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by eswat 10y ago
> People willing to consume media are people that don't have or want the opportunity to be extraordinary in their lives. That’s an interesting thought that I can’t disagree with. Myself and many people in my circle, including client
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Maybe I haven’t looked hard enough, but I’m surprised this and the forced login for GeForce Experience didn’t make a bigger wave amongst gamers, who’ve historically been very vocal about questionable decisions that provide far more value to
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I’ve been feeling this. Still not quite sure why. But I think a good reason is I’m starting to see newer technologies come out as veiled hypotheses on how to extract the most time or money out of the user, not so much as things that actuall
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by eswat 10y ago
Check if there’s a Shambhala centre near you: http://shambhala.org/centres/find-shambhala-centre/ They offer free beginners meditation classes and group meditation sessions. You can also continue doing what you’re
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I was also hoping for more insights in this period. Perhaps one of the other biographies done on him has this?
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by eswat 10y ago
> I have a huge backlog in my Steam/Origin libraries. 5 years ago I would have played most of the games I had unfinished in my library. But my tastes in everything, especially games, have changed so much that I wouldn’t want to touc
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by eswat 10y ago
Might be worth notifying personalities like Michael Geist about this and act as a voice.
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This reminds me of the RBC debacle a few years ago, where they abused the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to replace capable, salaried Canadian IT workers with offshore services. That stint hurt not just those workers but other companies t
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by eswat 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Ottawa, Canada or Remote I’m a web UI engineer based out of Ottawa with over a decade of experience, contributing to the front-end development and UI design of the clients I work with. I’m looking to work with more companies
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by eswat 10y ago
Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS and most of their abstractions, React, Node.js, UI & UX design, some Ruby on Rails and Angular experience GitHub: https:&#x2F
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by eswat 10y ago
Probably these ones I’ve been listening to lately 치타(Cheetah) - Crazy Diamond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWtu72LaBg HyunA(현아) - '어때? (How's this?)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y882AF
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I can’t recall if it was like hell getting into this habit at first. But it’s so ingrained now that it’s kind of like greasing the pan before you start cooking.
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by eswat 10y ago
I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming: 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to
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by eswat 10y ago
This is my one regret also, causing collateral damage to some very close friends - rightfully not close friends anymore - while I went through depression. Had to really rebuild myself from that point and still continuing to do so.
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by eswat 10y ago
> are you potentially offering your services to prospective clients? Yes. If you’ve really understood the problems these potential clients have and they haven’t already asked you if you could be the person to solve it, offer your service
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by eswat 10y ago
My experience and usecase is limited - I just use my Windows machine for game development - but I’ve dealt with more headaches trying to get Bash for Windows + git to play nice with Unity that I’ve just gone back to using Git for Windows an
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by eswat 10y ago
This might sound hokey, but think of getting into consulting as phases of software releases. During alpha get to know people and the problems they face that you can potentially help out with (at this point you haven’t started consulting yet
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by eswat 10y ago
One benefit is less roundtrips to actually provide meaningful content to the user. As another comment noted, a typical SPA just delivers a bunch of script, link and empty div tags to be populated after JS loads and runs on the client. With
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by eswat 10y ago
Redux never really gelled with me and I couldn’t really understand why until I settled with MobX: all the boilerplate and some idiosyncratic names you need to know to really understand and use Redux was too much friction for me.
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by eswat 10y ago
Breakfast - I skip breakfast so usually just tea or coffee if I’m at a cafe Lunch - Bowl of mashed sweet potatoes, avocado, apple, chicken or beef and all of it mixed with coconut oil, cinnamon and garlic. Takes less than 5 minutes to prep,
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> I am trying with some tutorials, and books, but not sure how successful I am being. What tutorials and books? First off I totally get you. For several years after graduating I felt a hole in the pyramid of knowledge I felt university s
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by eswat 10y ago
If I didn’t prepare a buffer before reaching a point where I had to think about “staying afloat” then I’d just be more aggressive in taking on contract work (I’m a consultant but favour my discretionary time over filling every day with work
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by eswat 10y ago
I’ve used Stripe or TransferWise with my US clients – I’m in Canada – with the former usually being less hassle for me and the client if we’re dealing with small amounts. A few clients also wanted to send me cheques. But you can convince th
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by eswat 10y ago
I was going to say that the easiest way is through your existing clients/connections… But these don’t necessarily mean professional connections. What about your friends? Or if you are part of any hobby groups then what about people you
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by eswat 10y ago
I was doing this every few weekends, while living/working in Toronto but getting a hotel for a weekend in one of the suburbs. I used this time to work on my own projects and long-term reflection, since I was working on the client work
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Life Lessons from DOOM(ideas.eswat.ca)
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I've discovered helpful practices through some of these new-agey sources. I think as long as the consumers don't get trapped under dogma, hero-worship or financial burdens and do their own due-diligence then I'm fine with the
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by eswat 10y ago
Using the paleo diet/lifestyle as my true north has led to the nitty-gritty knowledge and resources I need to learn about being healthy, mainly: cooking ability, mindfulness/meditation, doing more with less (more whole foods, less
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by eswat 10y ago
Left my last full-time job in early 2014, jumping into freelancing with both my old employer and past colleagues-turned-founders as my first clients. The first year was insanely though - trying to find clients that would pay what I desired
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by eswat 10y ago
"Technology should work even when it fails" was the tenant that seemed the most relevant to that book. Usually when technology fails there’s a good chance the user will suffer in a way, such as feeling embarrassment or having to r

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