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New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:48:39 +0000

I was thinking Google might be it. I do this in Google Maps on my phone, but thought maybe even Google Maps was passe these days.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:36:44 +0000

Well they were at one point. I'm a bit of a dinosaur, so I was alive before either of these existed. I'm left wondering what people do now. Have an app for each theater perhaps?

Edit: I don't believe sonicxxg deserves any down-votes. After all, everyone doesn't know everything. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:00:03 +0000

I wondered what happened. It used to be my go to place for movies but it just kept degrading. Now I go to Fandango.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:30:48 +0000

I was really forced into it by wanting to retain my job. If I wasn't working where I am, then I wouldn't have made the change. But I like working where I am just 8 minutes from my house, pretty good job security compared to the tech industry, pretty good benefits, everything else pretty good compared to other jobs in my career. That 8 minute drive is worth so much to me.

I work for a transportation company and there are a lot of field people that have moved in to c-level positions and have the "butts in seats" mentality and I think that's why after 12 years of 9:30 - 10:00 am starts, suddenly I get smacked with a "needs improvement" on my review. And our technology department is having big problems retaining talent.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:24:19 +0000

I'm with you on all of this. It was an eye-opener visiting other countries (USA native here) that were more laid-back about getting to work and staying at work. Mexico City in particular was nice and relaxed when I worked there for a while.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:22:08 +0000

Possibly but I don't think so in my case. I've worked 9:30 am - 6:30 pm or later for most of my 25 year career. Stayed up until 2 am every night pretty much.

I really did force the change for myself and it totally sucked going through it. I still don't just jump out of bed and feel instantly great. It takes 30 minutes or so to get fully awake. For example, this morning I so did not want to get up because I stayed up until 1 am. However, I did get up at 5:30 am anyway. It was awful and I'm dragging today. Caffeine helps as well.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:17:48 +0000

It's always possible. However, I forced this change. It didn't occur naturally over time.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:39:11 +0000

Interesting story about sleep. I tossed and turned until 3 or 4 am every night for most of my life. Horrible horrible nightmares every night. Exhausted every day, falling asleep behind the wheel on the way to work, nodding off in meetings or at my desk. I slept 10-16 hours on weekends sometimes and still felt tired. Napped every day after work.

About 8 years ago, my co-worker said he used to have the same problems until he got a CPAP machine. One sleep study and CPAP machine later, now I fall asleep easily and rarely dream. If on the rare occasion I can't go to sleep, I just accept it, get up for an hour or two, then go back to sleep knowing that I'm gonna suffer a little that day. Definitely the exception though.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:30:47 +0000

Anecdotally, at 51 and previously thought the same as you, I'm going to disagree. I'm closing in on two years of getting up at 5:00 am and it doesn't bother me anymore. I never thought it would be possible for me to adapt, but so far I have and I have no intention of changing.

Time will tell.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:19:16 +0000

Lifelong (51 years) night owl and morning hater. I got in trouble at work for being late and that was it for me. I have been getting up at 5:00 am for almost two years now. I don't leave for work until about 7:30 am. I do now enjoy the time in the morning before work and the desire to not miss that time has become extra motivation to get up in the morning.

At first I did go to sleep between 9:00 - 10:00 pm every night without fail. That seemed to help the transition. Now, I can stay up later if I want and "sleep-in" until 6:00 am.

No neat tricks or anything for me, just fear of losing my job and the disaster that would cause.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)"

LameRubberDucky — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:45:33 +0000

Wow, I just looked up what hiQ does and have to say it's pretty scummy in my opinion. Why do people create stuff like this? Don't they know it will likely come back to bite them one day?

For reference:

"There is more information about your employees outside the walls of your organization than inside it. hiQ curates and leverages this public data to drive employee-positive actions.

Our machine learning-based SaaS platform provides flight risks and skill footprints of enterprise organizations, allowing HR teams to make better, more reliable people decisions."

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)"

LameRubberDucky — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:39:35 +0000

I would think, and of course could be wrong, it would be as legal as Google scraping all of the web sites that they do in order to create their search engine in the first place. In particular, Google provides cached versions of web pages. That's pretty hardcore scraping.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:30:10 +0000

Does it need to be better? There are many quotes about simply being content in life. I finally realized it's okay for me to spend time playing Call of Duty if that's what I want to do. If I wasn't doing that, I'd most likely be doing some other hobby that may not have any particular value either. As long as I take care of my health, family, and job, my "spare" time is mine.

Edit: Yuck, that sounds worse when I read it back. I do volunteer and donate to charity as well. I'm not completely selfish.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework"

LameRubberDucky — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:48:38 +0000

You win the internet for today. Brilliant.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework"

LameRubberDucky — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:47:16 +0000

Is this the new Zawinski law? No programming language is complete until someone builds a web framework with it.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Actix project postmortem"

LameRubberDucky — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:36:25 +0000

> either express or implied

Did you miss this part?

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Startup Ideas 2020"

LameRubberDucky — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:56:27 +0000

All? A person can have an incorrect view while still maintaining other correct views.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "You might literally be buying trash on Amazon"

LameRubberDucky — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:39:05 +0000

Here in the DFW area, I can get same day delivery of some items from Best Buy. I bought my SSD on cyber-monday that way and had it the same day. You do have to check the box that says in-store items or similar. Can't remember the exact name, but that will filter out all of the marketplace items.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "My Year in Review: 2019"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:48:59 +0000

A lot of it is fiction, so I would assume it is for enjoyment. No need to remember all of it.

New comment by LameRubberDucky in "Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor"

LameRubberDucky — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:33:44 +0000

Isn't this the definition of a kickback?