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Most of the time it's a combination of reviews, awards, and recommendations that give the book some social value before I trust it. Sometimes, I'll like an author and buy whatever …

One idea is to moderate the intensity of your weekend activities and keep track of metrics. A few things to measure might be how much sleep, what you're eating, what you're drinkin…

OpenStax has some free Physics text books: https://openstax.org/

Running that query "whats best website for deploying a decentralized site", I observed the web sites that it was referencing. There are a couple of ideas here: 1. One of the sites …

They're currently rolling out Grok, which is the Xai LLM. It's just getting started and might have weaknesses compared to other LLMs out there today. It does have a "Fun Mode" with…

There are probably different interpretations of what "culture" means to different people. From a perspective of how people interact to the work done, I (listen for) ask questions a…

Maybe reach out to a recruiter or two that might be able to find something. She seems to have a good idea of what she wants, which would be helpful. She might want to avoid the lar…

It's a tough market for developers right now. One of things he can do is to peruse job boards, like Indeed, to get a feel for what types of jobs companies are hiring for right now.…

I'm thinking about the new jobs that are/will be created. 1. Prompt engineer - there's been a lot of talk about this, though I believe it's more extensive because businesses will n…

> I sent both developers an email... This was a pretty nice thing to do. I see this on SO occasionally and edit the post to remove the secret. While the secret is already out there…

Some aspects of the economy, such as software development, are hard to find work because of massive recent layoffs. You might do a job search and/or talk to some recruiters before …

Assembly language might be interesting. Here's a free e-book, Assembly Language Succinctly, that will give you a quick overview: https://www.syncfusion.com/succinctly-free-ebooks/a…

Software component companies have done this for a long time. The subscription is generally for 1 year in includes some level of support and updates during the subscription timefram…

Generally, reviews should be helpful and move the project forward. Sometimes a discussion is required because disagreements do occur. The appropriate way to handle it is to respond…

Here are a few problems you would have to solve: 1. Domain experience - every business is unique and you need to put a given problem into context to see how a given solution fits t…

That isn't the way I think - everyone is different and each person on the team brings something unique. Although it's good to have confidence, one person thinking they're better th…

If you think of the market as working in cycles, option 2 won't be a problem. Right now, demand is low and it's okay. On the same note, when the market is hot and employers need to…

Here are a few ideas: 1. Do a Linked-In search for technical editors 2. Go on X (Twitter) to find a publisher (e.g. @OReillyMedia) and scan their followers/following lists 3. Visit…

I recall this being necessary on older main frame systems where monitors either didn't exist, there was limited time on a shared console, or you didn't have access at all. However,…

X has pretty good documentation, which includes a list of SDKs to work with their API. There are a couple that X produced and several more from the community. https://developer.twi…

I knew very little about Physics before I read a textbook about it on https://openstax.org . The math felt approachable too. Now, I feel like I can get the gist of some of the Phys…