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by lastofus 9y ago
I too made the transition a little over a year ago and I have no regrets! If you haven't already found it, check out the local startup Slack channel: https://pdx-startups-slack.herokuapp.com/ Let me know if you want to
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by lastofus 9y ago
Since you are using Postgres: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/populate.html Get familiar with the COPY command ( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql
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by lastofus 9y ago
I've been on a hip hop kick lately (Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Kendrick Lamar, and related Spotify recommendations). Usually lyrics are too distract me but for some reason, not with hip hop.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Considering they equate estimations of hours on tickets w/ hours you work and bill, all hope is lost. A dev shop should know better. The fact that they don't is disheartening, and makes me think management level is not run anyon
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by lastofus 9y ago
The 2 that come to mind are DRF and django-webpack-loader. The webpack loader is great if you use webpack, and want to use the Django template language to render your index.html. Sometimes server side rendering of initial data is nicer than
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by lastofus 9y ago
interviewing.io comes to mind working in this space w/ the same goals.
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by lastofus 9y ago
What you described above with motorcycle riding, skiing, bouldering, etc are known as "peak experiences" and associated with "flow". There's been a lot of study going into the benefits of these things which is prett
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by lastofus 9y ago
Many alcoholics are already quite adept at delayed gratification, whether it be waiting until they get home for the night before pounding 5-10 drinks, or even waiting for loved ones to go to sleep so they can "hide" their habit.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Things get a little more muddy if you take the view that there really is no mind-body division, and that human behavior is the result of chemical and neurological processes in the brain, which in turn is just another part of the body. It&#x
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by lastofus 9y ago
Check out the book "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton. He proposes a way of living ones life without all of the small lies, and the benefits there of.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Not having small apps be stuck in a queue behind large ones for starters. Not be effectively throttled by a single over-saturated server for another, assuming the parallel downloads hit different servers. Even allowing only 6 concurrent dow
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by lastofus 9y ago
I ask as it hasn't been mentioned anywhere, but have you considered one of you buying the other out completely w/ cash?
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by lastofus 9y ago
I think it's time to admit that REST is at best a hack as front-end devs don't want to deal with implementing RPC in the browser, even when building complex desktop replacement apps. A formal spec will not fix the flawed notion th
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by lastofus 9y ago
+1 for the Sinclair Method. After giving it a try 2 years ago, I went from a decade of 5-10 drinks a day down to 0, and have remained that there for the last year. Unlike when I tried abstaining before, there isn't a constant craving o
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by lastofus 9y ago
> Ecclesiastes is also a powerful book when I'm feeling cynical. Ecclesiastes is my favorite book of the Bible. It's also very much a book I would never recommend to someone trying to cope with negative emotions. Personally, re
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by lastofus 9y ago
The question was what I find most impressive in a portfolio, not what I require in a candidate. "Soft skills" on top of good engineering is extremely impressive.
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by lastofus 9y ago
You don't get to keep your phone once arrested and booked. If the person processing your items is nice, they will look up a number for you in your phone and write it down on some scratch paper which you can take into holding.
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by lastofus 9y ago
Something with a vibrant community built up around it is most impressive to me. It shows a degree of communication and management, not to mention marketing. Otherwise, most github repos are not that impressive as I have no idea how long it
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by lastofus 9y ago
I think part of the problem is that being a founder of a profitable tech company is painted as the promise land, filled with riches and being the master of your own destiny. The reality is that it's a job like any other, but with way m
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by lastofus 9y ago
> But the median outcome is going to be worse than with other, more enlightened dating strategies. Anecdata seems to suggest that dating websites work relatively well, especially as they become more socially acceptable. I know several co
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by lastofus 10y ago
> Last October, a judge tossed out the state’s case before a trial, ruling that the five-year statute of limitations had expired on the misdeeds that it had accused Dr. Laskar of committing. The way it ended didn't help. It would ha
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by lastofus 10y ago
I think it's inherent in the way markets work, or more specifically, how people operate in a mostly free market. On the one hand, the market remains this way where people with money are more easily able to make large sums of money thro
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by lastofus 10y ago
I would imagine it comes down to having the initial capital to start such a venture. Those with the capital retain ownership and reap the future returns. If there was a way coops could raise significant funds to start say a big box chain st
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by lastofus 10y ago
Flask for learning from the ground up. Django after coming to the realization that large Flask projects end up cobbling together 80% of what Django offers, usually poorly.
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by lastofus 10y ago
> It's just that I am not filthy rich yet and idk if being in a tech role that is going to happen. Perhaps the issue with not being "filthy rich" is you are looking for a salaried position when you should be looking for an
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by lastofus 10y ago
If you are worried about not being able to find a dev job after, I took 2 separate year long breaks during my 20s, and I don't feel like it has really hurt my career or employability. When applying, if anyone asks why there's a ga
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by lastofus 10y ago
At what point is byte ordering handled?
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by lastofus 10y ago
Instead of arguing against microservices, it would be better to ask the team to plan out solutions to the hard problems associated with microservices, namely the hard problems associated with distributed systems. Things like: * How will tra
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by lastofus 10y ago
How many hours a month do you spend on data entry of expenses? This has always been the biggest deterrent for me.
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by lastofus 10y ago
Unless you plan on paying taxes in all 50 states (you shouldn't), then collecting sales tax from customers outside of the states you are paying taxes in is moot. You generally only need to pay taxes in states you have nexus in (dependi

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