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Has Halo and Master Chief appeared on any of the other consoles in the contest? No? Then the war is far from over.

If I try giving this as an explanation for churn on any issue I'm investigating, they'll probably take longer paying me ...

Right? And King Crimson sold one of theirs to Tony Banks of Genesis. At least that's a claim here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron I loved its use on The Lamb Lies Down on …

Maybe one reason a job becomes a bullshit job is because the objectives such a job is defined to achieve are themselves bullshit. And whoever has stated the objectives are critical…

Why don't more people see this capability as an accelerator and/or amplifier? To borrow from the book "Smarter Than You Think" by Clive Thompson, it can turn us into "centaurs", fu…

Wasn't it this kind of desperation that led to the apocalyptic conditions of "Snow Piercer" ?

The information technology industry is a disruptive force in this economy. The way it has disrupted the global economy has changed over time as newer generations of technological i…

My first employer, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) had a repayment agreement which stipulated that any employee accepted into the Systems Engineering Development (SED) program would …

I created a password management utility using shelve and the rsa library for a company that is still using it after 15 years. Though today the company is transitioning to Hashicorp…

When I worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in the 90s, I was doing development on applications that both produced and ingested EDI documents based on a custom EDI standard Gene…

I really loved this episode. Especially when someone pointed out the fallacy of believing north = up and south = down, which is that way only because we live in a world where most …

The Mercator projection map was the map I was most exposed to in school and was on my bedroom wall at home when I was going to Elementary school. Later on when I went to college, I…

Sounds to me like Viking is as Viking does. Raiding and pillaging still inflicts the same result on victims whether carried out under a monarch's banner or by independent agents. M…

I was introduced to programming in *NIX environments by Informix 4GL, which after learning I could generate the intermediary C code files with an option provided by its 4glcc (or s…

You can read about many of these historical methods of organization in Judith Flanders' A Place for Everything: The Curious history of Alphabetical Order - https://www.amazon.com/P…

These are still good guidelines. I would propose some additional guidelines, that as a tool developer myself, will make the tool more accessible and useful. Provide custom format o…

After exploring this for a while, scrolling through these comments with the up and down arrows was a bit disorienting for me. The illusion of of navigating more than 2 dimensions p…

Unless you consider the result of two tasks performed simultaneously a product of two tasks rather than the sum of two tasks.

I live in the Twin Cities, but moved there from Detroit over twenty years ago when a Minnesota-based company bought the company where I was a contract developer and offered me a pe…

Moral Politics, by George Lakoff: this book offered a new perspective on not just the discussion and language of politics, but sent me down the rabbit hole of cognitive linguistics…

The _Autobiography of Malcom X_ was co-written by Alex Haley, the author of _Roots_. _Autobiography_ was required reading in a "Black Political Thought" course I took years ago. Bu…

At our company, we actually built ETL-Framework-agnostic wrappers, monitoring, logging and scheduling tooling around the different ETL tools we used for four different ETL Product …

That would be invoke tasks. https://docs.pyinvoke.org/en/stable/getting-started.html , which I first encountered in fabric: fabfile.org, which has the fab utility and fabfiles (ana…

Awk is advanced in the sense that it is a programming language by itself. Years ago I had to migrate an old version of an Informix database to a newer version. The old version did …

Generally, that mutable data is on externally mounted volumes or stores though and not in the container itself, right? Except for what is read into container memory and written out…