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by gshdg 7y ago
An adult needs zero grams of sugar. It’s just that more than 30 is more strongly linked with negative health outcomes than < 30 is.
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If everyone acted that way we wouldn’t have supermarket checkouts, clean bathrooms, or trash pickup. And a whole lot more people would be unemployed.
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If I may ask, why are you parsing SQL in the client?
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Why do male welders have a thing for female dancers?
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Post tiny progress updates at least every two weeks so your backers never feel abandoned. Make bigger announcements for major milestones.
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No book will keep you as grounded as developing and maintaining relationships (even if online-only) with people in less fortunate circumstances. Nothing like hearing a friend worry about keeping the heat on (in Nebraska), the cars fueled, a
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by gshdg 7y ago
This article gets at something that's really key. The system is so much more important than the tool. The tool may facilitate the system, but without a system even the fanciest tool won't help you feel organized.
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If the 401k limit is no less than 28% of your income, that’s a fairly low salary, although not totally unreasonable for a new grad. My suggestion would be to focus on getting to be an excellent engineer. Ask for raises at every cycle. Put i
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by gshdg 7y ago
Consider a room in a share instead? There’s a reason that’s the norm for the first 5+ years or so of a new grad’s life in a major city.
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No. B Corp is a governance model, not a funding model. It doesn’t explain how the company will find funding. And B Corps can be venture funded.
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Raise your monitor to eye height instead of curving your back to peer at a laptop screen that’s near your hands. Once you do that your spine will fall into its natural position.
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NYC could probably do that if the state and federal governments would fund it. But taking the bus example: NYC Transit is broke and cutting service every year. Currently a good chunk of the buses in service are 30+ years old. Replacing the
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by gshdg 7y ago
Google has always aggressively created and sunsetted products, even popular ones. I don’t see any change in that MO recently.
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Not sure what I can do for your confidence. But negotiate as if you believe you’re worth the full amount.
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Read at least the first few chapters of Camille Fournier’s The Manager’s Path .
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Push for a higher salary. Negotiate based on market rates, not your own salary history. A developer with 10 years of experience should be able to command upwards of 150k/yr in NYC even at a small startup; somewhat less in a smaller cit
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You may be able to compete based on factors other than current feature set, including but not limited to customer service / support and usability/user experience.
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by gshdg 7y ago
Learn one thing at a time. If you can do meaningful data science in one language, and nothing else, you’re ahead of a whole bunch of curves. Get solidly good at one thing. You’ll pick up a bit here and there about other techs in the course
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For people to have heard of it would probably be a start.
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I'm very curious what the effect would be over the course of decades of having even very weak lasers hitting your retina directly.
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Django, Laravel
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Build models using an ORM with a migration facility.
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As long as you’re willing to waste your time and resources defending a lawsuit. Even if the lawsuit is winnable it’s unlikely to be worth the trouble.
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Make sure you’re building your professional network. It’s harder to do that without colleagues.
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Asana as it was two years ago
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700 is NOT a disappointing math SAT score, even for a software engineer, and there are plenty of people with those scores who attended Ivy League schools. My advice would be to stop worrying about scores (IQ, SAT, whatever) — you’re not in
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Unsurprising, given that that has to be a huge spam magnet.
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Yes. I find monologue useful for analysis, but abstraction necessary for creativity. Sometimes I have to distract the analytical part of my brain with a simple puzzle game or something in order to think abstractly/creatively.
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There are also people who code-switch. I sometimes monologue and sometimes think abstractly.
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Gee, this brings me back to second semester computer science class.

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