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by rboyd 7y ago
Well put! I really like the streamlining/automation aspect of the gardening too (drip lines, etc), and the journaling/tracking year over year. Factorio is next in my queue. Cities: Skylines is my current go to.
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by rboyd 8y ago
At your stage it's exceedingly likely that 2% is much too low.
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by rboyd 8y ago
Some emergency help. Some people just wanting tutorship. Some entrepreneurs. A lot of CS students that procrastinated too long and just want you to do their homework assignment. Set your rates higher than you would think you need to. You
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by rboyd 8y ago
Had a Chicago landlord that rented me top floor on a brownstone and promptly started construction refacing the entire brick facade. Construction workers wake up pretty early.
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by rboyd 8y ago
yeah, it's like $350-500k after experience at this point. new grads aren't even slumming at $136k.. http://levels.fyi
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by rboyd 8y ago
But I'm speaking to the set of cases where there is some external economic incentive (outside of the crypto token value) to either incriminate or exonerate some actor's behavior. I think the scrubbing/exoneration scenario is
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by rboyd 8y ago
It says "successfully submitting fake data in the network is so computationally intractable that any self-interested node would find it more profitable to be honest", but that doesn't sound quite right. I see the diagram and
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by rboyd 8y ago
Fantastic tooling, potential to live in the same language for cljs front-end/clojure backend, less code means less bugs than JS, shorter time to implement, higher productivity from smaller teams, stable core, lots of development on gre
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by rboyd 8y ago
How do you determine what hospitals (or city) they belonged to? Just that they were checked in there first? That they had legal residence in some city at some time?
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by rboyd 8y ago
+1 -- Meru and The Dawn Wall are amazing too There was also this slacklining short doc, maybe not of the same caliber but probably interesting to you if you liked the climbing videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_t4pNYr
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by rboyd 8y ago
it will have to pry my paperclips from my cold dead hands Btw, what are the popular theories on why Eliezer Yudkowsky was let out of the box? Did he ever say? From the Sam Harris interview [1]: "To demonstrate this, I did something tha
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by rboyd 8y ago
I recently read 'Developer Hegemony' and remember a section where the author advised politely declining and suggesting that you may know some other (implied lesser) programmers who might be willing to jump through the arbitrary ho
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by rboyd 8y ago
Location: US Midwest Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Clojure/ClojureScript, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Erlang, Java, C/C++, Kubernetes Résumé/CV: https://rboyd.co Email: robert.boyd@me.com
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by rboyd 8y ago
I’d love to see something like this for abusive bosses. I had a short stint with a manager who yelled at the team, said inappropriate things about my girlfriend, called at all hours, embarrassed teammates to the point of tears etc. I left e
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by rboyd 8y ago
+1 to the Kinesis Advantage. well worth the learning curve of spending a weekend in a typing game.
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by rboyd 8y ago
pretty much this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac
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by rboyd 8y ago
One hard lesson to learn: usually when you're burning the candle at both ends thinking your hard work will be recognized by management and rewarded, it won't. Sometimes they don't even notice, more often your output is their
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by rboyd 8y ago
when the sysop breaks in when you’re desperately trying to brute force a NUP
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by rboyd 8y ago
if RPA means robotic process automation then presumably these are lost manufacturing jobs?
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by rboyd 8y ago
I think the old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" rings true here. After you burn yourself out a couple of times you'll see it coming a mile away, so you dial it way back until you're all caught up
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by rboyd 8y ago
I think collaborative editing/remote pairing is useful but I wouldn't abandon my current editor for it. Some approaches have used plugins that they've developed for each popular editor. https://www.emacswiki.org&#x
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by rboyd 8y ago
Well done! Thanks for the book. Your English is great, I'm not sure what the other guy is talking about. I would agree that it would hook us in if we knew more about you (and your project challenge?) in the first chapter of the book. W
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by rboyd 8y ago
Congratulations on the PhD and welcome to industry! This is your introduction to the bizarre hazing ritual we've had going for decades. Many many companies use the algo/ds knowledge filter as proxy for IQ test. You get to decide b
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by rboyd 8y ago
would be interested in hearing about your experience building and selling saleztalk. have you written anything up about it?
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by rboyd 8y ago
The OP or one of the replies? Seems pretty civil what am I missing?
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by rboyd 8y ago
Eat To Perform | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Clojure | http://eattoperform.com This is an opportunity to join our growing startup which connects fitness and nutrition coaches with a passionate client base via our mobile
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by rboyd 8y ago
I found a company that had a big need for software but no experience on staff. I took a huge salary hit over year 1 to prove myself. Can’t really say I recommend it, but it’s perhaps one option.
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by rboyd 8y ago
great name!
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by rboyd 8y ago
I spent a lot of time overlaying provider coverage maps with Zillow listings. Sometimes listings will call out fiber internet or the name of a known provider. Google queries like rural fiber coop <state> should send you on a good path
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by rboyd 8y ago
You don’t mention your citizenship or your age, both of which effect the advice I would give somewhat. You’re basically opting in to a life of poverty until you monetize your projects. In the US you can find land in the rural Midwest wired

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