stoic

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by stoic 7y ago
> frankly most sysadmins don't make the money, the people they support do > the fact that most ops positions at a non IT company are a lot less stressful, yet much better paid than all other jobs. Which is it?
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by stoic 7y ago
Physical copies of movies still cost about the same, though.
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by stoic 7y ago
Wow, this is really great! Soft Skills 201 could be a book unto itself, nice to see this stuff being discussed. In general, I think the soft skills sections should get a lot more promotion (it's buried so far down the sidebar I had to
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by stoic 7y ago
I wonder why you still managed to use the term "loansharks" when trying to defend their quite obviously predatory business practices. "Higher interest rates" doesn't even begin to define the exploitation of these pe
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by stoic 8y ago
I once was able to confirm (with reasonable certainty) that the caller was using Twilio, because the message they left was a verbatim text from a Twilio example[1] for detecting whether a human answered: "You did not reveal yourself to
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by stoic 8y ago
This isn't a show that is well-served by sequential viewing. Try the Best of Both Worlds two-parter.
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by stoic 8y ago
I find it strange to give this advice, then provide 3 alternate example routes that add a mile or more of climb to the ride. Gravity isn't friction, per se, but it does pack a wallop all the same, especially if sweat or fatigue (or inj
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by stoic 9y ago
Further anecdata: Amtrak is a joke in Texas. Amtrak from Dallas to Austin is a 6h22 trip for $29 (value fare), departing only once per day (11:50am) and taking about 2 hours to reach Fort Worth, a 30-minute drive. By contrast, there are 11
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by stoic 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Rus...
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by stoic 9y ago
time to fork it and send a PR!
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by stoic 9y ago
Bless you, sir.
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by stoic 9y ago
I just put "School of Hard Knocks" on my LinkedIn and leave it at that. If that's unacceptable to a prospective employer, I've successfully weeded out a bad fit. So far it hasn't been.
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by stoic 9y ago
It says right on the tin that this is meant for IOI/ICPC-style contests, whose participants are high school and undergraduate students respectively. As a former competitor in USACO, ACSL, etc., I would have loved to have resources like
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by stoic 9y ago
Dr Bronner's meets Project Mayhem?
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by stoic 10y ago
Our old '77 Cadillac had the same feature. I always had Batman fantasies about that thing.
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by stoic 10y ago
We sysadmins don't exactly love it, either...
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by stoic 10y ago
It's a bit tough to play by itself, but I'm okay with the tradeoff for the portability. FWIW it works quite well if you connect it to a MIDI host and use another controller to play or sequence the synths on it. ...just don't
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by stoic 10y ago
boo TAG go SEM! Glad to see another Townview graduate representing us well. :)
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by stoic 10y ago
I don't know about anyone else (a problematic side effect), but I went to a science-focused public magnet school instead of my neighborhood high school and it made a world of difference in my life, both in terms of instruction and soci
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by stoic 10y ago
Subterranean construction (basements, tunnels, subways etc) is uncommon in Texas due to a very thick (6-10') layer of limestone bedrock which must be drilled or blasted. This is probably not a good tradeoff for Google or their partners
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by stoic 10y ago
TicketFly, EventBrite, Queue, and Front Gate Tickets sell probably 90% of the event tickets here in Austin. AFAIK, TM only handles the arena shows here (Cedar Park Center, Frank Erwin). Disruption is out there, but as long as Live Nation&#x
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by stoic 10y ago
They charge you to print your own tickets as well.
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by stoic 10y ago
The recent market conditions are more a consequence of changes in supply than in demand. I heard someone refer to something called the "Economist effect", where an article in the Economist about a particular trend signals its end.
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by stoic 10y ago
Inertia
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by stoic 10y ago
He will serve no one but himself, just as he has his entire life.
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by stoic 10y ago
Are you sure?
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by stoic 10y ago
>INSTEAD OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, TRY HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Yes please
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by stoic 10y ago
Clearly a ploy by Microsoft to snag some decent hardware for their own staff on the cheap. Nice try, slugheads!
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by stoic 10y ago
I have a recommendation, but you first need stairs in your house...
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by stoic 10y ago
With games like these I feel like we all lose

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