andythemoron

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by andythemoron 2y ago
I quit my job in the Fall of 2020 and continued receiving messages from recruiters through last year—easily the best decision I’ve ever made. I had spent far too long at an enterprise SaaS startup with a nice hybrid schedule and needed a ma
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by andythemoron 3y ago
Reading your analysis and story reminds me how fascinating I find the transitions to and from atheism and Catholicism! My maternal grandmother was raised an only child of atheists... and became a hardcore Catholic in the '50s and raise
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by andythemoron 3y ago
Here I thought having to read Duns Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's "Metaphysics" in grad school would be the last I heard of him. I'll take him over Aquinas.
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by andythemoron 3y ago
Seeing this thread makes me want to bust out some Prolog.
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by andythemoron 3y ago
I was just thinking about a similar idea. Best of luck!
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by andythemoron 3y ago
Minivans with seats removed ftw! I like to describe my Toyota Sienna as a "metal tent on wheels". It's got a full mattress, but it's no house.
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by andythemoron 3y ago
I'm launching a financial planning business right now but I was recently using it to write xpath queries to use with "xmllint --format". I then used it to generate a more robust Python script processing these large XML files
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by andythemoron 4y ago
I'm in the midst of creating a financial planning firm serving tech professionals looking to take sabbaticals and mini-retirements (i.e., my former self). Probably too early to give you an informed opinion but I've enjoyed the rid
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by andythemoron 9y ago
Awesome first content post, man! I like yours better than mine: https://andythemoron.com/blog/2017-03-12/Scraping-For-Fun-An... One note you may want to add (or step you may want to tweak) is that the initial sqli
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Pass: lightweight, secure password management(andythemoron.com)
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by andythemoron 9y ago
I happened to mention interest in Elixir on my LinkedIn page, and now I get hit up by recruiters for it every so often, so it seems so. I haven't heard too much outside of this personal anecdote, however.
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by andythemoron 9y ago
Julia Evans' blog is one of my favorites! It was a big inspiration for starting my own blog ( https://andythemoron.com ). I also love High Scalability and Dan Luu's blog which have been mentioned in other comments. I &qu
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Process spawning in Linux, or “my child ate my brains”(andythemoron.com)
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by andythemoron 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words! My initial goal in starting this blog was to help those trying to make the rough transition from beginner to intermediate. I tend to find that most information in this space is bifurcated into "do this exa
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Cool things in the /proc filesystem. What the proc?(andythemoron.com)
3 points by andythemoron 9y ago|2 comments
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History expansion- expand your command line skills(andythemoron.com)
1 points by andythemoron 9y ago|0 comments
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by andythemoron 9y ago
I use Jekyll for my blog and have found it to be pretty easy to work with for the most part. You'll probably get 40 other people on this thread also using Jekyll... Most also deploying github pages. I currently deploy my blog on Heroku
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A Moronic Guide to Web Scraping for Fun and Profit(andythemoron.com)
3 points by andythemoron 9y ago|0 comments