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by cweagans 11y ago
Couldn't you just ask for repos with > 5-10 stars instead of maintaining a list of popular C projects?
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by cweagans 11y ago
There's a ton of smaller tech companies here. Balihoo, Clearwater Analytics, FFW, Bodybuilding.com to name a few. I've lived here all of my professional life and haven't ever had a problem finding work (either local or remote
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by cweagans 11y ago
Boise, ID. Very, very cheap to rent anything (whatever you're thinking for an amount that's "very cheap", cut it in half and you can probably find something nice around Boise for that amount). Groceries are pretty inexpe
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by cweagans 11y ago
My point is, if you were paying the yearly fee before so that you can get upgrades, you were paying a subscription anyway . Yes, you could still use it if you didn't pay, but you paid. Why do you care?
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by cweagans 11y ago
I don't necessarily care about the actual resolution, but after moving to a high PPI display > 24", I certainly won't be going back. FWIW, I'm using an LG UM95 (Thunderbolt display better than Apple's). If I was
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by cweagans 11y ago
Apples and oranges. Neither situation leads to constant improvements and upgrades to the thing you're paying for.
817.
by cweagans 11y ago
Did you previously pay the yearly fee to continue to get upgrades?
818.
by cweagans 11y ago
So don't. There are plenty of other tools out there that you can use. Did you previously pay the yearly fee to continue getting upgrades?
819.
by cweagans 11y ago
You do realize that they haven't really changed their pricing model, right? They just changed how it's presented. It's always been a subscription if you want new features in an IDE (which most people do). I pay like $100&#x2F
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by cweagans 11y ago
You don't have to use the UI. If you're really anal about your git history, you can do the merge locally and squash everything into one commit. IMO, it's not worth the effort to do that, though. You probably don't actual
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by cweagans 11y ago
Note also that there is a bus that can shuttle you back and forth between La Grande and Joseph, if you're so inclined: http://www.neotransit.org/wallowa/wallowa-link-intercity
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by cweagans 11y ago
This is probably not going to be a very popular reply, but I'll say it anyway on the off-chance it'll help you: get out of the Bay Area. You don't need to live in San Francisco to be a professional software engineer. I lived
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by cweagans 11y ago
$110k/yr from two time zones away. There's a ton of remote Drupal jobs if you know what you're doing. Remote is the norm instead of the exception.
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by cweagans 11y ago
It will change your life. Do it. Identify the problems you want to solve, and then go to a Psychiatrist. Don't go to some random doc in the box type place. You want somebody that really understands brain chemistry.
825.
by cweagans 11y ago
Why is GPG/PGP still a pain in the ass to use? Perhaps not for people reading on HN, but my grandma doesn't even know what "encryption" means, much less how to use it. If you want to increase it's reach, you have to
826.
by cweagans 11y ago
Or just put the osascript line in your crontab?
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by cweagans 11y ago
I've found https://github.com/dfkt/firefox-tweaks/blob/master/firefox-t... to fix a lot of the things that piss me off about Firefox. I don't use Firebug anymore, and that change alone sped thi
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by cweagans 11y ago
I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. Follow it at your own risk. Make sure you're going to bed at the same time every night (notice: that's every night. Not just weeknights.), and getting up at the same time every
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by cweagans 11y ago
That's a valid way to look at things, but I take a different approach. I try to avoid easy projects as much as I can with my preferred tech, because it forces me to grow as a developer. I have a relatively diverse skillset which I can
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by cweagans 11y ago
At least you'd have the knowledge to make that decision intelligently and only have a few choices to make, rather than having the burden of learning an entirely new tech stack on the fly and likely make decisions that may not be the &q
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by cweagans 11y ago
You can write bad code with a good stack, and you can write good code with a bad stack. Put another way, a pro football player will be pretty good with whatever he uses, but even if I had the exact same gear, I'd never get picked for e
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by cweagans 11y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but whatever. This is a very easy decision. If you're an experienced Rails developer, use Rails. If you're an experienced Perl developer, use Perl. If you're an experienced P
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by cweagans 11y ago
What you're about is the reason I use the platform as a freelancer :)
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by cweagans 11y ago
Yeah, you're misunderstanding what they do. It's like elance, but without the race to the bottom on pricing. You can do everything from very small jobs up to hiring them directly into your company. Gun helps you find somebody that
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by cweagans 11y ago
You mean like gun.io ?
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by cweagans 11y ago
FWIW, Nextdesk has been in business for quite a while and the desk comes with a three year warranty (though I think you can get an extended warranty for not a lot of extra money). In any case, yeah, you'll probably save money with a cr
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by cweagans 11y ago
I went down the route of trying to build one, and it's simply not worth it. To get to a point where you can easily adjust the height on a homemade desk is really, really difficult. You're much better off (both in terms of time a
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by cweagans 11y ago
IANAL. Short answer: lawyer up or don't get paid. Longer answer: You don't have any relationship with the recruiter. The client, however, does - they likely agreed to hire you through the recruiter for some period of time. If they
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by cweagans 11y ago
Posted a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10014600 I got a prescription for adderall and it's doing wonderful things to my ability to concentrate. I've gotten SO much done in the past week. As with a
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by cweagans 11y ago
You could always do what Simple.com did, and partner with an existing bank for just the money storage part. They see their value add as their interface and customer service (both of which they do extremely well). The money storage part is j

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