oldmancoyote

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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   I won't read anything in tiny grey text on a grey background.
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   Same here. Had to log in again.
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   Few worthwhile efforts are ever successful on the first attempt. Failures are essential to progress. They provide an improved understanding of the context and a guide to achieving a better outcome. Failure has nothing to do with guilt. Fa
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   I really don't have anything to add. I just feel that I have to say "awesome".
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   It's sometime called an outliner. I use OutLinerPro on iOS every day. It's now called Simple Outliner. On the Mac I recently bought OutlineEdit. It seems OK.
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   I want to add one more thing to my post. Don't be afraid to follow your distractions. Everyone has experienced how stepping away from a problem for a bit can be a tremendous aid in acquiring insights. We ADHD folks do this constantl
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   I have ADHD and it has effected every day of my life since I flunked out of Stanford in 1968. I have a few coping skills that might help you. They focus more on things involved in getting an education rather than directly on learning itse
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   So! How is one to reconcile both since both are needful? I studied geology in the same building Hoover did; fish, perhaps the same streams he did for the same reasons; and pursued and still pursue a similar career in mineral resources. I
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   by oldmancoyote 10y ago

   In parts of Mexico it's considered embarrassing to admit not knowing how far away someplace is. The conventional solution is to use the code phrase: "Quatro kilometers, señor.
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    Former Vice President Biden promised that the U.S. would take covert action to punish Russia for interfering with the U.S. election. What better way to do that than to plant fake evidence implicating the IT people involved for treason and t
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I'm afraid this won't help anyone in the U.S., but it will suggest what we in the U.S. could learn from Mexico. I live part time in Mexico. I had a problem with Telmex (the phone company). Five times the said they would come and
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    Memory usage and run-time don't matter any more. When I started programming, 1968, minimizing these was the core value used in judging how good a programmer you were. This has not changed in many people's minds. Once I stopped c
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative side. It suppresses spontaneous creative thinking. Or does it produce a clear
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    Fear
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I do not believe there is a way, because there is no single answer. Indeed, the number of good answers is unlimited. You have to look for unrecognized unsolved problems. It's the "unrecognized" that is the bitch in this pro
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    As I recall Steve Jobs said something more like "People don't know what they want. You have to show them." In any event, "tell", or what ever word it was, was not the imperative. If there is such a word it was
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    Note that the 5 most walkable cities in the U.S. are among the most expensive cities in the country. It is the huge (and largely unmet) demand to live in such cities that drives the cost of real estate and eventually the other high costs o
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I'm seventy. It has happened to me three or four times. My own experience and the experience of those I know has been: I always find a substantially better job. It was good for me. I know it HURTS. Boy do I know it hurts! But it
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I've launched multiple side projects since the early 1970s. Nothing in the way of marketing has worked for me, but I think I have finally found an approach that works. I know it's counter-intuitive, but, trying to find customers
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I didn't, and I should have. I have been programming for 49 years. I lost my government job in an agency downsizing, worked for a university for 3 years until I could buy into a small pension with health insurance. I bought a house i
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I'm a retired(?) programmer who spends his summers as a Forest Service camp host. I spend the mornings programming a "side" project and the afternoons panning for gold, fishing, etc. My boss described being a forest ranger i
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    If you fail to insulate a wooden wall from a chimney two feet away, in twenty years the wood would now be baked so dry that it could easily ignite and burn to death someone who bought the house. A building inspector stopped me from making
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    I have built three houses (designed and served as my own contractor). My homes were stylish, innovative, and a delight to live in. I'm a scientist not a builder, yet I did not find the building codes to be a burden. Indeed they kept
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    by oldmancoyote 10y ago

    Devise a way to find someone to do it for you, someone who knows what he is doing. Don't try to do marketing yourself. Yes, you could probably do it if you worked hard enough and long enough, but the same could be said of open heart