BSousa

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by BSousa 12y ago
Well, when you put on a 4WD SUV as 'essential' and the payment/costs is approx. 65% of housing expenses, either the numbers are padded or someone doing that is a fucking idiot. 4k education expenses also seems excessive but I
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by BSousa 12y ago
I'm a man, I support having more women in tech (thought I don't agree it is the companies responsibilities for this) but I can honestly say, her rewritten job descriptions would make me NOT want to apply (maybe that is the goal?).
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by BSousa 12y ago
Work experience yes, school wise no. Unless you are in one of the top 3 CS schools in the country and graduated top of you class, from experience, school grades have no correlation with ability. Now, I know work experience is tricky as well
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by BSousa 12y ago
You will probably have to set the terminal font and not Vim's. In any case, usually when there are various ttf files for a single font, they all belong to a Font and then have variations (Medium, Medium Italic, Condensed, etc) Dependin
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by BSousa 12y ago
Not with facebook last time I tried. Had the same problem, someone used my email to create a facebook account and now I can't get it back without going through various loops that I honestly don't care about. I just put anything th
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by BSousa 12y ago
This maybe a weird question, but where do most of the normal and landsat photos come from? If it all exclusive to NY or you use a freelance/marketplace service? I ask since I have a project ongoing with a similar photo requirements and
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by BSousa 12y ago
I fully agree. Athletes, pregnancy, high-stress jobs, depression, etc. Each have different concerns and specific nutrition focusing on them can be quite efficient at mitigating symptoms/improving results. Also location as you mentioned
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by BSousa 12y ago
While I agree, at least for Vit. D, the issue is what is considered 'deficiency' is quite low by doctors/blood tests. I don't remember the values, but even doctors that a few years ago laughed (yes, laughed) on my wife a
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by BSousa 12y ago
I remember watching him play. His free kicks/long range shots were amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbjmD3btJg
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by BSousa 12y ago
For me, it was even more surprising when I was driving out of Algarve recently (South of Portugal) and saw a billboard about buying and selling Hotels. Not villas, full blown Hotels like it was freaking Monopoly.
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by BSousa 12y ago
11k GBP is close to minimum wage no? May I ask what you do?
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by BSousa 12y ago
I never did before either, but something did change. It may be just the sunshine, it maybe the location (very close to the sea) or just the job, but I can say that now when I don't have the sunshine, I miss it, which was something I ne
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by BSousa 12y ago
While I agree with some points you make, and disagree with others, you are rubbing people the wrong way by using statements like "I am sure there are loads of companies that are perfect for you, because they only require blue collar pr
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by BSousa 12y ago
South of Spain and now considering moving to South of Portugal. I didn't came from a completely 'dark' place like London (Oporto, North of Portugal) but even that small change made significant improvements in my life.
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by BSousa 12y ago
I hate the sun as much as any other programmer, but I can safely say, after moving to a place with a lot of sunshine, my mood improved a lot. Even 10 minutes in the balcony just staring at a clear blue sky makes me more productive and calme
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by BSousa 12y ago
So, we are just calling certifications by different names now? I opened the iOS nanodegree page: -- The core courses will bring you from zero to hero in developing industry-quality iOS apps using Apple's innovative programming language
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by BSousa 12y ago
Maybe, but to be honest, haven't had one complain of not replying to emails yet (Except from recruiters). Maybe I'm just not involved in a lot of circles with folks that do that (looking at signatures of most of my emails, most j
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by BSousa 12y ago
I had to create a rule in gmail. Marking them as spam didn't seem to work too well and still a lot slipped through. Now anything that has linkedin.com in subject, from, to, and body is automatically deleted.
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by BSousa 12y ago
Not really, but I guess depends on where you live. I'm from Portugal. Programmers here are seen as normal white collar jobs and paid not much more than other white collar jobs, and probably peaking (earning wise) at about the same as t
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by BSousa 12y ago
Those companies also usually pay part in advance. If you read a bit about other freelancers process (even here in HN there is a lot of advice) most will ask for some kind of advance.
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by BSousa 12y ago
I guess it depends on yourself only. But any extra hours you are giving to your employer, you are taking them from you. Even if you enjoy the work, you could be enjoying the work at home on a personal project (that may make you money, or fa
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by BSousa 12y ago
Can you run us by a typical day of food? I'm not discrediting you, but from experience, what for you is overeating, for others is considered undereating.
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by BSousa 12y ago
I advise you to take a read: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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by BSousa 12y ago
For the future, use escrow. It just looks like you are working for companies that have no money to pay you (and prob. never will). If a company isn't willing to use escrow, run. They either don't have the money or are planning on
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by BSousa 12y ago
I agree that would be ideal, but having been through a kind of similar search myself recently, I didn't see many java remote jobs available (a lot of ruby ones), and getting one is hard (unless you are an outstanding well-known candida
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by BSousa 12y ago
South of Portugal and Spain fit most if not all of that, except jobs. In Portugal there are some dev jobs in Faro (but then you have either a long commute or live in an apartment in the city and pay is quite low to be a one provider kind of
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by BSousa 12y ago
For all the mentions of MVC in your post, you should probably realize that Rails isn't really MVC. Some of the new JS frameworks are actually MVC, but Rails it is not. (Rails is more Model2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by BSousa 12y ago
Was this the same data that was used by IMF and the rest to justify the push the austerity measures on the troubled economies in Europe? I remember there was a big backlash at the time when the numbers came to light but nothing changed anyw
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by BSousa 12y ago
I don't really agree with this. 50 years ago those 18-19 year olds were working and getting married, and at 21-22 being fathers and mothers. But now we accept that 18-19 year olds are still 'kids'. I don't know if this h
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by BSousa 12y ago
And I don't want to pile up on the guys, and I'm happy that they open sourced they code, but this is why you really need a bit more professionalism and yes, a bit oversight in our profession. While I doubt it, xytop (and many othe

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