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by blister 11y ago
That's interesting. My school in Indiana had a gifted program that taught us the rudiments of Basic programming in almost the exact same way. We used to take home grid paper, draw in the pixels where we wanted them, and then write out
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by blister 11y ago
Simply because they now have leverage over future payouts. If the amount outstanding is significant to you (say maybe 1/12th of your annual income) then the client can do things like: "We're really close to being able to affo
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by blister 11y ago
Plus at least 4GB of storage.
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by blister 11y ago
Text messages are largely free, and Google has been operating as a carrier through Google Voice for years. I don't think they're deprecating SMS because of cost issues, I think they just want to move forward with richer notificati
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by blister 11y ago
We have a monthly hackathon locally and I always get so incredibly frustrated when there are only a few groups hacking and a bunch of people standing around bullshitting. It's even more frustrating when one of those groups win with som
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by blister 11y ago
Did you read the article? It largely describes how he went from a small hackathon to a large hackathon to a YC hackathon to being accepted to YC. Three distinct "hacks" in a row. Do you object to the word "hack" being us
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by blister 11y ago
I'm curious about this thought. I wonder if in the post-automation economy, people like you will simply be out of a job. I run a small engineering team and would gladly have them be 100% remote if our current circumstances didn't
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by blister 11y ago
That's good advice. Thanks for the tip. I'm only about a year into this, so my social life hasn't really degraded too much yet, but I'll keep it in mind going forward.
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by blister 11y ago
This is my first "work-from-home" job. Honestly, I don't see how I ever survived working in an office before this. Between massive gas expenditures, thousands of hours lost in commutes, and daily distractions, my productivity
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by blister 12y ago
This was a fascinating article. The first thing that jumped out at me when I reached the end was "there's no way this would ever work." I am a Swype user and love the product, but I'm reasonably fast at typing on it beca
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by blister 12y ago
Thanks man. I've been following the marijuana stuff for a while, though unfortunately my state will probably be one of the last to make the switch. We don't even have it approved for medical uses yet. :( Just finished 8.5 months o
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by blister 12y ago
Chemotherapy. :( Before I had cancer, I got heavily involved in weight-lifting. Honestly, the time between ages 27-29 were the best years I've ever had in my life, health-wise. Being in shape is so much better than being out of shape.
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by blister 12y ago
Shouldn't you also see the pushes everyone is making to their upstream branches and the Pull Requests? That's the useful information I like to see. HipChat + Bitbucket is the most powerful combo I have for keeping up with what eve
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by blister 12y ago
Well, most of the switchers usually go right into contracting, which pays (generally) about 20k more than the equivalent government pay grade. And the contracting companies usually make us wear khakis and polo shirts. We all envied the ones
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by blister 12y ago
This doesn't stop the biggest threat against a government-sponsored entity: if they really want to break into your data, they'll just install a key logger into your bios or some other crazy shit like that. All these nice pass-phra
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by blister 12y ago
Sublime Text has a really robust plugin architecture, similar to Visual Studio's extension capabilities. Whenever I'm working on a project, I basically install whatever plugins I need into Sublime Text to give me full "IDE-li
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by blister 12y ago
Hey now, we're doing some pretty kick-ass things over here in Augusta. We may not be as big as Atlanta (yet), but we're working our butts off. You should come down some time and take a look at what we're doing at http:/
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by blister 12y ago
Have you thought about jumping into the world of Serious Games?My company is usually looking for experienced game developers with industry talent. The "Serious Games" side of the house is (to me) twice as rewarding as the other si
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by blister 12y ago
I just bought a 32GB iMac because my Air with 8GB was sluggish with Unity3d and Flash (needed for work). I'm glad I did. This is the best system I've ever owned.
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by blister 12y ago
I'd like to see something like this for jobs that are available for Remote Workers.
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by blister 12y ago
Yes, exactly this. I read a few comments here, went to your website, and then sat there for a few minutes trying to figure out exactly what your product was. I finally broke down and created an account and was amazed by how nice the interfa
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by blister 12y ago
Hah, I would have paid for that service. :)
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by blister 12y ago
Once you have children, everything changes. I went from having 5+ hours of free time each day to -5 hours of free time every day. You have to get super efficient with everything in your life. Cut out the things that aren't the most imp
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by blister 12y ago
Why is this the case? As a hiring manager, I often lean heavily towards the "hire them and if they don't work out, let them go" camp. I've gotten a lot of great teammates that way and only one that didn't work out.
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by blister 12y ago
What is crippled about it? The company I work for literally builds games and we very rarely have to use any of the pro features. The free version contains nearly everything you could ever realistically want to do. And some of the "pro&
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by blister 12y ago
What price tag? Unity is free. It doesn't start costing money until you need to start doing slightly more complicated things or your revenue goes over 100k annually. That's plenty of time to experiment.
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by blister 12y ago
I'm in a similar boat. This is my first job where I work from home 98% of the time. I don't think I could ever go back to an office. It's so freaking quiet and perfect here during the day, my productivity is amazing right now
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by blister 12y ago
The Defense Language Institute has massive failure rates for students in the Cat 5 languages. Most of these courses are also at least a year long, if not more. They would probably have to increase the overall size of that facility 20-fold t
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by blister 12y ago
Why not just replace it with an insurance system like Aflac? Aflac is a type of insurance that bridges the game and provides extra money to bring the person back up to whatever level they were accustomed to before. If minimum income is enou
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by blister 12y ago
This is exactly how I feel. From the marketing, it seems to be exactly what my team needs. But I've got a 50 person team and we're all currently limping along using trello. $450/month is a big spend for something unproven. We

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