jmccree

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by jmccree 11y ago
Close in CAS means close in proximity to friendly troops. Before smart munitions this required the aircraft to also be in close proximity to hit the enemy force without hitting friendlies. Now an orbiting bomber or drone can deliver a targe
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by jmccree 11y ago
It seems like you are invoking the No true Scotsman fallacy. There's a lot of companies that do "Agile" and "Scrum" that are exactly like he describes. When Feature X has to be done this sprint because it's alr
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by jmccree 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Release_history It was PHP 1.0, then PHP/FI 2.0, then became the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor at PHP 3.0 I believe.
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by jmccree 11y ago
As at least one study and plenty of anecdata has shown, music helps a lot of people with their work performance. The ROI on that $10/mo should be pretty good for your average developer. Spotify radio and playlists make easy to discover
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by jmccree 11y ago
ThinkPads are incredibly easy and quick to repair, most repairs could be done quicker than you could drive/transit to the nearest hardware repair shop. There are access panels for hard drive, memory, etc labeled with icons next to the
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by jmccree 11y ago
Except the macbook pro ergonomics are horrible. After an hour or two of use my wrists looked like I had been trying to cut my wrists with a plastic knife all day. Apple rounds every single corner/edge on the laptop except the one you&#
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by jmccree 11y ago
As I've gotten older and have less free time and there's so much more content out there, one practice I've come to accept is reading the wikipedia page and plot synopsis for a book/movie before starting watching somethin
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by jmccree 11y ago
There's something awesome about the way you really get "into the universe" when you spend hours reading a book or binge watching a tv show. All of the events and characters are fresh in your brain and you see the connections
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by jmccree 11y ago
Do you have any stats to backup your feelings? I feel safe riding MARTA at all hours. (I live a block from Five Points and do not own a car.)
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by jmccree 11y ago
I can't imagine an all remote team that relies on email. I've worked remote my entire career and chat is the lifeblood of a remote company. In essence, the chat server becomes the virtual office. When people sign on in the morning
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by jmccree 11y ago
Believe it or not, I've found sitting at the bar at restaurants/pubs to be on of the best places to work when you're feeling that need for socialization. You don't have to consume any alcohol, just go for lunch, and a lo
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by jmccree 11y ago
The first option could be legitimately said by someone who doesn't want to talk or be subpoenaed. It's the difference in occupy style protesters saying "They'll have to come arrest us." and "Please come arrest
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by jmccree 11y ago
Of course you should never ask to be subpoenaed. You inform the Plaintiff that "I would never would willingly testify about all the illegal things I saw at former employer, you'd have to subpoena me to get me to talk!". You
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by jmccree 11y ago
There's a pretty interesting article about the efforts in GA to manage the deer population: https://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2518 . Hunting is still pretty popular in the southeast, so there's a constant balance
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by jmccree 11y ago
Fiji lucks out by being a midway point on many of the fiber cables from Australia to Hawaii.
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by jmccree 11y ago
Chick-fil-a is known for this. One of my family members called the store to let them know they left out one sandwich on their order. The store manger drove immediately to them with 2 free sandwiches and some coupons. That's just insane
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by jmccree 11y ago
My response would be: Let me take a selfie.
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by jmccree 11y ago
Pick an open source project that interests you, preferably one you personally use, and become active in their community. The issue/bug tracker of almost any open source project has a list of feature requests and bugs to work on. You ge
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by jmccree 11y ago
Just as few as 5 years ago 50-100x over-subscription rates were common for ISPs. For example 100 homes with 10mb connections would be fed by 10-20mbps. The reality was much closer to 48 port 100mbps switches having 100mb uplinks. Netflix (a
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by jmccree 11y ago
Verizon (and ATT, and CenturyLink) are Tier 1 transit networks for peering operations. If Level3s peering traffic ratio are off balanced by netflix's traffic, I see no reason why Verizon shouldn't do the exact thing Level3 did to
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by jmccree 11y ago
Verizon acquired the Tier 1 transit network of UUNet/Worldcom. It has a huge transit/datacenter business. ATT(SBC+BellSouth) has Tier 1 transit network of the old ATT long distance. Centurylink has the old Qwest Tier 1 network.
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by jmccree 11y ago
For an example of this, in GA last year a bill was passed that allowed people with weapons carry licenses (who have to be fingerprinted, background checked, etc.) to carry weapons into unsecured government buildings. Immediately local gover
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by jmccree 12y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm struggling to come up with a reason why you would want a note above $100?
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by jmccree 12y ago
Perhaps off topic, but this post just reminds me so much of why I love AWS EC2, etc. Not ever having to think about hardware again is wonderful.
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by jmccree 12y ago
North Carolina has company police[1] that are required to go through the same state police academy training as all other officers. This seems to be one of the fairest models amongst the states for private police. I first found out about thi
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by jmccree 12y ago
I was initially skeptical of Keybase, but I was happy to see the comments on HN of letting people use keybase without installing the CLI client were listened to. Seeing how many of my friends are on keybase now, that never had gpg setup bef
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by jmccree 12y ago
I searched that study and found no references to chat rooms. It's my theory that private offices and enthusiastic chat room use has the advantages of both. I suspect there may be a generation gap in familiarness of asynchronous instant
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by jmccree 12y ago
Every time this comes up, I just don't get it. Pop the question into your team chat, work on something else for a bit, and come back to that issue after you've got your answer.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I went from OSX to Ubuntu a few years back and it's been the most overall enjoyable and productive desktop/laptop OS experience I've had.
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by jmccree 12y ago
From a quick google image search, it appears that at least some EU checks also follow the format of putting the currency symbol before the numerical amount. It makes sense on the face of things that $200.00 is harder to alter than 200.00$ .

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