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by coverclock 3y ago
Small tech companies tend to be design or engineering led. Organizations grow and evolve, and as they become large they become marketing or finance led.
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by coverclock 3y ago
I too have tried to use a USB power bank as a kind of DIY UPS to power a Raspberry Pi SBC. What I learned - which may be unrelated to your experience - is that all of the several power banks I tried can be either charging, or powering a dev
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by coverclock 3y ago
I wrote a blog article on this very topic several years ago: https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2012/12/passion-practice-pro...
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by coverclock 4y ago
Yes, lots of them. I hate reading on the screen, enough that I own a color laser printer more or less just to print articles that I want to read that are online. But for the most part, I find articles in print magazines to be far superior o
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by coverclock 4y ago
Being able to get feedback can be both a pro and a con, depending on the nature of the feedback. Sometimes you can use information asymmetry to your advantage; thinking in public may work against that. For sure thinking in public can be a f
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by coverclock 4y ago
I also have a MacBook Pro and a GPD Micro PC. The latter is ideal for taking into the field (in the case of my GPS work, literally a field) to connect to the various pieces of hardware I deal with. It's really a pocket-sized industrial
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by coverclock 4y ago
Historically, this is what people have used public libraries and university libraries for. They're typically not internet-free spaces, but a little discipline on the user's part solves that.
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by coverclock 4y ago
Some time ago I wrote a blog article about the lab notebooks I use. https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2008/07/daily-organization.h...
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by coverclock 4y ago
I'm an embedded/real-time/systems software developer. The realms I work in tend to be either the very small or the very large. When I wanted to learn Rust and Go, I coded the same application in both of them, one that I had p
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by coverclock 5y ago
We were lucky that the recent tragic Marshall fires in the Boulder Colorado area didn't directly affect us, even though our home was near the boundary of a pre-evacuation area. But I have two colleagues who lost everything, and had alm
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by coverclock 5y ago
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" by Robert Austin [Dorset House, 1996]. Austin, who at the time he wrote this was an executive with Ford Motors Europe, was working on his Ph.D. in Organizational Research at (I
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by coverclock 5y ago
Related: my Hazer (com-diag-hazer) LGPLv2 repo, which makes extensive use of Diminuto, is my go-to tool for evaluating GPS/GNSS/IMU devices or building geolocation tools. I do use stuff like the GPS Daemon (gpsd) in many of my p
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by coverclock 5y ago
At last count I have 36 repos on GitHub - some private - but by far the one that has been the most useful is my Diminuto (com-diag-diminuto) LGPLv2 repo that is a library of C/GNU/Linux-based functions and tools that provide simpl
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by coverclock 7y ago
Everyone has their own preferred mode of learning. Mine is hands on, learning by doing. I can't learn new material just by reading a book (although I have friends and colleagues that appear to be able to do so). I have over thirty repo
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by coverclock 7y ago
1. I can only learn by doing. If I can't turn it into a project, then I'll never internalize the details, and cannot really claim to have learned anything. 2. For it to be a project, there has to be a deliverable. Could be a repo
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by coverclock 7y ago
I do embedded, real-time and distributed product development for clients in the commercial, enterprise, aviation, defense, and big science domains. I probably own two dozen Pis of various vintages (and just ordered one of the new Pi 4 model
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by coverclock 7y ago
Unless you're a computer scientist studying algorithms, probably not. But when I defended my Master's thesis in CS way back in 1983 - yes, I'm that old - my fiancee[1] gave me the three-volume set of Knuth as a graduation gif
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by coverclock 8y ago
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" by Robert D. Austin, Dorset House, 1996. Changed my entire world view. The basic idea - which Austin arrives at using an offshoot of game theory - is that all incentive systems
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by coverclock 10y ago
MEASURING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS by Robert D. Austin Austin, who is now on the faculty of Harvard Business School, wrote this seminal book on measurement dysfunction and how incentives in the information age drive misbeha
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by coverclock 10y ago
I'm a little surprised at the number of people that are saying "paper" or "printer". I agree. The technology to read complex technical topics online just isn't there yet, remarkably. I do plenty of reading onli
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by coverclock 10y ago
It's very rare for me to read a technical book cover to cover. I recently read IPv6 FUNDAMENTALS by Graziani (Cisco), but that was more an act of desperation. The best CS-related book I've ever read was probably MEASURING AND MA
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by coverclock 10y ago
1. Started working full time at 19. 2. Still alive at 60. 3. Worked hard in every job. 4. Maximized retirement contributions. 5. Only owned two houses. 6. Paid off current home as quickly as possible. 7. No debt other than credit card paid