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cunninghamd

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About cunninghamd

If you're interested in anything I've posted or commented about, or just have some random question, feel free to contact me.

Email: cunninghamd@nosleep.ca

Twitter: @derekcunningham

Website: http://nosleep.ca

Recent public activity

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    Comment #26106439

    So... while I respect avoiding shameless self-promotion, referencing your hobby project, or at least including it in your "About" info would be cool, for those interested. :)

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    Comment #17605299

    I think the complexity of AWS's pricing is what led me to use the simplicity of AWS' lightsail offering. No free tier, but the free tier is frought with potential for overrun. Ligh…

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    Comment #17342999

    I echo your rant. Looked up effnet stats the other day to find out there's only 20k users there these days. Not sure how many it was back in the day, and I was more of an undernet …

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    Comment #9046611

    Read a book called The Google Resume. I think it'll help you position yourself better in the market.

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    Comment #9045519

    If you want to work for Microsoft or Google, while you likely can't get away with using your employers's $2K, the best books to read are Cracking the Coding Interview and Elements …

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    Comment #8439347

    I've been totally missing that green rotating skull and cross bones! I used that thing everywhere!

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    Comment #7509184

    Hi Mike Ross, I was (am) you. I skipped college/university 15 years ago because I felt it couldn't teach me anything. On the one hand, I now sit beside someone with a Masters in Co…

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    Comment #7428080

    Brewing beer.

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    Comment #7362822

    I could be too late... but I'd love an invite too. I'm excited to experiment with extending Atom using Javascript, since I'm a web developer. cunninghamd@nosleep.ca.

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    Comment #7278977

    Dollar value of disposable income. Retirement is a good consideration (per the other poster), however I do have a pension plan, so I'm slightly less concerned about that. Ultimatel…

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    Ask HN: How much disposable income should you have?

    I'm curious, how much disposable income should you have, after things like rent/mortgage, car payment(s), groceries, etc.? I know it's subjective, but what are the general budgetin…

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    Comment #7226252

    Now it's a race, if jQuery Notebook gets up to snuff by the time I need it, I'll use it, if not, Medium Editor it is (personally, I don't care if I have jQuery or not, I'm a pragma…

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    Comment #7226203

    Love it! But, you need lists. In fact, I'd either document the exact commands you have implemented, or implement all the commands Medium offers, since you're inspired by Medium: ht…

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    Comment #7116916

    down for me too, in Ontario, Canada.

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    Comment #7109443

    Couldn't you just wire up a graphics library in Python, and give him a Sublime Text editor configured so that CTRL+B runs his python script? I'm not sure reinventing the wheel on t…

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    Ask HN: Sublime Text 'find' panel not visible

    I haven't been able to find anyone on the Sublime Text forums with this issue, but whenever I hit CTRL+F, the find panel isn't visible. CTRL+H (find & replace) shows properly. This…

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    Comment #6763879

    Looks a little more digestible than CLRS http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen... . :)

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    Comment #6697368

    Actually, I have many hours free, every evening and/or weekend... AND I want to get into bitcoin. :) It's actually a modest goal: I want at least 1 bitcoin, and I want to sit on it…

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    I will do 5 hours of web programming for you, for 1 bitcoin.

    The title says it all, I will do 5 hours of web programming for you, in exchange for 1 bitcoin. My email address is in my profile. I have experience in .NET, Java, PHP and Python. …

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    Comment #6654057

    Yeah, I do web development in my 9-5, and my side projects were generally web development or software development oriented. The shorter term idea is related to beer, and I'm a home…

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    Comment #6649768

    I used to do side projects to earn extra income, but it became difficult to predict, and kind of a pain in the ass with invoicing, overdue clients, bug fixes, scheduling headaches …

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    Comment #6599018

    Not being able to program is the illiteracy of this century. While I agree with this sentiment, I think it's patently false. The vast majority of people have a hard enough time usi…

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    Comment #6588128

    I know! I was the same, no real "problems" to solve, and the few ideas I did have amounted to fairly straight-forward CRUD-style solutions. I started implementing one of them, and …

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    Comment #6514549

    I disagree here. What GATech is showing with this introduction of the course is the start . There are numerous links in the page referencing the College of Computing Website , whic…