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by amorphid 10y ago
It's "easy" to make money if you aren't super concerned with the means through which you acquire it.
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by amorphid 10y ago
In the USA, I recently met a random nuclear power plant worker at a bar. They claimed that many currently operational nuclear plants have trouble remaining competitive in today's market. Apparently expanding or refurbishing an operat
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by amorphid 10y ago
That's a really interesting point. I wonder if it'd be practical to address the handoff problem with rolling start times. So if average ER patient takes 3 hours to treat from start to finish, for an 8 hour shift, you stop taking
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by amorphid 10y ago
If "put your code in the database" becomes a trending fad into which I am dragged, I'm going to write a MyFavoriteLanguage-to-SQL transpiler.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Sometimes debt is cheaper than VC money, if you have the cash flow to pay it back. If sales tank, and your cash flow slows down, you'll learn how quickly debt is not always cheaper :) In the article, the first company mentioned talks
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by amorphid 10y ago
>> The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At first I was thinking it's ridiculous to consider someone as well part of the problem if the
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by amorphid 10y ago
Here's an example you can try on any Linux System running procfs. https://gist.github.com/amorphid/4a65741d14db38b96341d7e1f2d... The short version is I'm passing a variable in via the pid's standard in,
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by amorphid 10y ago
Or don't have the keys on the server at all. Anyone who gets root access can walk right up to the key file and yoink it. Obviously keys have to be stored somewhere. But it doesn't have to be on every server's disk. Also, t
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by amorphid 10y ago
I used to love DSLs. But recently I've become a fan of code I can look at and follow with my eyes. Debugging a nil error deep down in some nested macro magic isn't really as fun as it used to be (looking at you ActiveModel valid
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by amorphid 10y ago
I accept my punishment.
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by amorphid 10y ago
<sarcasm>As an MBA who discussed (but didn't have time to read) a case study on programming, I know it's not possible to expect you to do complete a task in less time than it will take. After all, maybe you've heard th
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by amorphid 10y ago
<sarcasm>Us MBA's have stuff figured out. When I run your code through my mean-time-between-failures Excel spreadsheet analyzer, I can predict with 95% confidence how long it will be before programs running your code will crash.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I am 42, and I don't agree with your assessment. I didn't get my first full time software dev gig until age 40 (learned to code over previous few years). The primary thing my employer cares about is my contribution to the compan
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by amorphid 10y ago
It sounds like therapy is learning to run, and medication is a good pair of running shoes.
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by amorphid 10y ago
This worked for me. I borrowed way too much money going to school. As a fresh MBA grad in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, with few marketable skills, I couldn't find any career options that would offer a starting salary that
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by amorphid 10y ago
Earthquake insurance is pretty darn expensive, and most (all?) homeowner policies don't cover earthquake damage. Source: I used to be a licensed property and casualty agent in California.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I am in SF and felt it. I live on the 9th floor of an 11 story building. The building swayed just enough to notice it. If I didn't know what an earthquake is, I may not have realized it was one. Had I been asleep, the quake would p
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by amorphid 10y ago
Let's break it down: >> A few years ago, I wanted to make a product, but I wasn't very technical. So I decided to change that--I got technical. You are a bad ass. I went from techinical recruiting to software engineering.
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by amorphid 10y ago
The user interface for that test is horrendous. I felt dumber just looking at it. The flow is quite rigid. For example... at the start of the test, there's a "Please press 'ENTER' to continue"... A) My keyboard
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by amorphid 10y ago
I don't know if I agree. Software is a pain to write well, especially for a process that's not yet understood. A simple example from my personal life is writing down exercises I do at the gym. I was surprised by how many differe
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by amorphid 10y ago
Is this more or less useful than C bindings in either language?
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by amorphid 10y ago
Asking questions that give an incentive to cheat are typically poor questions in my experience. Or maybe an indication that the job is gonna suck a little bit.
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by amorphid 10y ago
This app must be called Bedhead.
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by amorphid 10y ago
One reason it's worth doing a startup if you know something other people don't. For example, you've been working in an industry, have some knowledge of that industry's inefficiencies, and can efficiently tackle those in
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by amorphid 10y ago
A couple months ago I was on the bus, and a religious person started preaching. Loudly. It was really annoying. I asked him to stop, and he hid behind some reference to his constitutionally protected rights. I did nothing, but I really
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by amorphid 10y ago
I love coding on a train.
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by amorphid 10y ago
What do you think of the idea that learning to programming improves one's ability to think critically, but that doesn't automatically mean one makes better choices? Putting garbage into a decision making process will still lead t
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by amorphid 10y ago
>> Decline invitations from VCs to drink a coffee More generally I read this as... What are my priorities? 100% focus on building an MVP with resources I have now. Someone with resources I may need later wants to chat now. Does th
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by amorphid 10y ago
One practical reason is that I suspect most C developers aren't interested in building web applications. And most web application developers don't know C.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I used a recruiting tool about 2 years ago that crawled GitHub & other sources, building a profile which including email addresses. One developer's profile didn't have an email address, which I thought was odd, as the email w

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