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Thank you! I can relate...buying too much ink is what got me into this mess in the first place :-D.

I love fountain pens, and use handwriting as a kind of superpower to remember everything I need to at work. So I started an online fountain pen shop: https://www.bottleandplume.com…

I think splay trees would be good for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree

If anyone wants to test nomad/consul on AWS, and you just want to type 'terraform apply' and then have a consul cluster, nomad cluster, and example app to play around with: https:/…

Their twitter account is so cringey: https://twitter.com/bbirdtech I'm also sad to see MIT so overrepresented in their ranks, presumably because the founder went to MIT: https://we…

From one of my absolute favorite articles about this, and about finance in general. The most entertaining thing I've read this month: Matt Levine's "How do you like We now?" https:…

I'm making a video series on DevOps interviews right now. I haven't seen the questions above much, but for non-technical 'warmup' questions I see these repeatedly: https://www.yout…

That's a great point. A much better argument, I think, than the other ones I've heard against student debt forgiveness. Thanks!

Yeah, I totally get the sentiment. It's absolutely valid and reasonable. But at some point we have to get to a place where newcomers to the system start getting a 'better deal' the…

I respect your comment, and your viewpoint. But I often hear versions of this: "I had it hard, so we shouldn't let these soft youngsters get off any easier." I'm not saying you don…

This is so true. Another thing I've seen great NCOs do: When someone has to do something boring/dirty/ugly, never let them do it alone. Sometimes having a buddy help you with shit …

Thank you!

I really think there's something magical about beginners typing in whole projects by hand (instead of the modern copy-paste). It really helped me when I was getting started with pr…

What's the book? Would you recommend it?

Oh cool! $ calendar Sep 13* Rosh Chodesh Tishrei (Beginning of the month of Tishrei) Sep 13* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year; 5768; sabbatical) Sep 13 Barry Day commemo…

I made a video with a list of questions I like to ask (and how to ask them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XPTay-x8g They've saved me from some bad gigs. The second half of the…

Thanks for that. And just to clarify, I didn't mean to sound negative. I actually think it's a good thing -- I've picked up several really good courses on real estate investing, ma…

I sell a poorly marketed (but well-loved) "Project-Based Linux" course on Udemy. Most of my business there comes from my YouTube channel. Since launching the course two years ago, …

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1. What are the biggest challenges you're dealing with on the technical side right now? - is this going to be technically interesting? - something you can learn from? - are they do…

Not a nitpick at all; thanks! I was wondering why the grammar was WAY better than I was expecting, and how they got it to keep track of the 'state' of a subject that had just been …

Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4