mattm

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901.
by mattm 16y ago
Success is defined by the person. Forgive me for being blunt, but this is an incredibly egotistical and snobbish statement to make.
902.
by mattm 16y ago
Agreed. This can also be applied to dating.
903.
by mattm 16y ago
OT but as an employee/contractor, I'm interested in what you wrote here: Employees who don't need those nudges are very rare, and become expensive quickly Could you elaborate on this? Are these employees just able to take specs and
904.
by mattm 16y ago
My experience echoes this. I really believe there is a fixed limit to the amount of work one can do and once you cross that line, you just end up goofing off or procrastinating. And it's nowhere near 40 hours per week. I would say it's m
905.
by mattm 16y ago
Assuming $2,000 speaking fee for a 1 hour talk, and say, 2 hours of prep and 1 hour of travel - that's $500 an hour. Your assumption is way off. I have read from professional public speakers that for every minute of a speech, they
906.
by mattm 16y ago
"A person convinced against their will is still of the same opinion still"
907.
by mattm 16y ago
You can buy the ebook now. I have it and it's great so far (2/3rds of the way done)
908.
by mattm 16y ago
I've heard stories about Ted Williams - the last baseball player to hit .400. A shipment of new bats would arrive for the team. He would look them over and pick some out saying "These ones are 1/8th of an inch too short."
909.
by mattm 16y ago
I've noticed in recent years that parents in North America have been giving their children 'unique' names when compared to the past. If googling your name becomes a problem, perhaps we will see parents giving their children common names so
910.
by mattm 16y ago
I can't remember much of the P/NP stuff from my comp sci university days. Wouldn't this work? O(n * k)? <?php $input = array(-2, -3, 15, 14, 7, -10); $sums = array(); foreach ($input as $val) { $i = 0; $count = cou
911.
by mattm 16y ago
Give back. Try teaching what you know.
912.
by mattm 16y ago
Awesome book!
913.
by mattm 16y ago
Can you explain this? I don't understand it. "they tag-team with us on projects, often for months, without being billable"
914.
by mattm 16y ago
I have an account with http://www.chinesepod.com I definitely notice that I can speak better when I do the lessons regularly. I try to listen to each lesson three times to really get it. I have also studied at university and bought the P
915.
by mattm 16y ago
The mentor in the story is most likely many different people or the man Max Klein would like to be in his life. If they are many different people, he just rolled them all into one for story telling. I can't see how someone who purposefully
916.
by mattm 16y ago
I have done freelance work through oDesk and the longer projects were quite valuable. Rates are low but not that low. According to oDesk's stats, the average rate for a web developer is about $16/hr.
917.
by mattm 16y ago
> to make sure the engineers are interchangeable components, as well as that the company adds as little value as possible to their customers (while still wringing profit out of them). Wow, you actually describe the place I worked pretty
918.
by mattm 16y ago
It takes at least 15 minutes for people to get back into a productive working state after being interrupted. If you interrupt an office of 8 and one person has an idea that saves 2 hours, you are only breaking even. I worked in an open spac
919.
by mattm 16y ago
I solve hard problems better when I have quiet time where I can think through the problem. Some people do think by talking but I imagine most engineers do not fall into this category.
920.
by mattm 16y ago
> Imagine yourself 30 years from now with a house you fully own, with no more payments to make. Now imagine your alternate renting self who, instead of steadily paying down the principal on the mortgage, has built up hundreds of thousan
921.
by mattm 16y ago
Fair enough. It just happened to be where I learned of the concept.
922.
by mattm 16y ago
I don't know how it works in the US. In Canada, if a business hires someone on contract but they are not in an "arms-length" transaction (ie. the 'contractor' is working in their office, using their equipment for more than a 'temporary' pe
923.
by mattm 16y ago
I believe Tim Ferris wrote that for his business ideas he would first create the actual site to sell it and then spend a few hundred dollars on adwords. When the user clicked to purchase, they would be shown a page saying "Sorry, this prod
924.
by mattm 16y ago
Skimming through the comments on the NYT site, I thought this person offered the most insight: http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/0... "I'm one of those U.S. lawyers who outsourced himself to India. I did not do it
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Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution(menso.wordpress.com)
3 points by mattm 16y ago|0 comments
926.
by mattm 16y ago
While I haven't worked on an adult site, I did work on a site that, by the end, I was embarrassed to be working on. It was borderline scammy and I didn't believe in it at all. I worked on it for about 6 months before finally leaving - mai
927.
by mattm 16y ago
I would be interested in this question as well. I got contacted last week by a company in Cyberjaya and while I didn't get to proceed with their interview, it does sound like a cool area. I have studied some Mandarin and am considering mo
928.
by mattm 16y ago
I live in Victoria and still don't understand why salaries are so low in Vancouver. My only guess is that it's some kind of "quality of life" tax. Companies can pay less because it is a desirable place to live. (Currently I work remotely
929.
by mattm 16y ago
I'm not looking for anything at the moment. I'm working on a contract which should keep me busy for the next couple months. I prefer telecommuting but would move someplace cool if the opportunity sounded right. I prefer big cities or some
930.
by mattm 16y ago
I've definitely seen horror stories like that before. Maybe I was just lucky.

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