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by alexc05 11y ago
That reads like satire.
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by alexc05 11y ago
I think the biggest impediment to widescale solar adoption is legeslative. If you follow hackernews, you'll regularly see articles about places like Florida (and possibly Nevada if memory serves) where solar could easily power homes, b
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by alexc05 11y ago
That's funny, I was just researching this last week. I stumbled across some music generators. A downloadable one http://duion.com/link/cgmusic-computer-generated-music And http://www.abundant-music.com&
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by alexc05 11y ago
I wonder if it is going to wind up applying to voting machines or if they're somehow going to be "loopholed" I'd prefer that those machines could have their code audited.
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by alexc05 11y ago
Lovely! But quite the opposite of a sorrow, I felt it was a somewhat beautiful realization. I'm sure if I was having a low day it could take it as a sort of "we're insignificant specks on a floating rock" but I was havin
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by alexc05 11y ago
The first thing that struck me (After I got over the whole, creepy/horror/revulsion thing) was how much more fun people seemed in their social media lives. Rather than seeing this as an exposition of "people on social media a
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by alexc05 11y ago
This stuff is amazing and I love the initiative - but can these farms produce the amount a store needs? I always think about how cool it would be to have a salad restaurant where the walls were all vertical farming walls and all the seating
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by alexc05 11y ago
This is fantastic! After nearly 20 years as a self-taught programmer I've been thinking about going back to school to get a CS degree (or master's) Since I haven't taken linear algebra or calculus those are some pretty big
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by alexc05 11y ago
I saw a youtube talk on this one ... I think it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YP8QP9gLA Really great stuff. The spot where he gets to a pretty good description of how he uses his flame graph is roughly her
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by alexc05 11y ago
Isn't that clever? Of course it is. Land is above "sea level" and all that. (Except when it's not, but in the whole macro sense land must be above sea level)
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by alexc05 11y ago
> The bottom line is that this is technical forum, and that kind of crap simply doesn't belong here. This, we agree on. The "men's thoughts" bit returns to the 'reductio' stuff. It's ridiculously under
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by alexc05 11y ago
You edited your comment (for the worse in my estimation.) I was going to agree with you that we don't need to promote crassness on HN. But regardless of that, his isn't some sort of indication of an underlying misogyny in tech. It
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by alexc05 11y ago
Not at all. The calculation was based on $150k (high end Amazon) multiplied by 1.3 which at $195k comes out to "almost double" a Canadian $100k. It's a full on stretch of cherry pick-ery but it isn't tounge in cheek. The
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by alexc05 11y ago
These are the wages nationally for Canadian software developers. http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/mobile/report-eng.do?area=9219&lang... You can also look at national occupational code 2173 & 2175 Here is a list of act
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by alexc05 11y ago
Ohhh... man. This is a bit tough to read. After 20 years in programming I've recently started looking into going back for a CS degree (masters or undergrad). But this guy makes me wonder if I should reconsider the MBA option.
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by alexc05 11y ago
Hey! So forgive the snooping, but I looked at your comment history. - This post. - "Need a raise how to ask" - "100% burnt out" You're telling yourself something. Quit. Give your legally required no
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by alexc05 11y ago
I think you're right here. I read the comments of another link to this article where someone was going on about how DF only runs on a single-core and could benefit from a layer of threading. Apparently even though it's text only
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by alexc05 11y ago
Another thing to remember is that tastes can be acquired. When I was 12 I hated beer, blue cheese and olives. Nowadays I'd have that for dinner and count myself lucky. I remember being unwilling to eat the coffee crisp out of my Hallow
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by alexc05 11y ago
> but by open-sourcing our farming model so that anybody with 20 acres and a boat and $30,000 can start his or her own farm. It sounds like they are open sourcing their information. Further, they're offering 2 years consulting and 5
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by alexc05 11y ago
STEM's reputation as unwelcoming to all is often criticised. Frequent examples include things like the headline in this article. What value does "cock" add to blocking in this context? While I'm not always in favor of th
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by alexc05 11y ago
Surely you're getting the sense of the patterns of things you're doing. Maybe something like "that's probably 3 loops and an email" That's a couple hours for the loops... A couple more for the email, assuming
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by alexc05 11y ago
It's funny, we've got the ability to do that at work, we track our time in 15 minute blocks and break each task down. As an agency (maybe it's the same everywhere), I think there is wild external and internal pressure against
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by alexc05 11y ago
True! And as I realized in another thread... Having an Ubuntu space on Windows actually makes "native" react-native totally plausible.
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by alexc05 11y ago
Thanks for the note. I'll admit that when I was Greenfield on my current project the "we don't support Windows" stuff on the react native homepage was enough to ward me off. The timeline was to strict for me to risk runn
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by alexc05 11y ago
I can sympathize! I'm using an encrypted database on the device and there are some real slowdowns. For as far as I trace the code, the only part I can't really optimize is the db open commands For the most part it's pretty sl
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by alexc05 11y ago
Holy shit! You're right! I only just put 2+2 together. With Ubuntu space native on Windows you actually CAN develop a react native app on Windows now.
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by alexc05 11y ago
Honestly, I think it still has its place. HTML+CSS means we don't have to retrain our web developers but can still produce work for our clients that meets their needs. Personally, I'd like to go more native and xamarin could enab
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by alexc05 11y ago
I'm leading a small team in building an ionic app right now. The edge that cordova/phonegap/ionic will retain is the HTML and CSS part. As well as, at least for a little while, a more robust plugin ecosystem. Though that sec
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by alexc05 11y ago
> I know a few smart and motivated self-taught developers. > They're incredibly productive, but sometimes waste too much. > time trying to solve known problems in an inefficient manner. As a self taught with 20 years in field,
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by alexc05 11y ago
I've been developing professionally for nearly 20 years now. Though, since some of that time was as a high school teacher, it isn't all, super high end stuff, but even there was value in learning how non-programmers think about co

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