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by gexla 11y ago
You are right that prepaid debit cards are relatively easy to get. My region is still mostly cash though, so you don't use the cards much locally. Bank accounts are less common because of minimums to start one (though I haven't ch
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by gexla 11y ago
This seems about right. The tech industry is one of the few industries where you can break out of the ceiling of the local economy. Otherwise, what might be (or once was) considered a solid middle wage job back in the U.S. is probably close
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by gexla 11y ago
Not far off if you throw lunch in there as well. It's growing fast though. The area I'm living in went from relatively quiet with few cars on the road to serious traffic problems in probably 5 years (pulling from memory). Some of
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by gexla 11y ago
In my region, call centers employ a lot of people and the pay is relatively decent. A good entry level call center job might pay USD $300 / month. A bit less for the fly-by-night types and a bit more for the best employer. Otherwise, I
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by gexla 11y ago
Taking this further. If you do own a smart phone, FB is the one connection you can get free over the mobile networks. When I walk into a bar here, I pay 45 pesos (approx $1 USD) and the waitress who hands me my beer might make 140 pesos for
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by gexla 11y ago
Which brings up a caveat that I didn't mention. If you want to hit the Philippines market, you probably don't need to go much further than Manila and Cebu. Manila could be among the top 5 largest cities in the world soon. Couriers
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by gexla 11y ago
I couldn't imagine doing something like this in the Philippines, which I'm guessing is much like Indonesia. Nobody has credit cards to buy anything online. Credit card alternatives haven't gained traction. People use cheap al
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by gexla 11y ago
Bad move on Google's part. But I would think by now people would be used to seeing media being inserted into a free service. If you want to get rid of the ads, get a paid service.
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by gexla 11y ago
Some interesting take-aways. Most developers here are self-taught? Nope, we're all self taught. Though in this case you are faced with a survey with an option of self taught next to others which include school. Most developers aren&#x2
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by gexla 11y ago
> "The river has very little water these days. It is also running out of fish. Tube wells in our village have run out of water," he says. "There's too much of uncertainty. People in our villages have moved to the citi
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by gexla 11y ago
OrgMode is one of the killer features of Emacs and the among my top greatest finds in the world of softwares. Don't use an Orgmode copycat on another platform. Go straight for OrgMode on Emacs. If you are a Vim user, EVIL mode has the
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by gexla 11y ago
I feel like there are two sides you can take on this. There is the "ideal" side where we read all the fine print and stay away from services which violate X elements which we individually consider as going over the line. Then ther
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by gexla 11y ago
Isn't much of the legal stuff just a way to cover their tails? For example, the bit about owning content. Do they really want your content? Is content on the internet worth anything these days? If your content is worth something, it&#x
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by gexla 11y ago
Agree with the two replies here. It's not for everyone. Not for anyone. It's just something I felt like a had to do for a while to keep up with my workload ad it blew away my sense of categorizing time. That said, I do feel that t
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by gexla 11y ago
My secret for getting out of bed is that over the years I have lived an worked such bat- * crazy hours that morning has lost its meaning. Oh, and I don't have a bed to get out of. I sleep on a hard floor with no blankets. I sleep on t
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by gexla 11y ago
Can someone explain to me why I might need this? I checked the site and the documentation is horrible. The site isn't professionally done and there are no videos. Can I rely on this service going to be around in 5 years? It just seems
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by gexla 11y ago
Do you have an example which has stood out for you?
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by gexla 11y ago
> Coding is one piece of computational literacy Literacy is the wrong word to use here. It doesn't work to compare English literacy with this sort of thing. English literacy in school is gained by a lot of practice. Writing, even if
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by gexla 11y ago
We have been here before. Check out the history of Textdrive and Joyent. If the company succeeds (receives funding and has to answer to investors) then it will need to eventually push these accounts out. If it doesn't succeed, then it
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by gexla 11y ago
You don't have a U.S. phone number, mailing address, etc. You only own shares in the business. Though you may also be an employee and hold other positions within the company. You aren't anymore a U.S. person by owning shares of th
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by gexla 11y ago
I wonder if a GPS jammer could disable navigation to a location. The car relies on other systems for driving, but I imagine the GPS would still be used for locating the destination. Though in the future there would likely be other systems b
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by gexla 11y ago
Unicorn tipping. Like cow tipping, but way more challenging. Jumping into the article... > the media has been almost singularly obsessed with companies valued at north of a billion dollars Wow, Techcrunch. That's the pot calling the
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by gexla 11y ago
I have found articles from BusinessInsider to be of such low quality that it became an easy filter to reduce the overwhelming size of my Pocket reading waiting list. If only they could write articles as well as they can write titles. We cha
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by gexla 11y ago
> If a billionaire is taxed 80% on the year he or she earns that billion, they will still be worth $200 million. I have never been a billionaire, so I don't know how this works. How do you earn a billion dollars? I'm guessing i
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by gexla 11y ago
There are many roads to doing what you are attempting to do. Just having access to the internet and a computer is a huge start. You are in a tough position, but I'm living in the Philippines where many have no access to a computer and
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by gexla 11y ago
The idea here seems to be that the value is in the management. Or owning the problem and delivering the solution rather than having to act as the manager of your project. Gigster places itself in two areas which independent developers often
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by gexla 11y ago
It seems like there would be some sort of hipster twist you could add to a video store to keep it going. Maybe the video store component becomes sort of a background prop, but it would be something that few other places could duplicate. My
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by gexla 11y ago
Good news Edna, your new walker just arrived. The bad news is that there was a mix-up with the delivery instructions and you have to climb up to the roof to get it. Sorry, we can't send someone out because we don't employ people.
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by gexla 11y ago
And you need a drone dog to attack the drone mailman. One which has a premium jump package installed. It's still not as satisfying as hearing the screams following the barking. The world is changing so fast.
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by gexla 11y ago
Doesn't drone refer to an unmanned vehicle? These vehicles only need the software to be unmanned. Local laws may require these vehicles to be manned. The definition still doesn't fit. > While a diesel truck costs $1 per mile in

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