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by mlhpdx 2y ago
I wasn’t lucky enough to have a “repairable” refrigerator according to the repair man. An 8 cent capacitor had dried out and failed, which I discovered with a $150 tool.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
I used replit for the examples and a few problems for the APCS class I helped teach a couple years back. As far as I know the school is still using them, but not for long I guess. Get your economic architecture right and this kind of thing
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Ironically, time zones are a hack with bad precision about the position of the sun in the sky. The GPS coordinate side steps the nonsense (can be converted to the time zone as defined in that place at that moment).
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Aren’t all of those example problems solved with a versioned database of timezones and calendar algorithms? Any past “universal” date can be converted to a fully defined local, contextual time based on such a resource. But, it doesn’t exist
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Yes! All past events have well defined times, even in the face of human silliness like changing timezones and before such ideas existed. The future is defined by intent which is imprecise (will Oregon drop daylight savings time or not — wh
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Treating Boeing as a single entity is absurd. The people there have done great work and their collective contributions to the people of the US and world at large is very much appreciated by many (including myself). It is a tragedy that what
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Roughly speaking, my experience tells me the percentage of founders (or aspiring founders) who obsess about such things is <10% and highly correlated with their proximity to MBAs. Folks building products to solve problems for people are
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Strangely enough, though I use a statically typed language for Lambdas I stopped using in in-built coercion to the type in the handler signatures somewhere along the line. These days I’m almost always skipping the ext
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
One path to look at for your goal is to build for a strategic acquisition. Find a dominant application platform like that isn’t already saturated. Like CAD, or another high value software vertical (but not iOS or Salesforce). Build somethin
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Is there no equivalent of Amazon.Lambda.APIGatewayEvents as provided for .Net?
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
> Some words of wisdom: never stay up late to do something you wouldn’t wake up early for. That’s wisdom I totally get. Yet, to each their own.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
This is my summertime method, but at this latitude (Portland, Oregon) it’s not really practical in the winter, so I revert to the musical alarm method.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
> MIT presented its principles to the publisher’s representatives as the basis for new contract negotiations. This is an incredibly important and powerful strategy, as a customer or a vendor. When everything is negotiable, trouble foll
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
This isn’t just startups. Some companies have “bands” that define the range of pay for given titles, but many don’t. Even those that do are constantly questioning whether they are the right ones based on a wide variety of factors: Are salar
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
My above post was an attempt at humor, mashing-up the flywheel concept with dubious shortcuts companies take to try to “outsmart” inertia. Yes, that non-sequitur was another one.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
That darn flywheel is just too heavy to start with so I’m going to start spinning a smaller flywheel and then add weight to it once it’s moving. That’ll be way easier. See, there? That’s flywheels already spinning and now I can just take th
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Yep, folks will come at this kind of things their own ways, and that’s all good. I likewise care for an acre, and fix as much as I reasonably can — from the small to the large. I once avoided a “dominos” problem when a built-in fridge died,
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Yes. Personally, I enjoy the incremental problem solving perhaps too much — getting the last 10% of a project done before moving to the next is a challenge. That said, and being aware of this trait, I started something that is a huge proje
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
If your company is part of a large ecosystem underserved by software vendors, building solutions for yourself and others may be transformational (as AWS has been for Amazon). The thing with software is that it is rarely (not never) commerci
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
I very much hope to see this (or similar) in C# soon. It’s not make or break for me, but it would certainly help make for cleaner, smaller codebases — I’ve sorely missed it in the past, but only a couple times. My context is being a former
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
> There's not a single widely distributed infra application in C# out there. If you’ve used Wi-Fi in a hotel it’s very likely you’ve used a C# app. Is that “infra” and “widely distributed” enough?
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Almost everything I build in C# runs on some flavor of Linux.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Wow. I sense some sincere interest by the author, but I find this tone deaf. I once worker with a entry-level C++ developer in her 70s -- probably not the expertise you're looking for, so I'll answer as someone who has been paid t
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Years, and a special kind of myopia in leadership to not see the seeds sprouting. It doesn’t happen quickly, but once established is very, very expensive to fix.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
True. It’s just a little odd {ironic?) to give dedicated space to 3D models and geospatial but not even mention electronics. On the other hand, maybe GitHub is the new “library” of such things?
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
It’s amazing how short the list of formats is, and given the obvious importance of electronics in context, that there are no formats related to such designs. E.g. Gerber files.
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Per the US Library of Congress, recommended formats: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/TOC.html
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Recommended Formats Statement(loc.gov)
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Anyone interested in genuinely delicious strawberries should be in Oregon in June for the Hood and Benton varieties. These berries are too short in season and delicate to be available broadly, and are (my opinion) never a disappointment lik
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by mlhpdx 2y ago
Amazon S3 (static hosting) supports streaming[1], but doesn’t transfer the hosting “cost” to the user as YT does. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/tutori...

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