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by gexla 10y ago
> I spent every minute of my days trying to learn everything I had never been able to learn from 6th-12th grade physics and math. I had the most difficult time possible taking intro physics and the beginning calculus courses. I kept goin
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by gexla 10y ago
I'm an American living in the Philippines. The dangerous areas are dangerous for all foreigners. Kidnappings are a method for making money. The kidnappers don't care what nationality you are, they're only interested in what f
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by gexla 10y ago
Do a search for "long term" in online poker and you'll find that the suggestion for players to determine their level of play based on that "long term" is something like one million hands. That's running 4 table
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by gexla 10y ago
One of the biggest differences of the Philippines that I noticed on arrival was how many people are out and walking around in neighborhoods and around the city in general. One of the first comments my friend made when moving from the Philip
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by gexla 10y ago
> Glad it works for you, but that has got to be the third circle of my personal hell. Here, here. Not only do I not live with parents, friends or anyone else. The slowly but steadily losing side of a current raging personal debate in my
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by gexla 10y ago
Here is a link to the HN discussion to the article I assume you are thinking about. The wording was a bit different, which may have been why you didn't find it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625642
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by gexla 10y ago
Have you ever thought that maybe being in a relationship isn't for you? Maybe you're feeling that you should be in one because of societal pressures? I live in a country where I receive a lot of interest without effort on my part.
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by gexla 10y ago
In the Philippines, I could add another item to the list. In certain areas, you don't have trash services. When people want to get rid of something, they burn it. Whenever I buy something, I put great thought into how I eventually get
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by gexla 10y ago
For me, the usefulness of these types of posts is to see what gear they get by with. You could compare that list to others and quickly put together a gear list based on what you think would work best for you. It's easier to work based
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by gexla 10y ago
Much of the difference you have to pay compared to what someone in another country has to pay is due to taxes or subsidies. Expats in the Philippines get taxed so heavily on bringing their motorcycles from home they will often tear them apa
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by gexla 10y ago
Don't follow your passion. More specifically, stop following self help advice. That's probably where this came from in the first place. Whoever pushed that idea probably sold lots of books, so somebody was successful from it. Succ
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by gexla 10y ago
From the article. > And he has warned drug dealers in particular: "Do not destroy my country, because I will kill you." This is a strong message. And he used the media to spread this message. I'm not jiving with the idea t
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by gexla 10y ago
The president was already doing this in Davao before being elected to the national office. And this was already happening throughout the country. It's sort of an open secret that in the Philippines you can bump someone off for PHP 10K.
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by gexla 10y ago
I scanned this, but didn't catch where it defines what work is. I'm probably taking this paper out of context of what it's meant for. These sorts of things never seem to define work though. This is important for situations wh
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by gexla 10y ago
Could I use this for a personal dashboard? It's meant to track telemetry, so that would include my walking routes, right? ;) Maybe I could also load up my todo list. I know, overkill, but it might be a huge ego thing to throw up a NASA
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by gexla 10y ago
> I sort of assumed this DAO thing was intended in this spirit, as an experimental stab on the path to robust contracts. With millions of dollars in prizes if you could exploit it?
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by gexla 10y ago
Are you hiring to come up with the crazy in this list? I would like to apply.
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by gexla 10y ago
How do people stumble across Scala? It seems to me that the best programming languages for any given developer is that which sort of emerges into your life by luck of the draw. Probably the first was through your first job or your on-ramp i
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by gexla 10y ago
I don't live in the world of publishing. But pressure is what pushes me to pay the rent. And that's probably the case for most people.
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by gexla 10y ago
Pressure is a good thing. Pressure does affect quality. We never have enough time to ship things. There are always improvements that we can make. Pressure is always there. It's one of those things which expands to take up whatever spac
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by gexla 10y ago
Back in the day when men were out working and families were larger, women had to do a lot of work do to laundry because they would do laundry for the entire family. Doing your own laundry doesn't take long. Still more work than using a
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by gexla 10y ago
During rainy season I can't line dry. I just hang the clothes in the bathroom until they stop dripping and then put them in front of the fan. This is as quick or quicker than line drying in the sun.
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by gexla 10y ago
Yes, after washing with detergent you put fresh water in the basin and rinse the detergent.
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by gexla 10y ago
>Some important challenges remain, most notably the washing machine, the bathroom and the laser printer. The problem with washing machine and bathroom is that they're on the north side of the building, far from the solar panels. We
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by gexla 10y ago
This article jumps around a lot. It seems the main point is the death of the design agency as a model. That's a trend which has been in slow motion for quite some time. Web design as a term probably should be buried along-side the term
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by gexla 10y ago
Programming isn't music. It's a tool to solve a problem. Not knowing what to build is a solution looking for problem. Generate ideas by getting out into the real world and finding out the pain points in life. Build tools to fix t
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by gexla 10y ago
There is a lot of info out there. Maybe try to spend time researching each problem you have. Experiment. I used to get migraines when using the computer early in the morning. The light from the screen seemed to pierce my eyes and slice righ
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by gexla 10y ago
> So, I was in! A 3 month contract was drafted that would run through Blueshift, so if anything went south, either of us could walk away, no harm, no foul. You are a contractor. You can walk away. And so can they. Why create trouble? &gt
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by gexla 11y ago
Right, as you might expect, programming salaries would be all over the map. Somebody rock solid could get up to $2K and probably more. For many others, there isn't a floor and not much in expectations. You could land someone to be an &
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by gexla 11y ago
I'm not saying it's rare or unusual. Just that it's on the short list of what people own. People here aren't big consumers. Not the typical household like in the US where people have houses overflowing with crap (and muc

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