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I guess there are two types of people. Those that say you should never go to Cosby's house and those that say you can go, just don't have a drink. Guess I'm the latter.

I'm sure he was a swell guy and got screwed. My point is that you're inviting all kinds of trouble if you start playing grabass at work whether it's a co-worker or not.

Well he did something stupid and got fired for it. If you are one of those people who has to fondle your girl everytime she's in eyeshot then yeah you should never date someone from work. I was also assuming some basic common sense was going to be applied.

I didn't "pooh pooh" it, it's the biggest risk in my opinion. Your experience is completely contrary to mine though. I've never seen anyone get fired that wasn't a manager/subordinate of the person they were dating and I've some seen some real dramatic bullshit work relationships too. I've...

I already stated the obvious (and you restated it) but everyone knows that manager/subordinate relationships are playing with fire. That is not the case here. I'd also agree that being on the same team especially where team work is a major factor for success is probably also a bad idea. But...

Why does everyone think that dating a co-worker automatically results in job loss? With the exception of dating a manager / subordinate I've never seen it happen once in the 20 years I've been in the work force. And I've seen a lot of co-workers date, breakup, be awkward and do plenty of...

We all know dating a co-worker carries more risk than a non co-worker. If I were in the situation to do it again, I definitely would but I also know that I could find a new job if I needed to. I would not however date my boss or a subordinate. Those stakes are too high right there.

I met my wife at work 13 years ago. Granted, I didn't really give a shit about my job at that place so I probably would have quit if it ended badly anyway. We worked together in the same department for 2 years though and everyone knew we were together and they were all very cool about it.

Didn't someone here work for Booz Allen before? I heard they had better than average pay/benefits for the industry so I applied for a job that looked pretty fun and that I was well qualified for. Got called right away by recruiter, then did a technical interview and the technical guys were...

Never heard of Burns. After looking at them, I think they are rather ugly, but to each his own. It looked to me like all of their guitars had single coil pickups so you're probably going to get a straty / trebly sound from them.

You guys have any sos (system of systems) you have to build out all the time? Ansible is great for that sort of thing.

When I think slide guitar I think Ry Cooder myself.

You say thot (like thought) but it's an acronym.

DevOps is hipster slang for putting your docker confs in a git repo. All joking aside though I was doing what people call "devops" now 10 years ago and we just called it "configuration management" back then.

I don't know if the PhDs working on murder tools (missile systems, aerospace) is the largest sector. I'd say there are plenty of them in the intel community doing various intel related things. They usually are contracted/assigned to R&D programs and departments though. I know I'd like to wind up...

There are tons of PhD's in defense. I know we like to shit on it around here, but tons of innovation still happens in defense.

I'd rather hear them talk about it. Like I said, I've worked with 20+ year "engineers" who would look very impressive on paper but couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a paper bag.

Well if you expect someone to write syntactically correct code in whatever language on a whiteboard, then yeah I think that's lame. A little bit of pseudo code though I don't see any problem with. Especially if the job may require it from time to time. I mean honestly, I think a lot of IT...

Brain teasers are ok sometimes. I hope no one actually takes them as a serious gauge of skill, but they can shed some light on how a person reasons through things. A lot of companies though thought they could just copycat Google and Microsoft by adding in brain teasers without actually...

Well trick questions are pretty stupid. I also hate it when people ask you what you think is the best way to do X, and the whole time you are trying to say how you would do it they interject with questions and try to lead you down the path of how they would they would do it. That's actually...

I have a mandolin and that's fun to play sometimes. But I just can't get into the ukulele and I pretty much hate everything about them.

I don't think unraveling a for loop is a terrible question to see if someone grasps the logic behind it. I've unfortunately worked with a lot of people who've got 10-20 years of experience as "engineers" but somehow don't really understand shit about computers. They know how to build things one...

After 26 months finally got that TS/SCI renewed. Feels good that I can bail if needed when my contract is rebid in January.

I don't see the point of an IDE for an interpreted language really. Powershell tried to get fancy with their ISE and running scripts in the debug console didn't always have the same behavior as they did when you ran them in production. To me it's just way easier to use my favorite text editor...

My mother and father in-law have one of those old Ronco rotisseries, I think that's actually the best way to cook a turkey without wrecking the breast. The downside is that you get almost no juice for the gravy.

My family always did a ham and a turkey. I hate ham though. Honestly my favorite part about turkey is not eating it hot out of the oven - well aside from maybe the drumsticks. I like turkey sandwiches and then taking the turkey carcass and making turkey soup. God damn is turkey soup good.

LinkedIn and Glassdoor are my main research tools. Definitely must haves when looking for work. Clearancejobs is probably still the best for cleared work though.

Guess it depends on what you are coding. I think IDEs are overkill for banging out scripts or editing confs which is probably what most hardcore VIers are doing. I think CVS has been around since the 80's. Before that they probably had internal tools or in a lot cases they just had like 2...

My high school girlfriend did a lot of modeling when she was a kid (catalog ads and shit like that). She had very fond memories of it, but she also was the type who would be into that sort of thing. Her mom was real bad with money and had drug and gambling problems, so she got absolutely nothing...

Software development is a huge space too. The dudes plugging away on LOB C# applications probably aren't making much use of their CS degrees (if they have them). Where as those working on device drivers or proprietary algorithms probably make a bit more use of it. Until quantum computing changes...

Disabling unused ports will do nothing to improve signal or bandwidth or anything like that. When they say strengthen, they probably mean "more secure." It's a good security practice to disable any ports you don't use so people don't just plug something into it and have access to your...

Yeah that's a bummer when they get too focused on textbook questions to judge your knowledge. Though depending on how they worded the questions they may have been looking for CHGRP/CHOWN and not CHMOD. I've been on both sides where people I know could do the job have been passed up because they...

This aint the playerauctions days. All you have to do is "donate" to a streamer and join the run for free.

I thought Blizzard gave the okay to do run selling for gold? If people are paying real cash, well I guess that's kinda hard to prove unless they were dumb enough to say it over blizz channels.

Yeah that's what I was trying to convey in my other post. It's not just a normal erection, it's a steel tower. But for me it goes away when I pee or if I try to make use of it without peeing I literally get no other feeling than having to piss really bad but it does last.

My son of course wants a tablet that can play fortnite.... Yeah fuck that. Only ones that can even do it it seems are galaxy tabs and they are 500. Just going to buy him a switch instead and we'll both get enjoyment from it :).

Slightly unrelated... but I feel like I get mega boners when I have to pee really bad in the morning but then when I pee they go away. One time I tried to bang my wife with it before going pee and even though it was awesome for her, I just felt like I had to pee really fucking bad the whole time.

I mean, I could see it being useful as part of a panel of hormones / prehormones. I was just trying to point out that I had read an article that said going out to walmart and buying a bottle of DHEA and throwing it down with your multivitamin each morning isn't going to have much of an effect on...

Well that is the theory behind it yes, but from I read Prasterone - Wikipedia (I read an actual journal somewhere years ago, but linking wikipedia cause I'm lazy) it doesn't actually affect testosterone in men much if at all.

Discrete mathematics are definitely important to computer science. A lot of people really enjoy lambda calculus and it's CS derivatives (anonymous functions and all that) but I don't see it getting used much in the professional world. Maybe in R&D departments. I have a lowly CIS degree so I took...