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by eswat 12y ago
My usual fitness routine: Weightlifting for strength, 3 times a week. Hatha yoga at least twice a week. Bouldering whenever I feel like it (unlike the other stuff I don’t try to make bouldering a routine so if I feel like not doing it, I wo
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by eswat 12y ago
Unless you have a family, try working in coffee shops and coworking spaces more than you work at home. And really unwind with your friends on the weekends, to the point where you wouldn’t mind not seeing another human being the Monday after
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by eswat 12y ago
> This offer is good for select .edu domains only . We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused) . I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…
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by eswat 12y ago
I’m not aware of a Canadian university with a .edu. Most use .ca.
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by eswat 12y ago
Making Unreal Tournament mutators in junior high and working on a few mods after that. Unfortunately I never did much with the game programming stuff after high school.
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by eswat 12y ago
Take a look at Gittip[1]. It’s a Python-based, crowd funding platform that’s also open source and part of the Open Company Initiative[2]. Not only would you be helping build a platform that many people in our industry use to fund their proj
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by eswat 12y ago
HR and interviewers. Even though it will be developers looking at your GitHub profile, if they are looking to interview a batch of people they’ll likely pass off a bunch of “resumes” to HR to be printed and reviewed by others and used in in
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by eswat 13y ago
Working on improving the layout of a project I’m working with a friend on, where we translate Ukrainian & Russian media into English and interview Ukrainians ourselves. Progress: http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png Site: ht
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by eswat 13y ago
Is… that a betamax cassette on your desk?
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by eswat 13y ago
“Appearance is a consequence of fitness.” — Mark Twight
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by eswat 13y ago
Unreal Engine 3 started off with a build number of 3376, building ontop of the previous engine builds (Unreal Tournament came out at build 300). http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Legacy:Unreal_Engine_Versions
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by eswat 13y ago
I do not. Maybe that would be different if I traveled to the US often. But despite some of our similarities I see Canada as distinctly Canada and I do not live in America (America’s Hat and Canada’s Pants jokes aside).
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by eswat 13y ago
Land Book [ http://land-book.com/ ] is a gallery of the kinds of sites you’re looking for.
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by eswat 13y ago
Well, that’s one part of the equation. Are there any guides on what to do after; setting up virtual hosts?
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by eswat 13y ago
Yup, feel free! It’s actually using the Do What The Fuck You Want To License ;) https://github.com/eswat/dpac
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by eswat 13y ago
Contact info in Profile. Help Me Out If you happen to live in Ottawa or Toronto, I’m trying to downsize some of my possessions, by trading them for anything really (Canadian dollars, Bitcoin, Dogegoin or a chat over coffee). I’m updating my
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by eswat 13y ago
For me it’s rucking. I live close the Ottawa River. So taking a backpack filled with bricks, a water bladder and just walking along the river - walking past the Canadian parliament on the left and viewing Quebec on the right – is a very cal
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by eswat 13y ago
This. If it’s a significant app just use what you’re already comfortable with. Don’t go crazy trying to pick a tech stack, it really doesn’t matter much anyway. Also, I can’t speak for PHP but there aren’t any frameworks for Node that does
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by eswat 13y ago
I don’t have the following experience since switching to a MacBook, and it’s not something that would suck the most for me (can’t think of any others right now). But I dislike how the bootup sequences of most PCs looks like you’re startup u
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by eswat 13y ago
Finish your degree. But it would be a shame if you totally dropped the hobby you’re passionate about right now in favour of listening to the conventional wisdom and becoming a “true autonomous adult”. See if you can make both work out someh
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by eswat 13y ago
If you’re using Gmail you can use address aliases, like me+site@domain.com. Unfortunately some websites will not validate that type of email address.
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by eswat 13y ago
How about a to-do list? (sort of joking, though it’s a nice and quick way to evaluate different languages and frameworks[1]) Do you have a simple problem you think building a simple web app could fix? Example: if you take public transit, co
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Last.fm ending radio streaming for subscribers(last.fm)
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by eswat 13y ago
Sudden urge to read Snow Crash again. Reading this makes me feel like they want to take the first step into making a Metaverse[1]. That way they can control it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Metaverse
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by eswat 13y ago
Been working at one in Ottawa for a few months, though only once or twice a week. 1. Can’t think of anything I strongly dislike, other than lack of snacks and good coffee (no espresso machine?!) 2. Variety of events that aren’t strictly abo
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by eswat 13y ago
Another route is to go to your local developer meetups – even if the topic isn’t directly related to you – and ask around.
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by eswat 13y ago
Two weeks ago my money came from the startup I worked for. But I have now switched to freelancing, with said startup being my only client at the moment. I might look for more clients later, but I’m hoping to make money through Gittip and re
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by eswat 13y ago
Looking at my Expenses Table[1] I am spending about $16.52 a week on SaaS: GitHub, Creative Cloud, IRCCloud, Private Internet Access and Last.fm. In a few weeks I’ll be adding FreshBooks to this table. I don’t host any demanding side projec
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by eswat 13y ago
I’ve started the same process as you; left a comfortable, well-paying job two weeks ago so I can pursue other ways of making a living and doing contract work to meet basic needs. The most important thing for me is to make sure my health is
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Ask HN: Living in two cities? Please share your experience?
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