oldprogrammer2

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Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor killing, found dead(apnews.com)
1 points by oldprogrammer2 9mo ago|0 comments
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
Iran is on the tariffs list because of Trump's maximum pressure policy (an official National Security Memorandum) against Iran. This is coupled with Trump's willingness to get Russia to cooperate in the ceasefire. I'm not cla
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
In my opinion, this was decades in the making. Most Americans are sick of the two party system that can't seem to get anything done, as well as with a political system owned by the elite. As odd and bizarre as it is, Trump was able t
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
The US has trade sanctions with those countries.
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
Systems don’t remain constant, though, and every system gets “gamed” once the incentives are well understood. I’m 100% for investment in scientific research, but I’m skeptical that the current system is efficient at allocating the funds.
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
People are reflexive. In a different context, driven by someone else, many of the people currently defending Harvard would instead be pointing out that Harvard and the other elite institutions are part of "the problem". In gener
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by oldprogrammer2 1y ago
Yeah, his reasoning is suspect to a lot of folks, but I’m not sure why everyone is so comfortable with the consolidation of wealth at these elite institutions.
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Trump authorizes military to take control of federal land on US southern border(cnn.com)
14 points by oldprogrammer2 1y ago|0 comments
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US Supreme Court tells Trump to return Salvadoran man deported in error(reuters.com)
23 points by oldprogrammer2 1y ago|2 comments
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Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte(reuters.com)
514 points by oldprogrammer2 1y ago|639 comments
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
I've led startups running Rails and Python/Flask, but I do all my side projects in dotnet. And I haven't had a Windows machine in years, fwiw. Deployment and Cost: For solo projects, I do 1-click deploys to a load-balanced A
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
This looks great. There have certainly been times in my life where all I had was my phone, and I needed to check on a few things. I could see having an app like this handy "just in case" (assuming secure connectivity, of course)
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
But it’s not the same as K-12. I can’t send my kids to an expensive private boarding school and expect taxes to pay for it.
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
The amount of complexity people are introducing into their infrastructure is insane. At the end of the day, we're still just building the same CRUD web apps we were building 20 years ago. We have 50x the computation power, much faste
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
Even worse, this feels like the goal was actually about reclaiming their resumes, not the stack. I expect these two guys to jump ship within a year, leaving the rest of the team trying to take care of an entire ecosystem they didn't b
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
Because you just inadvertently labeled yourself as a potential flight risk. Bad managers don’t know how to handle that, and will assume you’re going to leave if you don’t get what you want. The “firing” probably won’t be immediate, but ba
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
They have raised at least $6.5 Billion.
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
Determining need in the context of disability isn't the same argument, though. That's a cost specific to the individual. I'm all for public/state schools providing even more assistance to those in need, but I couldn&#x2
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
If one student chooses to get their degree from a state school at a cost of $10k/year, and another student chooses to go to a private school at $50k/year, why should taxpayers reward the second student, for making a poor financial
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
Stripe, Block, and PayPal each solved a massive pain point. PayPal provided a way to pay people and vendors without giving away your credit card number. Square made it easy to accept payment in person on a phone, without an extensive upfron
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
As someone who lives in Texas, the push alerts for dangerous weather has been very helpful. Not just tornadoes, but violent storms with damaging winds or hail also happen 10-20 times per year. As previously said, these storms are very loc
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
The homepage could benefit from more tangible examples, because right now I can't discern where it fits into my current stack. For most companies, it would be replacing something in a specific context. Like a side-by-side example. Do
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by oldprogrammer2 2y ago
Innovation doesn't always mean new products, sometimes it means making the current ones better. In the case of laptops, tablets, phones, and smart watches: thinner, lighter, more power, and longer battery life are the innovations most
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by oldprogrammer2 3y ago
It is 37 GB (I downloaded it yesterday).
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by oldprogrammer2 3y ago
My experience aligns with your intuition. I would go further, though, and suggest that the rise of SPA itself has exacerbated this problem (Rest or GraphQL). Unless a company has detailed security reviews, it’s very easy for client side d
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by oldprogrammer2 4y ago
Years ago I ran a custom script to add/commit/push on a folder once a day. So, nightly/automatically like a system backup, but in git.
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by oldprogrammer2 4y ago
But wasn't he working at a patent office? I was under the impression that working on a PhD at that time and place would not have been considered "in academia", in that he was not teaching or assisting.
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by oldprogrammer2 4y ago
It may fix this particular problem, on one side of the transaction, but it creates new ones. What if I, as a purchaser, want to dispute my purchase? What if I was ripped off? What if the product was broken, not as advertised, etc. I like
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by oldprogrammer2 4y ago
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