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Consulting Director - Energy and Utilities, software engineering management Location: Northeast U.S. Remote: yes - for the past 14 years Willing to relocate: yes, to certain areas …

Also tried it and it could have been a lot better. If I had any type of interview with that voice (press interview, mentor interview, job interview) I would think I was being scamm…

My brother passed away from AML (acute myeloid leukemia) almost two years ago. His quality of life was dismal on treatment, he was constantly vomiting, mouth sores, unable to sleep…

The worst part is that a lot of the alfalfa and other feedstock crops are shipped out of the country.

The film "Never Let Me Go"[0] is kind of about that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(2010_film)

Framing the whole thing around costs is the problem. Frame it around better quality, better service, buy it for life etc. There's no way I'm going to buy 3 times the cost for the e…

Thank you for the enthusiasm! It was not intentional but my post really does read like a little story vignette that ends with a gut punch. Not looking for sympathy so much as fello…

Creating stealth group in a huge Fortune 500 company with the blessing of my immediate boss but no other higher-ups. Trying to productize critical consulting tool sets in the utili…

Or find a way that works for you, gets you jobs and keeps you from breaking your moral framework. I compare it to driving in traffic. A lot of times I'm not in a hurry and can just…

Depending on where you live, you get it in your water and you don't need both sources of fluoride.

>XML has always seemed to be a data standard which is intended to be what computers prefer, not people Interesting take, but I'm always a little hesitant to accept any anthropomorp…

Well made formal clothes are the most comfortable you'll wear. There is some mental discomfort for a while depending on your mindset because, at least for me, I was stuck thinking …

This story happened in my backyard. The shootout was about 40 minutes from me but Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt were reported by a hotel clerk dressed in tactical gear and sporting…

I first played Minecraft when Notch was posting demos as zip files on the TIGSource forums. I playtested and kept playing off and on until a little after the 1.0 release but that w…

For better or worse, UNIX has won on embedded and server room. I think this is the HN bubble at work. Maybe you mean something qualitatively or quantitatively different than I do w…

I had print shop as a 10-15 year old and made all my own and many of my families birthday, anniversary and Christmas cards with it. I was the "computer guy" in my household and was…

That makes total sense. I have been tempted to do this in the past. Fortunately time and resources constraints have kept it to costly sane and maintainable, performant configuratio…

I get the solution for this and I know what all the terms mean. But I don't understand the problem. Whether it's facetious or hyperbole or whatever, I just don't get who or what ci…

Every old telco technician had a story about dropping a wrench on a busbar or other bare piece of high powered transmission equipment and having to shut that center down, get out t…

I agree. I've had this happen often enough on the job that it's not a totally made up example. And usually you'll be one of two or three people in the whole company who is able and…

I read this in a previous discussion of kagi. Not going to read it again but if I recall it was more than half complaining about things not at all related to kagi search. Stuff lik…

If you can afford it, please try kagi[0]. It's not a panacea. It IS a lot better than Google and has been for some time. [0] https://kagi.com/welcome

I do not use this term to refer to myself. I respect those who do and respect the meaning behind it but am just old enough that it feels alien to me 99% of the time. But I am SO tr…

I've had a really good scrum master. (Plenty of bad ones too). The really good one I could say something like "I started work on this item and realized that I'm actually missing a …

So basically encipher was never used in the context of the web. And the web is what made encrypt popular separate from encipher. It does look like maybe encipher was possibly going…