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The only real place I've seen RPN calculators used post-2000 is in calculator competitions (oh yes they exist)

To make money, you have to solve a problem for somebody. The problem you solve has to be higher value than what you charge.

Given the plethora of existing form solutions out there, is there niche where you meet that criteria?

SaaS products are just businesses. This like asking "Is retail dead? Every retail store seems to already exist."

There are always business opportunities to be had. You could probably open a business selling gravel and be wildly successful despite there already being tons of gravel suppliers in your area.

Medical school and law school are professional programs you take after your bachelors degree.

I've seen some discussion about making engineering programs something you do after a pre-engineering bachelor degree, simply because you can't learn enough in 4 years to really learn those fields.

I think a better comparison to what you're saying is that getting a history degree doesn't qualify you to become a history teacher, you still need to take a teaching program on top of it.

I personally double majored in EE and CS and neither program prepared me for working in those fields. They just gave me the theoretically background and not very much application experience.

For EE, you barely learn enough physics and background stuff to just start doing a bit of application engineering in your senior year. Another 2 years on top of that is definitely required for job training. And that's one of the program they're thinking of making a 4+2 years thing.

I think you could modify a CS program to have less theory and more practical application classes, but that would be software engineering trade school, not computer science. I did do a software engineering masters on top my CS undergrad and that was more helpful to a degree for job preparation. I will say I haven't used very much of the computer science theory I learned at my jobs so that wasn't a good use of time for job training.

I don't disagree with any of this. I'm just explaining that universities are not trade schools, even though we often treat them like they are.

The theory is that somebody with a background in computer science is going be more likely to be capable at being a software engineer. There is a high correlation between the two. But nonetheless, that does not make a computer science program a software engineering trade school.

I don't pragmatically disagree with you, but this is a debatable point.

Technically going to college is to learn knowledge about a topic. For computer science, that would be learning the theory of computing.

What you're talking about is a trade school to become a software engineer.

There are people who want to get a PhD in computer science or go on to do research of some kind. Those people do need a theory based computer science curriculum, not just a software engineering trade school.

We currently conflate these two things. It mostly works out but we should really be more explicit about it in my opinion. I went to a top CS program and I learned 90% of what I needed to know to be a software engineer at my first job, not in school. Something about that feels off to me.

Computer Science is about computing theory, algorithms and such, not practical software engineering. You can actually learn computer science without programming.

Game Design should probably be an art school discipline.

I quit playing most first person video games due to motion sickness. The first game I remember being unplayable was Half Life 2 and that was even after changing things like FOV.

I've done some work for a startup that uses Java as well as some other Java related technologies you might consider outdated. Their founder is an older guy and wrote the MVP himself. But hey - it all works and does the job quite well.

You can create an API and query databases with just about anything.

X links are near useless if you don't have an account or are logged out since you can't view threads.

I really wish there was an easy way to backup Google Photos. I like it but I don't relying on them for backup.

Find something where the .com is for sale, use .ai or .io for now, then spend the money to buy the .com once your business is generating revenue.

I don't see a need for a tool like that.

Did you find UpWork worth pursuing? I looked at it briefly and it seemed like a race to the bottom on compensation.

What type of blogging are you doing? I'm curious how companies would find that and decide to hire you.

That's something I'd be fine to do. I'm generally looking for some time flexibility that can't be had in a traditional full time job.

Check out Google Cloud. They have a much better developer experience than AWS.

Cloud Run is pretty easy to setup.

That sounds exactly like what I'm trying to do. I have no experience with the agency world and most of my contacts are in giant corporations. Do you think it would help to do some work in the agency world?

Windows would also have let you target business people with specific niche business problems. You could be the best search for legal documents, invoices, etc.

I'm in a similar position. I think one of the challenges is that you can get a guaranteed high salary working full-time in tech. A great success in entrepreneurship might mean acquiring your previous salary after several years of working hard and making little money. Of course, you might also strike it right, but you might not.

I'm currently working part-time on retainer, which allows me to work less than full-time and still make enough money to live (definitely less than a full-time job, but enough to live comfortably). This leaves me time to build my own thing while not living off my savings.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I might suggest something like this. Stay at the job for now. Use the financial security to buy a house and get a good mortgage. Then start working on taking part-time work on top of your full-time job. This will suck at first (full time plus extra work), but once you feel comfortable about being able to get part-time work, you can feel comfortable leaving the full-time job.

I don't use a single cookie in my landing pages or product, but I still have the cookie banner because so many of the marketing tools track through cookies.

I paid for two premium calculator apps. One that has more features and one that does fractions.

Can you easily consume the takeout data?

I use Sleep as Android and Tasker. When I go to sleep, I set my alarm with Sleep as Android. Tasker uses that event as a trigger and makes an http request to my home automation hub. That http request is pushing a virtual button. That button puts my house into sleep mode. So the end effect is that I turn on my alarm and my house goes to sleep. I can also push a physical button on the wall to enable sleep mode, so I don't have to use this automation, but I like the way this works.

I also use Tasker to enable Do Not Disturb when using a set of applications: Kindle for ebooks, my meditation app, etc.

The act of distribution is what is illegal.

You could feel morally good about it, but it would still be illegal.

While probably also not legal, what might be easier is to rip the bluray locally instead of downloading it.

Many recruiters don't use jobs the way you expect. They're posting jobs as lead generation to fill up their ATS with candidates. They don't even necessarily care what job you applied to. However, they also primarily want active candidates, so they prefer to look at candidates that recently applies as it shows active intent. They repost jobs to get a new batch of active candidates to sort through.

Is this messed up and totally broken? Yes. Is it how many recruiters operate? Unfortunately, yes.

There is a pretty active subreddit for woodworking. There are also several old school forums like LumberJocks and Sawmill Creek.

How are you finding part time positions?

How are you getting your contracts? What do you mean by up to 80%?

I've been wondering if he's having some sort of mental health crisis. Some of his behavior has been rather erratic.

I dunno about that profit margin. Don't underestimate how expensive developing products is as low scale. It would not surprise me if the margin is pretty normal.