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by epalmer 10y ago
Admittedly my situation is different than probably 95% of the HN readers that develop code. I write mostly Java code for my university job. I develop code about 30% of the time. The code I write and maintain are mostly ETL / Middleware
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I love this but the focus issue messes with my brain. Also snow on the ground and rain on the glass. Should be snow flakes stuck to the window. But I'm being picky now.
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I live in typical suburbia in Virginia USA. My youngest has a chinese friend whose family raises chickens in their yard. I'm pretty sure this is against zoning. They share their chicken and some wonderful vegetables from their garden
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Only as a general rule: I have found that write once read mostly tables (history tables) are great candidates for denormalizing. State tables (read & write) usually benefit from 3rd form normalization.
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> Obviously people can be very crative with typos and with squattinq and there is no real protection against mistakes. I see what you did.
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by epalmer 10y ago
I turn off the navigation. I know how to get to work and home. What I want to know is where the accidents are, something in the road, car stopped on the side of the road. things like that. I make navigation choices once presented with thes
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> Plus, this only gets worse as you get older and your eyesight starts to diminish. Yup, I'm at that point.
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Well stated. Thanks.
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I went to Clemson years ago. No really decades ago. So my memory is vague. I had friends on zoology, biology and forestry (I was a chemistry major). They took me to a place maybe 10 or 20 miles away from campus that was an isolated ecosys
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I have a beard and cry also. I'm a sap for funny, kid videos and things that remind me of my kids. I can tear up over facebook posts, thinking about one of my kids leaving home, running out of wine (okay so I just go get some more, but
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Been trying to teach my nearly children this concept. I hope they have it since the are 23 and 18 years old.
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Thank you. When I was in college (many decades ago) I just though insertion sorting was it. Then bubble sorts. I did not expect the mental flip I did when we starting researching quick sorts. That changed my perspective on obvious but inc
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Yes. I will let others play with such technology. I feel too connected already. I don't really want to wire myself up more. Maybe I'm old fashion. I will be interested in what others say about their experiences with such device
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> “I’ve been doing this for more than twenty years! I’m sure I’m doing it right!” Not just for project managers but I have noticed in others and myself when I take this attitude I, and they, are usually wrong. It is best to listen, refle
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Paywall. No thanks. Edit:typo
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> But the fact that Oracle could get this close and spin deceit to a non-technical Jury to decide whether using API declarations from an OSS code-base would in some universe entitle them to a $9B payday, is frightening. Yes this was real
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Wow I did not expect the verdict so soon. This is fantastic news.
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Robot automation can be fun as well. Bartender on a cruise ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF7EE2xnN4
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by epalmer 10y ago
We have a gas station that serves food that is cooked to order. It is a WaWa station. All orders are by kiosk and the kiosk is pretty well designed. My family and I don't have problems using it. We are however, all educated. It uses p
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It is not just manufacturing that is going to be replaced by AI and Robots and it will affect developing and developed countries. Already there are a lot of junior lawyers being replaced [0]. Check out what a former CEO of McDonald's s
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by epalmer 10y ago
What a horrible article. The title talks about grit but then they commingled the 10,000 hour mastery concept into the conversation. > “Things like grit and 10,000 hours are mindsets that are very misleading because they are consequences
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> The proposals about multi-generation living are worth considering, but they can't be used as an excuse to bone the younger generation and call it "the norm". And that's what I observe happening. What does bone the y
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by epalmer 10y ago
So I am one of these statistics. I have an 18 year old that will graduate high school in June. She will take a gap year and live at home working for Americorps Vista help disadvantaged schools with STEM programs. She will then attend the O
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> And now people think they are going to be left behind if they don't learn Angular, Rust, Shiny7 and all of that. I have a bit of ADD-ness so shiny objects look the best. I love learning and have learned to curb my learning appetit
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Our small team at work uses hipchat instead. But it is a matter of what we work on if we login at all on a given day. Getting close to going live with a release and we are on. Otherwise most are not logged in. I have slack open all day for
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I used this api this weekend to write a google playlist shuffle tool. I thought others might like to know about this repo.
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Google Music API in Python(github.com)
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I agree that her/she needs to cite evidence. But biology majors can take chemistry, right?
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It will be interesting to see how the next couple of years play out. Public schools (k12) in the US don't seem to get what is coming or at least they can't change fast enough.
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"A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking real money." often attributed to Everett Dirksen but he denies saying it. Seems like real money to me. Edit: fixed typo

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