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And yet you left off:

"The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?"

This is definitely "a thing." I've had two MacBook Pros whose batteries swelled to where it bent the case open.

I try to make it a point to put my laptop through regular charge and discharge cycles, as result. As much as I love this 21:9 monitor, keeping it perpetually connected is definitely not the way to go.

I'm right there, with you. Even worse, are the ones where they outline the silhouette with a solid color.

That said, there's many variants that are perfect valid: network engineer, sales engineer, systems engineer, etc.

Beyond that, the author has completely missed that the electoral college protects us from things like the five most populous counties in America selecting our President for us and limits the effects of massive voter fraud. cough Illinois cough

It appears the original author would be better suited in a union shop. It would also appear that they’ve never owned a business.

"My dogs are as important to me as my friends and family." That's not sweet, it's sick.

House on fire, can only save one... Dog or Friend - Friend (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Family - Family (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Total stranger - Total stranger (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)

I don't have a problem with them asking. I politely decline to tell them and move on. I have yet to have it be a stumbling block. An employer asking is a fairly standard practice, as is a potential employee not providing that information.

If you were taking a woman on a date to a place where women are objectified, I'd be open to the possibility that money isn't your only obstacle.

Totally agree. AirBnB couldn't wait for the opportunity to roll over, show their soft belly, and urinate all over themselves, instead of actually recognizing the false dichotomy.

Preferably, we can deal with the people that accept hear-say and anecdotes to carte blanche dismiss demographics that they aren't a part of. Especially those in forums that claim to be based on an intellectual mindset. We can deal with them, once we deal with people that attempt to ridicule a legitimate concern by making it sound like the person making the point is presenting it as "the biggest threat facing humanity today."

The pervasive whining being addressed in the article is spot on and was recently addressed in another HN posting: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begi...

There is a large segment of society that assumes that any alternate point of view, irrespective of how it's presented, must be an attack against them. This is akin to chastising someone warning people not to pick up the active business-end of an arc-welder.

I'm not sure what you're encountering, but I have yet to meet anyone that teaches that Jesus rode a dinosaur and owned Exxon stock, or anything remotely resembling it.

One family comes to mind, where I have to question both their ability and motivation behind homeschooling, but that's out 100+ homeschool families we know. Even so, they're the parents, so it's their call.

That said, the success is largely based on the parents' motivation. If they're out to provide a better customized, faith-based, talent-specific, or special-needs accommodating learning environment, that's radically different than doing it to brag about what a great parent a person is, due to the extra hardship.

Beyond that, not everyone is qualified to do it, as it takes a certain skillset, education level, preparedness, and patience level that isn't ubiquitious. Some of that can be accomdated through homeschool enrichment classes, co-ops, and the aforementioned online learning.

I'd add that "bwahaha" comes across as a laugh at a person's expense.

What an odd introduction: "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go through training as an ISIS terrorist? Or better yet, where you would go to find such advanced training?"

Nope.

Am I missing something? This was submitted two hours ago, yet the images (CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso) are the same that I had downloaded on 6/20/2014. The release notes list the new image names, but they don't appear to be pushed out to the mirrors.

Agreed. I had it reduced to a single tile available, yet there was no way to win. Every new tile matched one above or to the side of it.

On the dotted line, of course.

The key takeaway from this article should be that 1980's-style resume and application bombing doesn't work, nearly as well as it used to. The market moved on and became more advanced. Using 1980's skillsets and techniques will yield the same disappointing results that using 1980's technology does.

My favorite part is where the journalist points out that those that are better educated earn more. Ceteris paribus, one would think it would be obvious that a better product / tool / employee would be worth more.

At risk of going off-topic, was your migration from Perl to Python a simple factor of the projects you worked on or was there a deliberate effort to proactively switch?

I learned Perl in the CGI days of the mid-90's and never even continued on to PHP. As a network consultant now, I find Perl to be immensely helpful, when it comes time to script some monitoring or automated activity.

That said, a fellow networker had mentioned that many others had been switching. Most of my days are not spent programming, but I do occasionally bust out a project or two. Is it worth my time to make the switch?

In a civil, intellectual manner that shows deliberate thought, as opposed to letting garbage tumble from the mouth, perhaps?

I believe the actual resource being referred to is the aforementioned human capital. The article mentioned that he was a network engineer, a career path that can easily command $60K/year on the low end.

Network engineers that show up to work and crank out widgets don't get to stay in that position. Those that seek to learn and grow, while reliably performing there jobs are typically the last on the chopping block and if they do get RIF-ed, have a strong market to fall back on. This is a good use of his time. Figuring out ways to mindlessly click/watch garbage resources on the Internet to scrape up an occasional pizza is laughable, when compared to his potential. Based on the information presented in the form it was, this looks more like a failure of the person than the system.

Speaking of information presented, I see no reason to think you have any more insight into a homeless person's motivation than you do for passive-aggressively insinuating the poster you are responding to is indifferent and ignorant.

Bush doctrine?

Consult your pediatrician before even considering letting your infant sleep with you. There may be additional SIDS concerns.