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by bowlich 8y ago
I've found a lot of improvement in my digital productivity by following plaintext productivity's [1] for organizing my files. But, I also pretty much put everything older than a year that I'm not working on into a giant archi
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by bowlich 8y ago
Been using Resilio-sync but have been really excited about switching to Syncthing, glad to hear about the 1.0.0.
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by bowlich 8y ago
Not a fan either, but I also didn't read it until I was over 30 and couldn't stomach the narrator. I think most of my friends who recommended it had read it when they were teenagers not as adults.
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by bowlich 8y ago
As someone whose lived all over the giant unlabelled area -- what I consider "the west" is pretty culturally uniform across that space. Western Dakota to eastern Idaho, northern Nevada and some of the eastern range of California.
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by bowlich 8y ago
Two technologies that I've had an on and off attempt to learn for the last couple years finally clicked into place this year: Ansible -- I converted my dotfiles install bash script to use Ansible and to also install all my terminal dep
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by bowlich 8y ago
We joked at my last job that it was just a matter of time before the business migrated from Slack to Discord. :) In fact, Discord became the dev teams unofficial Slack backup whenever Slack went down.
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by bowlich 8y ago
Personal solo side projects that I'm just hacking on, I use MIT mostly because it seems simple. If someone wants to use or fork my software, I don't really care how or what they're doing with it. None of my projects address s
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by bowlich 8y ago
We already have that coercion in place. In the U.S., labor law [1] says if you work on-site a company is required to put you on the clock when you commute from your duty station to a remote client site. (I've seen companies try to get
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by bowlich 8y ago
As a remote worker of 6 years whose recently spent two weeks having to commute in the city. Thank god for my 30 foot commute from bed to across the hallway into the office. Really wish the government would start forcing employers to pay emp
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by bowlich 8y ago
I mean to each their own in terms of your use case may vary based on the UI/UX of your choice. I can see a need for OSX if a big chunk of your workload is going to be in graphic design, front-end development, or some kind of management
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by bowlich 8y ago
I guess to each their own. I've slowly grown to hate OSX on my MacBook in comparison to the ease of use that I get out of my daily driver -- Ubuntu on my desktop. OSX seems far too opinionated on things. It keeps installing Itunes even
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by bowlich 8y ago
From your username, I'm going to assume you're in the US. :) I've been working fully remote for six years now, and have recently started hunting for my next remote gig. So I've been in a similar boat. I have had some suc
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by bowlich 8y ago
I've been able to get it to partially work for my PO BOX. For some odd reason it seems to only work for packages. Not standard letter mail. At least now I get an alert that a package went to the Post Office and isn't coming to my
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by bowlich 8y ago
This thread's making me feel much better about my starting salary of $35k back in 2011. It always seemed to bug me, the nagging feeling that I had way under billed myself for the first two years of my career (looking at all the big sal
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by bowlich 8y ago
It seems that what you are describing though would tend over time to result in a search engine that is principally geared towards returning commercial results rather than amateur/hobbyist results since the interests of search/pote
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by bowlich 8y ago
One of my earliest memories of "programming" was the discovery that Age of Empires .ai files could be edited in notepad to change (or in my case, intentionally break) the unit build progression of the computer players.
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by bowlich 8y ago
I work remote in a rural western state, I make closer to the national average for an SE than the SV worker. I ran the math once in my county and found that I was in the top 1% wage earners for my county.
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by bowlich 8y ago
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by bowlich 8y ago
I've known about the president alerts as long as I've owned a cell phone and that it can't be disabled has never sat well with me and I've considered rooting just to remove it. I don't approve of unilaterally allowi
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by bowlich 8y ago
I've thought before that it would be neat to have the ability to specify an alternative markup inside any element. A kind of: <div markup="markdown">Browser now _interprets_ content as markdown until end of div.<&#x2
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by bowlich 8y ago
Number 1 seems to be a pattern that I see coming out of text books where the author begins the chapter by giving you an anti-pattern or okay solution to a working problem and then through the course of the chapter introduces the reader to a
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by bowlich 8y ago
I picked Dune/Song of Ice and Fire because they're thematically similar. In terms of bloat, excluding the Tale of Genji or the Story of the Stone, I can hardly think of anything in the 1800s that pushes into the 1M+ word mark in o
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by bowlich 8y ago
Fiction has suffered the same bloat. Used to be that letting an author ramble for 200,000+ words was considered indulgent. Dune told it's entire story in around 180,000 words, I can hardly say anything more intriguing is going on in So
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by bowlich 8y ago
Google Map's lack of geographic features has been off putting for me for quite some time. They can list every last commercial entity under the sun, but can't be bothered to get the name of a river correct, name high points (which
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by bowlich 8y ago
It feels to me like we're moving away from cards back to cash in the last decade: - Gas stations offering cash discounts - Stores requiring minimum purchases for cards - Restaurants adding a service fee to use a card I don't think
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by bowlich 8y ago
If it costs $2,000 to replace an employee, and the award incentive to stay on is $100. Then I would say the employee is getting screwed out of $1,900. (If the military can get contractors to run a fast food joint in a war-zone then I imagin
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by bowlich 8y ago
I use Resilio Sync: https://www.resilio.com/individuals/ Although, I've also been hearing some good things about Sync-Thing. For a while I used a set of rsync and unison scripts but they required too much manual i
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by bowlich 8y ago
I've been working from home remotely 100% of the time for five years now. I'd say a dedicated space for the majority of the work is a good plan, although it's also nice to grab the laptop and go out to a cafe, or work on the
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by bowlich 8y ago
Because my statically generated blog really needs https. This is really going to create an additional layer of inconvenience for people who just want to drop some html documents in an ftp folder and be done with it.
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by bowlich 8y ago
I would expect anyone in a professional position to be receiving whatever the going market rate is.. which will likely not correlate to a chain of progressively higher pay as you go up the local hierarchy. This, at least has been the case f

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