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I understand the precation.

One of the best trips I had was after getting laid off from a large dysfunctional corporation that was under going a re-org and having few years of accumulated salary in the bank due to never having a chance to take a "real" break from work in several years.

HR was shocked when they realized that I hadn't taken more than few days off in my tenure. I had over 6 months of "combined" time that had rolled over year after year.

But I was the chump that got things done, covered during the holidays, for installs, moves, covered Y2K, and when everyone else had a life and babies.

Never again.

I wanted the utopia of "Star Trek", I ended up with the dystopia of William Gibson.

I'm surprised that there isn't any Fortran guides or manuals on how to maintain VT100 terminals on the list.

I was mildly interested in it until I saw the letters PHP, then lost interest.

You need to buy your senator and make sure they stay bought.

"But I would like to live in a world where people might disagree with Reg Braithwaite but buy Raganwald’s book."

I wouldn't judge a person based solely on their published content, especially those authors that write fiction. But there are works I'll never buy or recommend because I will not knowingly support the actions/attitudes of the author. (SciFi examples: Card, Hubbard, Rosenberg...)

My choice.

This book should be on the HN reading list.

(I still have several boards from a DG computer on my office wall. Geek porn...)

My co-workers daughter plays volleyball and was out of school for 3 weeks due to a ball being hit into her head.

I played multiple contact sports in Texas schools, decades ago and with research coming out, wonder if my mental potential or others was damaged by the some of the hits I took or delivered. The MMA training I did as an adult was much safer injury-wise.

You can be part of a team without being in a contact support. You can also workout with out increasing the chances of getting shredded by an outsider linebacker or a cut block or 90 mph fastball.

File this under: No good deed goes unpunished.

There are many other interesting multi-disciplinary problems that are not as contentious as HFT and probably more publically acceptable and worthwhile. But if HFT is the domain you care about, go for it.

Depends on what you consider news and how you consume it. I tend to view conventional "news" as limited information/propaganda tool.

In the mornings/afternoons I listen to the local news broadcast for weather and traffic. These affect my daily activities, I live in a commuter region of Tornado Alley and own a house that involves outdoor maintenance.

I skim my local newspaper and local feeds, sometimes there are items that directly impact my community/household that I need to consider/deal with. (Local elections, West Nile, etc...) My spouse keeps up with the more entertaining items, so I've outsourced the fluff consumption. I use a RSS reader to stay current in my work and hobbies. It allows my to filter out the cruft in a timely manner.

If I need to be knowledgable on a political, economic or other topic, I have a wide range of resources available on the web and through the local libraries. I don't often dig deeply into the serious macro-issues, the truth is very disturbing, most people can't handle it or deny it, there's little change I can make, so I limit my "briefings" to a couple of times a year.

Knowing the "true" national/global situation and being powerless, is damn depressing. Maybe I should be a sociopath, but unfortunately I'm not wired that way.

"There's billion dollar industries being created and supported on manipulating the emotional parts of people's brains into using their products for distraction."

You are talking about beings, (humans), that believe in religion and political propaganda. We are addicted to noise and crap being in our heads.

As a productive adult I spend most of my time seriously. What little recreation time I have, I choose to enjoy how I please, serious or not. You can be a completionist in a RPG and finish quests while admiring the graphics and music or you can spending a evening slaying giants, goats, and elk with ice spears.

Zillow list properties that are gutted, abandoned as the same as properties that have been maintained, remodeled or expanded. This information in many cases is reflected in the annual property tax assessment. Since these records are available online gratis, you think Zillow could use them as a part of their figures.

"That said, Zillow is a wonderful tool to check price/sales history."

Maybe in your market. Their data is crap in many areas.

Zillow's data is very, very bad. It doesn't reflect the market or the tax assessment records in my area.

I was humorously assuming it was because almost all programming languages have key words in English.

The Imp of the Recursive in my head was imagining an alternate programming culture like a Quebec version of steam-punk.

It's a lot easier to have children when you treat young, single, nonparent co-workers like cogs that can work late and do your work.

Still use Linux as the host\development box and test the Windows version(s) in virtual machine(s). ;)

Anaconda is a great install, especially for those dealing with data analysis, but the conda upgrade process from one version to another (1.3 to 1.4) has been hit or miss under Windows. But I still love the packaging and such they and others do...

This isn't much better than what Zed Shaw's book has for instuctions. Consider some screen shots, using Enthoughts or Continuum disributions, etc...

It would be interesting to see what mountains Nick could climb if he wasn't helicoptered to the summit.

As for maturity, I probably grew up in totally different time, culture and environment than most of the HN readers. Even my siblings children don't understand their parents background. At 15 we were expected to be top students, hold a job, play sports/music and be respectful to a fault. (Yes sir.) No one would ever want to be consider a punk or a brat.

All of us?

Some of us had to matured early, since we were raised on family farms without the benefit of being mollycoddled. If you need to grow up, I still have family in the business that can assist in positive behavior modification and inter-personal respect training. Might do Nick some good to live/work outside the 1%.

Most of the current migration into Texas is from California and NY. How can I tell?

They are constantly bitching that Texas isn't California or NY.

Austin is in a state, (Texas), with a lot of pending issues coming to roost... education, traffic, migration, water/drought, social safety net. As much as I love my native state, I don't see any leadership addressing these.

I work in a mixed office, half in/half remote. I'm one of the few people (team lead/admin) that has to be in the office 90 percent of the working hours, which is fine. But I deal with good and bad remote colleagues over the years, so here's some suggestions.

Let me know when you are available, we have shared calendars and other means of indicating status, use them. Respect others time, both work and personal. If I can't get in touch with you for an extended period of time, let me know ahead of time or have a good reason afterwards. Let me know of any critical issues, technical or personal as soon as reasonably possible.

Let me know at you have on your project plate so I can assist or re-balance work loads if necessary. Please keep up with the "paperwork" aka source control, logging, reports, time-tracking and documentation.

If working remotely isn't working out, I've got some offices with doors and a fully stocked break room down the hall. And I'll throw in an extra monitor. :)

"They both have their place. In SQL Server land the things that they limit to enterprise edition generally are functions that only really benefit data warehouses (partitioning and compression being two of the most obvious), and given that they know that the people who use data warehouses tend to have warehouses of cash, it comes with a cost."

Redmond could throw column level encryption into the lower tiers as a security measure, but oh, no!, that's "enterprisy".

Not really, I'm mixing a sci-fi meme with my observations of much of the "fk you elite".

I've had the opportunity to live alongside and work with. Many of them truly believe that their gaming of the system, luck and hard work is either divine or a product of "dog eat dog" evolution-style aka "hussle". I've got shocking stories of outrageous actions, but the long term economic trends/facts are sobering.

"What kind of immoral, capitalistic people are in charge in the US."?

Darwinist capitalistic people. It's the invisible hand of evolution in action.

Due to past obligations and future opportunities, I can't/won't touch any of these documents directly.