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I was assuming the built-in NSA access was making people uncomfortable. ;)

Every branch of the service has done tear gas exposure for decades. Speaking from my experience in the service, it sucks. (But it's not as stressful as fire fighting or damage control simulators...)

Some of us run Linux as the host.

I understand his experience. I've been mainly, (70% of the time), a third party Windows developer and admin for the last two decades and have spent thousands of hours working with and talking to Microsoft folks. Even have a few family members that work for the corporation.

NIH: Many Remondites live in the "bubble" where technology from the outside doesn't exist or doesn't matter. (It reminds me of the hard core Republican base.) This extends to much of the user base as well. There is a strong denial of OSS and there used to be taunting of Apple. (Until the iPhone kicked the smartphone market in gear.)

Future: Redmond has some serious issues to deal with: dysfunctional management, growing OSS usage, rejection of Win8/Xbox One and how to get people to use Azure when it's known you are the NSA's bitch.

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They have been turned into sheep over the last 6 decades by the media.

This is one of the exceptions I mentioned. Also known as the "gun show loophole".

"But I suspect the NSA doesn't know how many guns you own. That alone is somehow seen as a violation of your rights"

Have you purchased a firearm in the US from a licensed dealer recently? There's paper/digital record of most firearm purchase in most cases, with a few exceptions. There's a cursory background check ran too.

(In the case of most US citizens the government doesn't care about small arms. Most are used for sporting, hunting or deterrence.)

Most of the comments are concerning politics and very little are concern the economics of smaller companies and individuals rejecting services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

(Microsoft's TechEd had a big push towards Azure this last week. Their timing sucks... Sorry about their bad luck...)

Most of the US populous has jobs, beer and entertainment. Plus they might with the lottery some day and join the 1%.

He's also a ham, I'm looking forward to using JRX once my buddy sends me back my Icom PCR.

Snort! My wedding cost less than $100 US. (Now if we had "fuck you money" like the individual in the article, my wife could have possibly spent 6 figures on the honeymoon instead of road tripping and budgeting.)

Two of the most expensive weddings, ($200K+), I've been invite to or a groomsman in, both ended in divorce within 2 years.

Not suprising for the nouveau riche. My buddies and I have witness acts like this so often, we nick-named it the "tude", as in attitude.

From the asshole that parks his Hummer sideways in 2 handicap spots to stupid brats that trash resturants and laugh at the staff, it's really stupid behavior. The "old money" knows better than this and mostly stays off the radar of the rest of the public.

There's plenty resources, (people, money, schools, tech, etc) in DFW/Austin for startups. Mark Cuban made his beans here almost two decades ago. It's just that the majority of the vultures and technically hip decided that the Valley was place to be. The main issues with North Texas are lack of decent climate/geology, political and cultural issues.

I'm on the mailing list for a bunch of user groups/Meetup groups that get a ton of positions posted and recuiter traffic. Lots of SQL DBA/Developer/.NET jobs and stuff of that ilk.

Does that mean we get a HN JCL API?

:)

Get ready for crappy service once the bean counters at IBM start outsourcing everything...

DFW has much more than energy. Corporate HQs, semiconductor, banking, technology, etc... (Although the traffic is starting to suck worse than ever with all the folks from the coasts being lost and construction going on...)

There's a large number corporate data jobs in the area needing to be filled. (Analyst, programmer, DBA, warehouse, BIG DATA superstars, whatever...)

The Dallas Morning Snooze is not exactly a great source of any business info or news in North Texas. There's a variety of other sources that try to fill the voids.

I actually made good money while using Win95 back in the WWW 1.0 days.

Plus the more expensive models come with jacks to force the hatch open in case of entrapment.

Very few experienced programmers will have these beliefs. Addresses are the most fucked up personal information that we have to deal with. Names run a close second.

Over beers a few of my mates came up with a system like DNS to map a mailing domain for an individual/organization to a physical location. But after much discussion we decided it was just easier to let the geo-challenged to lease postal boxes with saner locations.

Survey asks too many personal questions for no reward or incentive.

JavaScript is a kludge. It's a bag on the side of a bag. The amazing thing is that it works well enough to be useful.

Most of the button wasn't circuitry and the one wire chips were packaged in various formats depended on the use. There were some nifty amazing prototypes that never made it to the public. (I can neither confirm nor deny previous employment at DS or TI.) :P

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I'll use a RDMS." Now they have two problems, but that's normalized.

The major problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft shafted developers/admins with yet another major shift in tools, UI and APIs and system changes. (cha ching!) Metro Apps aren't rich enough to be decent replacements for desktop apps, nor are they good enough to match others rich web applications.

As a developer, if I'm having to shift focus, I'm going to explore alternatives outside the Redmond garden that give me more control and cost less. As much as I love VS and SQL Server, a growing number of my clients/projects can do equally well or better with OSS solutions.

"YMMV and some academics have no interest in spreading knowledge at all. Fuck them."

This is true in many other areas of life. I found there's plenty of old farts in amateur radio and other hobbies, you just have to find the ones that are interested in mentoring and ignore the assholes that shit on everyone.

But you'll quit once you figure out that banks and telcoms aren't the best clients... :(

I'm not identifying with this at all. I have strong passions outside the industry. Tasks more meanful than dealing with CRUD, servers and web applications. Hobbies/past-times that given the time and money to pursue would become my new fun "job", contribute more to society and connect with others daily.

I doubt it. There's still money to be made shaking people down for IP.

Wow, glutten for punishment.

My primary development box is a fully loaded 17" laptop. Tablets are too small screen wise and performance wise when doing real work either in the OSS or Redmond realm. (I deal with tons of Data and run a few VMs as well.)