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Speaking from a government contracting point of view: Nobody is going to pay you to rewrite existing code that's already working. Nobody. The customer doesn't give a flying shit ab…

Depends on how similar the domains are. Stacks are vastly different in companies working in disparate domains -- I've worked as a software engineer in C4ISR, gaming, EDA, oil & gas…

Gerrymandering is an issue. Please see https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map , and zoom in on Austin. Austin is a part of the following Congressional districts: TX-21, TX-25…

No surprise there. Does anyone think of the Bay Area as anything more than a way station in life?

Yeah, well... we all make our choices. We, as Americans, have made the choice to live in a market economy, replete with all its pros and cons.

I see no problem here.

Maybe you'd have more interest if you wrote up a proper RFC.

> That's something like $10-20k per year, at most. You are obviously not married. > Which means you really only need to work 2ish days a week. And where do you find these unicorn j…

1. Interesting, except the part where Flexjobs wants you to pay to look at job listings. Primary indication of a scam. 2. Yes, it is super-easy to get a visa to work in the UK or E…

> Surely the most direct way of buying time is by taking a pay cut in exchange for more time off, or even taking unpaid time off. We don't get those choices. I tried for YEARS to e…

> You will work a lot more than you would if you just did things for yourself. Nonsense. I would work no more nor no fewer hours in a given year regardless of whether I hired a plu…

I would expect his target audience doesn't spend much time on the internet.

Can't wait to read the n-gate webshit weekly entry on this one.

So, then how do you explain Red Hat's $11.5B valuation?

Freelancing is good if you want to work 40+ hours per week for a limited duration, and then perhaps take some time off before the next job. What I wanted is 20-25 hours per week in…

For cost of home ownership, Austin beats LA hands down.

> You can't have more money, AND fewer hours/more vacation. Here's the thing, though. We don't even get a choice. I tried for YEARS to engineer a long-term part-time career in the …

> turning off the GC in the JVM very common in the HFT world

I don't have the time to learn a new language that doesn't expose POSIX/Linux APIs. I may never use them, but I want them there in case I need them. You never know.

Thanks for the reply. 1. That removes all the joy of cooking for and hosting my guests. The point is to bring them into my home; to make them feel welcome and comfortable. Not to m…

Honest question here: What do you do when you want to have eight or ten or twelve people over for dinner? In case anybody asks: yes, this is something I do on a regular basis.

Look around in the EDA field.

What's wrong with that? Soylent is _disgusting_, that's what's wrong with it. It would be hard not to question the judgement of anyone who eats that stuff.

Or, more likely, because they're behind the eight ball.

Still waiting on a formal way to denote namespaces in bash