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I made http://chadlinden.com/water yesterday so I could search by city+state.

Is this built off a Markov chains generator? I did something similar using reddit comments. Generally I got terrible results because any two word don't fully contextualize a sentence.

That's why I said 'lesser title for CTO.' They don't necessarily manage a project, so much as act as a leader for channeling communication between management and coders.

In my experience a senior developer is a lesser-title for a CTO. A senior developer is someone who knows the company's mission, knows the technology, and knows the team. From there they evaluate what the board/CEO/kid with a plan want and develop a strategy to get the not-senior developers to implement that plan.

Key characteristics: Not chasing every new and shiny framework/tech Singular focus on stated objectives/milestones/deliverables Understands "big picture" as well as the granular details, so that they can provide advice and leadership about implementation Acts as buffer between "techies" and management in every cycle of iteration

It's very likely that my bullets are worded poorly, but my overall point is that a senior developer is someone who has the experience to liaison between those with ideas and those with technical skills. In some environments the sr. dev is the person doing the tech work, in other environment they're leading a team, in any case they have the knowledge, skills and experience to produce results.

Thanks! Is FIRST for youth only?

Thanks! Ros looks interesting. Turtle bot appears to be the open-source roomba with a shelf on it.

It's technically possible to alter the state of DRAM with javascript. It's called bitflipping. As far as I know there's only been a single proof of concept, rowhammer.js.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06955

Good advice for some people. I don't like supplementing reality with drugs.

I'd love to do this, but I depleted my savings and took on some debt from a failed company in 2014. Still digging myself out of that hole!

Your advice doesn't fall on deaf ears, though, we're working towards a leaner life so we can get out of the rat race.

I should heed this advice. Ironically, I feel too overworked to research the best way to implement this

This is what I need. Just like everyone else is saying--take a break--but I need to force the separation between myself and obligation.

If I tell a fat person that they're fat, and they are, they can perceive that I'm being a jerk, but they're still fat, and my statement is still objectively true. The perception of the truth being spoken by me as negative comes from the receiver--it's their issue with the statement that attaches emotion, not mine.

Remove context from his statement and surrogate anything we have objective knowledge of (e.g. housing market 2009) and the statement morphs from "arrogant prediction and condescension" to an appropriate comment on reality.

I've worked with steel on it and it does well. Fair point on the accuracy issue. Any thoughts on something I can make that's in demand?

3-axis, 12" x, 7" y, 5" z. Accurate to 0.001. Plastics, metals.

Because AI doesn't get tired or emotional.

I've asked a similar question, and the responses are all the same. I think anyone with a specific answer is always going to "play their hand close to their chest" to prevent competition. That being said, look at what businesses are paying for, and try to understand the general lack of knowledge out there.

I have a client, now, that is paying me to build a custom CRM for his business. The specs keep changing, and I just keep delivering. In the end I think he'll spend $50k+ to get his own version of what's already available. So look deeper into that concept.

What do businesses need to do better/more efficiently to make more $ or save more $: track customers (lead follow-up), close sales, find customers, track hours and costs, customer lifetime value and customer acquisition costs...are just a couple of examples of things that you could improve on. Then literally go to these businesses and show them your product, offer it for free to improve it, then start selling it.

Bottom line is this: you're going to have to actually speak with people to find out what they want so you can give it to them. After that starts to take off, then invest in digital marketing using real experience as a guide.

Makes sense. I get the feeling that recruiters want the code to pass on to employers for review.

My move toward freelancing is a way for me to work on different projects to find what sort of job I want.

I like your thought process. I guess the $100k mark was just to get ideas flowing. I would like to aim for $100M, but I can't think of a product or service people demand that would achieve that revenue (at least not within my skillset)

Agreed, and I haven't found a need/problem that is solvable for around $100k a year. I've asked this question in several evolutions in several places and come-up flat. Other than "we need more customers" I haven't found idea extraction to be effective for me. Maybe I need to refine my listening skills.

PHP, MySQL dev is my main job. I have a lot of experience coming into small businesses and refining their processes to increase efficiency and increase (double in one case) revenue.

>Elasticsearch >Register to watch

Any site that requires me to register an account before I can even look at their product is going to have a bad time.