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by markshead 9y ago
Most people focus on trying to fit more things into their day. The people I see who are massively successful are very good at choosing what things they don't do. Just like you have to remove items from your budget that aren't pr
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by markshead 9y ago
> You, the ISP, rent the fiber from them. Where is this being done? The cities I've seen that are doing municipal broadband like Chatanooga are actually in the ISP business. (as far as I understood)
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by markshead 9y ago
One of the big difficulties in installing broadband is dealing with the right of way necessary to get to everyone's house. Municipalities have a very strong advantage over a private company in their ability to get their wires to houses
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by markshead 9y ago
I've worked on distributed teams that had an always-on video conference that everyone joined all day, every day. This facilitated much of the communication you are describing. The team still used instant message and email, but if someo
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by markshead 9y ago
If the idea of building a computer and understanding what every part does sounds interesting, I'd highly recommend checking this out: http://nand2tetris.org/
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by markshead 9y ago
Well there were a lot of suggestions and there are plenty of other things one could do that I didn't suggest. Your chances of getting a job after 24 months having done absolutely nothing related to your career are much lower than if yo
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by markshead 9y ago
I'm in no way implying that taking care of your children is less important than your career. I think it is great what he is talking about doing and is a great investment to make in his child. Leaving the workforce to take care of famil
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by markshead 9y ago
Typically if you have an organization that only talks to people with current jobs, that rule is for people sending in cold resumes. On the other hand, if they know who you are, you probably won't have the same filters applied. Let&#x27
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by markshead 9y ago
> the value of tests is for the unfortunate person who has to refactor or extend your code This is probably one of the easiest things to quantify. I just finished working on a project that used BDD and TDD. The project was a rewrite of a
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by markshead 9y ago
If you want a Git repo hosted on Amazon, I think you can get 50 Gigs of storage using their CodeCommit service for free. It obviously isn't the same as learning how to set things up on the server for yourself, but it might be useful de
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by markshead 9y ago
You might check out Dell's Project Sputnik on the XPS. They are similar in weight to an Apple Air, made of aluminum and come with Linux installed and working with all the hardware. http://www.dell.com/developers
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by markshead 9y ago
The user experience of an Apple laptop may be 10 times better than a Linux laptop for the types of things most people want a computer to do. Consider the out of the box battery life experience for example.
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by markshead 9y ago
It absolutely makes sense! Over 10 years ago I started Productivity501 writing on various things I was learning about personal productivity. It has been extremely beneficial as a writing exercise, but it has also given me a much bigger pres
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by markshead 9y ago
And the ones who bought stock (including those that did so at the 85% discount) will get the value of their stock. However, shareholders aren't guaranteed any returns. If they bought their stock in 2013 they lost money. Employees who b
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by markshead 9y ago
> I struggle to see the scenario under which that is considered a failure. Wasn't Whole Foods valued at over $20 billion a few years ago? If you bought Whole Foods stock at that point (either as an outside investor or an employee) i
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by markshead 9y ago
Is there any reason they would get a different amount per share than other shareholders? I'd assume it would only depend on how much stock they have obtained either by purchasing it from the market, using the stock purchase plan (where
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by markshead 9y ago
I'd be happy to talk with you about what you are doing with the API. I don't know if my company would have time to write it for you, but I'd be happy to talk through it with you and offer some suggestions.
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by markshead 11y ago
If each of your users use more than 717MB of data and less than 1 GB, then AT&T is probably cheaper. How much would it cost you if one month you used a total of 20GB of data? If the data usage varies from month to month, Google would pr
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by markshead 14y ago
Giving someone a windfall each year of several thousand dollars is not the same as increasing their wages. It gets spent on very different things.
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by markshead 14y ago
The cost of getting an education in the US is minimal or nothing. The cost of getting a degree from many schools is very high. However, there are still small universities where you can graduate debt free even with a minimum wage job.
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by markshead 14y ago
NV?
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by markshead 14y ago
Just leave the video conference software on. I'm working on an agile project with a distributed team and it works well once people realize that working in front of a live camera isn't any big deal.
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by markshead 14y ago
Cisco Movi/Jabber. But it was down once and we used Google Hangouts pretty effectively. If a connection dies, you just fire it back up again.
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by markshead 14y ago
Most of the people from home have it on a second monitor. There are about four team rooms on the call as well. They usually have one or two 30 to 50 inch televisions showing the other members.
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by markshead 14y ago
>> I'd welcome a remote employee under one condition: They're required to be on a constant video call so their on-site team members can see and talk to them at any time. > Completely laughable. Do you have closed circuit TV reco
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by markshead 14y ago
It appears you can upload a file without creating an account. So without generating a key first. Or at least without generating a key that is somehow protected by a password.
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by markshead 14y ago
To me the ability to find a job is a more important measurement of stability than the government saying that no job worth less than X and hour can be had. But back to your question about what happens when employers lower their wages to $2 p
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by markshead 14y ago
> Companies shouldn't be able to set wages at an arbitrary low. Why not? You seem to think that there is only one big company setting wages for everyone. If company X needs good workers and is only willing to pay $5 per hour, but compan
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by markshead 14y ago
The business owners I know who employ low skilled workers all have trouble finding people who will show up to work on time and actually do work. The unemployment problem in unskilled or low skilled labor is largely because government benefi
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by markshead 14y ago
Lets say you run a small movie theater. You hire a 5 people for $5 per hour to sell tickets. Many of these are teenagers and other people who have schedules that can't work a normal job. The government comes in and says minimum wage needs t

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