joezydeco

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by joezydeco 7mo ago
It's the suburbs of Chicago. Funding for schools is largely from local property taxes, which creates large gradients in the quality of those schools between towns. Towns with better school districts command higher property values, crea
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by joezydeco 7mo ago
The one place where Lua coders are valuable.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Fun fact: Caterpillar licenses their name and brand to many companies, resulting in $3 billion dollars a year in revenue. Toys, clothing, tools, cell phones, etc. https://www.caterpillar.com/en/brands/cat/li
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
It's being implemented. I thought I saw that Amazon Leo (nee Kuiper) was going to lean on it pretty heavily. https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/47300-u...
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
There are toy and industrial design firms you can hire to take your concept from idea to prototype and even shepherd it through production. If you want to do it alone you'll need simultaneous knowledge in electronics, mechatronics, mec
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Can confirm Apple gave up on education. If they really cared you'd be able to have multiple accounts/profiles on iPad, and that's still not a thing that exists. I did a major PTA fundraiser to buy iPads for our classrooms a
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Have you tried this Italian jamon iberico ? It's delicious!
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
He doesn't understand how the EU works, does he?
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Or celebrating a Declaration of Independence when we've pretty much returned to rule by royals.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
So is Mercedes-Benz. But they don't sell a $20,000 commuter car.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
It's a luxury brand. You don't sell cheap and risk losing the people that are happy to pay $1400 for a new iPhone.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
The word "value" appears four times in that press release. I sense a theme in the marketing this week.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
https://aisvesseltracker.com/ is a good one too. Shows a LOT more, including cruise ships and pleasure craft.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Gambling, where the horses can set their own odds. Who would have thunk it?
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Cars have been spotted in Chicago, too. https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1rcyd6v/waymo_spot...
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Monsanto has said publicly that if they lose the Durnell appeal at the Supreme Court they will take Roundup off the market in the USA, leaving generic Chinese suppliers to own the market. Farmers aren't going to stop using glyphosate n
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Kavanaugh's opinion seems to say "well, this would be too hard to undo, so we should just leave it alone and let Trump continue". That hardly seems 'reasonable'. Just lazy and/or partisan.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
"Google has had a decade, which is an eternity in consumer technology and roughly nine years longer than Google has ever sustained attention on anything that didn't directly monetise your search history" I kind of liked tha
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
I actually started Illinois as a Computer Engineering major and switched to Computer Science because I thought I'd get to use all the cool supercomputers at the Beckman Institute. Those electrical courses were all part of my CS require
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
UIUC CS grad from the late 80s. CS students had to take a track of electrical engineering courses. Physics E&M, intro EE, digital circuits, microprocessor/ALU design, microprocessor interfacing.... It paid off immensely in my embed
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
but either way when they make the final offer just ask them a simple question: "Is there any way you can come up a little bit from that?" I use a similar phrase and it works really well on recruiter psychology. "If you ca
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
I don't trust the ranges put into job listings. It may give you a ballpark idea of the range, but anything that looks even slightly attractive or above market is usually put there to attract resumes. The real number is worse.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
In my experience, those are the two things that are impossible to move. They're built into company HR structures and they don't bend them for individuals unless you're C-suite.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
There's a mythology in this business and it's highly seductive. You need to get burned once or twice by the reality before you learn.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
In either case, it never amounts to more than a $10K swing in comp. Same for vacation time. Yes, it's a polite way to brush off the question. But the end result is the same. A job offer way lower than what you're making, and now t
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
I tell them the number up front. Because I'm not spending a week in their interview loop to find out they're going to offer me 30% less than my current job. Benefits are never a decider, and equity is a lottery ticket.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
I'd even settle for it being on a switch, call it "minimal UI" or something, but I have a feeling that Apple doesn't work like that. It's burn-the-boats, we're going all in on Glass and there's no going ba
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
Family history of glaucoma and macular degeneration. Also had a semi detached retina when I was a kid.
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
I pay an extra $60 a year to have my ophthalmologist take a digital image of my retina. It comes back as normal every year, but if something does change we can diff the image against the baseline. Maybe I don't want to look for cancer
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by joezydeco 8mo ago
You should have been here a month ago. The FAA halted all air traffic to and from the Caribbean region with no explanation (well, duh) and no announcement of a resume date. Then it was lifted 24 hours later with no notice.

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