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Just stopping in & saying that I love this software. Thank you!

What was the strategy for moving things over? By age? Monitoring queries and determining what data isn’t being queried? Something else?

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- The stuff that you do is rad AF and I like working on technologies/problems that have the potential to challenge me.

- in my own time, I’ve been working on projects with a similar scope, yet much simpler. I find these sort of projects truly fascinating and would love to be able to help the company achieve their objectives.

You’ll search what you know instead of wandering, which can be done from a list.

What’s your thoughts on ever using color eInk for coding/development?

- easier on the eyes - hammock driven development

What do you think the refresh rates would need to be to do that?

I have 3 side projects that I’m splitting my time between.

- a browser extension that will reverse engineer a site’s APIs by analyzing network traffic and then compiling them into standardized specifications.

- API based financial derivative calculations that will calculate more than just the BSM.

- Just another financial market / economic analytics platform.

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Why do people try to take a medium, one which ain’t made for long form, and try to cram long from into it?

Why use Python when MS built in JS?

MarginNote

Anyone know where I can find a breakdown of a vertical farm's expenditures by category?

If one is on a tablet, would suggest MarginNote as it has tags & folders. Additionally, there’s a notion of a Study Document and with this, you can combine material from several sources and creat mind maps or hierarchical notes that will take you to the exact location.

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Why not add that functionality directly to SQLite via stored procs*

https://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Kaufmann-Managem...

*https://github.com/wolfch/sqlite-3.7.3.p1

- Halt & Catch Fire

- IntelliJ

- Toyota having dependable cars.

It’s.... beautiful

You may enjoy the book called The Logic of Failure

A company selling a product to a few isn’t an issue, yet one who controls the market is. It’s all about the scale

I didn’t have a bankroll during this time, but have a job that i found through a guy i knew who knew another guy at the gym, which kept me afloat.

I can say that I have been fortunate enough to not have ever been at that level of poverty and should probably adjust my statements accordingly. Looking back, as i wrote that, I most likely had just the States in mind and other Western countries, not societies that are considered 3rd world.

For those, I cannot fathom the issues they face nor will i even attempt to speculate as that would be just foolish of me.

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Dude... don’t worry about the past as it’s the past. Use the past to learn what you did right and what you did wrong.

I’m glad that you know you have limitless resources (libgen is your friend).

If i may make a suggestion, change the way you talk. Instead of saying, “i hope” say “I am” be more definitive about your statements and after awhile, you’ll notice a change in your thoughts.

Here’s my favorite saying, “you’re not going to change until the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the same.”

I did a 6 year stent at community college and then failed out at uni. I had a menial until 27 or 28 years old. I was a failure at life at this point. I decided to read the entire Learning Python book (>1200 pages) because I’m not a smart man, but I thought that by reading that stupid thing, I’d learn something at least (should have picked a few other books looking back). While reading that book and having the menial job, I started having these ideas... hmm... I could automate this for this department or I could do this... i could do that... blah blah... that led me to another role at that company. I kept learning that programming thing and then somehow got a job at a better company, making decent money. Kept studying and two years later, I finally a software engineer that’s leading initiatives at the company I’m at.

My full advice:

- Don’t be scared to ask questions

- Ask more questions

- Learn whatever interests you. You’ll wonder, but at some point down the road, something will click. Could be a few months from now or a few years, but just keep learning whatever tickles your fancy.

- Don’t be scared to admit you don’t know something, but just make sure that you know it the next time you see the person.

- Be curious

- Workout. This is one of the most important things. How can one feel good about oneself if they don’t take care of their body. I’m not saying gotta have the best body or diet, but just get some workout in—sports, gym, classes, yoga, hiking, something.

I got my best break of my life, which lead to everything good I have accomplished today at the gym. I overheard a conversation someone was having with a person I knew at the gym and I found it interesting. I asked for an introduction and that was that.

Don’t be scared to reach out. Go to events and meet new people. Talk to random people who you think would be interesting; talk to people who are working on interesting stuff at coffee shops, etc...

You’ll be fine if you have passion.

Do you have a link to that study as I’d love to read it.

Your comment only talks about their current job and not the jobs that they’ll have in the future if one dedicates themselves to spending time after work and family to learning a new skill that will promote them to another career or position.

I completely agree that in roles where you are at the bottom of the totem, you can’t talk back since one is replaceable at that level. However, it’s not about speaking up at that job, rather leanings the skills needed to get another job where you’re not at the bottom of the totem.

I was in this position and I despised it.

I’m not saying it’s easy; I’m not saying that the internal fight to watch tv/relax instead of the more difficult task of studying/learning will ever stop, but what I’m saying is that there are tools available to everyone who asks for it.

What I’d love to know more about is how can one change their outlook in a systematic way? How can people who don’t have the notion of they can be more, be more? How.... so many questions.

That’s why I didn’t write everyone. For the people that have those type of scenarios, that’s just horrible and society, if possible should help.

I hate to write the following sentence, but you don’t know me and the experiences I’ve had throughout my life.

The stabbed, jail, etc... you mentioned... yeah, I’ve seen that first hand a few times, know many people who have gone to jail and are still in it for a myriad of reasons. Seeing & having that stuff around you doesn’t mean you grow poor.

I did the 6 year community college plan; I failed out of college and by every metric on my academic record, I should be a complete failure, but hey, I’m not!

All the issues you of poverty and how crippling it is, I completely agree with, but what you don’t understand is that it’s all a decision. It’s a decision to live how you are or seek a return that will be realized down the road at some unknown point. I understand what I just said would be extremely difficult for someone who would be in that current situation, but it doesn’t deny them the ability to seek that reward at some point down the road.

As I’ve said, it’s all a choice on what to do with your time. The fight within is the most difficult thing anyone could ever face, but face it one must to change.

One of my favorite sayings is “you’re not going to change until the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the same.” Basically... one must hate oneself so much that it would be easier to change than to live another day as one currently does.

Wanna guess how I changed? I hated myself that much.

About to write some possibly controversial stuff...

My early life, I grew up and had middle to upper middle class all around me. In my late teens and early twenties, there were times I had to scrounge my cushions and rummage through my car to find enough change to eat a meal.

We live in a society where everyone has access to a computer—personal or local library. We have all the information we need to bring (the majority, but not all) ourselves up from poverty to lower middle class or even middle class.

It’s my belief that it boils down to a few things: - self learning - dedication

Self Learning: if you must, pirate the crap out of all knowledge you need to get your family in a stable place. You need a textbook, you can find an older version; need a research report, find it online; you need.... just go find it and get it. If you don’t know how to find it, learn how to find it. If you don’t know where to start, ask someone. Just do...

Dedication: it’s so much easier to just come home do what you need to do with the family and then sit down and watch tv or do something that’s not going to progress you. It’s not fun and your mind will fight you every step of the way, but what’s more important to you? The show that’s on in an hour or the stability of your mind and family? Don’t look for those immediate returns, yet rather look for those returns that pay off in a year or two or 5. As i said, it sucks, but what’s more important?

One thing I’ve noticed over and over again is the difference between being raised in middle class or upper middle class vs poverty is the view of the work place—I’m not saying this is true for everyone, but just what I’ve observed over time. - Middle class and up: not as scared to talk back, speak your mind, or challenge their opinion to your bosses or colleagues. - Poverty: fearful of doing the aforementioned

I, for some reason see this as one of the largest issues with advancement as it propagates to not just the work life, but also the personal life too and thus creates a fear of challenge—it’s better to go with the status quo than to break out.

How can this change? Learn learn learn and then go find a place where you can apply your new skills and then just keep learning instead of doing the easy thing...

Thoughts?

Here’s a question: can a Mac be sold more than once in a 24 hour period?

Really...? Boeing? Raytheon? Goldman Sachs? Wells Fargo? Pharma companies?