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   by kpennell 11y ago

   It's still a very nice place to live but it's not a funky creative mecca. If you just accept sf as a really nice place to program from, you can appreciate it more.
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   by kpennell 11y ago

   I code on side projects, nights and weekends. I find that I can actually get more done on a long stretch on Saturday than little bits and bobs on weekdays. It takes a while to get into it and get momentum.
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   by kpennell 11y ago

   The original article doesn't. Neither do most of the comments.
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   It's an interesting argument but I can think of so many counterexamples. A guy named Michael Wolfe (pipewise founder) wrote an interesting quora answer on dropbox. Dropbox was way late to the file syncing party. The answer: Well, let
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   There are a ton of shops in Boulder. They are very chill, safe, and full of normal citizens. They close before 7 so it's not like people are hanging out there later at night, bein seedy.
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   Hey Michael (and whoever might see this). I suffer from a similar thing. Too many possibilities and cool options, what ifs. I'm an ENFP personality type (the inspirer) and also have some ADD (have coped well with it as an adult). I
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   I've found the Pluralsight videos to be pretty easy to follow. They have a nice interface and you get a lot of videos for the price. Taking their angular ones now at 1.5x speed.
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   Go to Latin America or SE Asia if you do. Your money will go a lot further.
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   by kpennell 12y ago

   Saved that last line in Evernote to ponder later.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    I know Angular is getting a lot of HN hate lately, but it really helped me get my feet wet. It was much easier to get basic apps running for me in Angular compared to messing around with Rails or Django. For a basic backend, I can use fir
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    A lot of SE Asia and Latin America can be done for 400-700 per month. It's possible to reduce this further.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    I worked at an office park in the SF peninsula for a year and see now why I was the guy always going out exploring. I'd ride my bike around, found out we could get on the roof, checked out all the wetlands surroundings, and asked a wh
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Thanks for linking to this book. I'm realizing how much better I can think after I've gotten exercise (I have ADD) and I'm interested to read 30% of this book ;)
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Racquetball and mountain biking are what do it for me.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    hey this is cool!
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    This was long as hell but gave me a lot to think about. I will try to be more discerning of the use of the word "community".
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Really wish my profs at UW Seattle would have done this. So many of my classes lacked discussion or engagement because so many people were chillin on Facebook. I think I also met fewer friends because of it. Very few of the people actual
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Good work, Justin. Hope Turkey is fun.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Nice find. Interesting to see an effect of the drug war manifested on a map.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Is this similar to firebase?
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    At least Boulder's rent is about 50% of the bay's
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    please share @kyleapennell. Thanks for the response btw.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Ok idea, but didn't really work for me. I follow quite a few artists on soundcloud. I have several hundred likes. Most of the time, I'm not into the music the artists I follow like. It's simply too all over the place. I
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Pocket works well.
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    by kpennell 12y ago

    Thanks for this comment. I've found it to be spot on. It is absolutely demoralizing to spend weeks on trying to figure out env and deployment settings vs. actually making things with code. I hate dev environments so much. They des
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    by kpennell 13y ago

    Excellent comment, sir.
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    Which tech skills are in demand now?(medium.com)

    2 points by kpennell 13y ago|0 comments
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    Language Learning Challenges: Spanish vs. Programming(medium.com)

    3 points by kpennell 13y ago|0 comments
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    by kpennell 13y ago

    nice comment
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    by kpennell 13y ago

    I don't agree but you made me laugh