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by sloaken 7y ago
Reminds me of a story: A guy was walking along the beach and found a lamp. Of course he rubs the lamp, and sure enough a genie appears. Genie: master of the lamp I can grant you a wish, you may wish for anything. Guy: Wait, isn't it s
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by sloaken 7y ago
A whole LOT of time, a whole lot of space. So estimate 1 minor good random mutation per 10,000 population. Assume 1 major mutation per 1000 years, per 10,000 population.
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by sloaken 7y ago
My dad was an aero space engineer, and I always had trouble with this. It is the speed you need to be going at, to not be pulled back by gravity. As a kid, I always thought, well big deal, if I am in a plane and just keep going up, eventu
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by sloaken 7y ago
Avogadro constant - I can accept the number, if someone can show me how, over a hundred years ago, without having every really seen a molecule, this number could be derived. Obviously no one ever sat there and counted them but I find it ha
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by sloaken 7y ago
I would think an honorary one, where a real university gives it to you for your body of work.
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by sloaken 7y ago
If I am stuck on something, and that something is in your realm, either for understanding or providing, then I might be stuck and unproductive until you answer. e.g. I send you a message - I am trying to use 'xyzzy' which you prov
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by sloaken 7y ago
A few years ago it seemed like every tech book I was interested in was in Kindle Unlimited. One price, hard to beat. The first year I was happy. Year two seemed like almost nothing was on kindle unlimited. This third year, literally NOT
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by sloaken 7y ago
Congrats on the remission. Financial freedom is a tough goal to explain for a number of reason. Most notably because it is different for each person. Myself I have a family and I consider us rich. Never missed a rent payment, always enou
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by sloaken 7y ago
Determining when something is done, because you always feel like you can improve on it.
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by sloaken 7y ago
1) Keeping up with an ever growing and changing tech environment. 2) Dreading visiting my parents, because you always hear:'Oh good, come here and look at this problem I have'. My wife even volunteers me to fix other peoples stuf
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by sloaken 7y ago
Quitting a paying job without a followup already, will cost your salary anywhere from 15 to 30% hit. That said, I have done the same twice. The first time I really just needed a break. I was classic burn out which is what yours sounds lik
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by sloaken 7y ago
I used to work for a company that had students come in for a few months. In most areas they were treated as glorified secretaries. In my group we were so short handed on developers that I had them do real work. In my time I had 10. 4 we
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by sloaken 7y ago
You cannot control the BS interview. I had the same type of interview, it was for C# and .Net. All the questions pertained to debugging SQL errors. LOL The interviewers were dicks, and after the interviewer I told their HR I was not inte
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by sloaken 7y ago
Turns out good old wiki has an article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
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by sloaken 7y ago
I believe the 'off by one' are called fence post errors. Building a fence, 50 feet, put a post every 10. How many fence posts do you need? Well 50 / 10 = 5 obviously :-)
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by sloaken 7y ago
Oldie but a goodie: FORTRAN It has evolved a lot over the years.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Have you visited xmpp.org? To me it already has been extended, the x in its name is for extendable. That said I would start with xmpp.org
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by sloaken 7y ago
Now you are showing your age.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Typically when I was the Team Lead, my boss had a business view and not a tech understanding. As such I became the voice of tech to business. Likewise I was the business voice to the techies. You will/should have a good understanding
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by sloaken 7y ago
We have the pluralsight / cbtnuggets licenses about 1 per 3 people and rotate around as desired. As for company wide, its a matter of justifying the need.
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by sloaken 7y ago
They say 95% of statistics people quote are made up (including mine here). So to quote a source, that is not my brain: from 2017 to 2018 upload speeds went up 22% https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18134899/i
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by sloaken 7y ago
Basic probability will really grow your understanding of a lot of things. I would follow that with a standard statistics class. I am surprised as a 'business professional' you did not have these. For economics I really enjoyed
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by sloaken 7y ago
We use Plural Sight and CBT Nuggets, well the IT people do, not sure of others. At various times people have had to stay at home, kid issues, wife having baby etc. During which time people can work from home for up to a week a year, learn
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by sloaken 7y ago
key phrase was 'IF'. I typically do not apply type info, as I care about its logical purpose when debugging. Most modern IDE will tell you the type when you hover over them.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Try to make the beginning part of the name unique. If you follow the Hungarian notation, put that at the end of the name not the beginning. Bad example strname, straddress, strphone. Better: namestr, addressstr, phonestr.
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by sloaken 7y ago
IMHO adding a Star Wars or movie / pop culture reference fits the definition of being cryptic.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Loved the website, ordered the book. Any boo that could make a song has got to be good .... right?!? Well at least deserves to have me try.
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by sloaken 7y ago
ColinWright I love your style!
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by sloaken 7y ago
I really like pluralsight. Convinced my boss we (aka me) needed a subscription :-)
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by sloaken 7y ago
Get a group a friends (who are also laid off) together (4 or 5 total people is best), virtually of course, set a meeting schedule, like once or twice a week. At the meeting discuss what you are doing. This is a team meeting. You discuss

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