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madeuptempaccton Things an architect should know

I am in a fly-over and there are "upcoming" areas - pockets between the city and the suburbs, within 10 mins of downtown and other "prestigious office areas" that are almost sure to take off, but total ghetto now. It's not worth risking $200,000 to build a fancy house there, but it's worth $15,000 land, $15,000 tear down, and $20,000 pre-fab.

At least, that's my very-limited POV.

madeuptempaccton Things an architect should know

Yea, it's expensive to tear down, usually almost double that even in cheap areas. It's part of the problem to the point where some of my friends discussed setting up a tear-down company rather than trying to mess with conventional real estate.

Edit: Also totally unrelated, but I have always wanted to know what the raw cost for a basement/foundation usually is.

madeuptempaccton Things an architect should know

What I really want to know is why I can't have a Soviet concrete-block box-house built in the US for $20,000 yet.

Is it because you are really mostly paying for the land?

But still, building a house still runs at $100,000+. Why though.

Are any of the pre-fab companies taking off?

I want to buy a run-down house, tear it down, and build pre-fab on it for $20,000, damn it.

Sorry, off-topic, but it seems like such an opportunity area for someone with some capital.

madeuptempaccton Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?

"What happens when I use your service? When you use your project specific Javascript file and add the license key meta tag to your project's HTML, we'll validate the use of your product on pageload with a GET request to our server. We'll check our records to see if a valid license is used and that the license is used on an allowed domain. If not, we'll show the user an Access Denied page (which you can customize) and notify you about the breach."

I don't know what problem you are solving.

madeuptempaccton Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With

It's a good question. Going to let others answers. My tldr opinion is "Not really, but code duplication any time, but especially across repos can lead to hard-to-troubleshoot errors".

madeuptempaccton Ask HN: Is it important to know each and every feature of a package?

It is an enormous waste of time to know the majority of features of most packages. Some packages that are "the standard", you will know more than others, but still far from memorizing most of the functionality.

It's just not worth the time. You should focus on the underlying languages since they transcend packages.

madeuptempaccton Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With

My problems with microservices irl:

1. Sharing models - the models can be moved out to another repository or a NuGet package, but guess what happens when you have to modify them? Inevitably, devs duplicate models.

2. Debugging across five different code bases - have fun changing all the environment variables to point to your local every time, or running five different applications at the same time for local development.

3. Docker and Kubernetes add a LOT of overhead.

4. Multiple front-end apps combined into one "coherent" site always leads to routing problems...and token management problems.

5. Web Components cause bloat by pulling in web component scripts and the fact that each web component needs to fit the style of the whole site. Since shadow dom is isolated, each component pulls in styles again - slow. Again, debugging and checking in web component code is a pain.

6. Finally, siloing is inevitable.

Imo, this doesn't make sense at all for a smaller web app.

madeuptempaccton Idleness as Flourishing

Thanks for responding!

madeuptempaccton Repair is as important as innovation

Sure, it's undoubtedly #1 overall.

madeuptempaccton Repair is as important as innovation

Good point, I totally misread.

madeuptempaccton Repair is as important as innovation

I think that's very subjective. The USSR actually led the way on some innovation:

* IRST on MIG-29 and helmet-targeting for infrared missiles

* Titanium welding for high-speed submarines

* Super-cavitating torpedoes

* Stealth theory

* Air dropped vehicles

* Urban tank support vehicles (BMPT)

* Radar targeting for individual machine guns

* CIWS

* Reactive armor

* Lots of other stuff I can't think of right now.

It's also questionable whether the US military efficiency over opponents scales with budget over opponents.

So its both questionable that it leads in innovation and that this leads to superiority.

madeuptempaccton Idleness as Flourishing

Why?

madeuptempaccton Paper Airplane Designs

Might be a bit heavy for the use-case. That's all I can think of.

madeuptempaccton Paper Airplane Designs

Which one flies furthest? (I can narrow down by category, but not sort).

madeuptempaccton Orkney islands could get first electric plane service

It's because Merlin's mother lived there and hoarded wealth.

madeuptempaccton Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944

^ See above for relaxation techniques. It's just a ripoff from yoga.

• Read book before bed, not computer/phone.

• Walk

• Keep room COMPLETELY dark and quiet

• Don't eat heavy a few hours before bed

• Walk, bike, or workout

madeuptempaccton The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse

"Maybe some of us self taught developers should get together and curate a clear path for CS knowledge and ancillary helpful things."

I wouldn't mind spending some time contributing to something like that. There is an endless amount of material to read and classes to take, but narrowing it down and prioritizing is the hard part.

madeuptempaccton The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse

What three books? (Especially interested in data transfer protocols - I got a little bit into it for game development, but never found anything resembling a good source).

I learned a lot of these things from taking Harvard's CS50 online, reading the blog posts I linked (and doing problems), and I would imagine this book (https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/) would help out - a friend recommended it, but I never got around to it.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...

^Covers logic gates and the basics of how a computer is built to an incredible degree, but it's VERY time intensive. Still, I really recommend it.

madeuptempaccton The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse

Not to get into too much detail, I worked for a place that did collections for for-profit colleges. It was depressing to hear some of the stories the students had.

But the overall theme was exactly what you said:

1. Kid has no guidance / reference point / doesn't realize it's a scam.

2. Promised amazing education and career.

3. Takes on 50-100k of debt in 2 years.

4. Get "placed" in $12/hr job with random hours and the college marks their placement rate as 99%.

madeuptempaccton The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse

I can provide some examples for him as a self-educated dev:

* What is big O

* What is value type vs pointer/reference

* How does the internet work

* Binary search trees, tries, graphs - u wut m8 (Thankfully, there's this: https://medium.com/basecs/archive/2017/01)

* Basic cryptography, hashing, etc

* DNS, IPs, HTTP, etc

* TCP, UDP, etc (I still don't know these)

* Stack, heap, queue, malloc (Again, very little exposure to this without learning a low level language.)

* How modern computers work

* Logic gates, clocks, memory, (actual) binary math

* Wifi basics (actual physical data transmission)

* Linux

I can go on and on and on, but these are things you don't pick up at work unless you go out of your way to learn how they work.

Regarding the parent post - I have a very generous training budget. And guess where I will never spend it? At the best University in my state. I got a degree in something other than Comp Sci, and 95% of the classes were useless and way-too-drawn-out. So, you might not be as behind as you think.

A pretty-smart co-worker of mine with a Comp Sci degree said he didn't figure out the point of object oriented programming until he got his first Java job.

This is only related to other comments in this thread, but I do feel that formal education is oversold, and particularly to people who are from poor families with no guidance trying to have a shot at life.

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

Anecdotal and will get downvoted, but I have WAY more energy when I eat sugar. And yes, I have cut sugar for up to a month at a time before. I never got the magical increases in energy people talk about.

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

Replying to you and vorpalhex at the same time. I can see memorizing multiplication tables for 2-digit numbers * 1 digit numbers, (0-99 * 0-9).

I am unsure about chunking for random large numbers though. Mnemonic champions chunk very large numbers (I don't have sources on hand), but normal people generally don't.

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

I am really interested in measuring working memory and how it relates to IQ, hence the details.

I admit to not taking emotions into consideration here.

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

"he can multiply three digit numbers in his head faster than I can write them down"

As in e.g. 365 * 128? Or 365 * 8? The latter is realistic, the former is a bit unbelievable. Even the latter is a violation of the "magic 7"[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

It could be that we are taking different approaches to do the same thing - you hold off on moving up in weight and repeat the exercises, whereas I hold off, repeat the exercise, and do supplementary glute and core work to avoid my spine curving too much in the "right" way.

madeuptempaccton How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

My impression is that if you have good posture to begin with, you might just "lift right" off the bat. I have to do a ton of supplementary work to balance out my posture issues. And the progress is slower than people generally like to admit.

madeuptempaccton The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon

Being interested in passive income is a new trend, over the past 10 years. Nothing wrong with it, but everyone I know with spare money and a little ambition is trying to flip houses or buy rental properties. Or sell things for Amazon. Or run a delivery chain for Amazon.

madeuptempaccton Ask HN: Why Hacker News readers are so against cryptocurrencies?

My perspective is that I don't know whether or not crypto will take off. I am guessing people who are even a little more skeptical get tired of all the pumping. Also, dramatic phrases like your "If most of HN readers call crypto a scam, then I’m out of HN." tend to turn people off. Though I would miss you - you are probably the only person on HN I remember by username. In fact, I recognized you by post style, and looked at your name after reading.

madeuptempaccton Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?

The prospect of being a senior dev and 40 is terrifying to me. The only ones who are treated with any respect are the "real" wizards - i.e. the guys who spent every spare second if their life breathing tech.

The guy who decompiles third party code at 4 am to see why their update caused an error in our system (real recent story).

The other (very competent) older people get actively harassed. Some little *es from my company tried to get an older guy fired for being "too slow", when he is anything but. And I think the company I work for now is one of the friendlier environments for older devs.

Dunno, it's a genuinely scary prospect. Not trying to put anyone down, just what I see around me.

I hear its even worse on the coasts. I am in a flyover and have never worked in San Fran.

madeuptempaccton Venture capital investment is growing faster outside the US

Cool, thanks.