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(I'm going to reference it again... one of my favorite essays on programming) How To Be A Programmer - https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer/tree/master…

This brings up another interesting point... "back in my desktop support days." I had a few jobs once out of college (phone support, QA (before automation was much of a thing), sysadmin, back…

How about a nice, simple, 2 + 2 = 5? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/28818

Soap and toothpaste are interesting in that they were ubiquitous advertising on television back a few decades ago. I haven't had a television in the past decade... but I still buy soap and toothp…

Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246348

It doesn’t detect the passive voice, punctuation errors, or tense mismatch. While spelling catches many, it doesn’t catch them all.

We scroll down and that becomes a "animation while scrolling". While its an unusual orientation, it believe it is the right one. Its not a time axis - its "time since the user was cre…

Something to consider about many scientific programming domains - they don't do much in the way of conditionals. Glance at the code for FFT - https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fa…

Consider the "self taught - no college degree" realm of the software industry. Its rather large. Clearly, no degree is required. On the other hand, here is someone who has completed a degr…

You can still buy rare Earth magnets of exceptional strength and small size. It’s just that they’re sold through scientific and industrial channels rather than the toy aisle at retail stores or market…

My first programming job was perl back in '97 for the LAMP stack. There was a lot of neat things that I did with it back then... and clever too. I remember writing a neat Tie::Array that was ba…

My point isn't that it was a strong or weak argument and if it should have been able to stand against Citizens United. Rather, my point was that part of the social and political fabric of Montan…

Montana has had bad experiences with a lack of regulation in the past. Montana was also the state with corporate political donations limits that went up against Citizens United.

So its in the thread... https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/24/got-... is the reference for many of the points of numbers. > To recei…

What portion of those are Wisconsin state residents? The deal starts out at about 500 workers and ramps up over the period. The deal specified workers making $30k/y and an average includes white …

The deal is for workers making $30k/y and an overall average after some time of $53k/y (including white collar jobs).

Potentially quite a bit higher depending on how numbers play out. http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/aug/16/j... > Shilling said about a …

A key consideration there with the hypothetical job creation is that this facility is on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. There is more unemployment in the Illinois side of the border on the Wis…

StackOverflow and Github repos are a wealth of information about a possible applicant. There's the code... yes. But there's also the comments on Stack Overflow and issues on Github. Given …

Give All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven a read - https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10#page/n31/mo... . Its not a world (or multiworlds) I would want to liv…

Its something I've thought about for a bit and want to make a proper blog post of it. So far, its just a post over in a slack channel associated with That Conference - https://slack-f…

The "fold them and put them away" apparently was at CES - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/seven-dreams-robot-laundroid... …

I'd be willing to take either side of a debate for "is there a shortage of people who, when given tight specifications for a piece of software (write a function that takes X as input and pro…

I am curious if you have. I would encourage you to read http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/555_EN.HTM > According to the National Office of Animal Health (NO…

Not that long... or rather, it could work for a very long time but wouldn't be that useful because of the low power provided. From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R…

I work in the public sector. There is a very strong "this must be fair to all applicants" bend. The same criteria is used for all applications - in particular, the exact same questions. As…

I would encourage you to read Antibiotic Growth-Promoters in Food Animals ( http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/555_EN.HTM ) (the fao domain is the Food and Agric…

Glancing at the restrictions on firefighter, it appears that they fall under the same set of regulations as police. One finds things like: > Ineligible for employment with municipal fire department…

There's a labor shortage of people who are going to do the tedious work. The good factory job in part requires a dependable worker. In many places, that dependable worker is hard to find and fa…

That's the fugue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue ). > In music, a fugue (/fjuːɡ/ fewg) is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, bu…