did my time". I think more and more tech w
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by ianstallings 8y ago
With new regulations like GDPR coming online FB's business model is basically kaput. They're going to need to rethink their whole stance if the world follows EU's lead. Given that Zuckerberg was called to testify in front of
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by ianstallings 8y ago
This is my general response to most criticisms of other's efforts: What is stopping you from doing something better? In other words, don't talk about it, be about it. Lead by example. The world has enough critics.
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by ianstallings 8y ago
GDPR interests US hackers too. I'm currently working on a SAAS that helps companies manage their data privacy, with GDPR being the main driver. I can't say much about our approach just yet as we're in stealth mode still, but
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by ianstallings 8y ago
Good content in your guide to your new tech leads, laying out expectations right up front and giving them guidance. Most companies don't have anything like that, in my experience.
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by ianstallings 8y ago
You said it yourself, by ignoring nonsense. I used to engage and I still do chime in once or twice a year. But overall I just ignore those posts and move on with my life. I've learned I can be close to people that have incredibly diffe
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by ianstallings 9y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. The last time I was actually in a Wal Mart I had an employee yell right at me when I asked to get by their carts in the way. I complained to their corporate, expecting at least a call back. I got nothin
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by ianstallings 9y ago
That part about due diligence is what gets me. How do you sink $700M into a company without going over it all with a fine-toothed comb? Where were the scientists and skeptics for the investors? They fell for the "here's a single c

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