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by sown 13y ago
> Any conversation at all about how to avoid the legal issues/being sued out of existence? I share your concern, but maybe just sort, uh, :) worry about that part later? It could prove to be fatal but it'll be neat to at least
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by sown 13y ago
On my desktop, a certain desktop produced by a popular linux system reseller manufactured a couple of years ago, modern ubuntu seems to just reboot the machine when I select 'suspend'. So I leave it on all the time. An annoyance,
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by sown 13y ago
I have a feeling this is where hardware prototyping is going to head, at least part of the time. Smaller, specialized and perhaps plug-able units coming together. Anyone can make a wonderful little device, I would hope. Rather than componen
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by sown 13y ago
I've wondered about using SSH socks proxy on my devices to help get around this. Even if they break WPA2 they'd deal with SSH traffic only. For example, it seems reasonable that I could have my laptop or phone use a ssh tunnel and
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by sown 13y ago
whops
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by sown 13y ago
Sometimes I think like this. I'm working on some prototype for something I'm trying to make, now. still, scratching an itch might be good advice since I don't feel like a horrible bad engineer when I'm working on it. I&#
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by sown 13y ago
> I've been the Ubuntu developer responsible for Wine's packages for almost a decade now. Thank you. I can play skyrim on my linux machine, now. :)
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by sown 13y ago
I don't write code, i fix bugs exclusively. although, when I'm at home and I work on my own stuff I feel at peace and maybe in control at least. that'll probably be my vacation i hope to take soon; just working on my own shit
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by sown 13y ago
I meant that it seems like i'm too dumb. it was like this in school, too. I remember in a networking class I was always bewildered at what the professor was saying and everyone else got. he used the socratic method of teaching; asking
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by sown 13y ago
Maybe I'm a leech like another askHN post talked about ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196455 ) and don't know it or how to fix it?
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by sown 13y ago
By reading code, I also meant debugging. They don't really explain how things work and their response is usually 'just read the fucking code!' so I presumed that I just am terrible at reading code.
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by sown 13y ago
> Neither of these 2 posts say how long you've been doing this work for. Good point. I've been working since 2007. I think the last real new code I wrote was in 2010. Before that, I did something in 2007-2008-ish. Mostly C&#x2
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Ask HN: Why am I a terrible software engineer?
1 points by sown 13y ago|15 comments
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by sown 13y ago
> To get better, you need to know what to build. You need the path to be laid out before you. That's what college is right? And endless string of projects with clearly defined specifications. College was pretty shity. The OS class w
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by sown 13y ago
> If you become more balanced (I've noticed a lot of nos and cants here), you'll probably spring back much better. I know what you mean, but I can't just 'change' it like I do a channel. All my life I've bee
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by sown 13y ago
> Dont take this the wrong way but it sounds more like a self confidence issue more than anything else That's very real. I'm a loser -- now and forever, and I don't know if I can keep programming because I'm so horrib
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by sown 13y ago
> I think it's normal. A lot of programming jobs are maintenance. My job is only bug fixing. It's 'sustaining' engineering. I'm not sure it's going to be possible to transfer, but I'm going to try anywa
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by sown 13y ago
> Though you are fixing bugs, are you playing an essential role? If you quit, would they hire someone else to fix these bugs? There's an entire department for this, 'sustaining'. I'm not sure what you mean by taking o
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by sown 13y ago
I've done what you've suggested quite a while ago, not sure to what effect. i don't know if anyone looks at my github. I tried coming up with 'design' as best as I can but how do I even know what it will look like?
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Ask HN: My career has been fixing bugs for years. What now?
11 points by sown 13y ago|19 comments
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by sown 13y ago
http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gnu-radio-blog/464... I think this is what she was talking about? Note to self: buy one! :D
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by sown 13y ago
I need to learn HW. Could someone detail more information about the tools she used?
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by sown 13y ago
All I have is an anecdote. I'm a former Cisco Systems employee. Since they started laying people off, from what I understand, this complicates green card application issues, so employees there, while not at risk of getting laid off, ha
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by sown 13y ago
That's about the reaction people around me had -- if the company were to give up day care, people threatened to quit.
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by sown 13y ago
I wonder how much demand there is for child care as a perk. At places I worked at -- admittedly, much larger companies -- childcare and transportation benefits were two of the biggest ones.
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by sown 13y ago
I think what changed Thrun's mind was the less than successful SJSU experiment: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258420151/the-online-education...
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by sown 13y ago
> the shockingly low number of students who actually finish the classes, which is fewer than 10%. Not all of those people received a passing grade, either, meaning that for every 100 pupils who enrolled in a free course, something like f
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by sown 13y ago
> In terms of getting good advice, accept that money will have to be on the table. People have to make a living, and if there's nothing to gain, then why should a good professional waste their time? My hunch is that a good financial
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by sown 13y ago
I don't know much about pricing but if you have people wanting to use it perhaps there's a pricing model that you can use to get people to pay for it, too. Good luck!
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by sown 13y ago
> Spending a few hours over the evenings and weekends is totally doable, and within a few weeks you'll have gotten further than you may think! That's true. I do try to do stuff like this bug it's hard to find meaning, thou

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