Today I had an interview for an information technology position with Amazon working out of one of their fulfillment centers. It was a long interview at two hours which comprised both behavioral and technical aspects. If I had to hazard a guess, the interview went very well and I was able to show a commanding…
Nearing the Python Project Phase
I am now in the final chapter of the fundamentals of Python and I am pausing between reading concepts and testing them that I can understand how they work. I feel pretty confident that my understanding of these basic concepts is close to solid. The final chapter of the basics of Python Crash Course, chapter…
A Hard Lesson Learned
Today I learned a hard lesson about attention to detail, or more precisely the lack thereof. I had an opportunity to work for Amazon in their Information Technology department at the local fulfillment center. On New Year’s Eve, I received an email informing that I had been selected to move forward with an in-person interview….
Slowly Fulfilling My New Years Resolution
Unlike most people out there that made New Years Resolutions to eat better, exercise, and/or lose weight I have set my resolution to be one of learning and enrichment. 2020 is the year that I am going to learn Python and Java. So far and 2 weeks into the New Year, I am 9 chapters…
Living in a National Forest
Yesterday I did not have that great a day so I was seriously considering what it would take for me to live for free. And by living for free, I mean both in terms of economics and inalienable rights. It dawned on me that there are large swaths of land set aside by the United…
Poverty is a Prison Sentence
I started pondering the case that living in poverty is almost a prison sentence in of itself, considering that people living in a state of poverty is similar to being in a state of incarceration, except without bars. Once you’re caught in poverty, like being caught in the criminal justice system, escape becomes increasingly difficult…
Beauty of Python
I do not know why I have been so resistant to learning to code in Python. So far, everything about it is beautiful and elegant. When I tried learning to code in college, it was in C/C++ and it was really computer science that they were teaching. They weren’t teaching the practical application of it….
Webmail on OpenBSD
If you’re looking to set up a mail server using OpenBSD, let me refer you to the guide published by Gilles Chehade on his website, poolp.org. He does an excellent and completely thorough job on getting things going so I will not try and reinvent that wheel. Instead, I am going to show you how…
Thoughts on Anarchy
This morning I am finding myself seriously pondering anarchy and the appearance that government in any form cannot be trusted to be fair and just. Throughout history, government ends up being co-opted as an agent of the wealthy to do their bidding. Government may start as being by the people and for the people, but…
20 Years of OpenBSD
I have just made two full decades of using OpenBSD for just about every aspect of my computing needs. I remember being first introduced to it by my college roommate who was using it at the time. I was beavering away on my Windows 98 Second Edition machine, working hard on a term paper, when…