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burlesonK

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About burlesonK

I'm a programmer.

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    Comment #25775167

    I disagree, incompetance is rampant. I worked for a healthcare company who kept it's data at a Dell security center. One of their people ran a SQL script that deleted millions of b…

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    Comment #25718665

    Yep, I have the 13". Oh how I miss Snow Leopard...

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    Comment #25699301

    It is when you break windows or otherwise damage property to enable the theft.

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    Comment #25699290

    Overturning an election is not effectively overthrowing the government, and it's certainly not sedition. I also think most people who entered the Capitol building did so because th…

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    Comment #25699197

    I'm starting to believe down-voting has gotten more useless and should be removed. Perhaps up-voting is sufficient, but maybe not.

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    Comment #25591138

    I agree. The article came across as a programmer griping about Excel and VBA, while praising his/her favorite tooling as the answer to some programmer-centric greivances.

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    Comment #25568276

    I don't think what he described is captured at all by the third "tribe." He clearly does it for money and there should be a fourth "tribe" for that category. I agree with you that …

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    Comment #25504374

    After reading this, it appears to specifically target people that provide a streaming service for copyrighted material protected under title 17 for the purposes of commercial advan…

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    Comment #25342893

    Semicolons aren't noise; you've read the statement before you even get to them so how can they be noise? Noise would be type info added to languages that didn't have it before, suc…

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    Comment #25252153

    I've never seen people produce crap code because they don't care; it's always a lack of education, a last minute fix, or it's just declared crap code because it doesn't meet the re…

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    Comment #23031230

    Yeah, I hear you. I'm 49 and it took 2 years before I landed another dev job. I gave up looking after a year and trained for an HVAC career only to find out I was too old to start …