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by innertracks 2y ago
Racknerd VPS running Caddy serving a Hugo generated static site. Site and content are created/edited in Emacs and rsynced to server. Took the default Hugo generated theme and tweaked it to my tastes. Forget where I sourced the original
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by innertracks 9y ago
I switched from IT oriented work to being a real estate broker a few months ago. Start going to open houses. When the hosting broker isn't busy ask them about their career, what they like best/least about the job, etc... I found e
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by innertracks 9y ago
No background in real estate other than as a client! I've been doing software consulting locally for a number of years. Prior to that I was doing database related development. (Warehouse design, ETL, and analytics.) In case anyone mi
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by innertracks 9y ago
Just started my new career as a real estate broker north of Seattle. Programming can go back to being mostly a hobby.
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by innertracks 10y ago
The Airship to Orbit concept [1] caught my attention a while ago. There's something rather elegant about floating one's way to (almost) orbit. [1] http://www.jpaerospace.com/
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by innertracks 10y ago
From experience in the Seattle area, if you are in the USA you can get yourself passes for state and/or federal parks. In Washington state for example with a Discover Pass ($30 annual fee) you can park overnight for I believe up to tw
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by innertracks 10y ago
Been down in the deep depression pit of darkness myself. Your career isn't worth losing your life. There's lots of good advice in these comments. Don't make any final decisions in your current state of mind. Seriously. Seek h
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I Quit My Job and Started My Own Business, Taoist Style(theancientwisdomproject.com)
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by innertracks 10y ago
When I was a teenager in the early 80s I both learned to fly (eventually becoming a flight instructor and charter pilot) and learned to program. There was definitely a synergy between the two. My systems perspective was formed in an envir
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How I'm Making a Mid-Life Career Change to Information Security(wmecole.com)
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by innertracks 10y ago
How interesting. I'm learning about healthy emotional boundaries. In the past there have been times I've been so synced up with another person's emotional state I thought their emotions were my own! Practicing dialing down m
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by innertracks 10y ago
Location: Seattle Area Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Short term, project based. Happy to travel. Technologies: Application Security, Drones, Python, Pandas, SQL, Lisp, Emacs, Linux, FAA Commercial Pilot License Résumé/CV: http:&
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by innertracks 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (I live in the Seattle Area) Contract or project based Information Security positions. Happy to travel up to 30%. Enthusiastically transitioning to Information Security! I'm having fun working through Cryptopals
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by innertracks 10y ago
Some improvement did come with age. Perspective is amazingly helpful. Along the way though I was able to find things that helped very noticeably. Some were physical, some were mind related, some were social, etc... Bits and pieces that when
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by innertracks 10y ago
Please do not ever give up.
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by innertracks 10y ago
7.62x39 was going to be my bullet of choice. 10 years or so of depression was enough. Until I saw my 3 year old daughter down the hall while I was heading to the closet to get the rifle. In that moment, I chose to endure the pain for her.
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by innertracks 10y ago
Not long ago I discovered backups don't do any good if you delete them. The incident went down while I was wiping out my hard drive to do a fresh install of Fedora. I believe what happened may have been due to sleep fatigue. Everything
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Working on Purpose: Finding Purpose During 50 Year Programming Career(rhj4.com)
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by innertracks 11y ago
Noted. That sounds good. Thanks!
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Data Architect Job Interview Post-Mortem(wmecole.com)
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by innertracks 11y ago
Just found out I didn't get the job. Gave me solid feedback on strengths and weaknesses. I very much appreciate a transparent interview process.
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by innertracks 11y ago
Seriously considering putting a write up of how I repiped the natural gas lines in our house. One inch pipe to the utility room, valves on all tees and a stub for the meter so I could pressure test the whole house by zones at the first tee
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by innertracks 11y ago
Last week, I finished 2-3 hours of on-site interviews which required a flight and an overnight stay after an initial phone screen, a phone technical interview, and a short technical challenge online. I was surprised how a couple really basi
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by innertracks 11y ago
Dual booting with Fedora. I voluntarily upgraded the Win 7 partition to give it a whirl a while back. They said I would have 30 days to go back. Less than 24 hours later ... Nope. The only place I want Windows running on my personal hardwa
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by innertracks 11y ago
Sounds fun! I've been thinking of ways and places to mix my database, software dev, and commercial pilot/flight instructor backgrounds.
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by innertracks 11y ago
While not strictly programming I just finished interview number four/five with a company about an hour ago. SQL and data modeling. First, one non-technical phone interview, one technical phone interview, one online take home test. To
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by innertracks 11y ago
The weather being reported is much more optimistic than what I'm seeing outside my window.
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What I've Learned About Learning and Educational Plans(wmecole.com)
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by innertracks 11y ago
Location: Bellingham, WA Remote: Yes. Happy to travel up to 30%. Willing to relocate: Not presently. Technologies: Python, SQL, Database Design, Linux, Emacs Résumé/CV: http://www.wmecole.com/p/my-resume.html BitB
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by innertracks 11y ago
Ramit Sethi has some great material. He has a download of a handful of resumes his clients have used successfully in the past including an engineer. I used those as models after seeing no results from my old resume. Then I submitted the n

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