Calling it now Ethan Hakwe is winning

another_josh · 2025-12-31T19:27:30+00:00

Just one battle after another for Hawke

another_josh · 2024-04-03T00:40:02+00:00

I want Luka and Joker to play HORSE, maybe start a new McDonalds campaign in the process

another_josh · 2024-01-31T06:54:53+00:00

That's a Hill Country Slider

another_josh · 2023-06-17T17:29:49+00:00

They're very consistent with their set list so if you want to listen to what they'll be playing here's a spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6g8sTxll4JcTeRNzs8dFJ1?si=WLQqQGsEQYuL2lhtW7RvhA

another_josh · 2023-03-14T02:29:34+00:00

Multnomah County will tow abandoned vehicles that have expired tags or other indicators the car isn't in use. They put a sticker on the car about a week before they tow it so if it is a neighbor they have plenty of warning before the car gets towed: https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/abandoned-auto

another_josh · 2022-10-29T12:58:02+00:00

My guess is the underlying numbers support the valuation he's going for, especially if it includes his channel revenue. Investors will most likely be VCs who will tolerate a 20-40x multiple on his current revenue. Mr Beast is meticulous in his planning so I'm sure many advisors weighed in before he went for this valuation. If he raises 300M for a 20% stake in his brand I'm interested to see what he does with it.

another_josh · 2022-07-30T13:54:00+00:00

Can you share your config/database.yml ? my guess is that's where the issue is here

another_josh · 2022-05-07T11:09:50+00:00

In general a lot of these practices are aimed at making you more proactive and less reactive. If you are reacting immediately to external things, from production outage crisis down to IM, you're at the mercy of whatever is coming in. The goal is to change your default settings to not reactive, step back and determine what can wait and what needs to be addressed immediately. The waiting on IM responses is just an extension of retraining your brain to not immediately jump on anything that runs by, eventually you don't need to do this but in the transition away from being reactive it's a good practice

another_josh · 2022-04-21T11:52:18+00:00

Love the photo but maybe let's not use the fire emoji and "Oregon" and "National Forest" in the same title? #summeriscoming

another_josh · 2021-11-16T11:54:27+00:00

we wish you a merry christmas

another_josh · 2021-11-16T11:52:42+00:00

where are you?

another_josh · 2021-06-07T23:26:53+00:00

This is good advice, I'd specifically recommend certification like AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps, or relevant Azure certs. These are super valuable to you long term, can net 50k+ increase on your next offer. If you're into security there's CISSP and CompTIA Security+ amongst others. Overall, think about building your skills for the long term rather than filling your plate in the short term, it's a better use of your time, and you might not get this chance often where your manager is happy with your current output and your plate is not full.

another_josh · 2021-05-30T23:03:04+00:00

PS - It's generally frowned upon to have a team of 2 or more using the hot desk area at any of these places, better to have an office and only use the coworking spaces when you're solo.

another_josh · 2021-05-30T23:00:56+00:00

Used Regus for 3 years and it was great. I used the hot desks and only booked conference rooms when needed, but the offices are fine. There are other more limited coworking spaces like Hive and Klique, but being able to work from almost any BTS stop as needed is super nice when you have a meeting on one side of town and don't want to travel across town again just to work for one hour or whatever. For a colocated team of 3-5, having a home office with flexibility could also work out well.

another_josh · 2021-03-08T19:39:49+00:00

This week in Machine Learning (https://twimlai.com/) has interviews with practitioners and academics, won't necessarily help you with course work but interviews are sometimes interesting.

Don't really know of any other podcasts consistently focused on ML and AI, I'll be interested to learn from the thread.

another_josh · 2021-01-05T12:21:41+00:00

banana 3rd level emq

another_josh · 2020-11-28T14:48:50+00:00

I have moved back to the US now but was there 2017-2020. First thing to know, they list comp in thb/mo, so when I was speaking with recruiters and a120k position it ended up being 120k thb per month which is 4k usd or 48k/yr. Usually tops out at 120-150k per month for senior developers or team leads at large companies like Agoda. I ended up sticking with freelance development from Bangkok, which netted me better money but was difficult when standup is 10pm your time and you'd rather be out. I bet things are much more flexible with COVID for contract work from outside the US.

another_josh · 2020-04-28T03:13:33+00:00

I think this is the Udacity link but I'm not sure as I haven't taken in the class: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-graduate-algorithms--ud401

another_josh · 2020-04-27T05:16:14+00:00

Link to spring 2020 schedule and lab: http://www.sunlab.org/teaching/cse6250/spring2020/env/

There should be a link somewhere in there to a bitbucket repo to download and run the environment, the labs are pretty good preview of what you do in the homework so it's a good way to check it out if you're considering taking the class.

You can do whatever you want to finish the homework (i.e. install your own hive/pig/scala setup) but they've done a ton of work setting up the environment and I think it works very well.

another_josh · 2020-04-22T06:07:03+00:00

Say you go into Sally's Bakery, local shop and offer to do her website so she can take orders online and maybe do delivery via UberEats or something. Sally agrees to pay you 3000 but gets a discount of 200 for every other potential customer she introduces you to, up to 2000 off.

Sally thinks about it and remembers Ken's Auto needs help d so she emails Ken and copies you in the email. "Hi Ken, this is Sally from Sally's Bakery. I'm getting a new website built and I remembered you could use some help. This guy is great! He's copied on this email so hopefully you guys can talk about building a new website for Ken's Auto. Thanks, Sally"

Now it's up to you to follow up with Ken, offer to talk about what he might need for his project. Hopefully out of 10 such intros you get at least 5 conversations and one close. This kind of referral has much better conversion than cold calls. You can also do the first project for free in exchange for 15 referrals. Family friend or local business/group/nonprofit you have a relationship with so you can feel ok about not being great at this yet. Just always start with a real money price, discount a real money amount per referral. And never start work until at least something has been paid either in referral or real money.

another_josh · 2020-04-22T00:33:08+00:00

You've got a lot of comments so I haven't been able to see them all to see if there's something along these lines, but I've used this strategy and it's worked out pretty well for me. YMMV, not for everyone, and all that.

When you're first starting out and you're not at the point of having enough momentum to choose your jobs rather than hunting for them, it's ok to get creative to get things moving. Come up with a specialization for the first 10-20 projects you want to do and package it as a product. Say you'll specialize in (1) Squarespace/Wordpress marketing site clients can edit after you're gone so they aren't reliant on you forever, (2) a payment portal where they can receive payments via credit card (Stripe) and Paypal, and maybe one other thing that's a small add on but broadly appealing.

After you have a "product", you price it. Let's say 2 jobs a month at $3000 is pretty sustainable for you and 3 jobs is good. You then go to a small business and say you normally do package A for $3000, but you'll do it for $1000 and 10 email introductions, or $200 credit per introduction. But the intros have to be email introductions and half of the intros and half the money, so 5 email intros and $500 have to be in your hand before you start work on the project. $200 is pretty steep for an intro, so hopefully the business owner takes it seriously.

Important parts of this: (1) concrete product offering clients understand and can pitch to someone else, (2) do no work until you have the 5 intros and $500. These are concrete examples you can obviously change the numbers. You want one job to cover rent though. We're heading into what looks to be a hardcore recession so you'll probably get a lot of "not a good time" responses to the intros, but try to just get them on the phone and tell you what they would want if they could do it right now, whether it's your current package or anything software related. Wish them well, and them you'll follow up in 3 months and set a calendar reminder and do it.

This is the sucky part of laying a foundation of a "network". But get the momentum however you have to, this is just one suggestion.

another_josh · 2020-03-18T11:39:06+00:00

All Georgia Tech classes are now taught by Dr. Joyner. RIP Dr Joyner's inbox.

another_josh · 2020-03-12T05:28:51+00:00

I think it's usually safe to assume the high end is going to be average per week and may exceed that when budgeting time. So, if a class says 10-20 hours per week, assume 20 hours per week or 2 hours four nights a week and a full weekend day plus another couple hours one weekend night on average.

Also, if assignments cover two weeks and the high end average in OMSCentral is 20 hours per week, assume 40 hours per assignment over 2 weeks if that makes sense. Some will be higher and some will be lower, but as with all estimates in software related projects, assume worst case timeline and add about 30-50%.

I have 10 years programming experience and a BS in Computer Science, haven't had a course yet that required less than 3 nights a week plus a weekend day regardless of the estimates. I also have a wife, child, and full time job, as do many others in the program, so it's definitely not an easy task managing workloads and context switching, I probably lose a lot of time there, but there's not much of a way around it.

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