Comment I can't think of anything either (Score 2, Insightful) 409
What has ever caused more human suffering than religion?
What has ever caused more human suffering than religion?
Look online at the software engineer and developer job descriptions posted by respected companies.
Then pick the title where most of the descriptions generally match up well with what you are good at doing.
+1 if you make an algorithm that does the match ranking for you automatically and can demonstrate it during the interview.
Atlanta, GA 1998 and I was walking around outside the hotel in the early afternoon.
Not a bad neighborhood mostly office buildings, hotels and a few restaurants.
A little car pulls up beside me and stops, then from the passenger side a guy opens the window few inches and asks for directions to some place, kind of mumbling. I said sorry I don't where anything is I'm not from around here. (yes, dumb answer, now I know better) and so I keep walking.
I hear the car door open and turn around. There's this young black kid pointing a gun at my chest. Probably a
He said "give me 'yo flip phone" It was on my belt (yes, dumb, now I know better) and I handed it over... then he wanted my wallet, handed it over. He told me to "turn around" then "get down"
So there I was kneeling on the pavement and I thought he was going execute me so I said "can I say my prayers?" All I was thinking was who is going to take care of my daughters after I die.
He said 'go on an pray you honkey mutha f##ka" and fired.
I think he must have been heading back to the car as he pulled the trigger because it hit me in the foot. I thought "I'm supposed to be dead" and laid down on the pavement. I heard the car peel out and I could see it tear around corner.
The bullet only grazed me and after I just had to use a cane for a few weeks (yup, luckiest man on earth)
My personal take is that Gene Roddenberry was an alien whose goal was to nudge us in the generally correct direction without apparently doing so. To do this, he (it?) created a TV series called 'Star Trek' in which all advances we'd need were demonstrated to agile minds. Once it has been conceptualized, if it is possible, someone somewhere will eventually do it...
Best thinking I've seen on
These eponymous connections almost never pan out.
Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was not beheaded with one of his own devices.
Dr. Richard J. Gatling was not shot by his own invention, nor was John Garand or John T. Thompson.
In fact if it wasn't for Mr Blunt Object the whole idea never would have got started in the first place.
I was working on-site in South Korea a few years ago.
They said that since I was only going to be there for the week they would not provide me with a chair.
So I just stood at a make-shift workstation and it wasn't really all that bad after the first day or so.
I still do stand up and work for a few hours at a time -- just not all day.
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