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by swalberg 6y ago
For me the biggest problem with documentation has been keeping it up to date, aka "Documentation is a future lie". This seems to produce nice looking documentation but puts updating it in a separate workflow from changes in the co
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by swalberg 6y ago
I brought Chef into the online side of the NFL several years ago. We still use it, though less and less as we get more things into containers. I've got my gripes with it, but I'd never second guess my decision to use Chef, or trad
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by swalberg 6y ago
Sorry, I don't have any specific places to recommend since it's going to be very regional and vertical specific. I don't know those two particular pieces of software, but try to sell yourself less as a "neoxam expert&quo
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by swalberg 6y ago
"watch the kid" -- I think you spelled "be a parent" wrong. I don't know where you are in your career, or what your expectation is of a career, but there are lots of companies out there where you can do interesting
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by swalberg 7y ago
Since you're planning far ahead for the exam, have a look at writing both Technician and General in the same session. I took (just) my Tech a few months ago and several people at the session did both. After studying for General I'
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by swalberg 7y ago
Linus also wrote a successful Scuba dive logging and planning tool called Subsurface ( https://subsurface-divelog.org/ ) that has a cross platform desktop edition and mobile editions. Like git, he started it as a way to scrat
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by swalberg 8y ago
Just to follow up on my own post, on slide 29 of http://peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/23480/la_id/1.htm there's mention that some of those types of engineers are covered by other provincial/federal
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by swalberg 8y ago
In neighbouring Manitoba there's a carve out for locomotive engineers, power engineers, and certain types of electrical work, as long as they're certified by their respective bodies and not pretending to be a different kind of eng
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by swalberg 8y ago
No, sorry. Mostly it came down to "find out where your customers are". I had a payroll service for home help, so I reached out to the people who place the people and pitched the service as a way to help their customers. I had a si
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by swalberg 8y ago
Focus less on your own problems and pay attention to the problems that other people have. Especially problems where they've come up with really hacky workarounds -- think Excel spreadsheets, weird approval/email chains, manual imp
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by swalberg 9y ago
Did you frame it in terms of the problems you solved rather than the game part? While the interviewer may have a bias against games, it could be spun as "I learned a complicated technology to build this game" or "in order to
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by swalberg 9y ago
Leave your programming at work. Find a cause you believe in or a political candidate you think will do good, and volunteer for that. Knock on doors. Call people. Do research. Organize events and people. Donate money. Change other people&#x2
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by swalberg 9y ago
I started off in Canada as a Cub leader. I was very hesitant because I didn't see myself as "good" with kids that were not my own. Took me about a year but I grew into it, eventually being the Akela of the pack. Since then I
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by swalberg 10y ago
Collectd with the statsd plugin is a really lightweight way of collecting the data. Collectd has several outputs, from rrds to grafana.
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by swalberg 10y ago
My understanding of the J1 is that it is a cultural exchange visa and that the intent is that it's very short term work and specifically not as an alternative to the H1B. Another caveat is that the position could be designated as subje
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by swalberg 10y ago
Another thing to consider is if you're ever going to sell it. In my case I had a small project that I just claimed on my personal tax returns. I sold it to another Canadian company, and if it was done as a share sale it qualified under
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by swalberg 10y ago
My office did this on a vastly smaller scale. The people that do care about their keyboard either store it in their locker, or in the case of one of my coworkers, carry it with them (it's the smallest CODE keyboard so it packs up easil
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by swalberg 10y ago
Not every pork belly is the same, and the fattier ones are sold as a cheaper brand. If you've ever bought the really cheap bacon, it shrivels up to nothing as it cooks. So the window does let you know what you're getting and let y
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by swalberg 10y ago
I don't think the credit score itself is the problem, it's that it's the only thing banks use. There is no discretion for cases where the mode doesn't have enough information. As one example that has affected me, I moved
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by swalberg 10y ago
The fraud I'm worried about isn't from a bona-fida customer, it's from a fraudulent customer. BadGuy uses your service to sign up for BadGuyDojo, and attaches a stolen bank account. 10 "customers" sign up with stole
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by swalberg 10y ago
A company doesn't really "sponsor" a TN visa, they just have to be willing to write a job offer letter that satisfies the border officer. This means it specifies the job is temporary (try to get it to say 3 years, as that&#x2
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by swalberg 10y ago
I've written 3 technical books. I highly recommend talking to an agent. I used studiob.com. Not only will they negotiate money on your behalf, but they'll get crappy clauses taken out. Stuff you've never heard of like "c
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The Hack at ShapeShift(moneyandstate.com)
17 points by swalberg 10y ago|4 comments
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by swalberg 11y ago
sprintf and friends will pad strings for you, no? printf("%20s\n", "Hello");
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by swalberg 11y ago
Wireshark also comes with "tshark" which is a CLI tool that gives you access to display filters and some of the GUI features. In particular, it's great for scripting if you're trying to pull some stats while troubleshoot
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by swalberg 11y ago
Over the past few months: * Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government) * Printing homework or practice questions for my kids *
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by swalberg 11y ago
I've written/cowritten 3 books and a whole lot of articles over the past ~15 years on a freelance basis. Most of the good work came through an agency, StudioB, though I had pitched magazines and other places from time to time on m
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DHI Group, Inc. Announces the Sale of Slashdot Media(prnewswire.com)
2 points by swalberg 11y ago|0 comments
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NFL Hackathon to use RFID data from players(nflhackathon.com)
2 points by swalberg 11y ago|0 comments
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by swalberg 11y ago
If I'm reading this right, the registrar suspended the domain because the contact details weren't validated by the customer. It wasn't ICANN. It seems to be up to the registrar -- other registrars I use send an email that req

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