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by gexla 12y ago
Reality. Talk to people. Help people. Preferably, help people make money. You'll be okay.
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by gexla 12y ago
An article like this should probably focus on either salary worker or providing development services to paying clients. There is a big difference between the two As has been mentioned here many times, commodities get priced at market rates.
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by gexla 12y ago
> Its Unclear What Criminal Law He Violated It doesn't matter if you make a deal, right? The possibility of funky charges is partly why we have a court system. We get jacked up charges, we can fight them in court. If those charges r
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by gexla 12y ago
> I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-) Probably closer to training than fighting. It may also be close to whatever sport they made of it back in the day. I'm comparing modern day martial art
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by gexla 12y ago
> I think it's rather unlikely that VIM and Emacs are actually the most used editors, or even among the most used. Apparently there is enough demand for Vim key-bindings that it seems most text editors and IDE's have them avail
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by gexla 12y ago
I think with open source user tools (as opposed to developer tools) you are better off directing your effort to projects which already exist. That's not to say that you can't or shouldn't try to scratch an itch. It just seems
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by gexla 12y ago
Interesting idea. I would just use something like DWM, a lightweight tiling window manager. You still get the simplicity but with a bit more flexibility. Most people will probably quickly hit a deal breaker with just using Emacs as a WM.
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by gexla 12y ago
Sure, just charge him an affiliate fee for every lead you send in his direction. You both win! ;)
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by gexla 12y ago
For sure. Even Mr Money Mustache lives on around 24K per year. One of the problems with a focus on living cheap is that the rest of the world is still expensive. You can find ways to live super cheap, but medical is still outrageous. Travel
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by gexla 12y ago
Here is one idea. http://lifehacker.com/im-ryan-holiday-and-this-is-how-i-work... The take-away there is index cards. I like the idea of information being broken down small enough to fit on an index card. Reading a book, it
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by gexla 12y ago
Poor PHP. It just keeps getting dumped on.
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by gexla 12y ago
And here is sort of the anti-advice. ;) https://unicornfree.com/2014/dont-write-1000-words-a-day
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by gexla 12y ago
The Nerdery is quite big. http://nerdery.com/ According to their site, their headcount is 528 developers and 52 dogs.
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by gexla 12y ago
see also Guix. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ > Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages are built and composed.
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by gexla 12y ago
> Professional freelancers, that refuse to work for $5, seem to be losing the battle against an army of low-rate workers on sites like Elance, Odesk etc. I disagree, but you made the statement. Can you back this up? I don't think th
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by gexla 12y ago
Bezos to kids being born 3 years from now. "You kids are just features. Keep n eye on our announcements page." It's interesting how they seem to be adding all the stuff in the workflow that we are okay with just being good en
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by gexla 12y ago
That's open source. The early implementation of an idea is broken. Someone creates an alternative which fixes the problems. The alternative often doesn't gain the same traction and the original continues as the broken dominant imp
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by gexla 12y ago
> yes This answered the question.
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by gexla 12y ago
Use Emacs for Orgmode and VIM as an editor.
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by gexla 12y ago
Setting up any web stack is a pain in the ass and probably just as long of a tutorial. For example, write out a tutorial which goes from base Ubuntu install to "hello world" on Rails, I bet it's just as long or longer. I supp
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by gexla 12y ago
Tweet from 9hrs ago. >I guess I'm going back to court soon to get some of my assets unfrozen for legal fees and living expenses. To be continued... He still have a bunch of assets that are outside his control. He also tweeted that h
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by gexla 12y ago
I use Mandrill for domains I don't use much for email. It's great for sending and you can setup incoming mail. Mandrill has a web hook which can send each incoming email wherever you like with the info in JSON format. So, I just s
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by gexla 12y ago
It's hard to take an article seriously which declares "Ruby on Rails" a programming language. At least the linked Quartz article added a correction. > Correction (Nov. 20): An earlier version of this article incorrectly re
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by gexla 12y ago
You could say much the same about learning how to setup X stack on Linux vs just using a service like Heroku. Most developers probably shouldn't be messing with Docker. If they aren't directly creating value for someone, then thei
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by gexla 12y ago
Try living in a medium size city in the Philippines. There are neighborhood stores here all over the place and they don't charge much more than you would have to pay by buying in bulk at a larger store. When I'm not shopping at a
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by gexla 12y ago
Meanwhile, with AWS services are still expensive, especially bandwidth. While storage providers may be willing to subsidize my stuff, my data providers are my real cap in usage.
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by gexla 12y ago
I'm going to get one, mod it into a Good Guy doll and change the "wake up" name to Chucky.
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by gexla 12y ago
> Normal families have sofas, she says, and you’ll do what it takes to feel normal. This is the problem. They have certain expectations set as to what a "normal" life is. A big, fluffy, crap sofa. Park the thing in front of the
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by gexla 12y ago
If nothing else, the coverage of this will probably goose another round of donations.
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by gexla 12y ago
Depends on what you consider income. I live in a tight-knit community (expats) in a medium sized city in the Philippines and I could get pretty close to cashless living here. But the catch is that I would have to help out friends and local

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