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by amorphid 9y ago
A few years ago I took a job 4000km away, and I got rid of everything in my apartment. As I boarded my departure flight, I was carrying everything I owned in a backpack and carryon suitcase. I didn't even have checked luggage, and I
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by amorphid 9y ago
Having recruited several hundred people, I can say with certainty that several ~12 month "regular" jobs is not optimal for projecting career stability. It's not a positive most of the time.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I'm amused that Elixir feels like the best language I've ever used, and yet I can't tell you why. I love (most) everything about it. It's kind of like trying to say you should meet my best friend Bob; no matter how muc
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by amorphid 9y ago
I'd consider using gigalixir in the future if I have a need to host/run a personal+stateful app. Looks neat. Will have to check it out sometime. Bookmarked.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Yes.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I recently made myself sit down and learn leex (essentially lexx for Erlang), and I found that to be an extremely useful exercise. It helped me understand how to think about what kind of inputs a parser can make use of, and when it makes s
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by amorphid 9y ago
They beat the market until they don't. Patterns that generate better returns don't last. In this case, everyone sees that outperform rated stocks (OSR): - OSR yield better returns - OSR demand increases - price of OSR goes up -
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by amorphid 9y ago
Amazon seriously pisses me off these days. Here's an example: - search Amazon.com for "1 tb usb flash drive" - the first hit (for me) is a fraudulent drive for $26.99 USD [1] - there's no mechanism that I can find to rep
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by amorphid 9y ago
In the USA... Given real estate prices in tech hubs, who can afford an office space anymore, let alone private offices! I imagine working from home will become the new normal. At least until the FCC allows ISPs to throttle Internet conne
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by amorphid 9y ago
I like free and easy to use, so even if I wanted to leave GitHub, doing so would be pretty low on my list of priorities.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Using Airbnb, I rented an entire 2 bedroom apartment in downtown Belgrade, Serbia for about 13 days. With fees, the price was $380-ish USD, just under $30/night. It was a really good deal!
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by amorphid 9y ago
Not quite. You forgot Social Geolocation RESTful API Cloud Scalable Container Sharing Economy Flash Sale.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Why not just sell shares? You may avoid taxes, but you take risk and interest expenses.
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There's nothing which prevents you from creating an empty block device file, putting btrfs on that, and mounting it.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Side note... the book's logo is mildly similar to the Drupal icon. Might confuse a few people. https://www.drupal.org/files/druplicon-small.png
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by amorphid 9y ago
I told myself I'd avoid Erlang at all costs. Then I decided I needed to know how leex and yecc work, so I got down and dirty w/ Erlang. It's close enough to Elixir that I can stumble through my way through it.
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Ask HN: Can Americans Contribute to Iranian-Controlled FLOSS?
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by amorphid 9y ago
To scale a service business, you need to offet a service that is in demand, easy to teach, and with good gross margins. You also need to be nice & generous to your employees, or they will simply leave and start their own competiting bu
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by amorphid 9y ago
>> They told me what they really wanted/needed was a way for a blind person to use AutoCAD That's a fascinating idea. I wonder how that'd work. Is there an existing interface, that allows a blind person to experience
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by amorphid 9y ago
Standard IANAL, or an accountant. Personally, I wouldn't bother incorporating unless you have investors or creditors. Or if a tax person says it's in your best interests. You can blow a lot of money on lawyers and tax preparers
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by amorphid 9y ago
Bash scripts, curl, a daemon, and a Slack bot! Just whipped out an interactive todo list demo. Won't be sticking with Bash, but it was fun to start with.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I like working. When a job makes it hard for me to do the work I'm good at, all of the joy gets sucked out of my day, and life becomes about hating work and recovering from work. For example, being hired as a Sr. Front-end Developer
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by amorphid 9y ago
That works until you visit the website for my insurance company... "You must use one of these special characters: %^&*()"
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by amorphid 9y ago
I walk more when I am in San Francisco (where I live) partially because I find the walks interesting. The same was true when I lived in DC. When I am in an area where the walks lack flavor, I have to consciously get myself to move.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Reminds of when UC Riverside released some stingless wasps to prey on a whitefly infestation in Southern California. This was in the early 1990s. I think this paper is relevant, but I only scanned it: http://ucce.ucdavis.edu&#x2
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by amorphid 9y ago
Ships get around the solar system using a propulsion system called an Epstein Drive. I just watched the following video yesterday. The narrator talks about travel times to different planets using a flip and burn technique (accelerating at
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by amorphid 9y ago
If in the USA, checkout out http://www.amino.com . They solve this exact problem.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Re: contact sales, I totally hear what you're saying. It's not always a bad idea to talk to a sales person, and a good one can steer you towards the options you'd actually want. But yeah, I generally don't want to talk
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>> (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :) (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :\))
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by amorphid 9y ago
Learn how to have a feeling without acting on that feeling. It works some of the time!

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