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> frankly most sysadmins don't make the money, the people they support do > the fact that most ops positions at a non IT company are a lot less stressful, yet much better paid than…

Physical copies of movies still cost about the same, though.

Wow, this is really great! Soft Skills 201 could be a book unto itself, nice to see this stuff being discussed. In general, I think the soft skills sections should get a lot more p…

I wonder why you still managed to use the term "loansharks" when trying to defend their quite obviously predatory business practices. "Higher interest rates" doesn't even begin to …

I once was able to confirm (with reasonable certainty) that the caller was using Twilio, because the message they left was a verbatim text from a Twilio example[1] for detecting wh…

This isn't a show that is well-served by sequential viewing. Try the Best of Both Worlds two-parter.

I find it strange to give this advice, then provide 3 alternate example routes that add a mile or more of climb to the ride. Gravity isn't friction, per se, but it does pack a wall…

Further anecdata: Amtrak is a joke in Texas. Amtrak from Dallas to Austin is a 6h22 trip for $29 (value fare), departing only once per day (11:50am) and taking about 2 hours to rea…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Rus...

time to fork it and send a PR!

Bless you, sir.

I just put "School of Hard Knocks" on my LinkedIn and leave it at that. If that's unacceptable to a prospective employer, I've successfully weeded out a bad fit. So far it hasn't b…

It says right on the tin that this is meant for IOI/ICPC-style contests, whose participants are high school and undergraduate students respectively. As a former competitor in USACO…

Dr Bronner's meets Project Mayhem?

Our old '77 Cadillac had the same feature. I always had Batman fantasies about that thing.

We sysadmins don't exactly love it, either...

It's a bit tough to play by itself, but I'm okay with the tradeoff for the portability. FWIW it works quite well if you connect it to a MIDI host and use another controller to play…

boo TAG go SEM! Glad to see another Townview graduate representing us well. :)

I don't know about anyone else (a problematic side effect), but I went to a science-focused public magnet school instead of my neighborhood high school and it made a world of diffe…

Subterranean construction (basements, tunnels, subways etc) is uncommon in Texas due to a very thick (6-10') layer of limestone bedrock which must be drilled or blasted. This is pr…

TicketFly, EventBrite, Queue, and Front Gate Tickets sell probably 90% of the event tickets here in Austin. AFAIK, TM only handles the arena shows here (Cedar Park Center, Frank Er…

They charge you to print your own tickets as well.

The recent market conditions are more a consequence of changes in supply than in demand. I heard someone refer to something called the "Economist effect", where an article in the E…

Inertia