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by plasticbugs 4y ago
Marco was one of my biggest inspirations to become a software engineer. I worked in the same office as he and David Karp and was there when they launched Tumblr. I spent many lunch breaks picking David and Marco’s brains about the work they
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
Before the age of real smartphones I created a Rube Goldberg-like workflow that listened for emails from my Nokia phone. The subject needed to contain a song and artist. Then the script pasted that subject line into iTunes. Then it would ca
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
*yet
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Facebook turned over chat messages of mother and daughter charged over abortion(nbcnews.com)
27 points by plasticbugs 4y ago|1 comments
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
Humor columnist Dave Barry's original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/19...
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
I highly recommend you meet one or two folks with experience who can review your take-home stuff before you submit it. I know my job search would have likely gone smoother if I had some feedback. Things like: where things go, how things sho
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
Noted and actually had a co-worker introduce me to RTK Query yesterday! Thanks for the work you do! I'm going spend some time this week and next looking more deeply into RTK Query.
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
Same here. Pivoted from video production to web development about four years ago. I went to a coding bootcamp (Hack Reactor) in person here in San Francisco. Great experience and well worth the time and money investment. That said, I was ju
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by plasticbugs 4y ago
I learned by tracing a complicated clip art raster image of a flower using the ‘pen’ tool. You eventually get a feel for how to space your points for each segment of the line you’re tracing. If using Illustrator, it’s important to use the k
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
test
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
I have a medium-sized collection of vintage 6502 assembly language books. I pick them up whenever I see them cheap. Some of the more sought after ones (like for the Atari 6502-based machines) are quite pricey.
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
Yep, I haven’t exceeded the reporting amount yet. Hopefully my tax situation doesn’t get overly complicated. If it does, I may need a new side project.
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
Funnily enough, the digital scale I use for all my shipments was a thrift store find! I don’t know about discount shipping supplies. I sourced nearly 100% of my supplies from Amazon. I did have to invest in some nice vinyl album mailers aft
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
Probably somewhere around 13,000 I would guess. I haven’t been keeping track as it is still just a fun hobby-ish venture. I enjoy the thrill-of-the-hunt more than the money-making aspect. Though if the tax situation makes it complicated I m
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
I just make sure that I will net $20 before I commit to purchasing an item from the thrift shop. This is: final eBay sale price - eBay fees - shipping // unless you have the buyer pay actual shipping costs - the cost
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
I believe they just get a commercial rate from the USPS and they add a small percentage onto each transaction for themselves to make their money.
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
Yep! Definitely look them up when you see them. There are lots of rare and hard to find ones... I focus on things like Criterion, box sets and anything that looks 'odd'. I picked up a five disc Anchor Bay set of WWII movies for $4
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
My 'side project' is pretty conventional, but it surprises people to learn how much I've earned from it with very little effort. At least once or twice a week, I use my lunch break to walk to the local thrift store. I look
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
They did not really offer ‘placement’ per se, or anything like a job fair with companies lined up to hire new grads. They do focus on interviewing skills and the job search in the last week of the program. After that, they offer job search
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
Hack Reactor was excellent and most of my cohort was hired within three months. The amount I learned in the compressed time frame was everything I needed to do the job as a jr. front end dev. Unfortunately, the coding interview is a whole o
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
I think this is really down to the few companies that have "taken a chance" on a bootcamp grad in the past and are able to see past the lack of experience after one or more good experiences - which feels like something large compa
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by plasticbugs 5y ago
This was very similar to my experience. I had been writing code as a hobby for nearly a decade while working in TV production. In 2017, I attended Hack Reactor, an in-person bootcamp here in SF. I applied for engineering roles while practic
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by plasticbugs 6y ago
Nicely done. I restore and 'upgrade' NES consoles as a hobby. Most of these steps feature good restoration techniques. However, for anyone here looking to do the same, please skip the polyurethane step. While it may impede corrosi
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by plasticbugs 7y ago
Speaking as someone who went through a Bay Area bootcamp (Hack Reactor) it seems to me that it would be more cost-effective to work with a local reputable bootcamp and interview candidates who will soon be graduating. You won't get the
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by plasticbugs 10y ago
I once pushed my Amazon S3 key to GitHub accidentally. Realized instantly what I'd done, and while in the process of feverishly regenerating a new key, my cell phone rings. It's Amazon telling me I pushed my S3 key to GH.
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by plasticbugs 10y ago
BG Planning Sheet linked from Nintendo Europe: https://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/wi...
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by plasticbugs 10y ago
This was a prank played on both the host and on the show's director. Neither were aware that this wax cylinder was very common and worth less than $10. I worked on TechTV's The Screen Savers and G4's Attack of the Show.
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by plasticbugs 12y ago
I was able to get a Rails app up and running within 20 seconds of downloading this binary. This is on my work laptop that doesn't even have Rails, homebrew, rvm or RubyGems installed. Very cool. I'm proud to have backed this on Ki
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by plasticbugs 13y ago
I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity. Also, when I put Gimpshop out there, I didn't really know how to code, so updating the source to stay current
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by plasticbugs 13y ago
I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

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