Delmania

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by Delmania 11y ago
Who's your target audience? You've done a lot of things right here. You've designated a specialization, done work to prove your credentials. Social media will help, and ebooks, speaking, and online courses are all a part of t
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In general, performance reviews are great in theory, but fall down in application. Theoretically, a review is a time to talk about the great work you did, what you learned, and what your goals are. Your manage can respond will honest feedba
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> No. It is called GNU/Linux. Linux is the kernel, not the operating system. You can believe that only RMS calls it this, but you're lying if you go around telling other people. I enjoy it when people feel the need to educate m
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>The number of naysayers here is saddening, if not surprising. At the risk of sounding like RMS, you simply cannot say in the same breath that you honestly value the FSF and then go onto declare that you still buy into Windows. Only a Si
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> a good reason, but I'd love to have read why not Scala/Clojure/etc. The CTO is familiar with .NET, and realized it's good enough to get the job done. The goal is to deliver a product or service, not argue over whic
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Marketing yourself. http://talsraviv.com/2012/07/26/being-a-developer-makes-you-...
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Co... Looks like they got that covered.
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Where I work, we haven't gotten to the mindfulness phase yet, but we're working on something called the "mood elevator". For a long time, I questioned why I hated it so much (as well as mindfulness), while finding value
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>The thing that I don’t enjoy is when people ask me if they should drop out of school or university to ‘start their own business’ Amazingly enough, it's not a binary decision. You can stay in school and start your own company. In fa
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> Before, I think my manager saw me as ready. Now I think she sees me as a liability. Did you talk to her about this? Did you ask her what can be done? This entire situation is painted that you're the one to blame. There are 2 sides
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> Did any of you read a helpful book that approached prenatal nutrition (I cook for us), preparation, early child rearing, etc. from a scientific or "hacker" perspective? Full stop. Drop the "hacker" perspective from
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It's a bit more nuanced than that. Unions played a role most certainly, but so did some industrialists like George Johnson. I believe the term is welfare capitalism. But yes, the 40 hour work week was definitely put in place to ensure
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>Technology tends to separate normal from natural. Our bodies weren't designed to eat the foods that people in rich countries eat, or to get so little exercise. There may be a similar problem with the way we work: a normal job may b
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> Sometimes , I think that the zeitgeist has swung too far in favour towards being an entrepreneur instead of working for someone and making something awesome. I can agree with this. There's definitely some long term, large scale pr
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Keep building it, but don't release until the other people do. This will do a few things. First, it will vet out the market of the product. We are told to look for something new and innovative, but truth be told, the best way to predic
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Taking a step back, who is your target audience? YNAB is probably one of the simplest budgeting applications in the market. It's successful because it only does budgeting, has extensive training, has a strong community, and emphasizes
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If people don't want to manually enter in transactions, they're not interested in personal finance, they want a fire and forget solution that tells them if they have enough money to buy something. The reason that people need to ma
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Look at YNAB. However, what are you trying to forecast here? In terms of personal finance, the single most important thing to get right is the budget, which is more about planning, and not about forecasting. Everything else is nice, but unl
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>The tech employees he knew who had been required to train foreign replacements had “routinely sacrificed personal time and freedoms to help make your experience what it was” in the theme parks, he wrote. This quote right here pretty muc
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Simple: it's the company's responsibility to mitigate as much of that risk as is possible. That woman is selling her time to the company, it's the responsibility of the company to ensure she has the safest and most comfortabl
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by Delmania 11y ago
If you're up for some slacktivism, when you share the article on Twitter, put @LGUS in front of the word flat screen. Should raise some awareness...
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I've reading the book, The Road to Character, and there's a chapter on Frances Perkins, the first female secretary of labor and one of the architects of the New Deal. She had a BA in Chemistry, not because she was good at it, but
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Your comment is why I mentioned financial literacy and financial independence. The economy is a huge system with many moving parts, so while I do agree with your statement, I think you'd get a better ROI by teaching people how to manag
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What the next generation really needs lessons in: - Humility - Empathy - Patience - Self restraint and control - Mindfulness/Awareness - Disappointment - Resilience - Communication - Listening - Learning - Financial independ
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> But how do they have time to waste voluntarily ruining peoples' lives? Perception bias. The only time you'll hear about CPS is in a case like this, when the agent is on a power trip and oversteps his bounds. You never hear ab
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The wonderful thing about opinions is that everyone can have them, and they can all be right. Case in point: I find this interesting.
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That's convention, the language doesn't prohibit you from overloading. Also, Java is not significantly more verbose than C#.
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> Got offered a full-time job in the tech industry with (gaaasp pension!) outside of Dublin, 5 minutes from my front door, with better salary, bonuses and healthcare. Things can work out well (and I really don't mean to sound patron
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> I believe technology is one of the most potent forces of good in the world but for that to sustain, a culture has to develop around it with a deep desire to solve serious, large problems. Idealism > It just seemed to me to be the ep

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