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Last weekend and week I spent 20+ hours on a coding assessment for an interview. They said they liked me as a candidate, liked my work, but whereas I was always going to be a remote candidate, that just wasn't going to work for them right now. Sigh.

This weekend I'll hopefully get a chance to work on my Deck lights LED strip project.

https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q

Here is the path I'm following:

I'm doing the Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University / Coursera, with verified certificates that I hope will help me create a portfolio to showcase as I look at this type of work.

I feel like having a portfolio to point to, as well as code on a site like GitHub, should be a good basis for a conversation with a potential employer.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science

I believe it is primarily user generated data.

Local backup using Time Machine to a USB HDD plugged into an AirPort Extreme.

Offsite backup to Backblaze.

Photos are also back up on iCloud (paid) & Google Photos (free).

I recently started and finished a side project over a week and did so on a computer that I don't normally use. I was not logged into any of my normal 'social' websites and I found my productivity was very, very high.

It was quite an eye opener.

This may also have something to do with the fact that this was a novel and enjoyable project (for me) with a hard deadline, but there were a couple times where my brain was trained to go open up Reddit when I was stumped on something, and I immediately caught myself since it wasn't the normal page and got back to work.

Can you load up a cheap tablet with songs and send that to the caretakers to press play?

The site-provided bookmarklet will save the text you have highlighted on the page, and you can pay a little extra for the "Archiving" option that will wget the entire page for you to access forevermore.

Have you considered Pinboard? I got big into Evernote for a while but the poor app quality and losing a couple of notes' contents was enough for me just to move to KISS pinboard.

The latest episode of the Tim Ferriss show is a 2 hour interview with a Susan Garrett, a dog trainer and agility competitor. As a dog owner and someone who as gone through some dog training, and also as a new parent to a human puppy, I found it quite interesting and thought you might too.

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/11/14/susan-garrett/

Would you mind sharing any frameworks you use, specifically wrt ones that work well when hosting on gh-pages? Thanks.

Also, it's likely pretty dark everywhere the photos were taken so the available light for photography is not great. So, shooting with high ISO/gain settings is going to be pretty noisy, which is less noticeable when in black and white.

Yes it is. There was an SDK called TapLynx back in the day made by Brent Simmons of NewsGator and Innesential [0] fame. . It was $600 and a quick way to get an App released in the late App gold rush days with only an XML file.

It was acquired by PushIO which was acquired by Oracle. Along the way the SDK stopped getting updates with new iOS versions and Apps stopped working.

The yearly updates of the iOS SDK will impose a bunch of work on SDKs like this to keep up. A good model for open source.

All the best to the author, might be a good model for a consulting gig around the open source SDK for sure.

[0] http://inessential.com/

If anyone is looking into this sort of stuff, you can check out the relatively new DO-178C as well, which adds some more details about tool qualification, formal methods, and model-based development. Signed, your friendly neighbourhood aerospace systems engineer.

To add to this, I've had interviews for remote positions where it was a bit of problem that I hadn't done remote before. I've seen this in many remote job posts too, companies hiring for remote positions aren't fond of having it be the first remote job for the applicant.

If you have previous remote experience, make sure to highlight it.

Ah the hand-me-down train, I know it well. Brothers and nieces supply the demand for a generation or two old iDevices and gives me a bit of a way to cut into the purchase price of the new shiny.

Haven't we heard this story countless times from projects on sites like Kickstarter before? There is a huge difference between tinkering in your garage and creating a production product.

Whether it's something that falls under government regulations like Hotz's project, or transitioning from a couple of 3D-printed models in your basement to an injection molded factory, making things (at scale and in the real world) is hard.

I'm curious, what is driving the need for a new laptop from a 2014 version?

Just had Sears cancel an online order that was 'in stock' when we purchased because they can't fulfill it. Did they ever have it in stock? Did they just run out and have poor inventory control? Who knows, but they couldn't fill it when they implied they could. Not sure I'd call that unethical.

Evernote seems to meet each of these requirements.

Apple is right next door to QNX in Kanata. If you had a good arm you could throw a rock from one building to another.

http://i.imgur.com/avtFKfj.jpg

I've recently started to use PlatformIO after starting a project where I have an Arduino connected to a Raspberry Pi. The rpi is headless, and the Arduino IDE will not work without X running (the hacks they suggested didn't work out for me), PlatformIO has a great command line base that is working great for my use case, flashy lights! https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q

Why?

I go lift heavy barbells in the gym. A strong back is a healthy back.

More precisely, 340.

With a 6s or SE or higher you can shoot DNG as well and compare to what Apple spits out of their image processor. I played around in Lightroom for a little bit and the differences were definitely there.

Can't forget the quality of the optics, either.

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm curious, what exactly is an engineering degree in statistics?

The world is generating massive amounts of data. Not all of it fits as easily into relational database schemes like a customer with and order that buys some widgets.

Take, for example, fleet management data streaming in. Thousands of vehicles with time, GPS and other metrics streaming in. There's nothing terribly relational about this data, so there can be better-designed systems to handle ingress and analytics.

I've found no lag when using Google photos, however it is mostly on the iDevices. When I do log in from a laptop I have never noticed any lag. This is in contrast to logging into iCloud photos from a browser which often has significant lag.

As my photos have been syncing with Google it has been automatically creating slide shows and collages. Each day I'm getting something new as it goes back in time. Pretty neat.