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by unoti 11y ago
A college degree is important to many kinds of places, such as government contractors who are obligated to have all of their engineers with degrees. Generally the bigger an employer is, the more likely you're going to need a degree.
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> but wouldn't they also have more responsibilities? Not necessarily. In my case I had far more financial independence at 40, no debt, and all the kids were out of the house for the first time in my life. Car fully paid off. In my
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by unoti 11y ago
It wasn't until my kids were adults that I was able to make the jump into my lifelong dream of self employment. But I spent a lot of time training myself and laying the groundwork before that day. Keep pushing for your dream. The fight
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by unoti 11y ago
Project idea: use a Raspberry Pi to control your garage door opener, and a battery powered microcontroller in a remote to use a challenge-response scheme to open a garage door.
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> I really, really can't understand the bystander effect unless there's an immediate threat to one's personal safety > I just don't understand the logic of people who just walk on by. It's not logic, it's
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by unoti 11y ago
There's information about it online now, thanks to your post! I came here wondering what frequency ranges and encodings are at work, and now I know.
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Which should I consider more insecure: my garage door, or the deadbolt on my front door? I wonder how commonly lock picking is used in crimes. I've picked a lock before myself, but I have no real idea how effective locks are in stoppin
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by unoti 11y ago
In the real world, it's common to see network professionals who apparently specialize in preventing communications between computers. Similarly, it's common to see DBA's whose number one goal seems to be preventing anyone fro
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by unoti 11y ago
Perhaps the gravitas of their business would have been better served with a product name like Medical Compliance Systems rather than WEEDTrackr.
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Take a look at this option on MySQL innodb. I've used this in the past to radically improve speed: "If the value of innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit is 0, the log buffer is written out to the log file once per second and the flush t
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by unoti 11y ago
You're in good shape if you use innodb in MySQL. The issues in the distant past you're thinking of are with the isam drivers, and I've also had issues with the compressed write only archive driver when writing to that continu
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Even the Battlestar Galactica had a ban on netowrk connectivity of the computer systems! http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54734/making-sense-...
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Elixir is amazing. It's homiconic, like LISP, so being able to execute code at compile time can have a game-changing impact on reducing boilerplate. And in addiction to that, it's functional, so I can get the awesome benefits of
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by unoti 11y ago
That is exactly what's so exciting about Elixir to me. It's homiconic, like LISP, so being able to execute code at compile time can have a game-changing impact on reducing boilerplate. And in addiction to that, it's function
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by unoti 11y ago
I love Django, and I love Python. But I wanted to share my least favorite thing about Django, the thing that will cause me to leave it after so many years: It's in Python. Lack of static compilation makes it difficult to detect certa
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by unoti 11y ago
I met my wife playing Dark Age of Camelot, in Muspelheim. That was about 13 years ago. Back then, it was horrifying to people to hear that we met online! Today that's somewhat normal, but back then it was very unusual.
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> The Apple watch is a reverse iPod, it is beautiful but not obviously more useful. As long as there have been watches, there have been watches that are beautiful but not obviously more useful. This watch tells time, and it's beauti
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by unoti 11y ago
I have also spent long tenures at a company or two, and also took continuous self improvement seriously. And yet I can think of plenty of people I knew 15 years ago who are focusing on the same kinds of problems and technologies today that
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by unoti 11y ago
Try using voice on any Android phone. Look for a little microphone icon wherever the virtual keyboard is up, and try a few things out for yourself, such as dictating an SMS message. It's come a long way in the last 4 years. It&#x27
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The problem with ten years in one company is that you're likely to stay in your comfort zone and not learn enough new things. In an industry that reinvents itself every 5-8 years, the comfort zone is very dangerous indeed.
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The problem isn't that there are problems with going to Python 3. The problem is there isn't enough benefit to make any change worthwhile for most users.
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Erlang itself runs on the dual core ARM chip. There are Native Implemented Functions (NIF's) that can do things on the Parallela cores, but those functions are not Erlang. Or, more succinctly, don't get this thinking you're g
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by unoti 12y ago
Would it be reasonable to create a separate channel for each message type, and switch over all of them in the receiver?
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by unoti 12y ago
Go has a significantly smaller memory usage in all of the benchmarks, often by a factor of 10x. For most workloads, this can have a huge impact on when you need to spend more money to support your business.
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My team just gave up on Slack today, because push notifications seem too unreliable when we're on our phones. Paradoxically, we've found it works better when the app is not running than it does when it is running. Most of us are
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by unoti 12y ago
> He said it was like a scene from one of his novels. Incidentally, Stephen King ended up actually putting that scene into one of his novels, the seventh book of the Dark Tower. This was fitting, I thought, since the idea of the Dark
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And when you read it again, you might find that it's still too long! I kid, I kid. I ended up loving Anathem too, although I seriously struggled to get going.
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Fixed, thanks, that's a funny one!
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Me too. This is also called "fake it till you make it". It sounds like empty b.s. But there is a lot to it. The book Stop Worrying and Start Living suggests that when your mood is bad, force yourself to smile and pretend outward
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by unoti 12y ago
Show me a top-tier musician, and I'll show you someone who could write a book about self-discipline, pursuit of excellence, and working hard even when they don't feel like it.

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