joeclark77

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by joeclark77 2mo ago
Thanks for the effort; I have a little feedback: - Very few of these are labeled with a clear reference to source and date (think APA style). - They don't seem to be in order chronologically. I would think "essential" papers
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by joeclark77 6y ago
Learning about ham radio was one of my new "pandemic hobbies" and I got my license in June. I don't think it's dying at all; in fact, to me it's much more exclusive than Internet chatting or playing with Arduino.
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by joeclark77 6y ago
If the UK allowed its citizens to bear arms, then the headline could be American Guns are Reducing UK Crime...
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by joeclark77 6y ago
This is kind of a stupid take on the movie. The main message of the movie is that citizenship carries with it not only privileges but also responsibilities. Granted the action is so over-the-top it's sometimes comical, but if the dir
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by joeclark77 6y ago
On top of that, you have to realize that these countries (YT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) are completely obedient to the government of China. Not because it's their biggest market, but because China will shut them out if they don&
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by joeclark77 6y ago
How does it make it better that they've arbitrarily decided to censor videos that contradict China's volunteer propaganda agency?
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by joeclark77 6y ago
It kind of depends how big this is going to get. I'm using Java/Spring/Thymeleaf right now for an "enterprise" project but that has certain considerations: it may have a 20+ year long lifespan, it may in the future
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by joeclark77 6y ago
Is it a coincidence that this headline pops up the same month "Minority Report" was added to Netflix?
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by joeclark77 6y ago
Steel Beach by John Varley. It's been 20+ years since I read it, but the main character is a newspaper reporter and as I recall he writes notes in the field on some kind of a screen or film embedded in his forearm.
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by joeclark77 6y ago
Location: Maine Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, etc. Security+ certified. Résumé/CV: https://joeclark-phd.github.io/assets/files/joeclark-resume
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Depends on what you want to do! For me, I want to live in a small town in the woods, raise chickens, that sort of thing, so I would pick a region first, then look for interesting businesses there, and simply write and ask if they need some
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by joeclark77 9y ago
How about picking a company that does something you'd love to be involved in -- building rockets, brewing artisan beer, raising cattle on the western prairie, etc. -- and go become their one-man IT department. I guarantee there's
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I suppose it depends on why the academic is writing code. I've written simulations for social science research -- basically to extrapolate the results of certain decision making strategies by an idealized decision maker in a toy pro
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I've seen others link Joel Spolsky's method before. In short, you divide ownership equally within "tiers". The founders split the company equally between them. For the first group of employees, a new chunk of shares a
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Let's say you want to give this free internet to marginalized communities - remote pacific islands, for example. Maybe you could provide internet to the islanders for free, and get paid by multinational companies to do it, for the P
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by joeclark77 9y ago
"Ask HN: electrical tape or blue painter's tape, which is better and why?"
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by joeclark77 9y ago
World War II ended the Great Depression. The linked article mistakes correlation for causation. Also it suggests there are times when "economies need governments to run deficits" and "economies need governments to print mon
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Since cryptocurrences are basically pyramid schemes, and sooner or later you run out of suckers, probably never. Don't interpret this as me saying that fiat currencies are much better, though! Really nothing that anyone has invented
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by joeclark77 9y ago
There is a lively debate in the Western world about just how free the free market should be, but very few even on the political left think that "for-profit" == "evil". If the publishing business model works for the rese
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I think more generally the issue is that most of us are "skimming" off the work of others, in the so-called "service economy" or "knowledge work". Being a lawyer, banker, insurance agent, accountant, professor
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by joeclark77 9y ago
This would have been real useful to me about a week ago as I was writing several of these types of queries! On the debate of "timestamp vs timestamptz" I reached the opposite conclusion of the author: I've got Amazon RDS inst
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Are you a kid in school? If so, I suggest approaching companies in your local community and specifically saying you want a job "for summer vacation". IMHO the biggest risk for an employer is getting stuck with someone that'
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by joeclark77 9y ago
"Shop Class as Soulcraft", by Matthew Crawford It discusses the intrinsic characteristics of work that lead to satisfaction, growth, mastery, and ultimately happiness. The author is a PhD, worked at a think tank, and quit the whi
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Well, why do you actually want the MBA? What are you hoping to get out of it? Remember you're going to be sacrificing two years that you could be spending on something else, so it matters. Once you can answer that, I can give you be
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Unless you're targeting the Harvards and Whartons of the world, either should be fine. Graduate schools aren't too picky, they just want to know that you have the ability and are going to follow through and finish. My point was
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I actually think one of the best cases for an MBA is for a techie who wants to expand their business skills. When someone who does an undergraduate business degree comes back for an MBA, they're really wasting time going over things t
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I cannot recommend enough a paper called "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice" (1972) by Cohen, March, and Olsen. Maybe the best thing I was assigned to read during my whole PhD. The authors propose that decisions are m
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by joeclark77 9y ago
You might find "The Phoenix Project" interesting. It's a novel about IT operations management that I've assigned my MIS students to read in the past. You don't have to understand all of the technology buzzwords to
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Just ace the GMAT and they'll be happy to have you. You should also have a decent reason why you want the MBA, and some sense of what you might do afterward. In my case, I had been through the dotcom bubble of 1997-2001 as a web devel
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I'm pretty sure licensing requirements would make it impossible. In my state, just selling raw vegetables at a farmer's market requires jumping through hoops of paperwork and inspections. Selling any kind of prepared food requir

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