andyjdavis

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by andyjdavis 10y ago
That is the trap, assuming that what appeals on a vacation will remaining appealing once it becomes your normal state. It isn't even just an issue of getting bored, the knowledge that this is your normal life rather than a time boxed v
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
One somewhat extreme yet effective solution to this is to get into situations where no one knows anyone and where there is some shared hardship involved. We did this by moving to another country where there was limited potential to really i
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>I think it's a myth that one can just chill out forever Absolutely. My wife and I spent a few years traveling full-time, mostly SE Asia. I worked remotely while my wife was busy with various projects. In particular, tropical island
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Lol. Very true. As much as I enjoyed teaching 6-8 year old and essentially playing games and singing songs all day having to clock in and out, a strict dress code and having to complete vast volumes of dead tree paperwork wasn't super
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I have also been employed to work on open source software. I actually didn't really think of it until now but it is nice to still see stuff going on in the project. I am still on some mailing lists plus I get notifications of tickets I
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>“You go from working 50, 60, 70 hours a week to zero,” Moen says. “And it very much affects your identity. Who am I? For men, the answer usually is their job.” I feel like this is a problem our whole life however it is only once we reti
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Entirely possible. When I was about your age I wound up taking off and teaching English to little kids in Thailand. That was a great experience that involved a refreshing amount of time away from a computer. I was able to pick up my career
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
The comments about journalism already suffering from the mid-70s is interesting. It seems to generally be taken as gospel that the Internet is responsible for the woes of the newspaper industry and serious journalists everywhere.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
"Wow, this code is weird. Lets look at the commit history and hopefully that can shed some light on this..." commit 7245 - working now, dont know why. whatever commit 7244 - added debugging commit 7243 - stupid impossible bug repo
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Lots I suspect. It is actually one of the reasons why I try to stick to "open source by default" in any side projects I might take on. Although it is pretty unlikely as I am a nobody it is theoretically possible that someone may c
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I am not sure that anyone who works with technology in any capacity wonders that.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>this article reveals that the two most popular destinations for UK families leaving are the USA and Australia - both countries with strict visa requirements and no automatic freedom of movement. On a purely selfish level, speaking as an
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
If things get bad in the UK the EU wouldn't really want the UK back as such. They may however eventually permit the UK to rejoin. Once the UK has jumped through all of the hoops that new EU applicants have to jump through of course. Th
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>Stricter and more expensive ticketing might help. I wouldn't hold my breath. After all, you are attempting to change what appears to be fundamental human behaviour, curiosity.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>A PR person would bristle at the idea of denying to unlock the phone of a terrorist Not if they were any good at their job. Very publicly standing up against what many would see as heavy handed government and being seen to defend the ri
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I am curious about the mechanics of how the projects will spend this money. I have had quite a bit of professional experience working as a developer within an open source project and I honestly don't know what we would have done had so
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
> I'm honestly not sure how 2 weeks notice is meaningfully different from no notice at all. Agreed. 2 weeks feels like a number so small it effectively rounds to 0. I am actually unsure of the minimum notice period here (Australia)
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I wonder how the change in scarcity of resources will affect people's relationship with these subjects. Similar to yourself I grew up in an environment when information and software was hard to come by and thus highly prized. Books rea
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Sure but the area covered by each pair would be much larger due to the drastically smaller number of combinations available.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>We do not even have driverless cargo trains. These are definitely on the way, if they have not already arrived. Someone I know was a train driver for a mining company here in Australia. A lot of their trains are already essentially auto
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
That says essentially the same thing as what kefka put forward but, unfortunately, in a much less compelling way.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>You just need to be able to get some millions of dollars on your 2.5 billion self-valuation Mathematically speaking you just need to get someone to give you a single dollar in exchange for 1/2500000000 of 100% ownership, meaning th
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Nice work :) No matter what you do next that is certainly a very handy chunk of change to have coming in each month.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>In the Pacific the trigger for Pearl Harbor was the US cutting off Japanese access to raw materials (what are bizarrely called "sanctions" today) in the hope of ending prior Japanese aggression in Korea and Manchuria: again, e
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>But it makes me wonder if aircraft carriers are obsolete It is not quite the same as being obsolete but I suspect that they are far more vulnerable than we realize. Every day missiles get both technically better (faster, longer range, h
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>or that drawing a katana is so often accompanied by a metallic "shing" Relevant demonstration and explanation of why the "shing" noise isn't a thing outside of movies. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>rapid unplanned disassembly (RUD) lol. Awesome acronym for an unpleasant event.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
It becomes ever more bizarre to me how resistant to increasing population density some people are the more time I spend in cities with comparatively high population density. Bangkok, Taipei, Tokyo etc. Do you want to be able to walk to get
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
> I think people watching this will certainly need to have a understanding of the lore, names, and landscapes presented to really enjoy the movie, however. That is an interesting remark. Usually film adaptions go the other way and frustr
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
It is worth noting that there actually are plenty of remote workers. Most people are presumably unaware of them for two reasons: 1) People who work remotely are clustered in companies that allow remote working. If you don't work for a

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