A super nova that out shined the entire galaxy and the only way we get to see it is via light echos that only powerful telescopes can see. So no, we didn't get to see it with our naked eyes.

I guess I should have asked what the prices were like where you lived in the city. I'm sure prices can vary a lot depending on where you are.

Housing is a large portion of many people's incomes. Going from $500/m for a 2 bedroom 3 level duplex with a 2 stall garage where I live, to who knows what in a big city, is probably a big difference. Not to mention getting to/from anywhere in the city is about 5-10 minutes no matter what time of the day.

I understand not having a yard because mowing does suck, but I hate small places. Most people who have two kids and a wife probably think differently about having a small place to live, unless you want your kid's play room in your living room, which spills into your kitchen, then you invite friends over and they bring their kids.

I hate going out. Not much intellectually stimulating at most "fun" places. A lot more challenges my mind on the Internet.

Different people, different priorities I guess.

What's the living cost where you were? All of that sounds like a lot until you hear that pre-housing crash, I could get a new 2500 sq-ft house on a 1-4 acre plot with access to high quality fiber Internet for about $150k. $72k would put you in the top about 10% around here. housing is cheap, internet is cheap, education is cheap, but we have some of the best housing, lowest crime, fastest internet, and best education.

Anita Sarkeesian has done many speeches where she talks negatively about making women "masculine", but if you look at her "research" papers, she defines masculine traits as "self confident", "control of themselves", "objective", "independent", "objective", and "rational". She describes listed under "values for a more feminist television landscape". Then promptly turns around and complains that video game designers are giving female characters "masculine" traits. Ohh lordy lordy, we can't have self confident, objective, independent, rational female characters!

Not to mention she seems to love wearing low cut shirts that show a lot of cleavage, and puts a lot of time into makeup and other superficial things. Don't you just love it when people fit they stereotype they're trying to attack? She's just making things worse for real feminists, but these are the kinds of people who get media attention. Ignoring her logic issues, she'd be much easier to listen to if she didn't dress like a 19 year old college girl going to a party. If you want to fight stereotypes, don't look like the one you're trying to fight.

Even more fun when the wife still helps out even though she's not in the mood. Help with a quickly, then back to playing World of Warcraft together.

Addiction is bad, news at 11.

He sounds about correct for what the prominent feminists are saying. That one feminist that did a Ted Talk has a research paper that categorizes "confidence" as a negative masculine trait, then does speeches about females characters in video games and movies are just female in body, but as given masculine traits. Yeah, like confidence. If you're a confident person, that's a bad thing.

Help your GF get off to?

Bug report: Logs keep getting corrupted and cannot read them at all
Rejected with reason: Delete the corrupted logs and move on

SystemD - works well when it works, fails spectacularly when it fails.

QoS is an incredibly hard problem. Even professionals who are very good at their craft get it wrong on their own networks. What makes you think an ISP can properly QoS other people's traffic? ISP should be limited to purchasing more bandwidth and using anti-bufferbloat AQMs, but no throttling or QoS.

Motivation is not enough, you need interest, obsessive curiosity.

It was printed from the internet, patent it!

In my very limited experience, outsourcing was expensive, slow, and had a lot lost in miscommunication. We pretty much got a minimal viable product with very brittle code. Since they only focused on getting small sets of features at a time, they didn't ever look at the whole feature set. They effectively had feature creep even without changes to the specs.

In the end it was cheaper to hire full time programmers locally. Barrier to entry was much lower with outsourcing, but even within a year's time, the costs were much higher, and the quality was sub-par.

Local State uni. Lots of alumni in big companies or important government tech positions. When you graduated, you pretty much had a bunch of practice and theory to be a full-stack programmer, Database admin, network admin, server admin, and system's security. A very well rounded education. When I architect and design my projects, I consider all aspects, security, performance, maintainability, what systems it communicates with.

The most important thing I learned was how to think from other people's positions. I bettered my ability to both be critical and creative by learning other people's point of views. Because I can put myself in a DBA's shoes, or a network admin's, or the security team, my ability to program is much better. I also get a lot of slack from the admins since I do think of them and make their jobs as easy as possible for what needs to get done. For many other programmers, coordinating several admins to setup the environment is like herding cats. I seem to have little issue.

It's amazing how much of a difference small design decisions can make. Butterfly Effect applies to programming and being able to see the ramifications of minute design details helps a lot.

Make a good swap or temp drive.