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by laaph 14y ago
I want to double on kirinan's question. I'm not quite in his shoes; I've had a few clients, I've got a couple theoretically lined up but the answers I keep hearing are "we really want to hire you but we have to get the funding approved", w
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by laaph 14y ago
I worked in an office where we got the work done... and we did. And then we were given more tasks. And more tasks. To the point that there was no way to get everything done on a deadline. At some point I said to myself, I could pull an al
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by laaph 14y ago
You might want to check out http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ For a while I was following it, but I found I rarely have the time to review everyone's code.
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by laaph 14y ago
While it is still high compared to zero in Texas, you get to deduct how much you paid in federal taxes from the state taxes, making that 9% sting a little less. Funny that you say cost of living is higher than in Austin, I felt Oregon has r
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by laaph 14y ago
As someone with no idea what libuv is, the book certainly doesn't explain what it is very well in the first few pages. > This ‘book’ is a small set of tutorials about using libuv as a high performance evented I/O library which offers th
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by laaph 14y ago
> Well, I am coming from the netherlands ;) Then like I said, with that standard, everywhere else is bicycle unfriendly. :( An email is coming, but I think that one of the big things (and San Francisco has this badly) is that the US is
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by laaph 14y ago
> - cycling unfriendly Unless you are coming from the Netherlands or Denmark, I don't think this is really the case. The US has changed vastly on this front and I would rank it more cycling friendly than most places. Mind you many muni
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by laaph 14y ago
Meta: For a website discussing startups, this discussion seems quite pessimistic to me. I am not aware of all the technical difficulties, I am not certain it will be the most fun project in the world, but I wouldn't give it the disparagin
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by laaph 14y ago
You are having two different people evaluating different situations. Having the same person evaluate the situations would make for a different picture. Put $500000 in to a new business: This may make lots of money, or you may lose it all.
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by laaph 14y ago
There are numerous counter examples of open source software that successfully competes or dominates the competition. While Ubuntu may be a victim of its philosophy, the little you say does not convince me when Mozilla, Apache, WordPress, a
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by laaph 14y ago
The greatest factor for longevity in an individual is genetics. For a population not so much. Lots of people say if you remove the US, the greatest correlation (not causation and all that, yes yes) to longevity is health care spending. Pi
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by laaph 14y ago
> Excludes is an extreme view. Excluding people from good health causes others to have poorer health. And compared to other countries, the USA does exclude people from proper health care. > Anybody with the wit to stand in line can
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by laaph 14y ago
No external hard drives attached, except when I remember to back up my machine (I frequently, but not always, plug it in when it is on my desk, but it is just for Time Machine). Also, unless I am running heavy CPU things (XCode, VirtualBox
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by laaph 14y ago
I have Lion, on a 2010 MBP, and I have Activity Monitor open ALL THE TIME. On Snow Leopard, I found what you say to be true. On Lion, either the mysterious process is eluding me, or it is just much slower. I do development and I can tell
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by laaph 14y ago
Some things you can figure it out as you are doing. Some times I think being in software development is cheating as I can do that in many cases. But in most cases, I think you can do great harm and likely waste a lot of time (but probably
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by laaph 14y ago
Older versions required calling emergency services, newer versions do not. And they aren't illegal -- many first world countries require that phone companies unlock your phone if you request it, and of those that don't, I don't know of any
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by laaph 14y ago
He is not misrepresenting facts. Pardon me, but RTFA. They were wearing orange dresses to the game, as orange is the color of the Netherlands. They were not paid. Orange is a color dutch people wear when they want to be patriotic, and it
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by laaph 15y ago
It's easy to get that mentality. I am in a broke period of my life right now. One can easily tell me about how much it is all my fault, but I thought I had enough money to last for two years when I quit my job, I thought I could find a job
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by laaph 15y ago
You can not rely on your kids to support you. I would not be making plans as such. Be nice to your kids, and hopefully they will give you room and board in case of emergency -- but I've tried to help my parents many time only to regret it.
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by laaph 15y ago
Oh please can I quote you on that? What I used to say, which probably other people do too, is "Perl is a best language to write programs in so long as you can fit it in one line of code!"
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by laaph 15y ago
While I am aware some discussions on HN make it sound like everyone in the US has a Silicon Valley type of salary, I assure you that is not the case, and the average US salary about $43000/per year, or closer to $3500/month (which, without
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by laaph 15y ago
Hi match, As a developer looking for work, I am curious what you are looking for in your future employees. Looking at your profile and comment history gives me no hints. Perhaps you have enough people to weed through that you don't want to
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by laaph 15y ago
Hi, I checked your profile and it seems your email is hiding from me. Could you update it so that people can email you? Thanks, --
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by laaph 15y ago
SEEKING WORK San Francisco, CA, but remote and travel is possible for me. My background is in scientific computing and the languages I am best at are Matlab and Perl, but I also have experience in C++, C, Java, and bits of many other progr
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by laaph 15y ago
Looking for contract or fulltime. I'm willing to do remote but would prefer local. I'm in the San Francisco bay area, but could be coaxed to relocate for the right offer. My main skills are in Perl and Matlab. I have experience in Java an
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by laaph 15y ago
That link gives a 404 for me. :( Also, going from your webpage, hitting the about button, it says you can read about the development progress, seems to link to the same place (well, without the "www"), and it also 404's. Thanks! Edit: See
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by laaph 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote My background has been working for scientists and system administrators, so I tell people my strongest programming skills are Matlab and Perl. I also have experience in building GUI applicati
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by laaph 15y ago
I've been avoiding recruiters due to past bad experiences. Do you mind the strangers of the internet asking for your recommendations? I doubt I am the only one who is curious if you don't mind some unsolicited emails.
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by laaph 15y ago
I had been thinking that as soon as someone made a place that was "I can post my drunk photos here and mom won't see them" will get very popular. Facebooks past with requiring an .edu email address to use prevented Mom from seeing drunk pho
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by laaph 15y ago
Do you have any advice for finding such people and the problems they face? Do you have examples of the things they wanted built? I think that if you wrote an article detailing your experiences and what you learned/inferred from the experie

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