mbrutsch

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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Ah, substantive comments, just what we were looking for.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Ooh, comments not visible when not logged in. Very 2009.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Only if one assumes these groups do not overlap. Anonymous is anonymous for good reasons.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Lie with dogs, you get fleas. I have zero sympathy for those who fall prey to closed ecosystem BS like this, including my own wife. People just don't listen.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Choking to death on your own vomit is what you consider a painless death? I hope you have a painless death. > A DNR is not an order to cease basic life-support post-resuscitation. And no one said it was; no one even hinted at it. > F
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
My mother had a DNR. She contracted meningitis, and died. She was resuscitated, suffered severe brain damage, and lived another 2 years as a semi-vegetable before dying in her sleep after choking on her own vomit. If I believed in such th
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
>You don't want to be working with someone who can't work with other people. That describes me pretty well, and those with whom I work love me. They just keep me in my little box, leave me alone and let me do my work. But the
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
You should know the routine by now. ;)
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
> I actually upvoted you, for the record. That's why I said "you and my downvoters", rather than "you and my other downvoters". I am apparently very bad at making simple points. > But you drew a distinction b
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
> naively doing everything your own personal way (including at the team/company level). You, and my downvoters, all assume (naively) that any in-house standard must somehow be different than "widely-adopted coding standards (t
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
> As someone else pointed out in this thread, a great advantage of established frameworks is that they provide a coding standard for a team. So it's useful for young, inexperienced developers. Do you kids really not have in-house c
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I've been trying to kill Cortana since I upgraded to Windows 10, she's not dead yet.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
That will Streisand on Dropbox very quickly.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Employment == life in our society. They strike when you try to take it away.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
There is a segment of the populace who feels that every "wrong" must be "punished", and they generally make life miserable for everyone else. Usually no one will speak up for fear of being punished along with the "
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I disagree. A different approach would be to say "Don't know what happened before, but moving forward Ted is accountable for A, Alice is accountable for B, etc". Knowing what happened before serves zero purpose except to sh
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Fixing begins at "someone screwed up". Blaming delves into who screwed up, which is usually not required to fix the problem (since there may actually be no one to blame).
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I take it from the article that this would solve one of my biggest internal issues: songs getting stuck in my head. It's gotten so bad in recent years that I don't listen to music at all , because it may stimulate a "earwig
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
> You should learn more about stress disorders Uh, why? Am I a counselor? > allow yourself to empathize with the plight of the moderators To what end? What possible constructive purpose is served by allowing myself to share (or wall
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Little different from any historical thought police - we know what's best for you, citizen, move along, nothing to see here.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I think they mean Anil Dash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Dash
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I'm early 50s, and I've "learned and discarded" several decades of skills: 8/16-bit assemblers, the entire DEC range of computers, MUMPS and the VA ecosystem, the Perl craze of the early 2000s; I'm in an Oracle
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
> Foos is clearly a serial sexual offender When the "victims" have to be informed, decades later, that they even are victims, it makes you wonder.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I work in this industry, connecting customers' data flows, and one of the biggest problems I have on a regular basis is trying to describe to a client how their ADT data is not matching their claims data (which matches on account numbe
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
When you have a "diagnosis" from a "scientific discipline" that cannot be rigorously tested or diagnosed, it seems obvious it would be open to abuse in this manner. If there were a blood test for crazy, it would be a lit
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
I miss VMS, with its 32767 backup versions of every file.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
When someone dies that they believe worthy, they do the black bar thing.
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by mbrutsch 10y ago
Yeah, this really affects old non-degreed codgers like myself. I find it difficult to get "a foot in the door", but luckily my performance always leads to comfortable retention once I do. As I get older though, that's going
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by mbrutsch 11y ago
Which makes it tough for publishers, but ultimately it's their responsibility to create a product that people do want to pay for. (The existence of reddits like /r/shutupandtakemymoney shows that this happens all the time.)
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by mbrutsch 11y ago
> there are the ones avoiding regular society, etc. Indeed, something as simple as smoking weed (regardless of the reason) will exclude you from most government assistance. Living indoors is not always a suitable trade-off for giving up

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