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I've seen the exact same behavior with white-tail deer. All summer, they will be in the field and gardens back of the house, morning, noon and night, but as soon as November rolls around, they ghost during daylight hours, and retreat into the thickest softwood or hardwood whips or swamp, where the hunters can't push them out. Until you get to the first snow, and can actually stay on their tail and track them down, it's hard hunting.

It's hilarious, and to be honest, I wouldn't be all that surprised if there was a startup tone-deaf enough to actually form around the concept.

"Booth babes" are still a thing, stupid and sleazy as that is.

It's pretty much a standard term at this point in that category of sci-fi. For example, Ben Bova also calls them belters.

It's been great for my 401k, though. The best months in the past ten years were November 2016 and January 2017.

At this point, I only buy my sunglasses from the fishing aisle in the sporting goods section of Walmart. The Ugly Stik pair I got most recently is the best pair of sunglasses I've ever owned, and only cost about $10 (must have been on sale) - they are polarized and block glare great, are comfortable, and cover enough to work as safety glasses in a pinch.

http://www.uglystik.com/uglystik-apparel-eyewear/ugly-stik-s...

As a primarily .NET developer, I think I can count on two hands the number of times that I've needed to actually write my own generic types. Generic functions are maybe slightly more common, but still pretty rare.

However, if I had a penny for every time I've taken advantage of the generic collections built into the standard library, instead of using the old shitty, type-unsafe ArrayList or HashTable collections, I wouldn't have to work for the rest of my life.

.Net generics are more limited than full C++ style templates, or maybe I've been lucky enough to never encounter any code where people have gone overboard with them, but that seems to be a pretty sweet spot.

The full toolbox is less than a dollar a day - it's not like we're talking about really expensive licensing. They're not RedGate.

I'm not entirely sure how it would be possible to make any secure conclusions about the provenance of a gun that was used in a crime. As far as I know, it is not legal to keep a registry of serial numbers and who they were originally sold to. Moreover, in most states, you can sell firearms privately, without any background checks or paperwork at all. I have only purchased one of my firearms in an actual gun shop - the half dozen others are inherited, or purchased from friends, family, or randos on Craigslist or Uncle Henry's. Good luck tracking back the chain of custody on some of those...

BH Liddell-Hart's Great Captains Unveiled is one of the better ones I've come across, if early 20th century British historical writing style doesn't bother you.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Captains-Unveiled-Liddell-Hart/...

That place being the cool esoteric language that everybody fools around with on the weekends, but is almost never used seriously?

We need more people creating the right things, and more people destroying the wrong things and baggage that we've overburdened ourselves with.

Cynicism is a self-defense mechanism.

Design by compromise: ensuring that no one is happy.

That's not really going off the beaten path enough to find bargains. If remote work was more reliable and easy to find, I'd be sorely tempted to move someplace out in the sticks, albeit where there is high-speed internet access, where land and living expenses are significantly cheaper than any urban area by considerable multiples.

Plus, you get to be out in the sticks, not cheek by jowl with a million other people.

> If you could, why would you not want to live in an excellent climate by many of the US tech companies and make 3-8+x what you'd get elsewhere?

Because California, number one, and because everything costs 3-10X what it does elsewhere. I could easily double my salary if I moved to SV, but I'd have to live in a van in the parking lot like a hobo, instead of being able to afford a decent house and have a goodly amount of disposable income.

Back in that twilight era when there were music videos for most hit songs, and MTV was actually still showing them. People are going to be amazed at what a big deal TRL and Carson Daly were.

Some of those videos from that era were really elaborate, almost short films. Now we seem to have largely gone back to a more 80s-style, where the bands just perform.

I'm pretty convinced that a 17" mac book with a semi-modern graphics card would be the best machine on the market.

And I hate Apple.

Life sciences in general are often excluded.

A cynic might claim that that exclusion is because they do not fit the narrative.

What reason would the Obama daughters have for being interested in STEM? They are royalty now, with the gates of power and prestige and celebrity opened to them for the rest of their lives. Why put themselves through the work of a STEM education? Pre-law is much easier.

It's an incredibly rational choice.

The biggest problem with the NBA these days is that so few players come into the league with solid fundamentals and skills. The rookie age limit that has spawned the whole era of one-and-done college players who bail after March for the draft is in some ways worse than when high schoolers could get drafted. Most of those guys are poorly served by the current system. Either they are ready at 18 (like LeBron or Kevin Garnet were), or they really need two or three or four years in a good college system to hone their game, get experience, and work in the weight room. Just look at how sad rookie of the year awards have been in the last few years.

I sometimes wonder if we sometimes self-label ourselves, in general, as being "on the spectrum" just so we can justify getting pissy when uninteresting people interrupt and harass us while we are trying to concentrate on interesting problems.

Because money. God help my company if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. Until that happens, or they piss me off enough that I go down the road, they are happy to make money off my expertise.

The platinum rule, of course, is don't do unto others as you wouldn't have them do unto you.

Maybe that is too cynical, but it works well as a rule of thumb.

Like, stupid expensive. Kids, don't ever put yourself in that situation. Call an uber/lyft/whatever.

Ironically, we are much laxer on those with more responsibility. When was the last time a middle manager or senior executive had to pass a piss test to be employed? It's routine in blue collar work.

Day to day, it's as often as not Win32 or it's thin .Net wrapper, WinForms.

VB6 just worked, too. In many ways, it worked better than the current conglomeration of web-dev technologies that replaced it.

You can park a DirectX context in a WPF window or control. From there it is off to the races, implementing anything you can imagine from scratch.

Looks cool. How do you set it up?

Holmes was also quite into opiates himself - I seem to remember a Persian slipper that housed his heroin stash, and some incidents of opium smoking.

Most of the time, I feel like it would be easier to write HTML markup to style documents than it is to poke and prod at the Word formatting options. In college, when I was routinely having to write papers that needed footnotes and specific formatting styles, I nearly broke down and learned LaTex, I got so frustrated. And, with HTML, it would be trivial to add in the types of multimedia elements you mention.

If only I could convince the non-technical people and management on my team to ditch Word docs... If nothing more, it more make version-control merge conflicts so much less painful to deal with.