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by cweagans 11y ago
I'd love it if somebody did even an unofficial port of Day One or Taskpaper (that can read the same data as the official versions). Obviously not open source, but maybe a good opportunity for somebody.
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by cweagans 11y ago
Staying away from medication for a brain chemistry problem seems like self-sabotage to me. I'm not a fan of medication myself, but I'm about to go to the doctor to get a prescription. I'm in the same boat as you. Based on the
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by cweagans 11y ago
No, I'm suggesting that the ridiculous things we hear from Alaska (think about it's relative location to the US) are sort of like the ridiculous things we hear from Idaho (comparing it's relative location to the South).
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by cweagans 11y ago
Idaho is like the Alaska of the south.
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by cweagans 11y ago
As an Idaho resident, I'm very grateful that this was struck down. It's a terrible idea. Too bad Butch (governor) can't tell the difference between right and wrong when his corporate sponsors are involved (which is always).
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by cweagans 11y ago
Just stay in school. The terms aren't that great, and there will always be another startup. Getting your degree will facilitate finding other opportunities.
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by cweagans 11y ago
My strategy is to avoid taking notes unless absolutely necessary. In a meeting, just engage in the conversation. The only things you need to write down are the things you need to DO because of that meeting. I know this doesn't work ver
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by cweagans 11y ago
Yeah, we definitely won't be writing a web app in Go. We can just build it with Drupal and it'll be fine. Most of what we'd use Python or Go for are small services that handle one thing that run in their own container. https
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by cweagans 11y ago
PHP is horrible at long running processes, among other things. We regularly run out of file descriptors and memory usage is a big issue too. The "solution" is for the process to kill itself every couple minutes and restart with
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Ask HN: Python or Go?
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by cweagans 11y ago
As a freelancer, I can tell you that if you appropriately set expectations with your clients, you can answer emails whenever you want. Personally, I answer all of my emails at 11pm. Nobody else is awake and there's no danger of an imme
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by cweagans 11y ago
Too much info. Just say "laid off" unless someone specifically asks you for more information. Most people won't.
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by cweagans 11y ago
Religious people don't like funny pictures?
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by cweagans 11y ago
Just keep it in one app and do in-app purchases for different content packs. Much easier.
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by cweagans 11y ago
This is exactly what I did. Also of interest is that Yubikey OTP is directly supported, you can host static websites (I generate my site with Jekyll and then rsync it to fastmail's web server), and you can have a ton of other aliases f
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by cweagans 11y ago
Why not just disable that keyboard shortcut in your Ubuntu VM?
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by cweagans 11y ago
osx, vim, alfred, git, and vagrant pretty much do it for me. Pretty much all of those things run well on Linux, though, so I'm considering switching.
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by cweagans 11y ago
You're the first person that I've ever heard of using a cloud dev environment for real work. Can you talk more about your experience and why/how you ended up with that solution?
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by cweagans 11y ago
They also typically have good coffee and food pretty much any time of the day. :)
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by cweagans 11y ago
I'm a big fan of Panera in pretty much any city (though I spent a lot of time in the Mountain View location at El Monte and El Camino Real when I lived nearby). They always have decent wifi, available power outlets, and they bring the
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by cweagans 11y ago
Gamification aside, the benefit that I see is that there's a clear, quantifiable metric for how active I've been on any given day. Simply setting a goal for myself to "be more active" without some way to quantify it won&
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by cweagans 11y ago
Khan Academy is great. I wish they had some kind of placement thing to evaluate your skill in different areas of math, but you can always just start with something you recognize and work your way up from there.
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by cweagans 11y ago
Just use the tool that you know and that you can deliver with. No need to jump on the bandwagon of the new shiny language/framework/methodology of the week. If you can ship software in php, use it. If you can ship with node + reac
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by cweagans 11y ago
The kind that they can solve at a computer with a real code editor.
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by cweagans 11y ago
Useless insofar as it has no use for me. Pretty much everything I do requires more horsepower than the MBA can deliver.
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by cweagans 11y ago
If you're just toying with Mac/iOS development and you're mostly a .NET dev, you should get a really beefy Windows box and run Mac OS in a VM. Spend your money where you spend most of your time. IMO, the Macbook Air is useles
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by cweagans 11y ago
Could you elaborate on why that's a problem?
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by cweagans 11y ago
Personally, I use a Macbook Pro. I don't want to spend time messing with my configuration files. I want to focus on what gets money flowing into my pocket. To answer your question, I've heard great things about the Dell M3800. You
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by cweagans 11y ago
I developed the same habit in high school. It was really annoying to pretty much everyone I ever had a meeting with (or a class or a date or whatever). I lost a couple of really good jobs because of it. You really just need to change your h
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by cweagans 11y ago
Put the computer power toward some good cause -- Folding@home or similar.

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