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I'm a software architect located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I'm very interested in discrete mathematics & algorithms, cloud computing, Javascript/Typescript, ruby, python, web frameworks, and RDBMS.

I'm also a co-founder of Opreto; a software consulting firm that specializes in running dedicated project teams.

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What business? This seems to be completely free, with no pricing, in-app purchases, or anything. That being said, it's strange that it doesn't seem to be open-source.

I got a stylus for my iPad and i felt that way at the beginning but I learned that i visualize in my head what I'm going to create right before I draw, and the difference between what's in my mind vs what gets produced is so great, that it feels like a weird uncanny valley and i hate the output.

Well, I think a lot of the uptick happened last week because that's when it was published in the Toughtworks Tech Radar for this quarter. The audience is large, presumably larger than HN, and that's how I found out about it and have been toying with it since then. I have no idea what I'm doing, but as far as I can tell, this seems like a legitimate project.

If you haven't already, set up a profile on upwork. The barrier to entry is a lot lower on short term projects, so you are more likely to find some work to keep your finances from depleting too quickly.

It will also give you a boost of confidence, an opportunity to build social proof about your work, and it may even end up scoring you a longer term engagement.

Good luck!

I think this is exactly what I've been looking for. I like going for walks and listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and I've been using Google's recorder as a way to "highlight" my findings, but it doesn't let me add to existing recordings so I can't collate sessions together.

I'll be trying this on as a replacement.

I think you're not seeing it mentioned here because this is comparing apples to oranges. Node is not a web development platform, it literally IS only a runtime.

Rather than comparing with Django or Rails, one should instead compare it to Python and Ruby. There are several server side web framework for NodeJS also (Meteor, Sails, Express).

It's possible you may have confused Node with Express, as I see that happening very frequently, but Node is used for all sorts of other workloads like desktop apps, microservices, and other general computing tasks.

That's definitely one aspect of child rearing that every parent is (or should be) involved in, but young children often feel like they have to prove themselves to their parents. The end result is that they're usually only willing to learn things from their parents at a very shallow level.

I've struggled with that aspect of child rearing with my 6 y/o since she was able to speak. She is far more willing to learn at a deep level from teachers than from us, even though her mother is an experienced elementary school teacher.

The planning and project management aspect sounds like it's straight out of a post apocalyptic bureaucratic nightmare.

It was intended to be a strike drone, but wait, let's flip the project halfway through into an intelligence drone. You know what? f*ck it, let's flip it into a refuelling drone.

The project history is a sinuous cautionary tale of scope creep and descoping.

You think that's bad? My damn BANK has the following password policy for online banking:

  The password you create here can be used to access Online, Mobile and Telephone Banking.
  All passwords must be six characters in length. Special characters (eg. *, %, $, etc) will not be accepted.

I've noticed the opposite pattern in my house. Ever since we bought the place, we noticed that occasionally we would semi-randomly get a very fishy smell coming out of our staircase, and couldn't find the cause.

After putting my google-fu to use, I realized it was the plastic casing of a small light fixture in the staircase that was getting very hot and slowly melting around the incandescent bulb.

I've replaced the bulb with an LED bulb several months ago and I've checked the base of the socket, the fixture, and the bulb after hours of use, and all three are barely warm to the touch at all.

I suppose it may depend on manufacturing quality, or as the OP article mentions, airflow.

I would say, that's exactly what you want from your honeypot.

What I don't really know, I guess, are the legal implications of entraping people on such a mass scale.

I'm also not sure about the usefulness of such a honeypot, since you can't actually track the buyers. Just because someone pays you to send drugs to some address, doesn't mean it's their own address

I had the same concerns so i researched it a bit more. While the processors used in these new macbook pros can address up to 32gb of RAM on the system, the DDR3 standard accomodates for up to 8gb per chip. With 2 chip slots, you are already maxed out, regardless of whether the chips are soldered on or not, so it makes no difference.

Was a great article until I clicked on the Libya link at the top and it took me to Justin Bieber. Just glad nobody walked into my office at that time.

My only concern is really that in the short/medium term, this could lead to a large influx of freeloaders from other communities, who may have no interest in "paying it forward", but mostly in dropping by for a quick freebie, while not contributing anything.

It would be pretty awesome if I was wrong though, and that a new spirit of collaboration across multiple communities was the end-result, but I remain skeptical.