smcdow

5 ms·

1.
by smcdow 9y ago
Speaking from a government contracting point of view: Nobody is going to pay you to rewrite existing code that's already working. Nobody. The customer doesn't give a flying shit about the implementation. He'd be happy with
2.
by smcdow 9y ago
Depends on how similar the domains are. Stacks are vastly different in companies working in disparate domains -- I've worked as a software engineer in C4ISR, gaming, EDA, oil & gas, HFT, remote sensing, consumer electronics, and m
3.
by smcdow 9y ago
Gerrymandering is an issue. Please see https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map , and zoom in on Austin. Austin is a part of the following Congressional districts: TX-21, TX-25, TX-31, TX-17, TX-10, & TX-3
4.
by smcdow 9y ago
No surprise there. Does anyone think of the Bay Area as anything more than a way station in life?
5.
by smcdow 9y ago
Yeah, well... we all make our choices. We, as Americans, have made the choice to live in a market economy, replete with all its pros and cons.
6.
by smcdow 9y ago
I see no problem here.
7.
by smcdow 9y ago
Maybe you'd have more interest if you wrote up a proper RFC.
8.
by smcdow 9y ago
> That's something like $10-20k per year, at most. You are obviously not married. > Which means you really only need to work 2ish days a week. And where do you find these unicorn jobs where you work only two days per week?
9.
by smcdow 9y ago
1. Interesting, except the part where Flexjobs wants you to pay to look at job listings. Primary indication of a scam. 2. Yes, it is super-easy to get a visa to work in the UK or EU.
10.
by smcdow 9y ago
> Surely the most direct way of buying time is by taking a pay cut in exchange for more time off, or even taking unpaid time off. We don't get those choices. I tried for YEARS to engineer a long-term part-time career in the software
11.
by smcdow 9y ago
> You will work a lot more than you would if you just did things for yourself. Nonsense. I would work no more nor no fewer hours in a given year regardless of whether I hired a plumber or mechanic. In fact, given that I won't adjus
12.
by smcdow 10y ago
I would expect his target audience doesn't spend much time on the internet.
13.
by smcdow 10y ago
Can't wait to read the n-gate webshit weekly entry on this one.
14.
by smcdow 10y ago
So, then how do you explain Red Hat's $11.5B valuation?
15.
by smcdow 10y ago
Freelancing is good if you want to work 40+ hours per week for a limited duration, and then perhaps take some time off before the next job. What I wanted is 20-25 hours per week indefinitely (and with job security).
16.
by smcdow 10y ago
For cost of home ownership, Austin beats LA hands down.
17.
by smcdow 10y ago
> You can't have more money, AND fewer hours/more vacation. Here's the thing, though. We don't even get a choice. I tried for YEARS to engineer a long-term part-time career in the software industry, and I couldn&#x27
18.
by smcdow 10y ago
> turning off the GC in the JVM very common in the HFT world
19.
by smcdow 10y ago
I don't have the time to learn a new language that doesn't expose POSIX/Linux APIs. I may never use them, but I want them there in case I need them. You never know.
20.
by smcdow 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. 1. That removes all the joy of cooking for and hosting my guests. The point is to bring them into my home; to make them feel welcome and comfortable. Not to mention that picking up the tab for that many people would
21.
by smcdow 10y ago
Honest question here: What do you do when you want to have eight or ten or twelve people over for dinner? In case anybody asks: yes, this is something I do on a regular basis.
22.
by smcdow 10y ago
Look around in the EDA field.
23.
by smcdow 10y ago
What's wrong with that? Soylent is _disgusting_, that's what's wrong with it. It would be hard not to question the judgement of anyone who eats that stuff.
24.
by smcdow 10y ago
Or, more likely, because they're behind the eight ball.
25.
by smcdow 10y ago
Still waiting on a formal way to denote namespaces in bash
26.
by smcdow 10y ago
Love this, good work. Some suggestions (these are my own little quirks): - (desktop) Zooming is on the cursor, rather than on the crosses at the center. Don't know if that's a maps thing or not. Kind of annoying to position loca
27.
by smcdow 10y ago
Getting a little off topic here, but if you're a US "person" subject to US taxes, then those pension payments can be taxable. http://rsmus.com/what-we-do/services/tax/international-tax-p... If
28.
by smcdow 14y ago
yes, write once, lag everywhere.
29.
by smcdow 15y ago
Brillant, simply.
30.
by smcdow 15y ago
Curious as to how you would set up a DMA transaction in any of those languages? If you're doing system programming, you'll need to do DMA.

More ›