JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Elm is also promising: http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/files/why-elm.pdf
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If that were Facebook's goal, why wouldn't they just team up with a few other large companies and lobby for abolishing software patents in the US?
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Make a name for yourself in some industry. The last time I looked for a job (around age 39), I sent out an email newsletter to about 9,000 subscribers and got back serious job offers in seven countries. I was sponsored by a company and immi
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If the goal were to get rid of software patents, why don't all the large tech companies just band together and lobby against allowing patents for software? (more like Europe) This looks more like a sneaky trick by Facebook.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm not sure if React (and the other projects that contain the PATENTS file) will survive the backlash to this in the long run. Vue.js is rapidly climbing in popularity, and Elm is probably going to go mainstream in 2018. There are alt
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Do you mean this one? https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556 It doesn't address the scenario of Facebook's violating your patents first.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Why do you doubt it? I'm pretty sure that Elm will do it. :)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm not sure if React (and the other projects that contain the PATENTS file) will survive the backlash to this in the long run. Vue.js is rapidly climbing in popularity, and Elm is probably going to go mainstream in 2018. There are alt
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
AMP is terrible for the decentralized, open Web in general.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Additional idea: do some volunteering outside of the tech industry.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's much better than the accessibility problems (animation, color) that are fundamentally baked into ideas like Material Design.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Get off the beaten track to find interesting travelers. The locals tend to be friendlier too.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I was on the road on and off for over 10 years. I still wanted to hang out with foreigners even after getting back.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
SEO is a shady field in general, but not all of it is shady. It can make or break a company and is well worth understanding. There is a lot of bad information out there (like the HTTPS advice above), so it's difficult to find accurate
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Better than these services would be a site that tells you how to shop for meals and prepare them in bulk -- sort of "make your own meal kits". It would be more efficient, healthier, and more educational.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If you don't have a visa, then you get 90 days in the Schengen Area every six months. You can head up through the Balkans (or elsewhere outside of Schengen) when your time is up. I used to go to Greece for three months at a time and th
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Great spot. I spent over a year (over many trips) working remotely from Greece, including Crete.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> you'll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you're a Euro or American) I didn't find that to be true. I miss foreign people and cultures afte
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Learn how to cook your own food from scratch. Focus on whole foods, especially vegetables and fruit. You can meal prep in advance by steaming a lot of vegetables, storing them in separate containers, and then chopping and mixing them with s
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
There are endless free programming, math, and other educational videos on YouTube. It just requires a small change in one's perspective on what is "entertainment". :)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I worked in the hostel industry for a long time. In "the old days", it was ridiculous to even travel with a cell phone. Laptops made no sense unless you had to work remotely. (I'd argue that they still don't make sense w
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Thanks for that tip. It's also online here: https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/euclid/byrne.html
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That's terrible. I wouldn't buy a phone without a way to plug in. I would lose headphones that are not attached with a wire.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Arguments for nuclear power tend to ignore a few things: - They talk about ideal power plants, but not actual power plants. Are they assuming that when the world switches to nuclear, that every country will build these ideal types of plants
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Try Metalsmith if you want to poke around and write code. Try Hugo if you want something that works out of the box but that doesn't have a plugin system.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That doesn't seem to make sense. If "all rights reserved" is the default fallback, why are they using other people's code? By default, they should respect the copyright and ignore that the projects have additional terms
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's impossible to entirely prevent hacking. I'm sure that there are people who have worked out a good hosting model, but I did not find it to be worth the time.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Static sites are different. That sounds like a much better model for hosting. It doesn't matter if the servers get destroyed if there is little to clean up.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill. If you don't want to m
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I think that it's good to be on retainer, but I didn't find that providing hosting was worth the effort. A few hundred dollars here and there was not enough. If clients needed technical assistance, then they could pay a retainer o

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