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by ian0 8y ago
If you want to re-enter the workforce without any ill effect from the break - it really helps if you do something ! If your going to travel, travel. Travel around the world, drive the pan-american highway. Travel can be cheap as long as yo
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Not very lucrative jobs in general but perhaps something within education? Typically subsidised and higher level sometimes sees an increase in applicants during a downturn. Recently I met with the head of IT for a large high school and it h
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Ive never seen this site but it triggered a memory of browsing the web back in the day where each site was so obviously someones with a unique character evident.
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I made the decision to not have a career after leaving college and travelled around the world for a few years, working brief stints in tech and non-tech jobs here and there to make ends meet and fund further travels. When I actually started
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by ian0 8y ago
Not a software tool but I was recently introduced to the design-sprint[1] methodology from google and found it helped a lot with the requirements gathering and speccing phases. It was also light and easily implementable - they have some res
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by ian0 8y ago
The last line: Work less hours :) You wont remember the project, hell you'll probably forget the job. But the little snippets of things that happen in between working hours will stick with you. They are in effect your life. Of course,
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Cant imagine why not. People moved on from Foursquare, Koprol, Path & BBM. And Instagram and whats-app themselves are basically eating the original facebooks time-in-app for breakfast. Social networks just don't seem to be as stick
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It's correct though. 90% of code is just reinventing the wheel, over and over again. And not just specialised modules like payments. Its insane that even small companies have "data experts", "UI/UX designers".
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Indeed. As far as I can remember its been a source of pride to have managed to keep an older version and avoided updates. This last one on OSx has been particularly bad though. Its just so slow at doing even basic tasks like chatting.
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I was quite young at the time but made the same transition for the same reasons. I think the vast majority of users don't consciously evaluate search engines for accuracy. And most non-technical users just assume that if they cant find
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My two cents. I understand the pitch is towards sharing more than just presentations, but wouldn't 90% of people just be sharing presentations? People usually just add the links to the last slide. That said - It still seems like a usef
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A long time ago I heard of a demo of a telco project in a mall's cinema. They sent a location based SMS to everyone in the mall giving away half price tickets to an otherwise empty screening starting in 15mins. And apparently it filled
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>The internet is just if not more free than it ever has been. Maybe for you - not so for most [1]. But I get your point. There is indeed much more amazing content out there now than there was 15 years ago. If you can squint your eyes jus
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I worked for one of these and really enjoyed the experience. I would have earned a lot more working in other places, it was bumpy at times, but I don't regret it in the slightest. It was great to work for a company that you really want
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Odoo looks pretty impressive
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>I've been looking for a good invoicing solution Thats what we do :P But its closed source and very localised so not much help. Invoicing is one of those things that looks easy but in practice turns out to be quite tricky and varies
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The best fix product wise I found was [1] but Im afraid its not self hosted and seems a bit abandoned. So basically providing the ledger backend with API calls for transactions & reporting. That would be the perfect fit. The rest are al
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Ask HN: Building a basic bookkeeping system?
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Yup. And it works.. https://www.lendacademy.com/ant-financial-is-now-a-top-10-ba...
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Its a mission to get a company up and running, let alone to get it funded. I assume you worked your ass of for it and succeeded against the odds. You started with nothing and created something under duress, well done. Burning out is a bitch
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This struck me as precisely the type of thing that they were giving out about in the article. So I asked a geologist was there more to it. They said: The Cretaceous-Paleocene event is dated to 66m years ago [1]. The crater has been dated to
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No, the financial services industry needs some serious disruption. Banks need to be MORE conservative. Not less. "Disruption" in banking is whats caused previous financial crisis. Managing user interfaces to sell financial product
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If thats the case then the article is very wrong. Its like saying telco providers ask banks for banking data when you receive SMS notifications of transactions or use SMS banking. However the devil is in the details - and there are a few tr
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Maybe she had travelled to north Korea as part of a low-key religious delegation, hence the reluctance to discuss. Or maybe she hadn't been there at all and was just trying to make interesting conversation. Seriously though - this arti
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The theory is that fixed costs for banks are so high they cant profitably source and score these loans. However Fintech p2p firms can using "technology". Note in my experience most p2p financing companies aren't actually peer
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There are no truly global ones yet (though alipay has 500m accounts). Rather a hodgepodge of companies in developing countries have been rolling out their own, with a lot of success in recent years. The first wave was telcos, which largely
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It didn't have to get everyone to pay $1 a year. It just had to get enough to pay the rent and know that eventually with improvements in payments it could get most on board a paid plan. I presume thats what they had in mind at the time
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Also common in Indonesia, its called "rubber time". Ive grown to like it! Your never in a rush, don't have to worry too much about unforeseen traffic. You can arrive late to meetings that tend to drag but can start without yo
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This is obviously correct but also worth noting there is a middle ground. As evidenced by freedom of movement schemes within ASEAN, EU etc. So approaching the ideal of the OP but in a pragmatic way.
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This is very good advice. Id highlight the part of asking a person who is from or grew up in the culture as opposed to an expat with a only few years experience (who you'll likely find easier to meet once there).

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