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user55340

21:00

Looks like 2 8 votes - Fredly went from needing 0.72 votes to 0.58 at the time.

user55340

(21x 2, 8 and 46 1, 8 votes)

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer That's all relevant insofar as it speaks to governmental failure to implement mass transit, but hello - there has been almost zero mass transit implementations in this country since the 50s or earlier - that really doesn't speak to why Atlanta fell to bits. So they probably should have had more snowshovels out there, but to be honest I'm not sure we run shovels with 2" of snow and we do alright... we do at least spread gravel though.

But at that, it's still a stretch to blame the government for irrational behaviour from motorists based on an experience that is extremely rare

user20683

@JimmyHoffa every 5 years at the very most

user20683

on average

Jimmy Hoffa

I still wager it's just - the population has no idea what to do.

user55340

21:03

I thought there was a "blizzard" in 2011?

user20683

@MichaelT There was but the schools and shops were closed the day of

user55340

straightfromthea.com/2011/01/10/…

user20683

I lived through that, walking on ice for a mile in basic hiking boots is...fun.

user55340

Oh... this one is good news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/11/…

user20683

that was getting groceries on like day 3

user15026

21:05

@WorldEngineer I would have broken something.

user55340

One point to consider - snow isn't as uncommon as people think it is. Another point to consider - don't use "summer tires" on cars - be aware of what traction you have and respect that.

Jimmy Hoffa

@AshleyNunn I'm surprised @WorldEngineer didn't considering at 6' 120lbs he's got to have hollow bones.

user20683

@JimmyHoffa 5'10" and 130 lbs

user20683

I finally gained weight

user15026

@WorldEngineer I still think in a good Canadian snowstorm you'd be like a kite.....

Jimmy Hoffa

21:08

Whoa, decided a healthy weight might do you some good? You gave in didn't you - you started eating steak and realized how wrong you were for all those years, and how amazing a good sirloin is

user15026

Somedays I think my 6' 275 lb frame is the only thing that keeps me on the ground.

user15026

@JimmyHoffa Now I want a steak....because yes, good.

Jimmy Hoffa

@AshleyNunn Maybe he's some kind of hybrid; when he grows up he'll sprout wings, would explain where he gets the geens for hollow bones.

user20683

@JimmyHoffa no, I finally stabilized my diet. I'm back where I was before I go the "lifting everything" job

user15026

@JimmyHoffa And then be a scientific marvel.

Jimmy Hoffa

21:11

@WorldEngineer ah yeah, you need to increase your intake when you increase your output like that.. when I'm lifting I eat 4 meals a day whereas I eat 2 a day when not making it to the gym.

@WorldEngineer did you apply for that job that had that linq snippet?

user20683

@JimmyHoffa no, entirely alien skillset

user20683

even though I can kind of read C#, everything else was "nope".

user20683

plus I'm not keen on Texas or Alberta

user55340

21:28

@WorldEngineer I hear Austin isn't that bad.

user20683

@MichaelT perhaps

user15026

Ontario has a lot of tech stuff? Especially in my area (yay Kitchener Waterloo being all...itself.)

user55340

My old manager (good one) is now a owner of a consulting company that has 3 offices: Silly Valley, Tennessee (there's a tech place there were a number of SV companies work out of - cheaper cost of living) and Austin.

Feeds

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Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer I didn't really read it but you gotta just reach out and apply for shit like that anyway. There is no alien skill set for you yet - because you're fresh out, you don't really have experience in any given skillset yet

user20683

21:39

@JimmyHoffa fair enough but I've not used a Windows box in a year

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer And you've not used many of the tools you'll be using in your first programming job ever, doesn't mean you won't quickly pick up how to get your tasks accomplished with them, with the help of your team.

user20683

fair enough

psr

@AshleyNunn You were the candidate a lot and a lot of people liked a little.

Jimmy Hoffa

Expect to walk into a place with no idea what you're doing, and plan to rely on your ability to figure shit out quickly and think analytically. Nobody expects a fresh college grad to already know some framework or another or their particular development stack and toolchain..

user15026

@psr I think that sentence makes some sort of sense.

user55340

21:42

I'd look at it more as a "moderate canidate that people select after their other two choices"

psr

@AshleyNunn You were the candidate a lot of people liked a little.

Hmm, my edit took too long so it reposted

user15026

And a lot of a little adds up over time and bam diamond.

user55340

"I know the tools, I'm a contributing member to the site, I'm not one that is polarizing."

user55340

And thus, the 2nd or 3rd choices... though realize also you where the first choice for about half the votes you ended up winning with.

user15026

@MichaelT I suppose that does sound like a good platform.

user20683

21:46

@AshleyNunn in short you were the exact opposite of me

user20683

half of the people who voted, voted for only me.

psr

@WorldEngineer That's common for bomb throwing radicals

user55340

A number of the other candidates had strong personalities that polraized people to either vote for them, or not.

user15026

@MichaelT Whereas I was just me, and not polarizing, and thus attractive as a vote of some form

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer Also our election had only 3 candidates and the other 2 didn't really meet most people's preference

user20683

21:51

@JimmyHoffa true

psr

@AshleyNunn If you go into politics in the U.S. you're going to have to try a completely different approach though.

Jimmy Hoffa

@psr Something like lighting things on fire, while simultaneously castigating yourself and trying to blow them out

user55340

@AshleyNunn As I said, give me some time and I'll dig up the data on the first second and third choices that include you.

user55340

Consider - there were 104 votes that were either "Less Pop, Fred" or "Fred, Less Pop"

user55340

Theres an interesting visualization to be had there.

psr

22:00

@MichaelT I'm visualizing someone named "Fred" popping a little too much.

user55340

Heh... I'm thinking more...

user55340

user15026

@MichaelT I appreciate it :)

user55340

Less busy version

psr

@MichaelT Say no more, I've got it now. The moderator vote was decided by high tech Frisbees.

user55340

22:02

@AshleyNunn I'm intrigued by visualizations in general... its the "pretty picture" aspect of the area I tend to work in (reporting)... and well, 3 things drive technology: games, pretty pictures, and porn.

user20683

@MichaelT guns

user20683

I guess that falls under "porn"

user15026

@MichaelT I like some of those

user55340

(interactive form of the chord diagram: bl.ocks.org/mbostock/raw/4062006 )

user55340

The data backing that particular one is "what countries hold each other's debt"

Jimmy Hoffa

22:17

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