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I've lived 40+ years in several places in the northern US, mostly in rural areas and this isn't my experience at all.

Having wasted 6 years of my life intensively working to create an algorithmic trading system (and failing to make it consistently profitable), what they have here is the easy part.…

I still regret missing Michael Scott's 05-05-05 party. It only happens once every billion years.

I don't know what I'm missing, but I've tried to use Time Machine many times over the past decade and every time it's the same thing. After a few weeks, it forgets what it's doing …

If you keep prying after "I'm fine... leave me alone" then you'll quickly become the reason for them going from "fine" to "not fine".

As a former TSA agent, it's most definitely theater. We used to practice by trying to hide something and see if we could get through. The xray operator didn't stand a chance even w…

Well sure, if you're writing a generic CSV parser, it's very complicated. But if you know what your input looks like, CSV can be one of the simplest format to parse.

I thought he explained why not in the second paragraph.

I think the analogy to energy is pretty good. Like the FizzBuzz thing, you can also build a machine that has a lot of energy but doesn't accomplish anything useful.

Agree, I love the idea and wanted to make this work for my home, but from personal experience I'd say most people would find this more trouble than it's worth. I wrote something ve…

I agree that having a routine is important. But I think what makes the routine is up to the individual, clothes may be important for some, but not for others.

There are a lot of porn friendly payment systems. The big issue is chargebacks and fraud.

Of course they do. This post says nothing to the contrary.

A happy idiot I guess. Since the miserable know-it-all is actually also an idiot, they just don't know it. So they're just a miserable idiot.

Took me a bit to understand, courier doesn't have the bill, the drop does. Boss: "Courier, deliver this money to , code is 12345678" Courier: at , "Hey Drop, what is the code?" Dro…

"Everyone"

I've been using both lately. VSCode for when I'm working on a project and the editor ends up staying open all day. I also often have to work with large files, so I use Sublime to p…

...Thank God I'm married.

I like that attitude very much and I think it can be extended to everyone. As someone who's straddling the line between developer and manager I've sometime found that difficult but…

It's been nearly a decade since I worked for the TSA, but back then the procedure was: 1) Put the bag through the CT scanner 2) If it beeps, open the bag and find the offending obj…

It's never too late. I was a D student through most of high school, just barely graduated. I didn't care. Drank through three different colleges without getting a degree and spent …

I really really want to love this editor, it's beautiful, but it burns me every time I use it and I end up going back to sublime text. Slow, buggy, hangs, 100% cpu usage, huge amou…

The language wars get exhausting. Several years ago Ruby was the coolest thing ever, now I guess people think it's just boring. Also, PHP got really unpopular and all you heard abo…

Good point. I don't understand it very well, and haven't really spent a lot of time trying. When I need to get something going, I have the option of doing IPv4 only and being confi…

I agree with you that the TSA is a joke, but as someone who worked as a TSA agent before, I never stole anything, nor to the best of my knowledge did anyone I worked with steal any…