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by jressey 7y ago
I think that's fair to say. If you wish to incur risk and put some of your savings to work, then I would recommend the rental property game. I think it is the most effective way for a white collar worker to amass wealth in a single wor
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by jressey 7y ago
A percentage equal to your age in long term bonds and the rest in index funds, I strongly recommend Vanguard. It is my opinion that investing in rental property is the best thing you can do. If the the economy tanks, that just means people
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by jressey 7y ago
I have heard that but it is my opinion that companies valued >= $1B are becoming a dime a dozen. I work at one climbing that ladder and we could be displaced in 6 months by a better implementation.
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by jressey 7y ago
This one is certainly a debacle. Uber was the 1 unicorn left. There is no other darling startup that's gonna be scratching $100b anytime soon. This IPO failure ended the crazy run of cash since the '08 crisis. It was also a debacl
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by jressey 7y ago
I was at an insurance company upgrading old systems to use less old technology. I had an information science degree and was a pretty lousy programmer. HackerNews helped to demystify working at a software company. It just seemed more and mor
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by jressey 7y ago
I am a bit more cynical and I would say you are investing in paying off the earlier investors.
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by jressey 7y ago
All I know is that reading HN and responding to what I've learned has made my salary go up, up, up in the last 5 years. Partially by recognizing there are so many cool things out there that pay well. You can be defeatist and say "
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Ask HN: How do you manage local development with a microservice architecture?
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by jressey 7y ago
-Thanos
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by jressey 7y ago
There are not 'competitors' in business, only 'interests.' -Folke Kafka, professor of business administration, University of Pittsburgh.
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by jressey 7y ago
Property ownership and rental. It is very simple, and barely a "project" after you get going. It's like investing on steroids. There is a lot of money to make, with a little more risk, and a lot more work than ETFs.
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by jressey 8y ago
> Has anyone had a similar experience and managed to push through the mental blocks associated with learning to program while having your own mind constantly working against you? Yes, each of us.
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by jressey 8y ago
Urban Dictionary but you have to pay.
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by jressey 8y ago
Buy index funds and keep them until you retire, as you age move a % equal to your age to long-term bonds. There, now taking the advice of any book, investor, or advisor will hurt your lifetime earnings potential.
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by jressey 8y ago
If you have to create a special message board that is the only place where you can say what you want to, perhaps you should think about what you are saying. This is so obviously not an issue of "free speech." Free speech means the
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by jressey 8y ago
This is an ad and there are a ton of posts just singing the praises of this program. I call bullshit.
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by jressey 8y ago
When you buy a share, you are not contributing to the company. Their shares were sold at IPO and they've already collected all the proceeds from them. You are just gambling.
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by jressey 8y ago
Managed funds are a ripoff, and not index funds. There is nearly infinite data showing that S&P 500 index funds outperform every single investment strategy. I would be focusing on bonds indexes right now though, that's just me. Goo
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by jressey 8y ago
And then I would just shrug my shoulders and buy more index funds. Investing in individual companies, no matter what you think you know, is always unwise compared to index investing.
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by jressey 8y ago
I had a similar experience back then. I actually grew out of needing it. I would just go to the site, type out my question and answer it myself when I dug in to the details of asking a good question. I'm not gonna sit here and say you
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by jressey 8y ago
Tell me as specifically as possible what this company will look like when you will have considered it a success. I don't want to follow a leader that doesn't have a clear vision of what they're working towards.
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by jressey 8y ago
Callbacks suck, so write service functions for complicated CRUD. Working around ActiveRecord defaults is like the 2nd thing you learn to do at a serious Rails shop. I'm afraid you may not have been working with sophisticated Rails engi
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by jressey 8y ago
Yea the app 403's on the request to youtube. Perhaps you had an api key on your local machine before you deployed?
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by jressey 8y ago
If you're on a flight, do you not appreciate when the pilot updates you, even if he says "We are still investigating the maintenance issue?"
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by jressey 8y ago
I disagree. Hearing this about a decade ago was the kick in the pants that I needed to get my life in shape. I realize it doesn't work out for everybody, but demystifying software development as something anybody can do is excellent. W
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by jressey 8y ago
Are you cosplaying as the Monopoly man? Nobody who lived beyond the 1920's thinks this is a valid idea.
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by jressey 8y ago
I remember awful avant garde websites being in style in the mid 2000s too but they were unusable and confusing. That's all that 'Web 3.0' is in this article. Ordered grids will rule forever.
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by jressey 8y ago
Nah I didn't TDD. I think you're right.
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by jressey 8y ago
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by jressey 8y ago
I surely was when I worked at an insurance company. It actually enabled me to build my chops and end up getting a dream job at a startup. If you do get the opportunity to slack off at work, make sure you put it to good use, especially becau

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