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by kageneko 9y ago
My wife was a teacher for ~10 years. She made a nice salary, but she also spent a pretty good amount on supplies for her classroom since her school was routinely overenrolled and underfunded. She also had to spend money on classes and cer
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by kageneko 9y ago
Their LEDs have been great for me, but their CFLs were terrible. I have CFLs from Home Depot that are still going after 10 years. My Walmart versions often died in less than a year. Clothing is another thing -- I've gotten really go
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by kageneko 9y ago
Our Echo is basically a glorified alarm clock/weather checker/music player. If you just give it a number, it'll ask you to clarify if you mean morning or afternoon. "Set alarm for 7" "Do you mean 7 in the morn
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by kageneko 9y ago
I seem to recall a paper about using the noise in the electrical system of a home to determine what appliances were plugged in and turned on at any point in time. Sidhant Gupta, Matthew S. Reynolds, and Shwetak N. Patel. 2010. ElectriSense:
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by kageneko 9y ago
Yeah. I was working on some search-and-rescue stuff using Google Glass. My eventual prototype had a "coarse" mode and a "fine" mode. In fine mode, it would give you a fairly detailed readout of the bearing and distance
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by kageneko 9y ago
Speaking of ring interfaces, Ring [0] was a Kickstarter project that happened. I seem to recall that it did ship but didn't actually work too well. I suspect that your simpler interface would have been a lot more successful. I think
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by kageneko 9y ago
Oh, we needed the money. :( I live on the OTP on the east side, so GA400 toll didn't hit me. There was a political promise to end the toll when the improvements on 400 were finished. Initially, the DOT wanted to keep the toll booths
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by kageneko 9y ago
https://meet.google.com/ Although, it's not very good in Chrome either :)
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by kageneko 9y ago
I stopped using Waze last year after it started consistently giving me bad directions that would add 30-60 minutes to my commute. After a few weeks of that, I just gave up. Before that, it would periodically give me bad directions and I a
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by kageneko 9y ago
After my dad had a stroke, he needed a new phone that he could use easily. We ended up with a Nokia using Windows Phone because the large tiles and keyboard buttons were something he could handle. The iOS and Android interfaces required
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by kageneko 9y ago
Heathkit H89
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by kageneko 9y ago
I don't think there's been a serious effort yet. I seem to recall proposals floating around in the past 6 months, though. One thing I remember is making employer healthcare be taxable income.
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by kageneko 9y ago
Oh man... I don't know. There's so many. I'll need to go with Gilbert, E., & Karahalios, K. (2009, April). Predicting tie strength with social media. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing S
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by kageneko 9y ago
In my experience, growing older, I've found both of these generalizations to be true in myself. There are plenty of times that I've watched junior developers make literally the exact same mistakes I made 10 years ago. At the sam
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by kageneko 9y ago
I listen to a lot of horror fiction podcasts like Darkest Night, the No Sleep Podcast, some other fiction stuff like Rabbits and Alice Isn't Dead, and then some other stuff. Planet Money -- my favorite 99% Invisible Marketplace with Ka
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by kageneko 10y ago
I've run into some problems with some of the more ... creative jasmine tests I've done. Mostly, it's been around object mocks. I've found places where I can do things with Object.defineProperty() in Chrome that throw e
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by kageneko 10y ago
"Only Yesterday" by Frederick Lewis Allen. I first read it in history class in high school and have gone back and reread a few times since then, when society and politics began making me nervous. It's really fascinating to r
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by kageneko 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not worried about my kid saying things that will get him in trouble. However... he repeats literally everything that he hears, sometimes verbatim. Sometimes hours or days layer. To be honest, it's really creepy at tim
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by kageneko 10y ago
The inability to customize webpack was sometimes a pain point for me. There were a few things I wanted to do that would have been much easier if I could just play around with it. Fortunately, they've added the ability to get yourself
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by kageneko 10y ago
I have a Trager backpack. I've had it for about 14 years -- originally purchased it to carry all of the pages I was photocopying for my psychology classes. It has outlasted a number of other backpacks that I've picked up over th
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by kageneko 10y ago
Since early in college, my 2nd choice has always been psychology -- so much that I went back to school to finish up a BA in Psychology. I would focus on either cognitive or industrial/organizational psychology. With cognitive, I&#x27
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by kageneko 10y ago
It was a combination of things. I didn't enjoy the work environment very much and I thought some of the policies were rather dumb. The product itself was ~8 years old and had just been hacked on since then. The Big Thing was when, af
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by kageneko 10y ago
I was at that talk. YAPC in St. Louis. (WUSTL?) At the time, I didn't know much about the Gang of Four and I had never heard of Christopher Alexander. Even many many years later, this talk has stuck with my and I spent time looking
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by kageneko 10y ago
I was accepted to the program the year that the online masters was announced. At first, I was not amused. However, I really really enjoyed my time actually being on campus. There were a few classes I took that would have been very difficu
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by kageneko 11y ago
I can't trust git stash anymore. I mistyped something and it blew away a lot lot lot of work. So now I just commit stuff. If I want to get rid of the commit, I can follow it up with a reset.
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by kageneko 11y ago
When I worked at AT&T, we (annually) had presentations by a PAC and if you wanted to have a payroll deduction done, you would stay behind after. They took attendance for these presentations (and for other things like United Way).
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by kageneko 11y ago
I enjoy full stack stuff because I like to know how it all works together and enjoy UI stuff because I think user experience is a critical thing. Looking for something full time. I'd like to get into machine learning, natural languag
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by kageneko 11y ago
A recent Marketplace podcast discussed this as well. Affordability was a large factor in why the suburbs are still popular. “There has been an increase in college-educated young adults living in very dense urban neighborhoods — smart
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by kageneko 11y ago
Probably :) I played on quite a few muds back then. Lost Realms and Moment in Tyme were the biggest and then I played on some WoD MUSHes. I recall WoTmud. I sometimes go back to my old haunts and see what's up.
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by kageneko 11y ago
Oh man. A couple of times each year, I think about starting up a mud again. Back in the Day, I ran a Wheel of Time MUD called the Weave, and sometimes I think about porting it to Java or something. My C code base has some creative memory

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