rthomas6

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by rthomas6 8y ago
Yes, this is a major con! Luckily my job involves a lot of R&D for the government, so UX and customer adoption isn't as important, though it still is important. Like other commenters have said, you need a balance. A workplace whe
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I started doing /r/flipping as a side hustle. It works, but it scales with how much time you're willing to spend on it. But that's also a benefit of it-- no hours, no deadlines, nobody to answer to. And failure is painle
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I work in a place where my boss is an engineer, his boss is an engineer, and his boss is an engineer. I've found this feeling is helped a lot by your superiors actually understanding what you are doing and why. I'm still a pawn, b
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by rthomas6 8y ago
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris is also good.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Also Seneca's Moral letters to Lucilius. The great thing about this and Meditations is that they're freely available online! Meditations: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html Seneca&#x27
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I greatly prefer The Power of Now over his other books. IMO he does not practice what he preaches as much as he used to, and that influences his writing in small ways. Just my unenlightened opinion, though.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
But how hard is it to learn, and remember, how to do all these things?
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by rthomas6 8y ago
What's the Pythonic way of pattern matching?
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Yeah that's true, nobody uses Clojurescript or anything.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Okay Mr. Pedant. Actually Dai isn't backed by either one. It's backed by an ERC-20 token called Pooled Ether.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Not really. It's just a way of measuring value more removed from any one nation's currency. You take the price, in DAI, of a bunch of historically stable priced goods. Bread, tires, shoes, etc. Measure the averaged normalized vari
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by rthomas6 8y ago
To your first point, the vision is to use other Ethereum tokens tied to various assets and securities. How those asset-backed tokens are set up and how trustworthy they are depends on the individual token. I know there are a few asset-backe
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by rthomas6 8y ago
No, it's part of the protocol. When a collateralized position falls below the 150% (or whatever) mark, that position gets automatically liquidated and auctioned off to pay for the debt. And the positions are set up to where you can bor
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by rthomas6 8y ago
No, you may be thinking of something else. DAI is backed by Ethereum held in a smart contract. It's not collateralized by fiat currencies right now.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I agree. But eventually they plan to allow for many forms of collateral, and peg the price to a basket of goods. If convenience were the same, I would rather hold an overcollateralized currency with stocks, bonds, gold, ETH, etc. underneath
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Well yeah, if all underlying reserves lose value, the stablecoins are going to tank as well. And yes, holding all reserves in one form of value is not good. But the eventual idea is to hold reserves (allow people to borrow using collateral)
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Eventually they plan to move to a version that is tied to some CPI (basket of goods) rather than one currency. DAI is really borrowed against collateral (right now it's Ethereum, but there are plans for muliple forms of collateral), an
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I don't understand why there isn't more hype around the DAI stablecoin. It's an ERC-20 token that is pegged to USD through known collateral and economic incentives in a smart contract. It doesn't have any of the problems
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by rthomas6 8y ago
RSS is done.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
You could have a "super-vote" that readers could apply to other peoples' posts. It wouldn't boost visibility of the post, but it would reward the poster in some way. Some ideas for rewards of being super-voted: * Show
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I made a program that sends daily texts to my wife and me with our checking account balance and how much spending that equals out to per day until we are paid again. I don't know if that counts. It's really simple. It's coded
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by rthomas6 8y ago
That's a great idea. I will add that when I get home today.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Thanks, that is really encouraging!
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Using Records in VHDL(fpgapro.com)
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Don't forget about Nim. Nim is similar except it's Pythonish syntax with C speed instead of Rubyish syntax.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
Don't forget about Netlify coupled with Hugo/Gatsby. It's coupled with Git but it's really really seamless. Uses markdown, free https, built in CDN, large community. Just push to master/whatever and your site gets u
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by rthomas6 8y ago
But... You don't have to use it? How does pipenv disrupt anyone's workflow? It's optional.
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by rthomas6 8y ago
This is absolutely true. I have had several experiences of knowing music was live at a distance of several hundred feet, through nothing but how it sounded. And like you said, it's easy to tell primarily with "analog" instrum
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I think people really crave silence inside of their own head, rather than silence in their environment. People tend to live by default through several layers of filtering (emotions, relation to the past, protection of sense of self, scannin
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by rthomas6 8y ago
I'm working with FPGAs almost exclusively at my job. From what I've seen, you want to choose either Xilinx or Altera and learn their proprietary toolset. Unfortunately there aren't many comparable open source synthesis tools

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