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by tobych 2y ago
I worked on software that runs in an IoT gateway on bucket trucks used in the power industry, that raises audible and visual alarms if a worker doesn't have their harness clipped onto the bucket while they're operating it. In part
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by tobych 3y ago
Actively looking for a new role, after a year-long break. Location: Seattle area (USA) Remote: Yes, though prefer hybrid, or meeting up every few weeks Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Linux admin, PostgreSQL,
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by tobych 3y ago
(As far as I know, Wi-Fi is an alternative to Ethernet, not wireless Ethernet.) I've looked at a few articles and it does look like they're actually using Wi-Fi. (This will no doubt confuse some non-techie people, who use "Wi
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by tobych 3y ago
And girls.
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by tobych 3y ago
First time in a decade I've ever laughed out loud at a HN comment. Gorgeously absurd. And I believe you. Thanks. I needed a laugh.
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by tobych 4y ago
Location: Greater Seattle area, WA, USA Remote: I prefer remote or hybrid roles. Something that's worked well has been spending a few days with team members every couple months, or two or three days a week together. Willing to
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by tobych 4y ago
My CS course at the University of Sussex, UK did this (in 1988) with ML, the functional programming language. Plenty of us had already been coding in C or Pascal before starting at college. None of us had done any functional programming. I
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by tobych 4y ago
In the Air Tonight: https://peel.fm/985d7e0
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by tobych 4y ago
YouTuber Qxir, last year, did an eight-minute piece on this event, with his usual roughly-sketched illustrations and sound effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1hvvTm85UY
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by tobych 4y ago
Perhaps "API" could be added to this list. I've been jobhunting this week, and first I heard recruiters use "API" to refer to what I'd call a "service", then heard other quite senior developers do the
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by tobych 5y ago
The title of the OP seems pretty misleading. Neither the Consumer Reports article the author refers to, or the "owner satisfaction survey" that this in turn refers to, mention "happiness". The survey and the article seem
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by tobych 6y ago
I was about to post the same video and say the same thing! I heard the theme tune in my head as soon I looked at the tool.
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by tobych 6y ago
There's a little more detail about the Apollo situation on a post [1] by Neal Strickberger on Candlepower Forum: "Chicken wire! Turns out this was added for the Apollo program, when they used the TVS-3s to light the pad. A 20kW sh
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by tobych 6y ago
What do you mean by "Ops"?
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by tobych 6y ago
A CNN reporter mentioned he was "listening to the police scanner in one ear" the other day while he was reporting live on a protest.
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by tobych 6y ago
The BBC made a drama, "Micro Men" (2009), about some of the behind-the-scenes drama behind the BBC Micro. As I recall, it doesn't explain the whole Fred, Jim and Sheila thing though. Martin "Bilbo Baggins" Freeman i
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by tobych 6y ago
Video here of a training session on GDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHJkm_nNL8 Typing commands starts at 2:05 in. Watching this left me feeling like I was being taught how to use the "rm" UNIX command while
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by tobych 6y ago
Solidarity with people being laid-off, yes. I was laid-off recently. Not fired. I did nothing wrong.
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by tobych 6y ago
Can someone please change the title of this - just as with other similar posts - to use "laid-off" instead of "fired"? Regardless of how loose some may be with language, there's a clear distinction between these ter
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by tobych 6y ago
I am, it seems, in the market for this. But... I don't want to be alerted unless something is important and urgent . I was taught at college to use that distinction.[1] Not seeing the word "urgent" in the copy on the front p
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by tobych 6y ago
Location: Seattle area (USA) Remote: Yes, at least 2 days/week Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Flask, Sphinx, Django, Celery, Jenkins, Vagrant, Linux, Sentry, Docker, EC2, Kinesis, JavaScript Résumé/CV: https:/
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by tobych 7y ago
I was put off by the woman in the "This is Tortoise" video telling us the magazine is "Literally a breath of fresh air."
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by tobych 7y ago
Voices. Music. Emotions. Whimsy. Try this episode of "The Memory Palace": http://thememorypalace.us/2012/12/dreamland/ That's four minutes twenty-five seconds you might find not wasted. And non
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by tobych 7y ago
What's IC?
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by tobych 7y ago
Chaos Monkey: https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
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by tobych 7y ago
I'm surprised this piece doesn't mention The Life of Brian: Followers: "Speak to us master, speak to us!" Brian: "Go away!" Follower: "How shall we go away master?" (59 minutes into the movie)
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by tobych 8y ago
JetBrains IDEs can do almost this using the PlantUML plugin (see my comment above): you just have to write a little graphml code to show the PNG. It's not inline with the source code, but in a separate pane. But a documentation generat
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by tobych 8y ago
Not line-art to ASCII art, so not exactly what you're looking for, but PlantUML [1] generates software-related diagrams from ASCII text. There's a plug-in for JetBrains IDEs such as PyCharm that will render the diagram in a pane i
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by tobych 9y ago
Sweet. That's from Yes! Magazine, headquartered just up the road from me here on Bainbridge Island, WA.
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by tobych 9y ago
Typo: Campbell's needs that apostrophe.

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