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by jahbrewski 7y ago
> I didn’t help my customers and was too focused on the technology. Somewhat ironic that your Postmortem is highly focused on technology as well :) But seriously, SaaS businesses are still businesses. I think so many software developers
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Oh man, I so badly want to use DDG. I was actually using DDG for the past several months and just switched back to Google today. As a developer, I'm constantly searching for things and I just couldn't justify the additional 5-10
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
I really feel like this site should be in plain text.
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
My favorite unintuitive iOS feature is “shake to undo”
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Not directly related to the post, but something I've been thinking about a lot: My life satisfaction and work productivity increased significantly when I stopped working from home and began working 8-5 at an office. There were so many
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
“Neil Allison Campbell (April 17, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American scientist known best for his textbook, Biology, first published in 1987 and repeatedly through many subsequent editions. The title is popular worldwide and has been
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Honest question: how do you tackle 2k pages of material like this?
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Ask HN: Where is innovation happening now?
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Churchill is absolutely worth reading and reading about. I recently finished “Churchill: Walking with Destiny” and highly encourage you to pick it up! In other news: does anyone have a history reading list, akin to the one Churchill referen
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Off-topic, but Ryan, your name brings me back to 2013 when I was just learning Ruby on Rails and you were snarkily answering my dumb questions on the #rubyonrails IRC channel. But seriously, thank you so much. Learned a ton from that channe
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
Not so sure it's due to "coffee addicts" so much as the fact that Starbucks gift cards became the perfect, generic, gift. How many times have you been on your way to X, needed to bring a gift, and just run into Walgreens?
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by jahbrewski 7y ago
I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content a
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
We all start somewhere! One of the beauties of math is it’s hierarchical structure. Once you figure out where you’re at, it’s just a matter of progressing further up the hierarchy of abstraction (spoken by someone who has only made it to Ca
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
How familiar are you with algebra? The stronger you are with algebra, the easier you will find Calculus. You will also need a relatively strong understanding of trigonometry, but I've mostly been able to review the trig I need as it co
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
For another great source of open source textbooks I highly recommend OpenStax ( https://openstax.org/ ). I am currently re-learning calculus and their Calculus text is great. As an aside, I'm currently working through ma
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
Something I’m genuinely curious about (and don’t know the answer to): how much better is the entire lifecycle of an EV on the environment versus an ICE, from raw materials to disposal of the parts? Do we have ways to dispose/recycle th
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
Isn't this largely how society plays out already, albeit less explicitly? From what little I know of our legal system (I'm in the US), it isn't too hard to buy yourself a great lawyer and get out of significant legal trouble.
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
The ability to “shop around” for cheaper care sounds fantastic. But could that system actually work for healthcare? Is there anything intrinsic to healthcare that limits the ability of a free market in that arena (morally, economically, etc
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
+1 - I recently went looking for a CSS framework (I was still in the “Bootstrap” mindset), and ultimately decided on vanilla CSS grid + flexbox. If anyone is looking for a resource to learn CSS grid, I highly recommend Grid Garden: http:&#
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
And if you’re in that quirky intellectual mood, could you also think of all of humanity as being a single organism, since we all share about 99.9% of our DNA? Certainly a thought I find hard to shake observing cities from the window of an a
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
Is there a link to the actual journal article?
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by jahbrewski 8y ago
Learn how to sell your services. As a technician, this is going to be completely different than what you are used to. Sales is a fuzzy, messy, asymmetric process that requires a great deal more EQ than IQ to get right. Focus on establishing
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
Hmm. I was hoping for a list of strategies, rather than a list of software platforms. To me, this seems more like a business problem than a software problem.
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
Another awesome project by the same composer: http://www.markermusic.com/
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
I just built a small client project in vanilla JavaScript + jQuery. It was beautiful.
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
Can someone provide a summary explaining the significance of this event?
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
Network. Getting a remote job is similar to getting any other job, and people hire those they like and trust. If the term "networking" scares you, just think if it as making friends. You can do this any number of ways: participati
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
While I can't speak for OP, I've taken a similar approach with my own business. For me, the most important thing was to simply change my mindset from thinking "how can this person I just met help me (give me leads/busine
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
Since posting this, I did some research, and it looks like the biggest security problem (currently) is manufacturers hardcoding default passwords into the firmware. Here I am thinking I need to become an expert in security to help my client
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by jahbrewski 9y ago
As someone who works as a software consultant for many IoT and connected device companies, how can I increase my understanding of IoT security? How can I ensure the devices I work with are secure?

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