mech422

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by mech422 5y ago
that sounds very nice and all, but unless you're independently wealthy or someone else is supporting you, you're making the same trade off as everyone else. You've just opted to take a long slow path vs others that just want
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by mech422 5y ago
bad form replying to myself, but this just occurred to me.. Given you sound fairly young, what about powering thru say 3 years with your partner to build a nest egg. Then both taking (perhaps lower paying) jobs that you enjoy, giving your
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by mech422 5y ago
Not to sound harsh - but its a trade off...You seem to want the money and the job satisfaction/community/work-life balance... Its incredibly hard to get it all. Pick the ones that are most important to you, and let the others sor
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by mech422 5y ago
We do understand... But if you want the money and want to retire early...that's the price you pay unless you're very lucky. Given the salaries O.P. and partner seem to be making, they could prolly power thru and retire in 5 years
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by mech422 5y ago
I'll always upvote SCP... But I think there might have been better ones for submission to hacker news: "old AI" (1), "Malo"(2), or even the joke "working computer" (3)...or basically anything with Anderson
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by mech422 5y ago
LOL - thanks for the laugh!
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by mech422 5y ago
We had to endure 'synon' - a 4GL/rpg generator for the AS/400.. When that thing fired up, it brought the whole machine to its knees.
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by mech422 5y ago
I have really fond memories of working on Stratus VOS and PL/1. Those machines were FUN :-D
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by mech422 5y ago
Huh - I guess it ended last year...But I seem to recall when Howard announced the forthcoming end of schlock that he had other stories in mind.. edit: He mentions more stories in the q & a here: https://www.schlockmercenary.c
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by mech422 5y ago
Wow..its been years since I read QC! Thanks for reminding me of it :-D Hmm - Schlock Mercenary is supposed to be launching a new series too...
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by mech422 5y ago
I was making $50K/year as a developer on Wall St. with 2-3 years professional experience...and it was awesome. And yes, the HFT guys got 'FAANG' salaries. HFT was in its infancy, and those guys were making bank! While the ab
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by mech422 5y ago
yeah - I enjoyed it...
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by mech422 5y ago
sigh So I'm 'proper old' now ? :-P When can I be 'improper old' ?? :-D
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by mech422 5y ago
I moved from Wall St. to the West coast in the 90s. Both paid above average programmer salaries for the time, but S.V. was the place to be for tech. So much going on, so much demand.
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - I've stopped in the middle of the interview process when I found out the 'remote' position required 25% (or more travel). Now I just pick up the phone "not interested unless it's 100% WFH"...Doesn't
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by mech422 5y ago
Ditto - I've been 100% remote/WFH for 20 years now... It just gets easier and easier. Especially if you work with tech that's in high demand.
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by mech422 5y ago
Oddly enough, what you're proposing sounds more like 'thuggery' to me then the lotteries? From here, what it sounds like you're saying is "people need to be protected from their baser instincts because they're
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by mech422 5y ago
Very Cool.. I like the ability to use available software to develop/debug.. Reminds me of AtherOS.
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by mech422 5y ago
I've been working from home 20 years now, and I have the opposite setup from you. I've got a much nicer setup then I ever had in offices - from 3 monitors to my favorite keyboards. As I get older and my eyes get worse, I really a
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by mech422 5y ago
bah - NUC's are so over priced... What I really want is more H2[1] type boards..Usable CPU, standard (SO-)DIMMS, NVME/Sata, 2xEth, USB, HDMI - all for $120. Throw RAM and SSD/NVME on it and you have very useable lil machines
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by mech422 5y ago
I wish the term (and the book) were as popular as they used to be. Perhaps its just that coders don't have to have the in-depth knowledge of all the details they used to. Libraries/IDE/Stack Exchange have made it possible to
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by mech422 5y ago
I'd kinda like to see Sats go up about 2 orders of magnitude.. I know its not possible - but a Sat. equal to a penny or 10 sats to a penny would just make the math so easy :-P
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by mech422 5y ago
1510 satoishi's... Been that way for 5 years ?
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by mech422 5y ago
Have you looked at Enlightenment(1)? I believe it used to power Tizen back in the day... 1: https://www.enlightenment.org/
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by mech422 5y ago
Thats pretty nifty !
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by mech422 5y ago
These look soo good - I'm really surprised they haven't been licensed out to other saw manufacturers. I saw a demo of the inventor actually sticking his finger into a running saw. I know they're expensive to replace when th
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by mech422 5y ago
Thanks! I hadn't seen this list before! Pony always sounded interesting. Sorta an Eiffel v2? Red also looked interesting, as I've never seen anything based on ReBol before! Lot of new entries to go play with ... Thanks again!
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by mech422 5y ago
Derek's stuff is awesome in general... "Things.." is really funny, but I find his columns about the inner workings of pharma companies to be really interesting as well.
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by mech422 5y ago
Heh..and I just yelled at my alexa for making me repeat myself.. Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P
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by mech422 5y ago
I use CadQuery(1). It uses OpenCascade and BREP under the hood. So far, its been pretty decent to work with. edit: I also use Fusion360 for non-scripted stuff. The parametric modeling is nice! 1: https://github.com/CadQue

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