bigmanwalter

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by bigmanwalter 10y ago
I've been meditating on finding part time work for a while now. It seems the only options are to become indispensable to an organization before you demand it, and then you can keep it until they replace you, or to become a work from ho
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by bigmanwalter 10y ago
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Maynard Keynes
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by bigmanwalter 10y ago
My choice right now is to build a small Django site with a sqlite db backing it. This way you get a free admin dashboard for updating the site. For the theme, grab something from www.html5up.com
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by bigmanwalter 10y ago
Isn't it because big ships don't maneuver so quickly?
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
Emacs documentation is good for exploring modes, but I found StackOverflow way better when I have no idea what the name of the feature I'm looking for even is.
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
This is one of my preferred methods of development. I use jQuery because I'm not worried about the 40kb and I'll take all the free backwards compatibility I can get. Besides it'll inevitably be a dependency for one of the lib
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
Spacemacs uses a "layers" feature which sort of groups together different packages from all over the emacs ecosystem into somewhat cohesive all-inclusive-packages. Things like layers for specific languages which would include synt
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
I like mine http://e.wald.mn
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
> The single mother in Somalia is a very different problem and it has nothing whatsoever to do with an entrepreneur in the Valley becoming wealthy because she pitched an idea to YC that got traction and worked her ass off to execute. The
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
The singularity is approaching! What a time to be alive :)
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
Yeah, it's absolutely terrible that something which benefits the majority of people might actually become an election issue.
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
The game is rigged. Only way to win is not to play.
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
It's okay. The richest 85 people own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 50% of the global population (1). I'm sure after we spend 8 hours of our day helping them towards owning even more of it, they'll do us a biggie by
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
Except for the whole part where they would get ostracized from society if people were to find out that they abandoned their child?
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
I think he meant the whole thing where women can now decide if the want to keep the baby or not.
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
I just found out about Lektor the other day. https://www.getlektor.com/ It's like Jekyll meets WordPress, written in Python by Armin Ronacher. He's the guy who wrote the extremely popular Python microframework, Fl
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
I am 26. Quit my job almost 1 year ago after 2 years of soul-crushing, passionless web development. After 6 months off the job, now I'm trying to figure it out as a web freelancer. Not making anywhere near my old salary but I'm op
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
How do you maintain your business development back home? Is it all word of mouth?
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
If you know of any way to conclusively test whether or not something will eventually be useful I'd love to hear more about it.
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by bigmanwalter 11y ago
Hey, as a fellow Montréalais, I find it really cool that you know of a few different attempts to create a programming co-op. How do you find out about these places? Where do people interested in these things hang out?
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by bigmanwalter 12y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. Noticed from your profiler that you are Montréalais like me :) I truly believe that growing up in Montreal, rather than almost any other North American city, makes one far more likely to appreciate funem
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by bigmanwalter 12y ago
Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea. Found you after having just done some googling on the subject of incompetent product managers, and having found your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832109 , and then