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by mattm 15y ago
Probably because there is no money in salsa. Many teachers, for the amount of work they do, don't earn that much money so paying for a website just isn't a priority. My teacher probably made a decent amount of money judging by the number
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by mattm 15y ago
〉 I have been searching for months for local PHP developers with experience doing TDD or other agile/modern practices and it is extremely difficult. If you are one, please feel free to contact me. I believe I meet your criteria but can only
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by mattm 15y ago
Hey man I live in Gifu and often go to Nagoya. Email me if you want to meet for coffee. （There is no contact info in your profile）. I don't know if I can help but i am in a similar position.
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by mattm 15y ago
How to get over shyness: 1) Take up some kind of partner dancing as a hobby eg. salsa, swing, etc. It doesn't matter as long as it looks like fun. This will force you to connect with people and push your comfort limits. 2) Start going to
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by mattm 15y ago
If you use Anki, you can search through public decks and download them for your own individual use. I use Anki for studying Japanese although so far I've just been making my own decks.
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by mattm 15y ago
My friend recently went to Chiang Mai. His decent hotel room cost something like $3 per night and his meals were about $1. I went to Thailand in 2002 and stayed in an awesome resort right on the beach. It cost $8 for the night including f
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by mattm 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Japan or remote Portfolio: http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio Strongest experience with PHP, MySQL, J2EE, jQuery, YUI, Zend Framework. Have also done some django and Perl. Can do everything from the front-end code to server
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by mattm 15y ago
If it's on your mind, go for it. Otherwise it may just end up as a regret down the road. Thailand is cheap. You can easily live on a few hundred dollars a month so a "fair amount" of savings should be no problem. I don't know why you aske
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by mattm 15y ago
In my city, it was customary for the university to place students in four-month work terms during the summer for them to get experience. One manager of a software company told me that they basically only took students from these as communi
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by mattm 15y ago
Check out Remembering the Hanzi by Heisig
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by mattm 15y ago
Any recruiters you recommend?
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by mattm 15y ago
> I hate to be the killer of dreams, but I've talked more than a couple of devs in to tackling less-than-interesting problems, with the promise that I'll do the footwork of getting the client on board for doing interesting things within
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by mattm 15y ago
As someone who also has his CV up on SO Careers, this is interesting to see that it is designed like that. I was also concerned about the very low number of views and times appearing in search results.
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Advice for New Software Developers(mattmccormick.ca)
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by mattm 15y ago
> I think they do it specifically to make it very difficult to Google Search for seized domains. You are willing to give them more credit than I am.
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by mattm 15y ago
I'm going to be blunt here. This isn't targeted at you specifically but I've seen a few posts about the comment scores being removed. Are you addicted? If some tiny number on a website causes you to feel nervous or makes you feel like som
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by mattm 15y ago
Yeah, I saw this on the Canadian CBC National news last night. The company must obviously be in a PR push right now. If a doctor ever asked me to sign something saying to keep my opinions to myself, I would simply not use that doctor. If
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by mattm 16y ago
I don't know why your comment was downvoted. This is good advice. The candidate has the most power in the hiring process between the moment they have received an offer and before they have given a decision. The company at that point has i
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by mattm 16y ago
I enjoy most of your comments on HN but I find this one extremely biased and giving advice which benefits the advisor rather than the advisee. > You don't like when they ask, "Why did you only stay with Company X for 3 months?" They'll
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Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack(economist.com)
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by mattm 16y ago
Might want to read this for counter-balance: http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/ I did try going vegan for a while - nearly two months. It made me feel cold, sick, miserable and lethargic. I have met some vegans and a l
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by mattm 16y ago
"He was too angry and proud to tell Bill Gates 'Some days working with you is like being in hell.'" Wow, the interview was great to watch. I don't know if it was spun like this or not but Paul Allen comes off as someone with almost no soci
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by mattm 16y ago
Wow! This is amazing! I can't believe I never thought to look for something like this before.
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by mattm 16y ago
I am interested and would like to contact you to learn more. How do I contact you?
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by mattm 16y ago
Have a wind down period in the evening. Monitors and TV screens seem to activate my brain and I have trouble falling asleep if I use them late into the evening. Shut off every monitor at least 10 hours before you want to wake up. Relax i
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by mattm 16y ago
I find around a 32 hour work week is the sweet spot for me. I have been in the position of working less than that and I don't really find it rewarding. However, the few times where I have tried working 40 hours a week it has been ok for a
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by mattm 16y ago
I'm currently in the process of leaving work now to take 3-6 months off to learn Japanese and maybe work on some of my own project ideas if I feel like it. Although I still have a little doubt about the switch, it is reassuring to see some
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by mattm 16y ago
I also love Zend but you're right about the learning curve. It's a bit steep but is well designed IMO.
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by mattm 16y ago
I've heard this as well. If everyone who was a member actually used the gym 3 times a week for an hour, the gym would need to be much, much larger and charge much more. In effect, all the people who pay but don't use are subsidizing the pe
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by mattm 16y ago
Indeed. Perhaps this is more of a case of "what comes around, goes around."

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