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by lastofus 8y ago
After setting up server instances from scratch by hand multiple times over the years (and spending several hours each time), I finally bit the bullet and learned Ansible. I can now take a bare VM image on DO/AWS to a fully functioning
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by lastofus 8y ago
I think you found the root cause of your issue. We are social creatures. Without deep meaningful connections with our fellow humans, mental health will take a turn for the worse. 90% or more of the work out there to do is pretty damn hollow
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by lastofus 8y ago
> How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? I'm occasionally troubled by this late at night (often after too much to drink). At some point you just have to accept "it is what it is"
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by lastofus 8y ago
You are correct that a lot of rooms are using off the shelf Arduinos, often with buttons/reed switches/RFID tags for inputs, hooked up to a relay + maglock for the output. Some of the higher end rooms will pay a little extra for P
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by lastofus 8y ago
There appeared to be dozens of choices for invoicing software, both in general and targeted at specific verticals. What makes all of the existing offerings not usable?
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by lastofus 9y ago
I've been quite happy with http://clubhouse.io/ It's more or less Trello++, striking the right balance between simplicity and power.
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by lastofus 9y ago
PostgreSQL is hands down the way to go when you need a relational DB (which is 99% of the time). Some features to read up on: * COALESCE, CASE * Aggregate functions + GROUP BY + HAVING * Subqueries * The LEFT/RIGHT/INNER
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by lastofus 9y ago
> I pretty much immediately switch to "defense against salesmen" mode I have the same reaction, which is a result of working in and around sales for years. Before that though I think I was just as susceptible.
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by lastofus 9y ago
You are presuming # of pivots correlates strongly with success. The idea being tried, and the team executing on it are probably much stronger predictors. If you are already in doubt enough to ask, it's probably time to move on.
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by lastofus 9y ago
I too ended up replacing all channels with a mutex or two in a small web socket relay server in Go, and things became 10x easier to reason about. I think part of the problem is the lack of usage/support for channels in the Go stdlib it
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by lastofus 9y ago
I hope you find some happiness post-software career.
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by lastofus 9y ago
What are some if the types of problems that needed to be solved when cleaning data that required heavy tooling?
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by lastofus 9y ago
Probably due to the fact that we are not writing Typescript for sundry reasons.
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by lastofus 9y ago
For anyone looking for a DS primer, I have to say I was really disappointed with "Data Science from Scratch". It was all breadth with little depth. It felt more like a suggested list of topics to further research w/ other mat
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by lastofus 9y ago
You seem overly concerned with Hype Driven Development. There's not a lot of new stuff coming out of these frameworks because of how mature they are. Both languages/frameworks are comparable. Your end product will not be very diff
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Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer(medium.com)
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by lastofus 9y ago
I'm often wrong, but overall I think I'm a happier person not having my decisions be driven by other people, especially folks who paint a idyllic distorted image of themselves on social media. With that said I too have at least lo
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by lastofus 9y ago
Don't let "Fear of missing out" drive you to speculate (not invest) in what every sane person knows to be a bubble.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Instead the really smart people write abstraction upon abstraction until they can achieve the level of cleverness they wanted in the first place. I'm not sure all that extra code is really that much better.
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by lastofus 9y ago
I've in a similar situation in the past. For me, the problem was ultimately boredom and lack of fulfillment. It was the prospect of doing the same thing all day every day with no end in sight, with no purpose other than paying bills. C
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by lastofus 9y ago
Here's to hoping they change the name from Channels as to not overload the name even more w/ all the existing web socket/buffer implementations out there (e.g. web socket channels for Django or Elixir, buffer channels in Go o
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by lastofus 9y ago
Taking on contract/consulting work is probably a bit easier to start out with compared to starting a full on company, and can give you the flexibility needed to work your own hours and from home while dealing with your mental health. T
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by lastofus 9y ago
I think there is a third segment where FP fits well: large difficult problems that can afford a 10-20% performance hit. The examples you gave of difficult problems are mostly soft realtime, which not everything needs to be. Granted this is
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by lastofus 9y ago
Clojure + going through all of the problems on 4Clojure. It's brining a bit of fun back into programming after years of C++ and Python.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Considering there is absolutely no IE or Edge support for SSE, it seems like a non-starter for a general website. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...
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by lastofus 9y ago
Get a partnership agreement written by an actual lawyer. The few hundred spent up front can save you tens of thousands in the long run, and can keep partnership expectations in check from day one.
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by lastofus 9y ago
It's not a great solution as what you save in money, you spend in time on training, explaining design decisions, helping when things go wrong, and finally cleaning up their code/bugs once done. Since you are already strapped for t
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by lastofus 9y ago
I ran into the exact same issue not too long ago. As an alternative, check out: https://polyfill.io/v2/docs/
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by lastofus 9y ago
For the last week I've been making a conscious effort to only eat foods with no sugar. It turns out, this is way easier said than done. It seems like this limits your diet only to vegetables and meats (or meat substitutes). Things I wo
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by lastofus 9y ago
If Google Trends is to be believed, it looks like Kotlin is pulling ahead world wide. If you look only at the US though, interest is much more neck and neck. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0pl075p,%2.

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