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by jonkiddy 11y ago
My 6 yr old daughter cried the first time she saw a commercial and was convinced I changed the channel on her.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
Reminds me of an old April Fools joke from ThinkGeek: https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
That was a terrific book. I highly recommend anything from Daniel Suarez.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
An AWS version of a sneakernet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I completely agree. It is a great name for the service. "There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." ~ Jeff Atwood
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I bought an iPad mini with cellular and enjoy it. I commute on the train and mainly use it for reading HN, Kindle, email.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I use IFTTT for non-work related personal tasks; mostly moving pictures around and some social media stuff. I use Zapier for business tasks.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
The number one thing on my list when I was looking for a place of employment: no ties.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
Hypothesis: Whenever I'm unable to get to HN, I'm a 10x engineer (when compared to my usual self).
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
Excellent point. The OMSCS program is entirely based on passing 10 courses in MOOC format. There isn't a research component or a thesis.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I'm a second year student in the OMSCS program. So far it has been an excellent experience. I graduated in 2002 with a degree in Computer Information Systems (basic programming). I feel that this particular program has begun to plug th
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
Share your idea with anyone who will listen. A) If it is truly going to change the world, you'll be labeled a hero and will quickly gain support. B) If not, you'll know pretty quickly from the masses that it won't work. If yo
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
[16 32 64] [0 0 0] [1 2 3] [3 2 1] [-1 0 1] [3 5 7] [-2 -1 0] [111 54231 9999999999999999999999] At that point, I correctly answered the question.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I've been a software developer for nearly 11 years. That feeling is why I keep coming back to HN. And only lately did I realize that thankfully that feeling will never end.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
I had my 3 kids watching along with me. Afterwards we had a healthy talk on how to approach failure.
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by jonkiddy 11y ago
If you are doing freelance work, you could roll maintenance development/fixes into an ongoing support contract which includes a SLA and monthly fees.
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Mandiant Intelligence Center: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units(intelreport.mandiant.com)
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by jonkiddy 12y ago
How is this different from Laravel Forge? https://forge.laravel.com/
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by jonkiddy 12y ago
I completely agree. I've used Slim in lieu of Laravel for a number of small API projects. I'm excited about porting them over to Lumen.
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by jonkiddy 12y ago
I'm wrapping up my second semester this week in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program. It's fantastic. The courses are packed full of CS fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, etc. I finished my bachelor's in 2004 and find th
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by jonkiddy 12y ago
On a typical day, no I do not think about sorting algorithms in particular. Generally speaking though, I do think about Big-O notation when writing something that isn't trivial. If I do have to implement some particular known algorithm
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Anatomy of a Meltdown: Developed World Currency Collapse(financesolutionsllc.com)
1 points by jonkiddy 13y ago|0 comments