BrandonM

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by BrandonM 16y ago
As a bartender and a valet, I've easily averaged $15-25 an hour. Right now I'm making $25 an hour when I'm billing, and once I get home I'm not in the mood to do much computer work. Additionally, you can find service jobs anywhere, and star
902.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I see lots of assertions to this effect. Is it really true? One point that no one seems to consider is that frustrating interview processes are a big contributor to smaller applicant pools; that is, a would-be good employee has applied a co
903.
by BrandonM 16y ago
And certainly your day-to-day work would involve answering questions about those data structures and algorithms in real time, with your future career depending on it, without external references.
904.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I voted you back up to 1 because even though it seems you didn't finish (or even read?) the article, your post did have interesting content.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
That might be true if you're playing live or mainly for fun, but when you're playing 12 or more tables, poker starts to look a lot like those video games in terms of decision speeds. Throw in the need to remember how you've been playing on
906.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Too much ambiguity? http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=cardinal
907.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Ha! I wasn't trying to quote anyone
908.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Thanks a lot for the data point. I guess the real lesson is to show an interest in and affinity for a position and just apply for it, requirements be damned.
909.
by BrandonM 16y ago
> Why not spend a couple days becoming proficient hacking together a couple OS projects (or contributions) to show your proficiency (hint: the majority of Rails devs I know don't have any OS work to show)? I guarantee this will trump al
910.
by BrandonM 16y ago
> I think that if you are able to learn those languages and frameworks... you should maybe invest those few weeks times the number of framework/language combinations that you come across in those job postings, just so next time around (
911.
by BrandonM 16y ago
<rant> If I'm a good C programmer, if I grok Lisp, if I'm fluent in Python, if I can accomplish damn near any file munging task from a bash prompt, and if I have an understanding of component-based development, then I should be suit
912.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Have you considered that maybe you are stuck in a system that the author is describing? "Intermittent rewards, keeping you busy, being tired, emotionally involved, crises occur" is absolutely not a description of life. It describes some o
913.
by BrandonM 16y ago
That looks like iteration to me.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm having trouble putting this all together. Let's figure 9 hours at work, 1 hour of commute, 1.5 hours eating, 1.5 hours exercising, .75 hours meditating, and 7.5 hours sleeping. That leaves less than three hours for showering, changing c
915.
by BrandonM 16y ago
It sounds to me like reverse engineering would be fine. All it says is that redistribution must retain the license as-is with no attempt to change or obscure the license .
916.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I lived in a 3-bedroom place with two friends near OSU for $238/month for about two years before someone I went to school with gave me an offer I couldn't refuse. She owned a house on the other side of town but had to move back to where we
917.
by BrandonM 16y ago
What problem do you have with the license? It doesn't require any release of source and it doesn't prevent sale of the software. It looks a lot like a BSD license.
918.
by BrandonM 16y ago
The public transportation (buses only) isn't great, but it's serviceable. A bus to downtown stops a few blocks from my house every 10 minutes in the morning, every 15-20 minutes in the afternoon-evening, and every half hour after that. If y
919.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I disagree. I've been seeing "Cargo Cult X" comments all over Hacker News recently, usually with several upvotes, and it just annoys me.
920.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Rural areas can actually be quite expensive compared to a cheap city. Utilities are usually higher since low density means higher cost to the utility companies (more infrastructure for less people). Prices for most goods are higher at local
921.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm renting a 2.5 bedroom house with a yard in a reasonably-good neighborhood for $250/month in Columbus, Ohio. Utilities (water, gas, electric) come to about $200; Internet and cell phone is another $150, so we're talking $600 a month, tot
922.
by BrandonM 16y ago
"I don't mind being set on fire just so long as they make provision that I won't get too hot" It's called a fire suit. And one could certainly devise a method to allow for anonymous digital transactions via public-private key cryptography a
923.
by BrandonM 16y ago
I think the commenters so far are missing the point. This isn't a money -less society, but a cash less society. The money is based on American dollars, but soon they expect no hard cash to be changing hands. I don't mind the idea of cashl
924.
by BrandonM 16y ago
In a moment of delicious irony, Firefox completely froze up when I used the Back button to return to Hacker News after reading that article.
925.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Maybe I had a uniquely-bad experience, but I heard basically nothing after submitting my YCommonApp nearly a month ago.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Reading the article gave me an office-sharing idea that I think would be quite helpful for small companies. Instead of just providing office space, the hosting company would also provide HR, legal services, and other tangential work for the
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm in Columbus, too. Would you mind adding some contact info to your profile?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> with arguably less to show for it We have lots of roads...
929.
by BrandonM 16y ago
> a high school course called Home Economics, or something like that Wow, I'm only 26 but this makes me feel old. "Home Ec" was a pretty well-known course when I went to school.
930.
by BrandonM 16y ago
Everyone else waits a few extra minutes, but meanwhile the maitre d's work income is vastly improved while you get a quick seat for a fee. In the end, the net effect on society is probably neutral at worst. At best, no one else even notices

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