rcurry

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by rcurry 1y ago
It’s funny, I don’t know anything about the industry but back in around 1999 I was working for a trading firm and we used to love hiring talent out of one of the big game companies - they’d be like “You mean I get paid the same money and I
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by rcurry 1y ago
I worked for a very successful “dot com” back in the day. EverQuest was like the crack pipe for the tech crowd, people actually got divorced over addictions to it.
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by rcurry 1y ago
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck with Hacker News.
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by rcurry 2y ago
For the win.
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by rcurry 2y ago
It was on the thirtieth interview when things went south. While excitedly explaining how they’d just scaled a business to eight million users the candidate casually picked up a shrimp fork and dug into the house salad with it!! It was right
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by rcurry 2y ago
Yikes! If any of my previous CEOs caught me spending “months” making a hiring decision I’d be toast.
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by rcurry 2y ago
That’s great to hear, and thanks for the link to the map.
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by rcurry 2y ago
For me, ham was about off grid communications. Back in the day I used to do a lot of backpacking and this was before cell phones. New Mexico had this incredible repeater network that was linked into Kirkland AFB, so you could be just about
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by rcurry 2y ago
Wat? CS is crawling with cheaters. Totally sucks. I can’t wait for the day when we have enough bandwidth that the entire game can be rendered on the server side and you just get a video feed. That would end most of this crap.
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by rcurry 2y ago
This. I used to jump at a DZ in the Midwest that has been in operation for like thirty years and had, I think, only one fatality. But we had great safety people in charge and were really careful with students. My first jump there was a stat
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by rcurry 2y ago
The thing that makes tandem jumps potentially more dangerous is that the gear is completely different from a regular sport rig - so it’s important to ask how many tandem jumps your tandem master has. He/she might have 10k jumps, but ma
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by rcurry 3y ago
Ah, okay - thanks for the additional detail. Makes a little more sense now.
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by rcurry 3y ago
You sound like one of those guys who can’t figure out why he gets speeding tickets when everyone else gets a warning.
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by rcurry 3y ago
Not trying to be a jerk, believe me, but try it some time. Deer have this mysterious ability to f*cking vanish during hunting season. In one town I lived in 3M had a plant with a little pond that was fenced off. During deer season all the d
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by rcurry 3y ago
Uh, okay. I guess it’s because he was enlisted to try and recover a dead or wounded animal and was not out shooting them that I find this ridiculous. He wasn’t a hunter, and wasn’t hunting - he was asked to help find a downed or injured ani
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by rcurry 3y ago
Me too. I’ve lived in a small town and know how that works. I accidentally shot a deer one time when I was out hunting coyotes but the warden knew me and so I got “taking game out of season” instead of “poaching” - I actually didn’t know th
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by rcurry 3y ago
I guess, and give me some rope here because I’m not a deer hunter, it’s that trophy bucks make more trophy bucks.. if you make it easy to cull them then you lose the next generation. Deer are pretty smart, but they are crepuscular which mea
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by rcurry 3y ago
I’m a predator hunter and do most of my hunting at night. The reason they don’t want you using lights is that deer are mostly crepuscular creatures and so jacklighting them gives you a huge advantage. I see trophy bucks at night every time
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by rcurry 3y ago
I have to agree with you. This whole thing is bananas - it’s not like you have some good ol’ boys jacklighting deer and shooting them. It just sounds like some guy who was excited to have a little drone business and was happy to help some f
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by rcurry 3y ago
Salad fingers was good, but nothing tops the Spoilsbury Toast Boy.
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by rcurry 3y ago
Samson makes great mics. I’ve had a CO1U for years and it sounds terrific.
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by rcurry 3y ago
I’m starting to understand just how broken the hiring process in tech has become.
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by rcurry 3y ago
Reminds me of the whole “Artist formerly known as Prince” thing, Twitter was a brand and renaming it to X is just stupid. Oh well.
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by rcurry 3y ago
Good old RS-232 - my first programming job was working for a company called Digiboard that made RS-232 concentrators for companies that were running hundreds of terminals over that protocol. You’d be astonished at how many terminals some of
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by rcurry 3y ago
I kind of dig when things go down, I sort of like sitting around the gas fireplace and listening to my ham radio in a dark house for a few hours. If shit really hits the fan then it’s time for the tabletop gas burner and some beef and shrim
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by rcurry 3y ago
When I was like 12 my teacher was an army reservist and got the idea to teach us how to rappel off the top of the school, lmao. So we all got together with our families and rappelled off a four story building. It was bananas and we all had
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The Coyotes Are Not What They Seem(librarianofcelaeno.substack.com)
3 points by rcurry 3y ago|0 comments
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by rcurry 3y ago
It was something about someone getting annoyed over an alarm from a refrigerator and deciding to pull the plug.
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by rcurry 3y ago
Oh lord, I ended up working at a place that had one of those. He would always carry this huge stack of old-school fan folded green and white dot matrix printer paper to prove his bona fides and would spend every meeting furiously scribbling
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by rcurry 3y ago
Oh, you’d be surprised how much damage a janitor can do (me remembering the time the cleaning guy at my dad’s lab accidentally tipped over a whole shelf of mice)

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