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by mattm 16y ago
I listened to him while paying off my student loans. A bit repetitive but very motivational and encouraging.
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by mattm 16y ago
This is actually the reason McDonald's started taking credit cards. Studies find this again and again that people buy more when putting it on their credit card. Do you think giving 2% cash back is just the credit card companies being gener
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by mattm 16y ago
Or http://vimeo.com/3993848 for people outside the US
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by mattm 16y ago
It should also be done at any point where your responsibilities change ie. you are training junior developers where you weren't before or people have left and now you are the senior developer on a project. This is the best time to negotiate
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by mattm 16y ago
I don't see how meditation is connected to religion. Religions want you to seek answers from them. Meditation encourages you to seek answers from within.
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by mattm 16y ago
Why not look for remote workers as well?
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by mattm 16y ago
Also an argument against life. Life leads to work which often leads to cubicles, which leads...
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by mattm 16y ago
> you certainly have a moral obligation to fulfill any promise you make Morals are not absolute. Trying to apply your own expectations to others has the ability to cause a lot of grief in life. Having paid off about $35k in student loa
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by mattm 16y ago
Just because "famous people are famous because they do things" doesn't mean that doing things will lead one to become famous.
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by mattm 16y ago
I don't know if I agree with this completely. I lived in Nairobi in the summer of 2004 and had a real difficult time understanding people for the first couple of weeks. However, the people generally do speak quite slowly with melodic voice
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by mattm 16y ago
I haven't worked longer than nine months at any one place since starting my career four years ago. It hasn't hurt me in finding work. In fact, it's probably helped me. I have had a couple past places contact me for work, I have a larger
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by mattm 16y ago
Communicate. It doesn't matter if you're on location or working remotely. If you communicate clearly, understand things before you start work on them and get your message across then you will have success. For each new feature or task, m
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by mattm 16y ago
I have been in your position a few times before - not with wanting to switch languages though. My experience is that if you're asking people whether it's time to quit, then it's time to quit.
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by mattm 16y ago
Ugh. FileMaker. I had my first exposure to FileMaker on this current contract. What a bunch of time wasted trying to get it to work.
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by mattm 16y ago
This discussion reminds me of a quote: "Young people trade their time and health for money, only to later trade that money for time and health."
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by mattm 16y ago
For reference: Why I’m giving up on Europe and moving my startup to China http://maxkle.in/giving-up-on-europe/ and HN discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547964 Unfortunately, the story focuses only on the girl. I would
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by mattm 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I will read up on their learning style more. As for JP101, they do have some videos but they are mainly teachers standing in front of the camera teaching some things - like it would be in a classroom. It's not r
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Ask HN: Language Learning Software that emulates learning like children?
1 points by mattm 16y ago|3 comments
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by mattm 16y ago
Self-plug: I gave a Toastmasters speech on this topic titled "I Don't Want to Change the World" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkct9OcTKRI Changing the world is overrated. It puts an incredible amount of pressure on you and may take yo
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by mattm 16y ago
Good job. I would expand on your responsibilities on each site a little more. For example, you say "Redesigned the site in HTML and CSS" Why did you do this? What were the benefits? Did it load faster? Was it easier to maintain, there
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by mattm 16y ago
I recently setup Hudson for the first time and was amazed that it just worked!
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by mattm 16y ago
Charge more and ignore the people who want something for nothing.
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by mattm 16y ago
Listening to any advice that wasn't what I truly believed. I believe the only valuable advice you can give to someone is along the lines of "Do what you feel is the right thing for you to do."
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by mattm 16y ago
> I wonder what happens the first time that there's a credible link to someone dying as a results of Wikileaks leaking a document. I'm really getting sick and tired of the "If it saves one life, it is worth it" argument. No it isn't.
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by mattm 16y ago
Hi thangalin! I live in Canada but have a business and personal US bank account in the US with Harris Bank (owned by the Bank of Montreal). You can set it all up by mail. I've never even visited the branch. http://www4.harrisbank.com/per
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Ask HN: How to earn more money?
2 points by mattm 16y ago|1 comments
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by mattm 16y ago
This isn't the 70s. Sheesh.
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by mattm 16y ago
IMHO, you have no motivation to earn money since (I'm assuming) you have little to no expenses by living at home. Set a goal to move out by the end of the year. Seeing my monthly expenses go out without any income coming in is always a big
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by mattm 16y ago
I am the same way. I need a stretch break every hour. When working in an office, I will take my stretch break and no one has said anything to me yet. If I was in your situation though, I would leverage the fact that they consider you a "s
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by mattm 16y ago
Well this is a problem with the system. Sure, in the short term you are billing by the hour, but in the long term you are really getting paid for results. Just try going a few weeks sitting at your desk without getting any work done if you

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