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by billwear 8y ago
Nope,chemistry was my thing. Went all the way to the International Science Fair (high school) and won big there. Then got a National Merit, had choices of Hopkins, Stanford, etc., but stayed at Bama for family reasons (sick mom). To be fair
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by billwear 8y ago
It was actually pretty close to that at that time; at one point I thought it was like $16,000, but I'm not sure.
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by billwear 8y ago
Start of my junior year in chemistry at Alabama, went in to talk to my adviser (his fifth year teaching there). He was sweating over paperwork, said it was the first time he made enough to file a tax return. I said, "Excuse me, I'
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by billwear 8y ago
I just told my boss I was moving, and let them offer. Working for HP in Atlanta, I'd already proved myself during the '96 Olympics, when even the 12 miles to work was impossible. In 2000, our rent went out of sight; we owned 7 rur
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by billwear 8y ago
Hard to do in a comment, but the real value of containers, etc., is really microservices and micro-environments. If you dig in, there are dozens of similarities to both the Unix shell kit and the Unix kernel design. The translatable wisdom
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by billwear 8y ago
I'm 60, and going strong. Most important is bring not only depth and breadth of knowledge but also wisdom to the work. As a graybeard, you're expected to add value because of your years. For example, when my office was going nu
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by billwear 8y ago
Gibson's "The Peripheral." Not just a prescient story, but a veiled commentary on how easily we're using technology as a proxy for being there, and all the psychological changes that come along for the ride. "Neurom
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by billwear 8y ago
Actually, if you want to see clean code that works well, try the traditional ex/vi source. It's something like 20K lines, but very neat functional programming all the way down.
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by billwear 8y ago
Honestly? I think IBM isn’t as relevant as they’d like to be, so they’re buying a Nike. They haven’t thought about the details, or worked out the long term. It could still go either way, but RH will chamge some over time. The real problem w
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by billwear 8y ago
I have rewritten the BSD calendar app in every language I can get my hands on, from Perl to Go to Emacs Lisp to.... It isn't that I want a calendar app, but it has helped me to develop strong fluency in porting code from one language
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by billwear 8y ago
If you are willing to learn good German eventually, there are many place in Germany that could meet your requirements. It is relative easy to get a freelancer's Visa, and this gives you much time to learn German to pass the B1 exam req
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by billwear 8y ago
I learned the piano well enough to play for money in college. Close your eyes - it’s all muscle memory. Experiment and learn multiple chords and keys. And it takes about 7 years practicing 3-5 Times a week.
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by billwear 8y ago
Health and fitness. I see the subthread about producing income, but you can’t produce income if you’re dead, and you can’t produce as much income if you’re fat, out-of-shape, and can’t hink straight for hours at a time. Not to mention that
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by billwear 8y ago
Read "The Clean Coder." Robert Martin addresses this very issue directly. He mentions some modem code that was hideous, but worked very effectively. Knowing that code doesn't last very long before having to be replaced, he
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Professional Poker Player on “How to Beat Trump”(thestreet.com)
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by billwear 9y ago
I am a business account. I have an option to pay more each month and not experience these limits. Is that not what net neutrality is designed to avoid?
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Verizon Throttling Is Happening Now
2 points by billwear 9y ago|3 comments
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by billwear 9y ago
Changed and changed back: I started as a programmer in Summer 1980; by 1994 I was tech writing, and then ghosting business books, and finally ghosting fiction. Seeing the low returns of even really good authors -- for one popular business b
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by billwear 9y ago
This is an example of binary thinking prevalent in self-help books. The scientific reason is, IMNSHO, trying to sell books with simple, easy-to-follow logic, which is irresistible when you're in a dilemma. But it is only a good idea wh
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by billwear 9y ago
~$500+ per month making custom-designed handbags; not just sewing bags, mind you, but one-offs for individuals : word-of-mouth, facebook, friends, etc. Can't afford to advertise, couldn't handle the demand without hiring, don&#x27
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by billwear 9y ago
Making ~$500+ per month designing handbags, word of mouth / text / facebook posts. Not just sewing bags mind you, unique bags designed to fit each person. Problem is throughput -- I'll have to hire soon or keep it smallish.
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by billwear 10y ago
You might try to see if it's come kind of contextual speedwriting. I learned a version of speedwriting in college in which the letter "e" and the letter "i" are exactly the same and deduced later by context; likewis