turk73

8 ms·

1.
by turk73 7y ago
Luckily, we're not a democracy!
2.
by turk73 7y ago
The first one I used was a DEC UNIX based workstation. That thing was pretty cool at the time, circa 1993. I learned a ton about UNIX on it and was really my only access to that type of OS until Linux first came out a year or so later. La
3.
by turk73 7y ago
Tech Lead here, 20yrs or so experience I guess it is now, I don't know what counts and what doesn't. That's a good list, but I find it's very difficult for any one person to live up to all of that. It's asking a lo
4.
by turk73 7y ago
I don't believe that. There was a guy who made a Youtube video showing the hundreds and hundreds of daily flights coming and going from China even weeks after the outbreak. He said "there's no quarantine if you have money.&q
5.
by turk73 7y ago
Totally agree. Open concept at my place is beyond ridiculous. I'm not a zoo animal. Zero privacy, bathrooms are disgusting, kitchen is disgusting. I just give up. I work at home as much as possible.
6.
by turk73 7y ago
It's too bad our technology can't do anything with Venus.
7.
by turk73 7y ago
I'm ok with it as long as you come here and integrate, don't take welfare, and understand our Bill of Rights isn't a suggestion. We're done making "accommodations" on that stuff.
8.
by turk73 7y ago
I grew up in a house with 1 bathroom for 7 people. It was a living hell. I think that issue alone caused massive strife in my family. My current house has 4 people and 4 bathrooms.
9.
by turk73 7y ago
So sick of this garbage. White people are not the bane of society, far from it. Clown world. I grew up pretty damn poor. Anyone that looked at me as a kid would have said I had no future at all. I picked myself up and worked hard, sacrif
10.
by turk73 7y ago
You just say "My ____ died and I had a tough time with that" (where blank is mother, father, daughter, son, whatever). If they have a problem with that you don't want the job anyways.
11.
by turk73 7y ago
I know you don't want to celebrate, but you should. My wife had two in a row while trying for our 2nd child. It was really rough going for us circa 2007-2009. One of them required a DNC, which was just a miserable experience due to
12.
by turk73 7y ago
Childhood memories are not scientific fact. I grew up in Upstate NY. There were plenty of warm winters in the '70s and '80s. I don't think anything is remarkably different. Also, we had some summers that were freezing--like
13.
by turk73 7y ago
Need to look at total miles driven, not just population size vs. number of deaths. Doesn't Norway have huge taxes on automobiles which chill ownership? If so, then population is not relevant. If only 10% of people can afford to own c
14.
by turk73 7y ago
I really enjoyed taking Chemistry in college, especially the labs. I learned a lot and found it to be far more engaging that my Mathematics curriculum. The problem with Chemistry is that to do anything interesting professionally, you must h
15.
by turk73 7y ago
Exactly. The whole point of Go is to fix the issue with Python where you have to have all the right libraries installed wherever you intend to run.
16.
by turk73 7y ago
The problem is that most cash money market or savings accounts are only insured to $250K each. If I move money out to them to await my big moment, I have to open several accounts. Back in 2007 I had funds in NetBank which happened to be th
17.
by turk73 7y ago
Seriously. Here's how the software business works: There are people in management with MBAs who follow the same template no matter what company you are talking about. Management sees everyone non-management as part of the infrastruc
18.
by turk73 7y ago
Me too, but I need help. I have been working on ideas for my "2nd career," well, really it will be my 3rd, but that's beside the point. I need a way out of tech. I have enough money already, I just need a freaking path to
19.
by turk73 7y ago
Troll. Free = infinite demand. I don't think that will ever work anymore than throwing open the floodgates at the border and letting in all the world's surplus population who want to come and get free benes from us and wipe their
20.
by turk73 7y ago
This is a thoroughly American debacle brought on by Bill Clinton and abetted by every US President since then. Their simplistic idea was to make education "affordable" for all, and in their infinite wisdom, they fucked up higher
21.
by turk73 7y ago
I disagree. Luxury cars depreciate in value just like any other car. The right school is an investment in future income by way of the people you get connected to as well as what you learn and build a career off of. It's what you mak
22.
by turk73 7y ago
Yep, my Bachelor's in CS and Math from at SUNY school was $2750/semester plus room and board. I worked summers, worked on campus, got a job on campus that provided a room, and took out just a couple of loans. I don't actual
23.
by turk73 7y ago
I have two children and one is coming up on college age. I'm not advocating for "Ivy League" for her. There would have to be a really strong argument for that because the prices have skyrocketed in the past 20 years. Nobod
24.
by turk73 7y ago
I'm sure that's where the money is, but I can't really stand being around psychotic people all the freaking time. C-level execs, puke.
25.
by turk73 7y ago
I don't know what you mean, exactly. I do recall that in 1991, I was the only student in my "Introduction to Programming Using C" 101 class (as a Freshman in college) who could understand pointer arithmetic. That class ended
26.
by turk73 7y ago
Unlike LISP, C is still #2 on TIOBE vs. LISP which is #27, aka no place.
27.
by turk73 7y ago
Really? How? I learned LISP back in college, enjoyed programming in it and got into Clojure for a bit around 2014. But there's no jobs doing it, so other than having a bit better understanding of Functional Programming, there's
28.
by turk73 7y ago
It would be smart for all professional people to not allow themselves to be managed by outsiders, top down or otherwise. The current intellectual climate at today's US universities is one of near total ideological "purity"--t
29.
by turk73 7y ago
It's not just SV. One major company I worked for had only one validation requirement on the code we checked in which was the ensure that the copyright header saying that the code was owned by the subsidiary in Lucerne, Switzerland was
30.
by turk73 7y ago
The backlash from all that unemployment is going to crash the system at some point. The gilded, automated future is DOA. Even now, $15/hr is starvation wages, even outside of HCOL areas.

More ›