I wrote the book in markdown, stuck it in a SQLite DB and wrote a parser to put all the data in static JSON so it loads very fast.
I also created a new personal homepage to update my presence on the web as a published author and experienced leader and technologist:
https://davidbyrondrake.com
Book was released less than a month ago—growing it organically like a startup has been fascinating in terms of marketing, sharing, building, and measuring success.
Have been utilizing my acting skills again with readings from the book on my Instagram and TikTok.
Defending focus is way harder than adding features.
When you're building, adding yet another feature can sometimes shave off all the edges that made you successful in the first place.
Same with messaging. The more you try to sound universal, the less anyone hears you.
Strong opinions that are honestly held and communicated are such great signs of respect. It's refreshing to see: "This is who we are. If it's not for you, that's okay."
This is a well-done library that’s fun to work with. I put together a proof of concept org chart generator[0] with it a while back when working on another project. Very easy to use and well-documented.
Betty White holds such a highly regarded “Hollywood Star” place for me. It was fascinating to see her brought to life through her very ordinary belongings. Fun read.
Perhaps there were spares in case anyone lost theirs? I don't know enough about the military to say whether that's likely, but as sensible chaps it seems a reasonable assumption.
Nice to see the library brought back in some kind of way for tech companies.
15 years ago, most tech companies had a library of sorts because it was required. Sure, there were manuals online, but they didn't offer the depth available in books at the time.
Stack Overflow either didn't exist or was in its infancy, so your options were to either find an O'Reilly book on the subject[0], hop in a Freenode channel on IRC and talk to folks who were in the weeds (or even the maintainers themselves), or you had to use mailing lists.
[0] - okay, not all of the books were O'Reilly but a huge number of them around that time period were
I think you're off by about 5 years but otherwise correct. :)
I remember our startup didn't have a library, but we had one dude who had an entire shelf of O'Reilly books that the company bought for him, so it was sort of our defacto library. When he got laid off, it was like vultures circling a kill to get his books into the IT pen so we would have them.
When I got laid off the company let me take some of them home, and that is what started my home collection of O'Reilly books, and that was in 2001. By 2009 we didn't really use books anymore -- it was all on the internet.
The arts. The further and further you go in instruction, the more it becomes about the little differences and quality. Practice always helps, but quality definitely taught and learned by many as well.
Yep, as a medical student, I strongly believe we need explainable AI for healthcare, and that AI only empowers clinicians to make the final call, and does not do any medical decision making autonomously. I really hope other players in the space like Hippocratic AI [1] and Google Med-PaLM2 [2] understand this as well.
Do you even need ai? What about just a basic system where you type in some keywords like the symptom presented, it queries a known good source like the physicians desk reference or something, and returns results with a likelihood score to match your keywords? Such a systems seems like it would be useful and also would not need an ai model or expensive training to create.
> Retail and restaurant companies won't ever respond to my applications, despite constantly spamming the same jobs month after month.
I don't know of any place in the U.S. that doesn't have wanted signs in the windows for restaurant work. Between fast food, back of house, or front of house, there really are a ton of options both in downtown areas and suburbs from my experience.
Have you actually gone to one of these locations, physically, and applied? Did you follow up instead of just dropping an application by and hoping for the best?
This. I'm taking a break from big tech, and started a restaurant a couple years ago. We get a lot of people sending emails/social media messages saying they want a job, but so far we've only hired those who have come into the location (with great success). I use it as a litmus test for someone being able to actually show up for the job when hired.
The old adage of "why don't you go down and ask for a job" still works in service/retail.
> Have you actually gone to one of these locations, physically, and applied?
Are there any places these days that are sitting around with stacks of paper job applications waiting for someone to walk in and ask for one? I figured by now just about everyone would ask you to apply online and showing up in person would just get you strange looks like "how has this person never heard of the internet?"
I don’t know about the method of application, but the restaurant industry, in particular, has almost always operated on hiring bodies that actually walk in the door versus applications from someone online. Especially true for entry-level stuff in my experience (10 years in the service industry).
There’s a companion website: https://iwillnotdrinkwithyoutoday.com
I wrote the book in markdown, stuck it in a SQLite DB and wrote a parser to put all the data in static JSON so it loads very fast.
I also created a new personal homepage to update my presence on the web as a published author and experienced leader and technologist: https://davidbyrondrake.com
Book was released less than a month ago—growing it organically like a startup has been fascinating in terms of marketing, sharing, building, and measuring success.
Have been utilizing my acting skills again with readings from the book on my Instagram and TikTok.
Having a really good time with it!