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Moral support doesn't sound too bad haha. I have found meager wages working at a local repair shop, and have taken that time to hone my skillset into something useful. I have a firm handle on async Nodejs as a result, but it's hard to look at the applications I can make as useful when I struggle to put gas in the tank to get to the shop in the morning.

I'll get 99% of the way to 'completing' something, like the react-native app I am developing, and spend two weeks asking myself "Why don't you just watch Deep Space Nine on Netflix? It's not like anything is going to make paying rent this month any easier." and wind up like I am today, on the verge of tears instead of learning redux. From my perspective, I have been chasing a dream that will forever reward me with not-enough-money for my efforts.

I tried to go to college, wound up homeless, living in a van trying to pay for it. Now that I have a family, it just crushes me that I couldn't complete it.

Ask HN: Where can I find stable employment without a degree?

I do not have a degree, but I do have a sizable amount of skills when it comes to Node, Networking, and Linux system administration. I have absolutely no idea where I should even begin to look for better employment than I have now.I live in a medium-sized city in Illinois, and our job market is dead outside of retail/food.Is there even one place that allows remote work, and will give an...

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Re:PrivateKeys – SSH Keys as a Service on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:26AM (#14256494)
What? Why would I ever pay someone else to generate crypto tokens for me? This is a slap in the face to every safety procedure surrounding private keys. A key escrow is bad juju.
Re:Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:19PM (#14053688)
How does the AWS credit work? This, for me, is the biggest selling point of the whole shabang.
I've always enforced a strict policy of every certificate request be asked for in person by someone with authority to ask us for one, and then a second person actually issues the certs after an hour, just in case. Nobody likes being responsible for data breaches, and I for one am a sadist and a masochist when it comes to keeping control of my systems.
I surely hope that somebody can figure out how to make firmware images for these, and use this code as a base to fix these flaws. A kind DD-DVR project, if you would.
Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.
Re:The FuqIt Web Framework on Sunday July 14, 2013 @05:20PM (#6042302)
This looks cool. BTW, thanks for helping me not feel like a total moron while learning Python, the hard way was the right way.
I call bullshit. There are numerous "funny bits" in this thread, number one, they display the info page for a "UAV Imager system" which in no way offers control of a drone. Second, the very generalized schematic for a nuclear power station, most likely a mid-60's design BWR, means nothing to anyone.
Re:Ask HN: Self Hosted Webmail IMAP Client? on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:20PM (#6036551)
I use roundcube, it's actually fairly well-featured, and has worked reliably for years.
Re:How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:34AM (#5983002)
The massive amount of computing power needed to encrypt that much data is hard to buy, unless you are the NSA.
How about one of those tryout codes?
That was the largest gathering of nervous looking politicians and military brass I have ever witnessed. I don't think a lot of them were comfortable talking about information that became declassified immediately before they were to discuss them with the public.