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by epalmer 9y ago
I don't know. But he is so deep and broad in his knowledge that he may have a memory that exceeds mere mortal memory. This is a book he is working on now http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/index.html From the descr
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by epalmer 9y ago
At Olin everyone is an undergraduate. Olin is about reinventing engineering education. They consider faculty as very important to the process but they are guides not instructors. The students most of the time have to seek information and a
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by epalmer 9y ago
My youngest has Allen Downey as a professor this year. She says he is crazy. And she means this in the best way possible. His productivity is prolific having written Think Java in 13 days. He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students i
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by epalmer 9y ago
I have a friend that went to John Hopkins for one year in CS and dropped out. Just did not think he was suited for college. For the last year he worked at low wages for a sensor board company doing electronics and firmware coding. He jus
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by epalmer 9y ago
We have our vagrant in git and every developer has the same environment. We run on Vbox under Mac OS X. It has been a big time saver and is reliable relative to hosting the dev env natively on mac os x. LAOP stack with the PHP being provi
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by epalmer 9y ago
No, no, no. Not my house.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I agree. Your analagy resonates with me. Every day that I get to write python is a happy day. I now dread my Java days.
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by epalmer 9y ago
If an entity can mint certificates that are signed and appear legit then MITM is possible. We so many certificate authorities now it is possible that are certificate trust is failing us or can fail us. https://arstechnica.com&#x
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by epalmer 9y ago
I have a 32inch single monitor and that is good enough for me. I'm ADD and dyslexic and more would overload me. I'm on Mac so I have desktops setup. I hate open spaces. I have an office now and my team of two share a collaborative
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by epalmer 9y ago
How old is too old to use my stem cells/ I'm 64 in 2 weeks.
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by epalmer 9y ago
This is fantastic and well documented.
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by epalmer 9y ago
When we are approaching new somewhat abstract project idea we do a IS and IS NOT exercise and get the sponsor to sign off on the lists. This has been helpful in the last 15 years of my career.
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by epalmer 9y ago
For me Hot Tuna, Asleep at the Wheel and Alison Krauss with Union Station. Jefferson Airplane and the Dead live many years ago. Some of Alison Krauss's new work Windy City.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I too get chills when listening to some music. I too thought this was universal or commonplace. edit: sentence improvements
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by epalmer 9y ago
Zelma's work to buy back the catalog was a great move.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I read his column first when I received my copy of Byte Magazine. Chaos Manor helped me decide to become an IT professional. He will be missed. Sad day.
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by epalmer 9y ago
Note where I work and where my wife works. She works at a public university and I work at a private liberal arts university. We see resistence to skills and competency being taught. Teach them critical thinking and history and they will be
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by epalmer 9y ago
I am the maintainer for a dev env for our team. We are on Mac OS X but we develop for RHEL so the vagrant image is centos. Building an image takes a few minutes but we love it. We will probably research docker in 2018.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I abandoned Python 2 around April 2017 for greenfield.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I'm almost 64. I will get my CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) certification soon. I am learning Python and taught myself Java at 52-54. I can run circles around some of my younger associates in terms of critical thinking, design thi
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by epalmer 9y ago
http://www.olin.edu/blog/olin-admission/post/welcome-class-2... They should apply. Many are not makers or robotics. Smart kinds with grit, determination and a willingness to fail to succeed.
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by epalmer 9y ago
The incoming class of 2021 http://www.olin.edu/blog/olin-admission/post/welcome-class-2...
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by epalmer 9y ago
If you visit make make sure to walk through the academic building. Yes only one such building. That is where you will find the students, usually on the floor, with their project, in the halls, everywhere. Giant post-it notes all over the w
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by epalmer 9y ago
They are working with larger engineering schools to bring some of their learnings to the other schools. http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2013/olin-insper-collaborate... https://engineering.illinois.edu&#
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by epalmer 9y ago
I've had a chance to read his books and talk with him. Amazing. down to earth and brilliant at the same time.
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by epalmer 9y ago
All of the commenters might find this useful. Olin outcomes for the class of 2017 http://www.olin.edu/blog/career-and-graduate-stories/post/co... Olin is trying to reinvent engineering education for this cent
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by epalmer 9y ago
First see a medical doctor and rule out an physical / medical problems. Once you rule that out then see a therapist. Talk it out with a professional. I don't know how old you are but getting foggy due to age should not happen till
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by epalmer 9y ago
In my market Wegmans came in and demonstrated higher quality and better pricing. I'll give Wegmans my business first.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I use ST3 daily and have been using the beta since it came out. I don't have problems with it. Granted I'm not a poweruser of ST but I do use at a lot. I love it. I could have stayed with ST2 for free but I chose to pay so that

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