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by mswen 8y ago
It is still rough around the edges but I will see if I can get it deployed in the next week or so. I will let you know when it is up.
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by mswen 8y ago
In the past year I have worked on a side project web application that provides a tool for managing and calculating a multi-factor value assessment for major decisions. The twist is that it collects the assessments of each decision option ag
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by mswen 8y ago
I have also experienced some problems with a vps account there over the past 6 weeks. Initially they suggested that I reboot the server even though it was "online." That worked, but it seemed like every 3 or 4 days I would have
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by mswen 8y ago
Too vague of description. I have no idea what you are trying to build. What are you trying to automate? Model building? If so are you trying to make it easy for a business operations person to build their own models without help from a data
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by mswen 8y ago
For technical topics I often envision a smart college sophomore who might be considering a major in which your topic resides. With this I can assume a pretty decent general education but little or no domain knowledge. Assuming a smart colle
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by mswen 8y ago
I once faced a similar, but not quite as comprehensive inventions section to an employment agreement. The clause that I contested and clarified was the "know how". My point was imagine that I don't know technology X (lets say
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by mswen 8y ago
Interesting cross-disciplinary use of facial recognition software to analyze common features in buildings. Thanks to Peter Christensen from the University of Rochester and https://theconversation.com/us/technology for
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Using Face Recognition Software on Architecture(computationalimagination.com)
1 points by mswen 8y ago|1 comments
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by mswen 8y ago
Some like myself got a triple hit in 2008 1] Job gets eliminated just when you have been hitting a nice earning "peak". You now get to look for work along with millions of other out of work professionals and you are overqualified
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by mswen 8y ago
Thanks for the article. I read most of it. Parts sounded very similar to the start-up that I was referencing most directly in my comment. The big difference was that in selling to large enterprises, marketing is very inefficient at reachin
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by mswen 8y ago
An interesting conundrum occurs to me as I read and processed this through my own largely failed or semi-failed start-up experiences. The issues is this that the failure in my experiences has been enterprise sales delivery. We built cool,
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by mswen 8y ago
Indeed, and that is the lure. And, when we read stories like that we get motivated to press on and never give up. But who writes the stories of someone who worked on a failed project for 20 years and never got anywhere? If we persist what
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by mswen 8y ago
Your comment echos a conversation I was having with my wife the other day as she was reading me bits from Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Book by Angela Duckworth. As you might infer from the title the thesis is that Grit is a v
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by mswen 8y ago
Will your outreach be noticed, recorded and stored? Almost certainly. Will it impact your ability to freely travel and gain employment? I don't know. Maybe not today, but who knows how the winds of politics will blow.
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by mswen 9y ago
Thanks - I will mention this site to her.
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Ask HN: Good Day Jobs for Artist/Author
1 points by mswen 9y ago|2 comments
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by mswen 9y ago
I see your line of logic here and acknowledge the distinctions you make. But I agree with the main point of the author which I read as - A music delivery system that loses access to musicians isn't much of anything. And, Spotify is ap
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by mswen 9y ago
Yes it is a bit soon, on the other hand it feels like it is good to get the word out there when you know that a change is coming. She is located in Minneapolis MN. She would be happy with remote work. She is smart, productive and reliable
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by mswen 9y ago
Thank you. If you don't mind I will brag on her a bit. Kenzi started writing fiction pretty seriously at about 14 years of age. So while 24 seems young to be a published author she has put in a decade of sustained effort honing her c
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by mswen 9y ago
My daughter just had her first novels (a young adult trilogy) published a few weeks ago. Even though it is not really my genre I read it and enjoyed it. Of course I am biased.... Dysfunctional Series: Books 1-3 (Origins, Dark Imagination,
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by mswen 9y ago
I wouldn't. Three per day seems too much and would probably fall into the trap of being shallow knock-offs of stuff that is already being done. What would appeal more to me is 3 per week with each idea built out with things like: Size
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by mswen 9y ago
Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath gives a good introduction to Bayesian approaches to statistical analysis
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by mswen 9y ago
Comments first
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by mswen 9y ago
I upvoted your comment, but want to add a compliment. This kind of dialogue and knowledgeable comment are why I keep reading HN, often starting with the comments. Thank you for addressing the previous comment in a thorough manner while not
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by mswen 9y ago
Depends, of course. If one is original, inventive and noticeably smart with at least an MA degree then the ideal job would be working in an R&D department. If more of a scientist mindset focus on the research side and if more of an engi
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by mswen 9y ago
A few months ago I wrote a custom web app with data visualization that can run on-top of the old Microsoft Retail Management System. It bypasses the application itself and just taps directly into the SQL Server database. As I was writing it
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by mswen 9y ago
In your example I believe that complete mastery of ASP.net and strong competency in the adjacent pieces of the MS stack would probably generate the best job security. This stack is used in many medium size businesses all throughout the US,
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by mswen 9y ago
I notice the ebb and flow of productivity as well. Ken uses the term fallow period. I like the reproduction analogy. New ideas, skills, or domain knowledge are like the sperm that finds its place in the egg which I think of as the existing
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by mswen 9y ago
A well written essay and review. A few musings of my own. Discovery has improved greatly. Even if my set of beliefs, values and preferences are quite rare I can still use the internet and related technology to discover other like-minded peo
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by mswen 9y ago
I am 55 years old. In my twenties, thirties and early forties I ran a lot and did things like pull-ups push-ups and crunches. The past 10 years have been much more weight lifting. I currently lift 5 days a week MWF -- benchpress, leg press

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