* Posts by mtfrank

8 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2019

America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers

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Re: time-limited careers

I don't think "they" are that smart.

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Re: You think that's a problem?

Unions for engineers are great.

Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka 'the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on'

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Re: GPGs

Haha! I googled GPF and got "Gallons Per Flush".

Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare?

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Re: USA change its date format ...

Especially when fueling an airplane.

New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

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Monthly more the the complete works of Shakespeare and Robbie Burns!

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

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"we will need a long period – at least a generation – where women are favoured over men" has been standard practice at many large companies for many years. It is called "hiring to quota".

US boffins tangle with quantum entanglement in spooky rack-mounted networking hardware

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Re: Science is amazing and all...

Shit man. You owe me a new keyboard.

Free online tax filing? Yeah, that'll soon be illegal thanks to rare US Congressional unity

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Re: What's in a name?

I remember when a NASA rocket blew up on the launch pad. Instead of just saying it exploded, they said it was a "failure to meet mission requirements".