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spacedog11··on Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
Is that possible on a mobile device?
spacedog11··on Ask HN: How would you code this? (noob question)
If I were in your place, I would start by scraping LinkedIn using Python or Golang and creating a large database, keeping relevant information and keywords for each user. Then I would come up with some sort of clever algorithm to sort the data into some kind of sparse graph with takes into account the distance between the nodes (i.e. how close each of the user is to one another) and then use a search algorithm to search for a specific user and or a number of closely related users.
spacedog11··on How to Become the Best in the World at Something
Author of the article gives one TedX talk, then goes on to proclaim that he's an "expert" at public speaking and ranks himself in the "90" percentile for public speaking. What a joke!
spacedog11··on Google Announces Nest WiFi
> No mention of whether it supports 802.11ax.

Even if it does support WiFi6( 802.11AX), there are no client devices that support WiFi 6 yet.

EDIT: Apparently iPhone 11 pros support WiFi6 [0]

[0] (https://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-iphone-11-supports-wi-fi-6-h...)

spacedog11··on Google Announces Nest WiFi
How is this different than the already existing Wifi Mesh devices?
spacedog11··on The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
The professor, author of this article, misses the point that the whistleblower is an "intelligence officer". Intelligence officers very regularly write extensive yet concise reports to their leads or higher up management, so it's not surprising that s/he wrote the memo well.
spacedog11··on Daytripper
The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills, and all of this time I assumed he was working on assigned tasks.

EDIT: spelling

spacedog11··on Daytripper
[Boss Walks in] [Dave intensely staring at the desktop] Boss: empty deskopt...not suspicious at all.
spacedog11··on How to Write Good
That's what I thought too, because "good" is an adjective and adjectives describe nouns. On the other hand "well" is an adverb and fits perfectly well.
spacedog11··on How to Write Good
Amusing read
spacedog11··on [dead]
"For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule". One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a small penis, Mr. Friedman said. "Now no male is going to come forward and say, 'That character with a very small penis, that's me!'"

Genius! I wonder if there are other similar rules out there that I am not aware of?

spacedog11··on What Does Your IDE/Code Editor Look Like?
I use Vim/vi. The best decision I've made in programming.
spacedog11··on Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737
I'm sure a3n didn't mean literally "the first two words." I think they meant it as a figure of speech.
spacedog11··on Ask HN: How do I get into electronics from scratch?
I would recommend grabbing a Raspberry Pi and start tinkering with it. If you want to learn about low level electronics, start by learning PCB design and design your own custom board.
spacedog11··on A smart artist’s guide to income taxes
I really love the way they explain tax bracket. It's very easy to understand.

" Let’s say my total income was $50,000 in 2018. This means my income would be portioned out into the following tax brackets:

You must pay 10% on income up to $9,525:

$9,525 x .10 tax rate = $952.50 owed in 10% tax bracket

You must pay 12% on income between $9,526, and $38,700:

$38,700 - $9,526 = $29,174 of income in the 12% bracket $29,174 x .12 tax rate = $3,500.88 owed in 12% bracket

You must pay 22% on income between $38,701 and $82,500:

$50K (my income) - $38,701 = $11,299 of income in the 22% bracket $11,299 x .22 tax rate = $2,485.78 owed in 22% bracket

Add taxes owed from all brackets together:

$952.60 + $3,500.88 + $2,485.78 = $6,939.26 in total taxes owed "

spacedog11··on Brief Intro to Moving in Vim
I fail to understand the reason for including a gif.
spacedog11··on Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?
I do 100% of the work assigned. On average it comes ou to 65 to 70 hours per week.
spacedog11··on Ask HN: What to do when your banks have negative interest rates?
Invest your money in real estate instead of keeping it in the bank.
spacedog11··on A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)
Very interesting.
spacedog11··on Marijuana Damages Young Brains
I wonder if the I.Q decline is caused by the use of Marijuana or if it's caused by the life style of Marijuana users?
spacedog11··on Make a Blog
You've just described me perfectly. I also just haven't made the final push even though I have everything set up. But in my case, I fear that people will take it as a "show off" and not as a way of sharing about things I learn.
spacedog11··on I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers (2017) [video]
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing
spacedog11··on Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
How can you trust your computer? What if your hard drive fails? How would you recover your photos then?
spacedog11··on Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
They could have at least kept the option for people who want this feature, and turned off Cloud sync by default. Just removing the whole feature seems excessive.
spacedog11··on What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
an ancient Roman would often grab a tersorium (or, in my technical terms, a “toilet brush for your butt”).

Picture: http://static.nautil.us/16038_96fb9b48825b741083d35b0137af1b...

spacedog11··on CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship
A segment about Chinese censorship gets censored on a US network...the irony
spacedog11··on The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
The title is misleading because only the chip by itself costs $1. If you buy the microcontroller( chip + peripherals), it costs more than $1. For example MSP430: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-E...
spacedog11··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
How does the App go past pay walls like the New York Times?
spacedog11··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)
Do you have any RTOS experience?
spacedog11··on A Link Layer Protocol for Quantum Networks
Very interesting, but all of their experiments are based on simulations. Would have been alot better if they actually used quantum computers.
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