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by mattbgates 3y ago
https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com Little did I know when I thought about starting a blog focused on people ranting about their shitty days at work, horrible bosses, and backstabbing co-workers, that it would evolve into so
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by mattbgates 3y ago
$50 million back in the early 2000s. That was how much Netflix was worth when Blockbuster was made an offer to buy it. They rejected it. Could've been a different world if Yahoo and Blockbuster weren't so afraid of change. Sad to
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Oftentimes, it has to do with the company trying to save money. A "senior position" might be paying $80k/year, but fire the senior guy and hire two juniors or people fresh out of college and pay them $30k to $35k/year an
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Just became recently single myself and have been lost, though during my lost phase, I acquired two properties and turned my home into a rental. I've been successful with tenants at my two properties, but have yet to get great tenants i
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by mattbgates 3y ago
I work remotely, but even when they had me coming into an office, I'd go for walks with my girl at the time, who I worked with, and then I'd come back, and there'd be moments where nothing was going on, so I'd work on my
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by mattbgates 3y ago
I had an Aunt who went blind. She said, "Losing your eyesight makes life more dull." But she made the best of it and even managed to cook like she used to. I also took care of my neighbor's blind dog and observed how she gets
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by mattbgates 3y ago
He was here... and then he was gone. >He had no fear. He would always say, “We can’t fight it and eventually we all have to go sometime.” For the several years prior, we’d drive past the cemetary he was going to be buried at, as it was o
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by mattbgates 3y ago
My current job... I'd gotten my then-girlfriend the job first and once she got in, her boss told her they were still looking for another web developer and she put my name in... I'd received a phone call while standing there in a g
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Soon as the takeover happened, my account got hacked, used for crypto spam, and banned. I can't use X. Had that account ever since the early days of Twitter. Tried putting in an appeal but its automated. Am I really missing out on anyt
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Most garage doors come with sensors to prevent the door from closing completely nowadays as those are usually required safety features.
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Hook the garage door up to a WiFi network that can receive transmissions and let you know when its opened or closed and allows you to automatically close it.
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by mattbgates 3y ago
https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com Started up as a website for me to complain about my job on... then gathered my family and friends stories about their jobs and workplaces, then invited the world to tell their stories and
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by mattbgates 3y ago
"Google has a total of 111,911 patents globally, out of which 69,905 have been granted. Of these 111,911 patents, more than 70% patents are active. Google's technical innovations and diverse business initiatives have contributed t
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by mattbgates 3y ago
This is great advice. AA meetings are also very beneficial for the support.
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by mattbgates 3y ago
It is a philosophy I've lived by for decades. Although I'm not happy with the politics of my workplace, I absolutely love the job I do and it makes life a lot better. Going into work, doing what I love, and they pay me to do it? I
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by mattbgates 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. That's why I wrote: "Make peace if you can."
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by mattbgates 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. That's why I wrote: "Make peace if you can."
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Happy Birthday. 1. You got married. Congratulations. Don't ever treat her as if she's an option. She is not. Communicate too much. Communicate too often. Communicate well. If you left some red flags from your relationship, they wi
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by mattbgates 3y ago
My grandfather, rest his soul, had survived a colon cancer surgery, though it was found out he didn't have colon cancer. Would've been nice to have AI reading into his diagnosis to possibly determine that it was just a polyp. The
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Back in my day... probably not technically a lost art, but an interesting lesson in math. I remember I was in computer science class. I was 17 years old. And the teacher taught us how to read binary and how to calculate it. He said binary w
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by mattbgates 3y ago
I have a tendency to add and add features before I've even got a MVP, which often slows down production time until I get it live. I can see the "whole" of the product, but sometimes, adding those extra features takes time and
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by mattbgates 3y ago
China and the United States are so dependent on each other that neither country will ever get out of debt nor will either country ever "recall the debts for cash payment" as this would be almost impossible to actually do, and like
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Been striving for the IndieHacker dream for years ;) Easy to keep your motivation just by going and reading the forums and seeing the projects :: https://indiehackers.com Can't say I've been able to quit my day job or
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Might need to have your ambitions, dreams, hopes, prayers, and goals, but life has a way of working itself out every time.
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by mattbgates 3y ago
I register my domains for 10 years time and I try to keep a few months of funding in the VPS account, so hopefully a few months, but I wish it could last more. Some of the site will show up in Archive.org.
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by mattbgates 3y ago
The program that started it all.. for me, anyway ;) Well, it was actually Visual Basic 3.0!
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Building landing pages is what I do for a living. I've been building something similar, a landing page editor of sorts, though it's a bit more advanced and requires knowledge of HTML and CSS, less the actual editing done on the pa
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by mattbgates 3y ago
I think it is the fact that you bring "knowledge of" to the table more so than having a portfolio with it. As far as Craigslist, it is the easiest place to either list services or find companies looking for a freelancer. She could
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by mattbgates 3y ago
Tell her to brush up her skills to go beyond just VueJS and get some React, Ember, Angular, Node, and Express. If she doesn't just limit herself to one, she stands a better chance of being seen over the competition. She might also fair
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by mattbgates 3y ago
It is something that I've written about and scary to even think about, especially as I just put my grandpa in hospice, whose health deteriorated in less than 2 months from going out to restaurants and supermarkets with me to not even b

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