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by loudouncodes 7mo ago
I don't expect amazon to have my best interests at heart. To the contrary, this entire post is about how their actions dont have their best interests at heart. When I pause a purchase because of this crap, I might not ever return to
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An Open Letter to Amazon / Audible(medium.com)
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
I spent 11 years working as a contractor for the U.S. State Department. During this time I: - In 1996 built and deployed a system to keep track of the removal of landmines in Bosnia. In 2015 I met someone who knew my work as a child in Sara
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
I realized I should clarify “I could find”. I’m in the Washington D.C. Metro area, but I spoke _at least_ once a week everywhere from Richmond to Philadelphia, and occasionally as far as Ohio.
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
Networking and Marketing. For 10 years I spoke at every conference, user group, etc. that I could find. I sustained a 9 person consulting company finding gigs through the network of other speakers and attendees that would come up and ask me
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
This is ridiculous. 1. Pseudocode should be typeable in an email. 2. You should be able to write pseudocode on a whiteboard without worrying about syntax. 3. Pseudocode should be loose enough that it suggests a domain-specific language that
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
I use and love pinboard.in
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
I absolutely have an inner voice. I’m ‘hearing’ it right now as I plan out what i’m saying to you. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science...
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
Let me get my pdf highlights into readwise and let me orgazize my notes as a zettelkasten in obsidian and i’ll get in lline to pay you.
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
I started watching it, but the whole thing turned me off because they took two fantastic women involved at NASA - Margaret Hamilton and Poppy Northcut, and combined them into one character that in the several episodes I saw was trending tow
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
This alsp pissed me off. He is totally ignoring Benoit Mandel brot’s work in the 1950’s and John Conways work in the 1970’s. He sounds like a petulent child who takes himself too seriously and expects others do the same. It distracts from
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by loudouncodes 4y ago
Beautiful, but why this design trend of breaking the semantics of scrolling?
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by loudouncodes 5y ago
Um, he starts in 1976, then says ‘21 years later’ and he’s talking about today? He’s 20 years off in his opening premise...
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by loudouncodes 6y ago
Wow! A webring! Haven’t seen one of those in a zillion years.
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by loudouncodes 6y ago
Fully functional? I have expectations...
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by loudouncodes 6y ago
How can this article, as well as the hundreds of comments here, not acknowledge that all they are doing is solving the Drake Equation for new values they are estimating?
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by loudouncodes 7y ago
Training on a common ‘software engineering body of knowledge’. The state of the art is so different across organizations it’s like having medical tricorders at one place and leeches at another.
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by loudouncodes 7y ago
Washington Apple Pi in the mid 80’s. Had no idea that would be thought of as a ‘heyday’. I was in high school and used it mostly as a group of people to get software from...shareware and... otherwise. There were also some fun bbs games li
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by loudouncodes 7y ago
Every time I see Godzilla he’s ensnared in and tearing down power lines. This was bound to happen sooner or later.
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by loudouncodes 8y ago
This but for retrocomputer kits
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
Audible, I’m a regular user and a big fan, but if you want to make me happy and increase my book purchasing volume: 1) get rid of the subscription service, I have avoided purchases altogether because the book was cheaper than my credit was
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
I can’t believe I’m going to be ‘that guy’ for this post, but the word ‘co-conspirators’ hurts my eyes. Can you conspire alone? No, a conspiracy naturally involves several people. The word ‘conspirator’ is enough to identify someone in a
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
There is an important point lost here. People are saying 'people who couldn't use the road before now have the option to', but they are ignoring that the restricted hours were increased by 90 minutes in the morning and eveni
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
Getting this up and running on the PiDP/11 would be a thing of beauty: https://hackaday.io/project/8069-pidp-11
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
I recently hired several graduates from General Assembly and several from CodingDojo in Washington DC to be junior engineers on a team including intermediate and senior engineers. I would hire them again in a heartbeat. Many years ago I wa
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
That is one of my favorite movies. And while the computer in the movie is named Colossus, it has nothing to do with this story. In fact, the real Colossus was still classified at the time this movie was made; use of the name is sheer coin
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
I live in Loudoun County, va, and we've always had the option of using paper with an electronic scanner. There have been touch screen voting machines in the last couple of elections, but I didn't use them,
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
Are you actively driving? That limits what you can learn technically, because technical requires at least visual learning, if not actually hands on. Stick with audiobooks about technical _concepts_ or managerial topics. I'd suggest st
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
I ran across this idea a couple of weeks ago in the book 'Machine, Platform, Crowd". I'm drawing out idea for presentations to my com Sci high school students.
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by loudouncodes 9y ago
Kindles are horrible for tech books. I buy books directly the the pragprog website and they automatically appear in my Dropbox as PDF (there is a choice of format). My books auto-update with typo fixes, etc. automatically.

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