amorphid

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   by amorphid 9y ago

   To me, having to cut a big check to the IRS is the ultimate first world problem. I'd love to owe the IRS a million bucks because I made way more than that :)
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   I'm in San Francisco. When you decide to start looking for work, let me know. I can (in my own mind) teach you all the buttons to push to get employers excited about hiring you. It helps to be competent, too :)
3. 183.▲
   by amorphid 9y ago

   Not if you eat popsicles the way I do! Lick, lick, crunch, more please.
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   A crushing amount of student loan debt stinks, and so does a low quality degree that teaches little if actual substance. These are not wonderful things.
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   If one really wanted to... one could run a browser on the server to run a page powered by Elm, and then click on the page using Selenium style web driver. I'm guessing it wouldn't scale well :) "What stack are you guys usin
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   Almost all developers I personally know use a Mac. I know a few that use Linux on occasion. I personally know of no developers that actively use Windows for writing code. However, I'd argue that using the OS you use for development
7. 187.▲
   by amorphid 9y ago

   Disclaimer: IANAF (I am not a foodie) Because it's cheap and delicious.
8. 188.▲
   by amorphid 9y ago

   I use Lyft Line several times a month, and have found it to be nicer than Uber Pool. I guess YRMMV (your ridesharing mileage may vary).
9. 189.▲
   by amorphid 9y ago

   I've been contacted be 2 or 3 AWS recruiters in the last month, so presumably they are hiring.
10. 190.▲
    by amorphid 9y ago

    I live in a San Francisco rent-controlled apartment. I only moved to San Francisco because of rent control. Otherwise I would not have been able to afford a place at all. New apartments in cities without rent control always seem to be ex
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    My personal credit was not optimal, I had no personal assets to speak of, and the business was too new/unstable to pitch a good "lend moneyz pleez!" story. Traditional lending channels were not available to me. I'm sur
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I saw Travis K. give a talk a few years back at Failcon in San Francisco about his previous startup Red Swoosh. What I remember about that talk is how he persevered through some serious s * which was the opposite of easy & fun. I&#x2
13. 193.▲
    by amorphid 9y ago

    I find the cheapest combination of plane ticket & rental car I can find in countries I haven't been, and then I go there. I don't plan more than that.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    > Banks absolutely hate to lend to businesses with few or no assets Pretty much! My tech startup couldn't raise funding, morphed into a consulting business, and couldn't borrow money. We had to grow entirely out of cash flow,
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    +1 for Hurricane Electric's free DNS. I ordered a .ninja domain, which they didn't support at the time. I contacted customer service, and they added it within a few hours. I love service when I have a problem!
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    Ask HN: Your software doesn't (completely) suck if X (What is X?)

    2 points by amorphid 9y ago|3 comments
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    It's a lot easier to be optimistic about a product you actually care about in some way.
18. 198.▲
    by amorphid 9y ago

    Praying for success, running out of money, and becoming homeless.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    > Efficiency counts, just not in the web world Knowing how to code efficiently, even if you choose not to, never goes out of style. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that out loud.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    If these count, I enjoyed: - The Expanse (season 2) - Sense8 (season 2) - Alien Covenant
21. 201.▲
    by amorphid 9y ago

    When you're up to your neck in hard work, it's kind of hard to sugarcoat how damn tired you are. Anyone who "only here's the bad stuff" sounds like someone who isn't prepared to work harder than they've e
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I live in San Francisco, and the public transit is useable compared to most other parts of California. Recently I visited Copenhagen, Denmark, and I found the public transit to be much nicer than mediocre (even if I couldn't by train
23. 203.▲
    by amorphid 9y ago

    Do unused flight credits roll over?
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Can they track mining operations down by looking for abnormally high power consumption?
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I've flown on 737s for years & recently flew on a couple 10 hour flights on a 787, and mostly I like those planes well enough. My most miserable flying experience was on a couple 14 hour flights on a 747. I think short haul fligh
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    My neighbor of mine used to work as a bookie, letting people make illegal bets on sporting events. He said the toughest part about his business was the piles of cash he had to manage. He said once you take in around $500K USD (or somethin
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    For a quick & dirty look, I did `git grep test`. In there, I noticed circle.yml in the root directory, which I'm guessing is for testing on Circle CI. From this... https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus/b
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I discovered GeographyNow about 4 days ago. I've been binge watching ever since. It is suprisingly entertaining and informative. https://www.youtube.com/GeographyNow I also like RealLifeLore, Wendover Productions, Ha
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Or maybe it takes almost an hour to service each of their 200 requests/month, and they're desperate to get their response into the sub 30 minute range :)
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    In the future, maybe there will be a more efficient mechanism to pre-scan a construction site for noteworthy finds. I'm imagining a non-invasive deployment of cyber-worms that go thru soil & nano-drillbots that go rock to survey a