fm2606

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   by fm2606 4y ago

   I had a C64 but always loved the look of TRS-80 Model 3 and 4s. I ended up buying a Model 3 off of eBay a few years ago. The screen wasn't working correctly. It arrived in one piece, thankfully, and I almost got it to work but now i
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   I used Indeed to find both of my jobs. You can filter jobs by Remote. When I was working full time in a completely different career field I found a part time remote job through Dice. I think I found that one by doing a Google search and n
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   >> little Raspberry Pi 4 server that I run from my home ISP, for no reason other than to have some fun This. I run mine on RPi 3B+ with a 4 running the database. I reverse proxy to my site via a cloud VPS instance for $4 a month. I
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   Yep. I switched career fields at 36, stayed for 14 years and then switched career fields again at 50. Still in this new career field but just changed companies in August at 52. It took me a relatively long time (6 to 9 months) to land thi
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   I am learning Clojure right now and I can relate to the feeling of not wanting to put time and effort into it if there is no marketable value in return. One thing that is motivating me is I read an article about how niche languages can be
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   "Lisp (historically LISP)" [0] "Two twenty, two twenty-one; what's the difference?" [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) [1] quote from some movie for which I use t
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   I did my master's online part-time at DePaul. I started at 40 and finished at 45. I feel it was basically a glorified BS degree but it has served its purpose. No regrets. My kids were 5 y/o and 2 y/o when I started. I&#x27
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   Yeah I was told that in the early days, when the fire was out and they were overhauling, they would wear the helmets backwards because of the longer brim thus helping to keep water and debris out of their face.
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   by fm2606 4y ago

   I was a firefighter-paramedic for 14 years before I left in 2020. You are spot on about the 150 years of tradition. But I don't think euro style helmets will ever catch on in the U.S. The department I worked for did not care what hel
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    100% agree about the DS degree. I have plans on getting a MS in stats starting in a year or 2. All the DS degrees list that you have to take a programming (Python/R) course and database course. I don't need those. I want to kno
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I need to post this somewhere as I have written this out before here on HN [1]: 28 y/o graduate with Engineering Degree 36 y/o left engineering field, became firefighter paramedic (married with a < 1y/o child) @ 40 started
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    Back in the early '00s I read Stoker's Dracula and then just by chance ended up going to England for a work assignment. I visited Whitby and saw the steps at the church that Stoker described. Utterly amazing to be in a place des
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I go through phases where I will read on a near daily basis and then stop reading for months on end, or, start something and not finish it. When I was a kid I always had a book. I really have no excuse not to read more but sometimes the in
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    _Ask Your Developer_ by Jeff Lawson (CEO and co-founder of Twilio) since last weekend, 3/4 way through. Very good read even for just a developer like myself who has no aspiration of going into management. _Midnight Riot_ by Ben Aarono
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I agree with the sentiment about small to medium non-tech companies. Any place where the code supports the product instead of IS the product, IMO, is a much more laid back place. (This is from my very limited experience) >> The one
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    This is a great book that we used in Comp Sys 1 and 2. I had every intention of reading it after class / graduating but I have yet to do it.
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    Not OP. When I was working in another field and working part time, remote developer I had my desk set up in my bedroom. When I went fulltime I converted a small, approx 5 ft x 7ft, closet to an office. I shoehorned a standup desk and a b
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I've rolled my own following this tutorial[0]. If you are into self hosting this is a great alternative. I am developing an app that a 3rd party site requires a redirect URL. Since my app is still in development and only running loc
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    >> "anything can be learned in a reasonable amount of time" I routinely say something to this affect in jobs for which I a interviewing. I tell them I am not an expert in anything, but I feel I can learn anything given enou
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I am an early riser and I would get up, sit in my recliner, drink my coffee and doom surf the internet. Then a couple of weeks ago I set up my laptop at a table in the living room, drink my coffee, journal for a few minutes and then start
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    Same. My website is mainly just for myself. It is run a couple of RPis. A RPi 3B+ for nginx and my python flask app. A RPi4 4g for DB with external hdds. A few years ago I bought some old servers, one with 6 cpus / 12 cores and 128g
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    A data dashboard for the fire department I worked for - which I left in 2020. Screenshots [1] It was more than a few days, in fact was quite the work in progress. When I started management had no way of visualizing our call data on an as n
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    So having 5 isn't considered having alternative sexualities? Asking for a friend ;-)
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220518195902/https://www.busin...
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I do have it in a repo and will download it from there, or if on my local network it is sometimes just as easy to scp from my desktop.
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    What has worked for me was to just learn a few basic functions. Save/load a file, cut-n-paste, move to line # and search. Just enough to be productive. Then I google as I needed something like search and replace, search and replace
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    Great analogy!
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I did my degree online with a "day" job and young family. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time. But my job wasn't a 9-5 so I didn't have that burden. Also, it got to the point where the day after lectures were posted, whi
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    I obtained a MS in CS online from DePaul and I really enjoyed it. I got it as a backup plan as I wasn't working as a programmer at the time (but I am now a FT programmer). To be honest the course work felt like a glorified BS degree
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    by fm2606 4y ago

    Where does one find these job postings? I looked on Indeed and there was only 1 page of C++, software engineering postings and the max was in the $250K range. Not that I'm qualified nor do I particularly care for C++ but just curious