Ran across this article the other day.
"Inside the world of Silicon Valley's 'coasters' — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work"
What I found myself thinking about after reading it was an experience I had at a company where they had setup a similar situation after buying a startup. But, in this case the situation was different in an important way. The company put the startup people in charge of their own group and told them to run it. The acquiring company didn't put one of their own in charge. They just assumed the startup would work within the larger company without any strong tie back into the buyer.
Continue reading →A log of a session showing how to check account balances and then send ETH. In this example I'm running a geth console on a local node and I want to send 10 ETH to two different accounts.
First, I list the accounts and then see how much ETH I have in the default account.
> personal.listAccounts
["0x634b8e79b0155e5ac1403c2fe4b1d30f2fc6b931"]
> web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.coinbase));
83.997039
Before attempting to send I need to unlock the account. This prompts you for your password.
Continue reading →A tip for working with org-mode. The situation is where you have a large outline but want to extract just the headers. Say you want to expand only two levels and want to extract only those headers.
The key is org-copy-visible.
Expand your tree so you only see what you want to extract. Then select the tree and execute org-copy-visible (C-c C-x v).
Then paste the extracted headers somewhere else.
Continue reading →Installed this interesting application on my laptop and a few other machines. It is called f.flux and it is an app that reduces the blue light in monitors in the evening. This is to prevent the stimulation that the blue light causes which ultimately effects your sleep.
So far I can say that in the evening with the new setup which has a soft orange-ish light is soothing.
The app has a very clever feature. You tell it when you typically wake up and then while you are working late it gently reminds you that you are waking up in 7 hours or some such number. A nice reminder not to over do it.
From a terminal window start a new screen session with the command screen. Do what you want and then when you want to detach use Ctrl-A d.
Next time you want to return to the session use screen -r.
If you ever forget if you have a session running and want to check use screen -ls.