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epalmer
11y ago
If you think traditional touch kiosk then the market is probably small. But think digital signage. I work at a small university and we have digital signs going up everywhere. We see them for directions, coffee shop menus/pricing, cafe
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epalmer
11y ago
OP here are some references that may help you. The first is to assess your stengths and find a career that supports your stengths. Then work on making your stengths stonger. Think about a good baseball batter. Improving their batting aver
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epalmer
11y ago
I agree that there is a spiritual growth component here. As another response said, go find someplace to volunteer and help others. Do this doing something you love, even if you think you are not that good at it. For example help code.org,
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epalmer
11y ago
Also the policy / solutions promoters need to be asked and need to answer the questions: 1) what are the trade-offs 2) what are the potential unintended consequences 3) what happens if the boundary conditions are approached like 60 yea
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epalmer
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greghendershott Thanks for putting into words how I and many around me solve problems with code. I have a few associates that need a new approach to learning to solve problems with a specific problem. I think this article and the comments
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epalmer
11y ago
I guess for me I don't need nor want JVM + JavaScript VM interoperability. My gut says this limits what can be done. I would rather have just one or the other. Maybe others feel differently.
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epalmer
11y ago
At the bottom of the article there are other CEOs quoted including >Outsource it all.= >Andrew Alexander Founder, Limitless Academy, Scottsdale, Arizona >"I pay my people $4 per hour. No, that's not a typo," says Ale
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epalmer
11y ago
Here in the states it does not equate to employment stability at least not in the same role. There are numerous layoffs where people with critical knowledge are separated from the company. Some of them get hired back as contractors for a b
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epalmer
11y ago
I probably am not the ideal one to answer but I run the public web at a university and have two developers working for me. I also lead a larger scrum team for all public web work. As a developer I am responsible for most of the backend cod
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epalmer
11y ago
I gave up coffee and sodas and feel so much better. My energy during the day is more level and I don't get headaches much anymore. I do drink green tea mostly and maybe 2 cups of black tea a week. I have had 3 cups of coffee in 4 mon
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epalmer
11y ago
@killswitch Keep trying. My wife and I had to get our weight under control and we started going to the gym. We try to go M-F for an hour and probably average like 4.5 days over the year. We had to change our sleep patterns some (go to bed e
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11y ago
So I don't work directly with the admissions process (I run the public web) but as a parent I see the correlation with money spent. Also I've had conversations with the SAT preparation consultant that we used for both girls and th
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epalmer
11y ago
In addition to the in-school teach to the test problem the focus on SAT and ACT tests for college admissions is also a really big problem. For the kids lucky enough to consider college, the fact remains that parents can throw money at SAT t
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epalmer
11y ago
I'm a parent of a recent college grad and high school senior. Both of my girls went to a “good” public school in an semi-affluent neighborhood. They take standardized tests for two weeks each year. Or at least the calendar is blocked
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epalmer
11y ago
Would be better if this supported RPN. After starting with an HP35 in like 1971 or 1972 I can never go back.
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Xstat Gunshot Wound System Approved by FDA (2014)
(medgadget.com)
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epalmer
11y ago
Thanks Many younger people have no idea what modern medicine does for us that was not available when I was young. I had Rubella (german measles) that almost killed me, mumps which I remember being very sick, and ChickenPox. We still have
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epalmer
11y ago
Test or staged shot is likely. That was common, and probably still is. Here is an interesting collection from the Met. http://aperture.org/blog/grand-illusions-staged-photography-...
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My oldest brother got polio at 5 years old and I was exposed to him when I was 2. But I got the vaccine shortly after (in 1955). I am so grateful for the vaccine. For the record my brother is still alive and has had numerous surgeries. Mo
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I'm not sure I would call this a drone as much as a bird robot. They hint in the article that they will release the design. I hope it is fully open source. I can imagine that many variations on this design will be created once the des
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11y ago
My mother was bipolar and there was no upside to this disorder for her. She had long cycles of depression (6 months to 18 months) and very short intense manic periods where she spent all of her available money and talked about conspiracies
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epalmer
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This is a highly repeated post on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefi... That said, I use curl and httpie. I am a casual user of both and love them both. I first heard about httpie on
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I'm not a scientist and defer to your judgement as to the quality of the research method. But if there is even a remote possibility of AD being caused by or someway associated with Fungus infections than I would hope someone does follo
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epalmer
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I was at Reinvent last week and attended a few of the IoT presentations. I have no commercial interest in IoT but am interested in tinkering with IoT just as a hobby. I won a Intel Edison / Seeedstudio IoT kit with an edison already co
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epalmer
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This is a project I could get into. Full Maker on. I like the details provided and the images. I'm thinking about using some other display than android phone since I don't have one.
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Not free for internal use just for classroom. Discounted and a pain to get them to give us the discount.
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I code php, java, python regularly. My team of two code php and java regularly and a little python. We have a small resource starved team. May not be normal but it is for us.
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11y ago
I use IntelliJ, phpStorm and pyCharm all on a regular business. But I work for a university and just assume that the subscriptions won't lapse. That may be a bad assumption given that I control the departments budget and it would come
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Engineering Internships: The Key to Finding a Job
(m.machinedesign.com)
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Tissue Velcro for patching damaged organs
(advances.sciencemag.org)
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