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That’s because you’re already above where money would constrain you. The vast majority of people are not. I suspect you know this.

ok, but why?

Well then, I can write a tiny C compiler in bash...

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Boston has "Allston Christmas" on Sept 1st each year. Tons of people move. There's lots of nifty stuff on the sidewalks waiting to be discovered.

>Perhaps people shouldn't have started paying nerds a good amount of money to do super nerdy things. I've got discount pitchforks. Get your pitchforks. 3 for $5.

FreeNAS (open source, ZFS, requires ECC ram) Unraid (paid license for connivence that wraps open source mergerfs and snapraid) OpenMediaVault (open source unionfs + snapraid) Drobo…

You've never been given a free meal? Did you buy your copy of the book? Ever been given a complimentary slide deck? Ever had a publisher give you suggested questions for tests? Eve…

I'd like to see more professional, terminal (doctorate) degrees that aren't PhDs. Run them in parallel. For instance, I feel there should be an M.Eng. equivalent for comp sci that …

The CEO is the CEO because he makes profitable decisions. You have to replace her with someone / something that makes at least equally good decisions.

Those same users are probably benefitting from the other thing I did that delivered value to my company. It has value for the company because it has value, directly or indirectly, …

Hackathons happen on the weekend? Every company I've worked in has done them on weekdays. People tend to work longer on hackathon days than regular ones, but that doesn't seem so b…

Inflation moves money from the rich (who have assets) to the poor (who have debt). Can't have that...

It's targeting what is easiest to automate. This happens to be mostly low skilled workers. Software engineers constantly cannibalize their own jobs, but there are so many positions…

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. B…

That's a lot of parens you've got there. You should try emacs. :)

Yes. "Y'all are scum-sucking bastards."

Want a dozen + 1? As a friend, I setup a precision workstation for a small business owner. Part of this setup was a hardware raid 1 array. (He wanted a fast machine that was very r…

Please google "Ashton Manual" The process you're describing is well understood. What your folks are experiencing is extremely common. The Ashton Manual not only describes the proce…