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by aswanson 7y ago
Started by talking with contractors who worked where I was full-time. Many had long term contracts & were making 2x what I made, doing the same work. Test the market before making the jump. Also, keep in mind that staying at the same jo
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by aswanson 7y ago
Yup. Gray-haired contracting life is a different beast altogether compared to being an employee.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Awesome. I love projects like this.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Yeah, it's basically a lazy-evaluated type monad that can return another function or object.
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by aswanson 7y ago
What are the odds on the carriers actually doing that? I've been predicting that for like 10 years.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Formal bs/ms ee here as well. Started off wanting to do hardware and looked at programming as an afterthought. After a few years of working in embedded and realizing how many gaps there are in my knowledge, and how beautiful the field
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by aswanson 7y ago
Over hundreds of years...it can't. The question remains, how long does that time span extend? 200 years? 300? A millenia? Could the Brooklyn or Ben Franklin Bridge last that long? Even the next 70 or so?
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by aswanson 7y ago
Raises an interesting question: how long can modern bridges last, given they consist mostly of steel?
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by aswanson 7y ago
A new car is usually a bad financial decision, especially if you're at your first job.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Lol. They should have ran with that.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Sure. Behold the power of hypertext: http://www.sprintek.com/en/products/keyboard_ic/SK5100.aspx
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by aswanson 7y ago
Each button has a unique code. It's packetized as usb or Bluetooth & sent to your pc. That's it.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Woz did a gnomdex talk in 2004 describing the power of exactly that; having the whole system in your head and being able to optimize because of that connectedness in one mind.
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by aswanson 7y ago
That green lcd interface is so beautiful.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Hey, nobody said it was perfect advice. :)
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by aswanson 7y ago
Hilarious. The president of the United States probably wouldn't meet hn posting standards.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Imagine if DJT had an HN account. That would be...
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by aswanson 7y ago
Hilarious thing is, this inanity is preserved for eternity. A century from now, kids will be able to look back at perfectly preserved absurdity of this age.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Also, most c++ code is just...ugly. It can really assault the senses, looking at some of the template & indirection abstractions, etc. Rust just looks better, from what I've seen.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Yeah, the editorial titling was definitely clickbaity. That's why I always come to the comments first on HN if an article sounds sensationalistic.
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by aswanson 7y ago
I dont think GoDaddy survived by KKR hiring a top notch engineering staff and knowing what direction to take the technology in. They probably did some spreadsheet magic with debt and tricked some fools into thinking that was a value add.
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by aswanson 7y ago
They won't, unless they've identified a bigger sucker than they are. Private equity & software innovation don't mix.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Anyone know of a good way to browse & put pdfs into the kindle? The Amazon PC application purports to do as much but is really bad at it.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Even old-school industries aren't immune. I had an embedded hiring manager ask me the burning stick, 45 minute timing question along with how many interrupts there were on a processor i used five years ago. A lot of engineers are dolti
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by aswanson 7y ago
America's short-term focus on quarterly results will be its eventual undoing. No long-term thinking; it's like making your kids drop out of school & farming them out for child labor to make monthly family income look good. Tot
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by aswanson 7y ago
Have you ever done a design specifying molex connectors?
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by aswanson 7y ago
Just looked up that meme. Thank you dearly.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Obviously, but he stated it indirectly; the way he said it was as an aside. But you're right re: his motivations.
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by aswanson 7y ago
Right. Even Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies, has publicly stated that their edge is small. They amplify it with leverage, like all funds do.
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by aswanson 7y ago
I think a good way to gauge a persons tech ability is just have them sit with you for a debug session.

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