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by balabaster 6y ago
I have two school age kids, and yes, that's been a constant battle. Teaching them to think about how to be able to submit projects electronically has been a learning curve for all of us.
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by balabaster 6y ago
This kind of reinforces my opinion that I made the right decision by going completely paperless at home. All documents are electronic. Anything that needs signing gets signed digitally. I'll admit, it was a hard mental adjustment to ma
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by balabaster 6y ago
The problem with this is that most systems designers think "end to end" means the data flow through a system from input to consumption and they're done. A huge majority of them fail to consider things like building, testing,
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by balabaster 6y ago
One of the major problems of homeschooling is that there is undue influence by a single perspective of the parent teaching. There is no balanced opinion. I've known quite a few homeschooled kids that believe that their opinion, preache
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by balabaster 6y ago
This was a part of my childhood too - mostly due to necessity of the fact that my Mom was a single Mom and if she wasn't at work, we didn't eat or have a roof over our heads. But I never felt like I was lacking for anything... I l
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by balabaster 6y ago
Apparently I lied about my age, it predicts that I'm actually 8 years younger than I am which is fun. It also tells me my BMI is about 9 points lower than reality which is also fun. And that I've got as long left to live as I have
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by balabaster 6y ago
That's for a 10 year veteran in the UK. Programmers are treated like commodity. So much so that I left the UK 20 years ago and haven't managed to find anything comparable to contract rates in North America - certainly nothing comp
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by balabaster 6y ago
I've spent time in many cities in North America and I would have to say the vast majority, but definitely not all, feel almost the same. Toronto doesn't feel vastly different than Calgary, Houston, Manhattan, Washington DC, London
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by balabaster 6y ago
Is this easy to use even if you’re in a coworking space or want to work from somewhere unconventional or is it really designed for working out of your home office? I often like to work out of coffee shops, or down by the river and not pinne
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by balabaster 7y ago
This does seem to be an industry standard practice when it comes to employment contracts. However, you are well within your rights to scrub this out before you commit to signing the contract. I've scrubbed this clause out of every cont
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by balabaster 7y ago
I'm surprised there aren't hackers out there that have created a cell phone tower in a box to obtain all outbound traffic from a device and reverse engineered all the comms chatter to be 100% sure what's going on with phones.
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by balabaster 7y ago
The flip side of the coin is that kids learn from a very early age what it takes to slip past the surveillance net. The smart ones watch everyone around them get caught for infractions. Taking note. Quietly gathering data. Towing the line,
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by balabaster 7y ago
Computer security... I don't know how feasible this is, but it sure would've inspired me a lot more at high school than the curriculum we had. As a student, I want inspiration, I want magic. I want to feel excitement and to feel a
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by balabaster 7y ago
Having just watched a bunch of videos on Deep Fakes after the revelation of the Deep Fake video of Nixon's Moon Landing Disaster speech on here this morning, I can't help but feel like this is something else that will make fakes m
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by balabaster 7y ago
I'm normally pretty well versed in dry humour, being a near native speaker of such. But I'm failing to comprehend whether you're being satirical or serious... perhaps I need more tea. Can you clarify?
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by balabaster 7y ago
Some people I guess never grow out of their ego... perhaps it's my naivete, but I'd like to think they're the exception rather than the rule.
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by balabaster 7y ago
An expert having learned a magnitude more has magnitudes more experience than a novice. This education and experience has taught him (or equally her) how much there is left to learn and how little we really know. In our field, we have learn
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by balabaster 7y ago
I can't be sure that my path to relative success will work for everyone, so take my tips with a pinch of salt. I find though that the steps I've taken below have made me a valuable team member that continues to be sought after for
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by balabaster 7y ago
I'm having this etched on the wall at my office and on my kids bedroom walls :D
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by balabaster 7y ago
I think it was Churchill that the quote is ascribed to - "Many more men die from whisky each year than bullets. Men would still rather be full of whisky than bullets." Unfortunately the same holds true when it comes to many people
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by balabaster 7y ago
Agreed
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by balabaster 7y ago
After reading this, I'm certainly inclined to adjust my hypothesis, but not completely. It reduced accidents by 50%. That's awesome. However, behaviour adjusts as we become complacent, and it's in our nature to become complac
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by balabaster 7y ago
I disagree that longer yellows will mean less accidents. I've always held a fascination with behavioural psychology and I spend a great deal of time observing people's behaviour and it's my hypothesis, which I feel will bear
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by balabaster 7y ago
Teaching your points 1, 2 and 3 seem to be overlooked in many courses. It's as if they know that you have to do these things, but they don't know why. As if "Oh, you have to do this because polymorphism." I think if they
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by balabaster 7y ago
So if you want to move around Switzerland undetected, commission a train with 256 axles and bam! You're invisible :P
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by balabaster 7y ago
I love how he just randomly carries on his own internal dialog in his writing as if he really just doesn't give a fuck who's reading it. Totally brilliant!
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by balabaster 7y ago
Number 2 might be the greatest technical paper I've ever read. Brilliant :D
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by balabaster 7y ago
It never ceases to astound me how this is allowed and accepted in the U.S. America is the first to complain about corruption in other countries around the world... yet here we are.
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by balabaster 7y ago
- option (3) to find a way to profit in either scenario. Just like with hedging and shorting stock.
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by balabaster 7y ago
Of course, I'm not discounting these things, nor am I suggesting it can't be done other ways. I'm just saying that this is what you get with a smart thermostat that you don't get with most non-smart thermostats. The thin

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