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by amorphid 10y ago
Crazy thought... If this is even possible, create a standard for everything key employees should know. Pay people great, but not GREAT. Bank up "eff you" money for them. If they want to quit, they get the banked money as long
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Ask HN: Seeking relaxing, cheap vacation spots for personal coding
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by amorphid 10y ago
I used to be a recruiter, and when I did contingency recruitment, I was making the kind of money you're talking about wanting to make. I also was tired, and burned out all the time, which sucked, because I didn't like the work th
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by amorphid 10y ago
I hear what you're saying. It's worth noting this person is tired. Hard to say what their motivations would be if they weren't tired. If they had no ambition, or desire to change their situation, they wouldn't have su
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by amorphid 10y ago
That is a completely subjective, relative measurement. How does one teach another how to objectively tell if someone is smart and getting stuff done?
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by amorphid 10y ago
You have to be diligent about researching a potential employer with multiple locations, too. My last job on "on site". I learned on Day 1 that all of my teammates were all remote (or at least not in my office).
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by amorphid 10y ago
If you don't own any of it, at least in your mind, it's interesting that someone is selling the software that you don't own, and asking you to confirm that. If it wouldn't cost you anything you care about, consider coun
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by amorphid 10y ago
I've got ADHD. Here are a few things that have helped me... * Asking myself if I really need to do something. If the answer is no, not doing it is one thing less to distract me. * Asserting myself by saying "I'm not finishe
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by amorphid 10y ago
It's worth asking if you really need an LLC/Corp. Find a good tax person, and see what they recommend. To find a good tax person, ask a few business people who they use and recommend. I formed an LLC a couple times, and both tim
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by amorphid 10y ago
Don't forget to pay the $800/year CA LLC fee.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I do my very best to treat people equally. For me, that is done simply by to focusing on what it takes to get the job done, trying to not be an asshole, and expecting everyone I work with to do the same. Is there more to it than than?
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by amorphid 10y ago
I have a few ideas here, and the common theme between all of them is that you have to put yourself out there: * Find some developers in your local area who maintain, or can merge into, an open source project. Work on what they are passiona
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by amorphid 10y ago
I guess in high school, one has teachers. But you never know. In my high school, the physics teacher also ran the computer lab. He had all sorts of connections. He even hooked me up with a babysitting gig.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Ask your professor(s) if they have any suggestions.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I use the people switcher on computers I "control". It is convenient to have two accounts which stay logged in to various services. I do not like staying logged in, and might forget to log out of, computers that aren't mine
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by amorphid 10y ago
Personally I am paying for the experience of seeing a movie in the theater, and I don't like 3-D. Last weekend I wanted to see Resident Evil. The local theater has seven 3-D showings times, and only two 2-D showings. If a theater i
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by amorphid 10y ago
I went front recruiting w/an MBA to backend, so I'm pretty sure you can do it, too :). Not sure I have any generically useful tips beyond spending more time doing backend stuff. Write an API that a frontend can talk, figure out
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by amorphid 10y ago
What isn't reasonable is the difference in cost between different formats. SD should be the same price as HD, 2D should be the same price as 3D, etc. At least that's what I say.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I dislike making special trips to the ATM, and carrying around bucket loads of coins in my pockets., so I took the opposite approach. I put my weekly expenses on a single credit card, with the caveat that I have to pay it off every week. I
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by amorphid 10y ago
I like the ~$10 USD toolset from Ikea. It includes a hammer, multi-tip screwdriver, adjustable wrench, and a pair of pliers. For 95% of the tool-needing things I do around the house, these tools are sufficient.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Tl;dr -- you're gonna have to stick your neck out, so don't work with someone who will get your head chopped off.
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by amorphid 10y ago
One thing Netflix does right is being everywhere. Most any device that has streaming has Netflix. The availability of Amazon Instant Video sucks. It's not available on a Chromecast. It's not on Apple TV. It's not on a lot
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by amorphid 10y ago
Once I wrapped my head around it, I found Elixir to be much simpler than other programming languages. I'd rather use Elixir to build things if there aren't any blockers to doing so.
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by amorphid 10y ago
On top of that, Erlang has a scheduler which reduces the need to rely on the operating system's concurrency model.
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by amorphid 10y ago
> If you want to see how a person handles stress, give them a situation that is stressful in a way it'd be on the job Mainly because you're paying someone to do a job, not to interview. I've interviewed a lot of people, a
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by amorphid 10y ago
It had something to do with my friend not being able to provide enough information to prove "I'm not a terrorist" to what felt like a pedantic level of satisfaction. I don't remember the specifics.
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by amorphid 10y ago
The one time I tried sending money from Los Angeles, CA, USA to Portland, OR, USA, I wasn't able to meet the criteria necessary to complete the transaction. Some my friend and I, both US Citizens, raised a red flag. It felt pretty la
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by amorphid 10y ago
I don't spend a ton of time mastering algorithms for interviews. Maybe I should. But studying a canned set of specific formulas is about as fun as memorizing a Math textbook. I've found that I become a better programmer by focu
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by amorphid 10y ago
It's been about 8 years since I've had a cable television subscription, and it now feels really weird that past me was willing to pay $100+ USD/month to have access to television shows filled with commercials. I barely have
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by amorphid 10y ago
I've noticed my Elixir experience bleed into how I write Ruby. I'm much more likely to avoid creating objects if I can solve things with a pure function in Ruby now. And for things like pattern matching, I've played around w

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