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by peckrob 6y ago
I stated my career early - while I was still in high school. I went from bagging groceries and doing checkouts at a grocery store to programming for a local company my senior year of high school. I continued doing this for my first couple y
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by peckrob 7y ago
As a data point: my company liberalized work from home to every employee a week before the first case was detected in our state , under the assumption that it was either already here and just hadn't been discovered in testing yet, or
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by peckrob 7y ago
We cancelled our cable subscription after our daughter was born. We just weren't watching enough to justify a $240 a month cable bill. That bill went to $60 when we switched to Internet-only. In the meantime, I put an antenna in the at
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by peckrob 7y ago
My utility also installed smart meters recently - the Focus AXRe with Gridstream RF. It theoretically has Zigbee in it. It even has the Zigbee logo on it. I haven't figured out if I can read it yet, but in fairness I also haven't
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by peckrob 7y ago
To clarify, you can listen without a license. You just cannot broadcast.
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by peckrob 7y ago
I live in an area [0] prone to severe weather and especially violent tornadoes. The local Skywarn [1] repeater is probably the best source of immediate first-hand information when things get bad. There's usually at least a few storm ch
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by peckrob 7y ago
It's a big problem without one simple solution. One thing we can do, though, is not enable it when possible. One big thing I have zeroed in on recently is comments. When I redesigned my blog/website last year, I intentionally remo
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by peckrob 7y ago
We’ve talked about it this a lot. He takes precautions, such as vacuum sealing his cargo and keeping it in a locked bag, leaving at a reasonable time, not driving erratically, no evidence in the car, getting rid of all the receipts, etc. Bu
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by peckrob 7y ago
A friend of mine served in Iraq and has a lot of health problems related to his time there. He has a shoebox full of medications for various ailments but, when he can use marijuana, he only needs like 5 of them. So every few months he drive
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by peckrob 7y ago
Same. I'm 38, and I've told my 7 year old that I would expect that her grandchildren's generation probably won't need drivers' licenses. I think that period from about 20 years from now until then will be a somewhat
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by peckrob 7y ago
He says in the linked interview: > "I don't even know if that will happen in my lifetime." Not that I wish for Woz's death in any way, but he is 69 years old. The average male life expectancy in the US is 78. Now, he&
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by peckrob 7y ago
Yup. The Air Force Museum is probably one of the best aviation museums anywhere in the world, perhaps second only to the Smithsonian. So many unique, one of a kind aircraft are preserved there. If you're an aviation geek who likes to l
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by peckrob 7y ago
> Stay in your job for 15 years because you like the people, the work itself or some particular perk? When you finally leave, your next job will pay less than if you had hopped around each 2 years. That's if someone wants to hire yo
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by peckrob 7y ago
It's how they got Al Capone back in the 30s. Not for all the illegal things he did. For failing to pay the taxes on all the illegal things he did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Tax_evasion
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by peckrob 7y ago
Same here. Almost every single one of my peers who moved to cities in their early 20s have moved back to the suburbs after having kids. Across many cities and states as well.
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by peckrob 7y ago
Pet Feeders! http://www.robpeck.com/2017/11/robs-raspberry-pi-powered-cat...
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by peckrob 7y ago
That is the case now, yes, but I don't recall that being the case at the time . That said, we are talking sixteen years ago. Regardless, I would not recommend any business accept PayPal unless you are large enough to get their attenti
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by peckrob 7y ago
I used to help run a rather large fan convention. For our first 5 years (starting in about late 2003 or so), PayPal was the only option we offered for registering online. At the time, they were really the only option for implementing online
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by peckrob 8y ago
> No way you are telling me backend folks want to spend their day writing front end css code and compiling modejs. I said nothing about want to. Want to and capable of are two different things. If somebody wants to just be a back end dev
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by peckrob 8y ago
I am an avowed generalist, and I will die on that hill. Because being a generalist programmer is the greatest! :) Like I said above, code is code. Code is just syntactic sugar around concepts, and concepts transcend languages and environm
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by peckrob 8y ago
> I also deeply resent the notion that you have to "choose a path." Yup. Been doing this since 1999. The whole "front end"/"back end" thing is an incredibly unrealistic and unnecessary division. Real li
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by peckrob 8y ago
It's a little of both but it has really taken off over the last about five years. Downtown Huntsville, Inc has done a really good job of promoting downtown. Lots of new apartment buildings have gone up downtown, and some more are pla
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by peckrob 8y ago
Hello fellow Huntsvillian! Don't let the secret out! :P I also live in Huntsville and I live very, very well here. A 50+% pay raise to move to a "tech center" (SF, SV, NYC, etc.) looks nice on paper until you really start to
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by peckrob 8y ago
It's still mostly defense/space contracting, but it is slowly diversifying. There's a pretty good telecom sector. Digium, the sponsor of Asterisk, was headquartered here before Sangoma bought them earlier this year and I unde
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by peckrob 8y ago
On this same note, test your backups occasionally. Untested backups are worse than no backups.
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by peckrob 8y ago
The importance of having a plan and smart [0] goals. This has manifested itself over and over in my life. Take more time to plan up front, save yourself a lot of time and effort wasted if you don't. [0] https://www.mindtools
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by peckrob 8y ago
> If you lived west of the Rockies, you could get Coor's (giving it a forbidden-fruit magnetism for everyone else.) Funny thing is, this same "forbidden beer" thing played out again in the 2000s with New Belgium beers in
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by peckrob 8y ago
My town just built a new library to replace the overcrowded old one a few years ago. Just this week, they bought more property adjacent to the building because the new library is running out of parking. That's a lot of people not goi
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by peckrob 8y ago
I was a big player of MUDs back in the 90s. I probably spent way too many hours staring at green text (when I should have been studying), but I wouldn't trade those hours for anything. Some of my best computing memories of that era are
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by peckrob 8y ago
> High savings is made from a collection of good habits (or avoided pitfalls), not just one. Correct. The whole point of the "stop buying lunch out every day" is not to never do it, but to develop good financial habits and to

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