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If it is important to you to be able to mock your employees, and you wouldn't run your business without being able to be a jerk like that, then you might want to pay that extra money.

Good business? No, but not all businesspeople are good at business. People get into it for very different reasons.

I've worked for a lot of acerbic bosses. I charge extra. Right now, with things so tight, it's approaching a 100% premium. You know what? The "jerks" keep paying it, because they can't find anything else.

Are they good bosses? Hahahahaha! No. About the only thing I do is make it really clear is that I'm there for the money, and I will walk off if I don't like it. So, I get the extra pay, without the abuse.

I've been seeing enough interest in Elixir to justify learning it. It's still in the "Nice to have" section of the job listings, but it's popping up more.

FWIW, I'm enjoying my Elixir experience. I was productive pretty quickly, and I've got some fault-tolerance and concurrency pretty cheap.

Personally, I'm not sure $4 million is enough to convince me to deal with anonymous internet gamers almost 24/7.

The guy works hard, and while I'm not a fan I don't begrudge him the wealth.

Not as comprehensive as I'd like, but there are standards and regulations. Part of the problem is that these are relatively "new", as far as power companies go.

http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/CIPStandards.aspx

The "I am your father" bit he did should be the end of that particular trope. It won't be, but it should.

Mostly, I hope they mostly improve the game. Not remake it, re-think it, re-purposed. Just clean it up, make some UI improvements.

If I were to make a big change, it would be to add a stand-alone server. Not necessarily multi-player, but just something I can leave running and attach to. I have an itch for real-time missions (days and weeks long), plus I'd like to run multiple scenarios at once.

I guess what I'm saying is I hope Take-Two doesn't lose the _spirit_ of the game. It has let us ground-bound wanna-be rocket scientists the opportunity to play.

Bummer. Their products were absolutely bulletproof.

I just started playing with this a couple of days ago.

I use conda on Windows, and it installed without any issue.

It's pretty easy to get started and crank out a usable UI. My toy app isn't sophisticated (service status for one service :) ), but it only took a couple of hours to whip together. It works fine, and looks pretty.

In contrast, I've used the Qt bindings for awhile, and they took a bit more effort for the same results.

I can't speak to the performance, or the cross-platform capability. For a quick and dirty utility it worked just fine, and I can see doing larger things with it.

Plenty of businesses make those mistakes.

FWIW, there is a learning curve to it all. I won't deny having some painful lessons in my past.

Some of the best life advice I got from my Grandmother:

You are always working for yourself. You may have an employer, but you are still working for yourself, not them. You're trading your time for money, like any other business. If you don't like the deal, then walk away.

Exactly! Trying to appeal to millions of people is difficult and expensive. A candidate needs deep coffers, and lots of contacts.

Trying to appeal to those within a half mile or so is much more straightforward. That's something that can be done with the help of your neighbors.

The Constitution allows for many more representatives. Why don't we bump up that number, to say, 10,000 members in the HoR?

Logistical problems? Yes, there would be quite a few. As it is, any given member has to suck up to moneyed interests, just to be able to afford to become elected.

If any given rep only had to sway a few 10s of thousands, the barrier to entry is much lower.

Positions which are considered "fringe" would have some say, and there would be a lot more room for third parties.

I certainly think it would be a lot easier than some of the structural changes often proposed.

In other discussions about this, the point is made that there are some very nasty things buried in those landfills. (I'm certainly no authority) Hazerdous waste, bio-waste, etc.

The mining technology would have to include something to mitigate that. Not just as immediate safety, but what do you do with it once you've dug it up? Or through it?

Do they have specific permission, in writing? No? Pay up.

Both the RNC and DNC are screwed. Yes, the Republican candidate won (and brought a lot of senators with him), but he isn't "their man".

Both establishments put up their chosen people, and both establishments lost.

They've grown too insular, too much about the being "True Conservatives/Progressives", and less about representing people. Who are they to decide what we believe?

I think you have it backwards. It might be easier to print "hello world", but that's not interesting.

Blinking an LED? That's actually interesting. You can show your friends. You can put it in another toy. A child can do a lot with a blinking LED.

Saw this, bought it...and now it's past midnight.

Yea, imagine a Beow....ah, never mind.

Huh. What am I going to do with this old 386. This article says this..."Linux" thing will work on it.

Damn. That's a lot of floppies.

Well, I'll be damned. It works! Let's see if I can't get this Apache web server (what silly names! Tee hee!) to go.

Ha! That works better than (whatever I was using - I forget).

(still using it)

This is what got me into computers at age 9. There were comics, and I didn't understand them. So I started reading the articles.

The articles didn't have anything to do with the comics, but I was fascinated, and ended up buying a ZX-81, then a Commodore 64, and...well, I'm still doing it.

That's considered waiting. You're entitled to compensation.

I was a huge fan back in the 4.x - 6.x days.

The problems, for me, were: - apps developed specifically for Linux. The shim wasn't 100%. - Hardware support. This wasn't too bad, but I always had to take it into consideration. - Virtualization. This was the killer for me. Yes, jails are fantastic, if your entire workload ran on FBSD. But if you needed even one Windows/Linux instance, for any reason, you needed another physical machine. With Windows and Linux I could consolidate everything into a single machine.

Things have improved a lot, and I may try it out again, but unfortunately the mindshare is all Linux now.

Excellent. Thank you, again.

Maybe someone else's ten seconds of searching will be more productive than mine...

Since Windows containers rely on Hyper-V, will I be able to run them within a Hyper-V VM?

Thank you.

I doubt they can get shipping cheap enough to make much of a dent in local supermarkets. Music and books can be downloaded. Kitty litter, not so much.

Spend 10 minutes outside of a typical suburban grocery store and try to estimate the weight of everything coming out.

Will it be used? Sure. I think it's more likely that it will push grocery chains to start/improve their own delivery services. After all, they already have "distribution centers" all over the place.

I love this so much.

(sorry for the useless comment, but really, I love this so much)

Reminds me of a scene in the movie "Real Genius". The class was empty of people, was just tape recorders listening to another tape recorder set up by the professor.

The one bright spot in this cycle, IMO, has been the utter failure of the campaign finance machines to have much of an effect.

JEB blew through $100mil (reportedly). I hope each and every one of those donors considers it wasted money, and are more reluctant to do it again.

Succinctly put.

Could they spend some of this time and effort on the website, itself? I don't need yet another app trying to take over the world via my phone.