CamTin

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by CamTin 9y ago
How will you pay yourself a salary? Act as some kind of researcher for hire? What kind of clients do you see yourself serving?
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by CamTin 9y ago
I'm far from a SoundCloud user or a hip hop or rap aficionado, but I'd like to learn more about this. Can you elaborate? Or do you know of a source where I can read about this?
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by CamTin 9y ago
The obvious answer is that "non-profit" doesn't have a meaningful definition outside of the tax code. "Profit" is an accounting trick, for one, so any "excess money" (the commonly-understood meaning of &qu
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by CamTin 9y ago
I did think about selling it as "We'll force you to call your Mom /some time/ in the week. You may not know when!" Then I thought I'd want to exclude the middle of the night (don't want to give people hear
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by CamTin 9y ago
I built https://callmom.pro/ this year in anticipation of a Mother's day rush. The idea is that we'll call you and your mom once a week at a set day/time in such a way that your phones both ring and when you
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by CamTin 9y ago
Freedom costs $1.05
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by CamTin 9y ago
/Cannery Row/ by Steinbeck. It's a short read, but it packs in a lot of insight about the human condition. I re-read it every year or so, and still learn new things.
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by CamTin 9y ago
On the other hand, if someone offers to let you make an infinitely leveraged 500,000 dollar bet that you can walk away from at any time provided you are OK with the consequence of being unable to access another mortgage loan or to rent (be
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by CamTin 9y ago
For anyone that is struggling to understand generics in regular Java/c#-ish languages, have a go at learning the basics of CLOS, the Common Lisp object system. This uses "generics" ("generic functions" in CLOS jargo
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by CamTin 9y ago
Do you have some airline/IT ops stories about that day and the aftermath? If so, I (and I'm sure others) would be delighted to hear about them.
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by CamTin 10y ago
I love that somebody had to go to a print shop and ask for "Video Game Plan Forms". Probably the most awe-inspiring thing to me about most great 20th century engineering (and other) accomplishments is that, except in a very few fi
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by CamTin 10y ago
There doesn't necessarily need to be a literal conspiracy in order for the intended effects of laws to be completely bogus. For example, I think we can all agree that poll taxes were intended to keep southern black Americans from votin
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by CamTin 10y ago
Is the source for this somewhere?
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by CamTin 10y ago
I find TRAMP ( https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode ) invaluable in these situations. It lets you run shells/edit files on remote machines from within your local Emacs. There are a few quirks that you need to g
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by CamTin 10y ago
Those things ARE the user experience.
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I'm not saying it wasn't a pain in the ass, just that intermingling what amount to administrative tasks with major business objectives under the header "major accomplishments" isn't great for your image. It's l
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by CamTin 10y ago
You list "Migrated the email list from MailChimp to SendinBlue" as a "major accomplishment". This is a minor, even trivial, administrative or technical task. Trumpeting it as if it is one of the biggest things you'v
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by CamTin 10y ago
Gemini had a (much more limited) guidance computer that flew in space: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/ch1-1.html It didn't provide all the capabilities that the AGC did, but it did provide for navigation calcul
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by CamTin 11y ago
How fast do you think I can get a fair price for my 97 Sable? Fast enough to cover an "emergency" expense? Cars aren't very liquid. You can sell them to a huckster with a lot in the shady part of town for 1/3 of what you
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by CamTin 11y ago
Spare me. /The Martian/ is certainly not literary fiction -- it's pure genre fantasy, hard sci-fi. Of course Watney isn't going to bloviate on the nature of being human. We have plenty of masturbatory novelists doing tha
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by CamTin 11y ago
I'm a non-gunowner and frankly don't understand why open carry is seen as the more extreme version of concealed carry. It's much more worrisome to me that someone might have a hidden gun than if they have one out in the open.
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by CamTin 11y ago
I used to have difficulty explaining to people why I was unwilling to work unpaid overtime, but I've finally settled on just saying "It's a moral issue; I think it is wrong." This seems to shut people up, at least, thoug
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by CamTin 11y ago
What do you suppose is the over/under on this becoming a public utility, or just another aspect of running a proper regional 911 system?
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by CamTin 11y ago
Both are phenomenally successful products. I wonder if this openness was a part of that success.
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by CamTin 11y ago
For non-technical people whose tasks have reached the limit of what can easily be maintained in Excel, it seems like you need the opposite as well--call it a spreadsheet decompiler, which outputs this hypothetical declarative DSL. Alice in
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by CamTin 11y ago
'Silicon Prairie' is the one I've heard tossed around.
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by CamTin 11y ago
Comparing "no management", "flat structure", "holocracy" to the trend for the tech elite to get free food from the cafeteria is really misleading. Food actually can be provided to someone at zero cost (though o
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by CamTin 11y ago
I don't think it's feasible , but that's a great premise for a scifi story.
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by CamTin 11y ago
WWII wasn't possible without the railroads because the interstate highways hadn't been built yet. They are now, and as a result our rail network has become useless for personnel and troop transport. Sure, we can press our amazing
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by CamTin 11y ago
What kind of emergencies? Ones where we suddenly have to run a lot of passenger trains?

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