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Myself. Came from a dysfunctional family, enormous debt and have survived lots of trauma to reach a decent position + decent net worth.
Way to go stranger internet friend! Glad to see not only that you've overcome what you say you have, but also that it's a point of pride. Keep it up!
During a centralisation of public school local servers to a data centre, I created a consolidated library enquiry system. It served over 2,000 libraries, had 330 million titles, and had about a million users. It was efficient enough to run off my laptop, if need be. AFAIK it was one of the top five biggest library systems in the world at the time. I was asked to add some features that would have been too difficult in…
> had a far greater effect on the literacy of our state than any educator by orders of magnitude Nice work, but check your ego mate. Seems your growth hacking would have had zero result if those kids couldn't read to start with, so you could share some credit ;-)
During a centralisation of public school local servers to a data centre, I created a consolidated library enquiry system. It served over 2,000 libraries, had 330 million titles, and had about a million users. It was efficient enough to run off my laptop, if need be. AFAIK it was one of the top five biggest library systems in the world at the time. I was asked to add some features that would have been too difficult in…
> This was the project that made realise how huge the effort-to-effect ratio that can be when computers are involved I love Steve Jobs' metaphor: computers as a bicycle of the mind [0]. Unfortunately, a lot of effort is concentrated on problems that scale to billions of people. There's a lack of attention to problems that would have a big effect for a relatively small number of people. It's a shame, because they're a…
Working now at a bigco, the most impactful thing I do these days is in guiding projects away from building the first thing they think will solve a problem. People don't spend much time doing thought experiments of how changes will evolve in the future or with adjacent scopes. After thinking in that mode for a while you realize that there are concepts here that could and should be separated. A small tweak here and the…
I'm sure I'm asking this on behalf of many people - any chance of a sneak preview?
I'd estimate that the vast majority of the code I've written is not running anywhere at all today.
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I like the layout of this. Do you plan on adding any other versions of the text? BibleHub also shows multiple versions of the text, but has a wide variety of translations to choose from. Though their layout isn't quite this elegant
Thanks, I have put a non-trivial amount of thought into making the interface friendly. I appreciate the compliment :) I've got a staging environment at dev.parabible.com with other versions (it's a bit rougher and can break, but it supports searching in Greek along with a bunch of other translations). I've also added Apostolic Fathers there (which, I believe, is the first place that Ap. Fathers have been available in…
My holy grail (no pun intended) is the pre-Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible. There is a PDF scan of it up on archive.org, and a seller produced books of the text but with their own Old-English-to-English translation, but I haven't found any text-only versions of the original online
People did a lot of stuff using those, some even surprised me. So all that work paid very well I think
It's actually really hard to deal with.
I also ratelimited logging in Linux cifs. Now a spammy log message can't hang or panic a client system.
That's probably technically and commercially more impactful but I like my Minecraft script more personally.