joeclark77

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by joeclark77 10y ago
Have you considered learning a valuable skilled trade? There's plenty of opportunity in construction, welding, plumbing, electrical work, etc. You could still make mobile apps as a hobby.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
When playing Karateka on the Apple ][ (don't you dare write it Apple II ), if the game starts to get boring, try flipping the floppy disk over to the other side.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
IMHO the pretension by coastal billionaires that they are the "elites" who know what's good for us better than we do ourselves, is part of what the people on Twitter are calling #HowYouGotTrump. Google, for example, usually
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by joeclark77 10y ago
The problem with mixing politics and business is that you get what Nassim Taleb is calling a 'dictatorship of the most intolerant'. If someone foolishly thinks it's safe to express a mainstream opinion, a minority of radical
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by joeclark77 10y ago
My one tip is this: get to know each other in real life, and make sure you know how to find and contact each other if Facebook, Twitter, Google or whatever big left-wing internet service decides to silence, shadow-ban, or delete your accoun
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by joeclark77 10y ago
The problem is this: a human can make a mistake but a machine cannot. For example a human driver may need to choose between swerving left or swerving right and, in hindsight, either choice could be defended because we know he had to make
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Well, one of the reasons they call it Big Data is that it can get big. You can store the same data point multiple times - once in the "player" record, once in the "game" record, once in the "weapon" record, et
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by joeclark77 10y ago
HyperCard comes right to mind, although it's been at least 20 years since I saw the documentation. http://hypercard.org/ has screenshots of one of the on-screen documentation files (click HyperTalk Reference), itself
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I have a couple of questions for clarification: 1. When you say "thousands of inserts/updates per second" do you mean thousands of both? Or just thousands of inserts and maybe a smaller number of updates? It makes a differe
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Gamification is the only area where you really can't run out of ideas. Find ways to pull some of this sensor data, whether from the smartphone, the Nike+, the fitbit, etc, and create games out of it. That would also seem to be a good
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Idea #1: Just submit the paper normally and hope for the best. Idea #2: Write your work as a book or pamphlet and publish it as an e-book, for example on LeanPub. Idea #3: Do a favor for a pal in academia and let him co-author the paper wit
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I suspect it will be non-healthcare jobs in healthcare. People are noticing that at the same time their premiums are doubling, tripling, quadrupling, doctors and hospitals seem to have larger and larger staffs of computer technicians, bill
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Maybe do a little guerilla refactoring? If you're spending 55 hours per week staring at the screen, then using some of those hours to work on something unauthorized isn't really stealing or cheating your employer at all. Either
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by joeclark77 10y ago
In sales and marketing, the job becomes orders of magnitude easier if the product is actually as good as promised. When your product is lower quality than the competition, advertising it is possible but difficult (and I would say ethically
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Well, scientists often consider the two factors of relevance and rigor. A scientific study must be rigorous in its methodology in order to pass peer review. But it must also be relevant to a question or problem that matters. So you often
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by joeclark77 10y ago
It's a branded thing from a guy who wrote a book called the Bulletproof Executive. He uses MCG oil instead of coconut oil. I heard about it from Ace of Spades's blog. Ace is on a diet called "intermittent fasting" and
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I've been drinking "bulletproof coffee" lately as part of a diet. Basically coffee with butter, coconut oil, and flavia. Supposedly gives me good fats and no sugar to serve as a mini-meal and help me keep a fast. The one th
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by joeclark77 10y ago
This reminds me of me when I finished the MBA, thought I was trained in "business", and tried to find a job as a "businessman". Oh, the folly of youth! It doesn't actually work that way in life. All businesses do
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by joeclark77 10y ago
In Python you can code an MMO, manipulate a database, set off a Hadoop job processing petabyes of big data in parallel on a thousand servers, conduct statistical analysis on the result set, generate beautiful and meaningful data visualizati
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by joeclark77 10y ago
"avoiding ruffled feathers with the US" is what I meant by China deciding his data was too hot to handle. I agree with the other possibilities, too.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
My first programming class employed Pascal. It hasn't held me back. Let them learn Ruby... one day they'll tell it to their grandchildren and everyone will have a laugh.
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My impression is that he went to the ChiComs first, they decided his stolen files were too hot for them to handle, so he went to Russia as a backup plan.
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You guys go first. I'm going to sit this one out.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Github Pages is free and extremely easy for a static site, especially for someone with no skills. (I've used it with non-technical students to host their first simple web pages.) You don't even have to use Git -- there's a
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Have you looked at Coursera's catalog and found it wanting? They seem to have specializations (sets of 5-6 classes) in Finance, Marketing, Human Resources and other topics under "Business".
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Just bought an Osprey Flapjack this week ( https://www.amazon.com/Osprey-Mens-FlapJack-Backpack-Black/d... ) and I'm very impressed. It's pretty compact, holds a laptop and a few notebooks very snugly, but sti
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I think that "affordable", "attractive", and "urban" form kind of an Iron Triangle in the sense that you can have any two out of three.
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The author is ignoring the 800-lb gorilla in the room which is the anti-truth, anti-rationality fashions -- modernism and post-modernism -- that have dominated and corrupted philosophy for the past century. The analogy to physical science
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by joeclark77 10y ago
In general if you put down less than 20%, you have to pay for mortgage insurance, which pays neither principal nor interest. That may vary by region and by other things like first-time homebuyer or veteran status, so YMMV. But from first-
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Maybe it's time for Perri-Air (from Spaceballs) to become reality?

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