Cost. I run a small Chicago area “private” meetup (in the sense that one needs to be invited, it’s not publicly advertised) for small business owners. We do workshops on how to advertise using Google ads, do basic web analytics, etc. The skyrocketing cost of meeting rooms and basic catering have gone through the roof. I’m not talking about catering as in lobster and steak; even just getting Panera Bread level food has been ridiculously expensive.
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JustARandomGuy commented on We are still using 88x31 buttons ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Here are a few samples https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/
Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbciis.gif
Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!
Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!
+1, I would be interested.
I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars. I personally put in $50 to be in the beta, and that was almost 15 years ago.
I think you would get a lot of takers if you could make a convincing demo.
[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
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JustARandomGuy commented on Two months of feed reader behavior analysis rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/AndrewStephens
Unread RSS Reader. Godawful poll timing. 6103 requests in 52 days is about one poll every 736 seconds _on average_, but they're hugely spread out. WTF? Put it this way: the list of unique intervals (nn seconds, nn minutes, ...) is four pages tall on my web browser.
Not entirely sure what the criticism here is other than polling on average every 12 minutes seems a little excessive at best. Why does in matter it the intervals are a bit wonky? I could think of many reasons why: maybe the poll intervals are smaller during the daytime and more spread out over the night to optimize for reading conditions, etc
JustARandomGuy commented on Donald Sutherland has died bbc.com/news/articles/c9r... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Surprised nobody has mentioned it, but my favorite movie of his was Pride and Prejudice 2005 edition. He plays the father role extremely well - you can feel the emotion in the room.
Going to have to rewatch it this weekend in his honor.
JustARandomGuy commented on Ask HN: Any tips for juniors and new grads in this job market? · Posted by u/tabigarasu
Picking up shifts in a unskilled post is fine for bringing in some cash (and perhaps necessary.)
But your full-time job right now is to get a job in your field (which at this point in your career means "tech".) You might start in support, or testing, or something like that, but you want to get your foot in the door.
Naturally there are a LOT of people in the market right now, so you want to stand out from the crowd. If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way. To get a job you "sell yourself", so you can't just rely on a CV.
Be creative. Be bold. Be proficient (in that order). Convince "me" (ie an employer) that this is the best opportunity they have. Stand out from the crowd.
Good luck.
> If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way
A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as well (Millennial into the 08 recession) and what got me hired was not my honors GPA or dual major or any other academic achievement. I got hired because of my side project hosting a JSON API that offered some very simple data. I was able to talk about it during an interview and pretty much my passion for it got me hired.
Another alternative is to get into an open source project and offer to do some "developer evangelism" type work. Code up examples, documentation, write up blog posts - great way to get your name out there.
What does that mean?
It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
JustARandomGuy commented on · Posted by u/paulpauper
I don’t necessarily know if the famous graph is accurate - I don’t think the divergence in beliefs is so extreme as that graph indicates, but it is undeniably true that on a worldwide scale there is a growing rift between men and women. Articles like the following are frequently written about the gender gap in South Korea: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna59747
And obviously there are the redpill and other gender-centric movements in the US.
Here is my fundamental question: why is society suddenly producing so many people that have ill will to the opposite gender? There have always been discussions about the differences between genders - the famous “men are from mars, women are from Venus” was published 30+ years ago - but what is making todays discussions so vile and toxic?
This article strongly reminded me of the "helicrane" system developed by NASA for the last Mars probe, which oriented itself by recognizing the terrain below it and using that to orient itself toward the right drop location: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/flight-projects...
Fun stuff. Wonder if there is any requirements for how "bumpy" the terrain needs to be to get recognized properly by the system.