amorphic

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by amorphic 4y ago
Australia here also. I'm a Tech Lead with a solid CV looking for a new gig. I'm finding it noticeably more difficult to get recruiter attention (let alone interviews) than I'd expected. My gut feeling is that there are likely
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by amorphic 4y ago
I highly recommend joining your local makerspace: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces A makerspace gives you a place to explore + learn new skills and hobbies as well as a place to make new social connection
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by amorphic 4y ago
A lot of people here seem to take the "Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and therefore is worthless" line. I don't hold any bitcoin and I don't feel strongly either way. But this piece by Lyn Alden provides some good insigh
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by amorphic 5y ago
I second this approach. I often find myself in similar situations as OP's, working with a client to understand a complex or ill-defined problem space and developing solutions in an agile way. Neither you nor the client has a (functioni
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by amorphic 5y ago
Making and fixing things is a very rewarding way to spend your time. A great way to develop your maker-fu is to join your local Hacker/makerspace: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces The availability of
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by amorphic 7y ago
In an ABC (Australia) news story this week a journalist who was involved back in 1989 recounted that families were only allowed to collect the bodies of victims from hospitals and morgues if they agreed to sign a document confirming that th
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by amorphic 7y ago
A lot of comments here bemoan "Full Stack Engineers" as being Jacks of All Trades but Masters of None. But that misses the point. Don't forget that the full quote is: “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes
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by amorphic 8y ago
Apparently because their special phones have "new, long-range radio hardware" that makes this all possible. But radio technologies are pretty widely understood and while I'm no expert I've not heard of anything that coul
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by amorphic 8y ago
Join your local makerspace. If you don't have a local makerspace, start one.
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by amorphic 8y ago
"If the industry and government would reach a solution that would enable access that doesn't go to removing electronic protection, and doesn't attract that prohibition against systemic weaknesses and vulnerabilities, if the i
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by amorphic 8y ago
Frame situations in such a way that you're happy with whichever outcome eventuates. Simple example: Tomorrow's Saturday. If it's Sunny we can go on that family picnic we were talking about. If it's Rainy we can stay insi
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by amorphic 8y ago
Highly recommend joining a makerspace. Our makerspace (sparkcc.org) is quite tech-focussed and attracts a lot of people with a professional or hobbyist interest in tech. I've been working remotely for > 3 years now and always enjoy
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by amorphic 8y ago
+1 I used Tornado in the past because it had an async event loop before it was native to Python. So much simpler than having to set up wsgi servers etc with the added benefit of easily-configured background tasks (like having cron jobs buil
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by amorphic 8y ago
Andrew gave a great talk on this very topic at PyCon AU in August. Still at the formative stages it seems... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7taKQnndfo
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by amorphic 8y ago
I used aiohttp for a small project recently and found that it to be very good. Combined with aiohttp-json-rpc I had a very effective websocket-based JSON RPC backend service up and running in a very short time and with very little boilerpla
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by amorphic 8y ago
Circa-2000 I was in my final year of university and working as a Windows service desk monkey in the SysAdmin team of a Sydney-based company that developed a platform for hosting (legitimate, regulated) gambling websites. Sun Microsystems ha
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Why we left Etsy and you might as well(enstaved.com)
1 points by amorphic 8y ago|0 comments
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by amorphic 8y ago
Living in a share house in London (I'm Australian) with my fiance while earning decent money working for a tech company and taking every opportunity I had to go to gigs, travel Europe and attend music festivals. Wouldn't change a
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by amorphic 8y ago
Any fans of Bosch's work should also check out Dave Patchett ( http://davepatchett.net/ ). I'm not sure if Dave's been active recently but he's best known for the use of his paintings as album covers for s
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The Pythonic Staff of Enlightenment Is Now on Sale and 10% Goes to the PSF(enstaved.com)
1 points by amorphic 9y ago|0 comments
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by amorphic 9y ago
There is now potential for side-projects involving small-scale manufacturing thanks to recent advances in 3D printing. A friend and I created Enstaved [1] ("Customized Staves and Accessories") after a prop that we designed and 3D
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by amorphic 9y ago
Several people have mentioned Flask. Eve is a well-written and actively-developed Flask framework for building RESTful API services: http://python-eve.org . It's most at home with a MongoDB backend but can also use SQL RDBM
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by amorphic 9y ago
I co-founded and run a makerspace called SparkCC ( http://sparkcc.org ). It's not-for-profit but I've met lots of amazing people. I've been able to use my skills and knowledge to help many of them and many of them h
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by amorphic 9y ago
You can also train your brain to be better at coming up with ideas. In his book Choose Yourself (my review here: https://jimter.net/book-review-james-altucher-choose-yoursel... ) James Altucher talks about training your &quo
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by amorphic 9y ago
The more people you talk to and experiences you expose yourself to the more ideas you will have. I spoke at PyCon AU 2016 on "Controlling a 3D Printer with Python" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvnPB_77z8 ). I
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by amorphic 9y ago
After using kanban for Dev and Ops work and really digging it I started using a Trello board for my personal tasks and found it to be invaluable Each task gets a Trello card and goes in one of four columns: Backlog, Ready, Doing, Done. I al
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by amorphic 9y ago
Wow, the pony might be tricky but we have a great designer. Send us an email via the address on the website and we'll see what we can do!
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by amorphic 9y ago
Should've mentioned that for the Rubyists we've created the Ruby Staff of Development ( https://gallery.enstaved.com/#14902801969539 ). Happy to create staves for other languages/technologies if there's de
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by amorphic 9y ago
An industrial design friend of mine and I started https://enstaved.com after I had a really positive reaction to the Pythonic Staff of Enlightenment ( https://jimter.net/pythonic-staff/ ) at PyCon AU 2016 (mo
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by amorphic 10y ago
I concur. If you want to burn fat do resistance training. Think about the energy it takes to move something heavy from one place to another. That's the energy you're burning when you do resistance training. Cardio is great and nec

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