GoldenMonkey

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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Paul Graham talks about this ( http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html ). After doing the consultant grind, hiring employees. Boot strapping my own startups. For most of my career. And just having middling success. I finall
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Workplace safety is 3x worse than the industry norm. And they recently got fined by OSHA, across 3 different states. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-osha-fines_n_63c84509e...
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Is this really worthwhile? Software salaries are low and not valued. There is no path to citizenship. Japanese is a hard language to learn and the culture is insular. Foreigners will never belong.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
What is your goal? Quality of life, money? Even the most ambitious Canadians move to the U.S. And of course, Silicon Valley. But, there are options, near you too. Singapore, South Korea, Australia. If you want to stay in Indonesia. You
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
maybe even virtue signaling.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
You do know that masks do nothing. There are no studies proving it’s effectiveness. And there are studies w negative effects (teeth, jaw issues, sinus infections) Well, in india the purple masks were more effective than the red ones;)
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
$600 hard tail mountain bike. Still going strong after 8 years.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Please find a mentor. An actual person. Courses and tutorials will only get you so far. Ideally, look for a job that does pair programming. Or a team that is willing to teach you. No one is competent after 3 months. It takes 2 years, to
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
These guys have been doing tutorials, since the beginning. What you’ll find with a general purpose platform like react-native. Is you’ll spend 80% of your time debugging. Just random issues that affects iOS or android. And you’ll still n
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
For Social Status. The top of society’s social hierarchy. And there’s even more money than FAANG employees… in specialties. And better job security.
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The tradeoff is that brown rice will have 50 percent more arsenic. Than white rice. And rice has 10x’s the arsenic of other grains.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Those with degrees, don’t see the downside of not having a degree.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Please get your computer science degree. It can only improve your skillset and open doors. I dropped out of college and ended up going back. Bc not having a degree was a deterrent to my career.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Even a broken clock is right, twice a day. Look at the signs. We have high inflation, rapidly increasing interest rates, declining stock prices. 2 negative down quarters, only 10k jobs added vs 1M estimated. Why do you think the odds of r
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
2 years sounds way too junior. For anything mission critical.
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Harvard professor explains heart-wrenching source of EV, iPhone batteries(news.com.au)
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‘When asked by Rogan if there was any cobalt mine in the Congo that did not rely on “child labour” or “slavery”, Prof Kara told him there were none.’
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bio medical engineering
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Ftx is a centralized exchange. Nothing to do with any blockchain. Decentralized exchanges like uniswap does live on a blockchain.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Predicting this 4D chess move by CZ… ends very badly for CZ… As CZ becomes massive target for the SEC. And is sued into oblivion for insider trading, laundering or whatever they can make stick. By whatever jurisdiction CZ/Binance has a
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
I think the biggest productivity boost, US society could implement. Is a siesta. 2 hour lunches, 12-2. Just like France and our Southern neighbors do.
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Took 9 months and 90 rejections from VCs, before we were funded for Series A.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
There was a company doing something like this for ios apps. The approach was to charge a monthly fee to maintain a company’s apps. Anytime there was a reported bug or the app needed updating. It was resolved. This company had a number of c
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
Definitely was solid advice at the time. It was scary times. I knew fellow software developers working at sears, driving buses. It was unreal. It looked like software was dead. Silicon Valley. And offshoring was happening big time. I w
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
great work! but, please no more sit ups. Even the marines figured out it is bad for the spine.
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
I don’t think stoicism was applied correctly. Stoicism is about controlling what you have control over. Chief among this… is our thoughts. Thoughts matter. How one thinks about things, events, situations that happen to us… matter. Re-frami
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by GoldenMonkey 4y ago
$75/hr minimum. corp to corp. Up to $125/hr. thru another contracting firm, will be lower. Depending on development stack and specialty can go higher. search for ‘patio11’ here on hackernews… he always recommended project work
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And who will be programming the AI?
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The problem is... timing... we've had a 12 year bull cycle. Why should we expect this un-ending growth forever. And the typical 1-2 year recession, is way overdue. The housing market was already contracting months ago... once interest
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Already happening without better conditions. Amazon prime delivery is so unreliable now. I live 1/2 mile from the distribution center. And 1 out of 3 packages are always late. Sometimes a week late. Quality and reliability are decl

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