ericbrow

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by ericbrow 11mo ago
Was anyone else slightly disappointed that this new product doesn't respond in Haiku, as the name would imply?
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by ericbrow 1y ago
Nice try Mr. AI. I'm not falling for it.
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by ericbrow 7y ago
It took me a few rounds to detect this trick. I had a boss who would pick up on clues from upper management on where they may be headed. He would come back to our team, and throw everyone at a problem. "This is a priority for managem
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by ericbrow 7y ago
I'm going to answer this assuming you mean gaining number sense, which is something I didn't realize I was missing until I gained it. I got my undergrad in math and physics. I was good at math. It wasn't until I had been te
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by ericbrow 8y ago
I've straddled and blurred the line between being in IT and an educator. I've seen home schooling go horribly wrong and incredibly right. From my observations of the few dozen families I've watched, it seems to mostly depen
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by ericbrow 8y ago
I know a few truck drivers. They're not getting paid any more than in past years. Trucking companies may have increased demand, truckers are still getting paid trucker's wages. Enough to get by on at the cost of having to work
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by ericbrow 8y ago
I inherited a large database that "supported" an application, when in fact the application layer was built into the database. I took over from a begrudging dev who was involuntarily transferred from dev/dba to just dev. In
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by ericbrow 8y ago
Thanks for the great article. Long read, but lots of great examples.
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by ericbrow 9y ago
I heard a neighbor kid get hit by a car. A bunch of us were outside playing tag, heard the tires screech and the thump. The kid was an impulsive type, and the lady who hit him was our lunch room monitor, a very very sweet and kind woman.
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by ericbrow 10y ago
I'll second Mendeley. I've used several other options, but Mendeley has a Chrome plug-in that will download the PDF as well as try to read author and other bibliographical info. The desktop app helps in searching for key words w
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by ericbrow 10y ago
This is really awesome. This is now my default HN portal. Thank you.
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by ericbrow 10y ago
Yes, thanks for the response.
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by ericbrow 10y ago
Can you tell me how Unito works differently from Zapier?
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by ericbrow 10y ago
I've done a bunch of little freelance stuff. Money is always great, and I'd follow the advice already given if that's what you're looking for. On the other hand, it might be worth considering a trade for labor for whate
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by ericbrow 10y ago
When I can't stomach puff pieces on NPR, I usually blame it in my extreme liberal bias, but still take in the information. I still haven't yet heard ANY in-depth stories taking Trump or Cruise to task for their many false stateme
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by ericbrow 11y ago
An old co-worker of mine jumped ship in the way I wished I had. He had something like 16 or 17 days vacation, and he took every Friday off from September till the end of the year. He used those Fridays to look for new jobs and interviews.
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by ericbrow 11y ago
I'm in. I'm currently teaching an undergraduate course in collaboration software, and I'd be interested to hear what others are doing, or what ideas they have.