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by mcdougle 11y ago
A Coke and a pickled egg isn't exactly healthy. The founder said in his first blog post about the subject that, prior to pursuing his Soylent idea, he was eating a lot of fast food and frozen burritos. Of course, if you're just lo
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I think that's how most people do it, and the founder has implied in the past that it's kind of how he intends/expects it. The biggest criticism of Soylent seems to be "Who would ever want to give up food for all meals f
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by mcdougle 11y ago
True. But his bit follows pretty closely with what I've experienced (and I've heard others say the same). My friends within the tech sphere pretty much all understand the issue and have an opinion on it. For the most part, my frie
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I hadn't heard that before. That's a really good quote/counter-argument
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by mcdougle 11y ago
True, but I think even most who read things like Reddit don't necessarily follow the main stuff that's posted. Reddit's kind of a mixed bag of information, and people go there for all sorts of stuff. I know I generally skip o
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Did you see the episode of John Oliver's show recently about the subject? Oliver went out and asked people about it, and the general response was "Who is Edward Snowden? Didn't he release some documents that compromised the s
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by mcdougle 11y ago
TweetDeck seems to be exactly what I was looking for! And that other site (twitter through their eyes) looks awesome. Thanks!
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by mcdougle 11y ago
It honestly sounds like you're not losing interest in programming, but rather, you're not doing a lot of what you enjoy at your job. 1) You can find a new, more interesting job. It sounds like you've searched around, but yo
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by mcdougle 11y ago
How did you go about curating your feed? I tried to get into Twitter for a while and ultimately stopped using it. Part of the problem I think is I have kind of a wide range of interests -- sports, software, entrepreneurship, etc. So Twitter
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Disclaimer: I came to the comments first. I have not yet read the article. From a purely mathematical perspective, it still depends on what your future plans are. I purchased a property a couple of years ago, intending to live in it for a s
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Ghostery caused the same problem for me. Pausing it fixed the problem. Others have said ad blockers do the same for them.
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I work for an overly-corporate company and we have those all-hands meetings 2-4 times a week.
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by mcdougle 11y ago
While I would rather not work while on the beach, I can definitely see the value of being able to work while at the beach. What I mean is that, instead of having 2 weeks of vacation per year, having to schedule it, and when I get to the
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Smaller companies are a bit different than big corporations, too, though. Usually, it's just one (or a small group) of individuals running the company, so it's not some "faceless entity" with no morals and only working t
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Why illegal gambling? Wouldn't it be legal gambling, if anything, since it's condoned (and encouraged) by the government?
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I emailed them with a question and that's the response I got. Too bad, there seems to be a need out there for an automated bank account payment API.
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article that implies he was a borderline scam artist. Even the "controversies" section only really talks about the fact that he used steroids in the past and something about Amazon review
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by mcdougle 11y ago
He actually has an article where he lays out how he went about saving before he retired, and he basically had $800k in liquid cash/investments before he retired. But I don't think he actually saved the full $800k; he probably ha
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by mcdougle 11y ago
That's awesome! If I can do recurring payments with that, it might make things a hell of a lot easier! Thanks!
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by mcdougle 11y ago
What did they do? I don't notice anything different.
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by mcdougle 11y ago
What service might I use if I needed to fulfill the following requirements: 1) Say I already have a customer -- he already paid a signup fee and we charge him monthly, so he's already put in his credit card information. At a later date
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by mcdougle 11y ago
The standard 40 hour week quick edit: he works with businesses, too, so he does 80 hour weeks in Oct/Nov. and again in Mar/Apr. and then 40 hour weeks the rest of the year.
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by mcdougle 11y ago
That's not always the case, though. I have a friend who works in public accounting who actually does work 80-hour weeks during busy season (i.e. just before taxes are due) and spends pretty much that whole time in the office from what
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by mcdougle 11y ago
I think the real point is that "pop" music sucks and has always sucked, for the most part at least. A teen is more likely to listen to "what is popular" rather than "what I like best" to fit in, but once they g
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by mcdougle 11y ago
So it's like programming?
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Yeah. I'd bet that a huge portion of the people these articles refer also to live in places like Silicon Valley, where the price of ownership of things is very high, but services are abundant (because of the startup culture).
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by mcdougle 11y ago
Oh, for sure. I didn't say "not owning things" was smart (although I guess it depends on what you're trying to own) and running up your monthly expenses on unnecessary services is probably not the best way to get ahead
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by mcdougle 11y ago
> Give praise to specific team members but take the hits as a team. Yep. That goes beyond just development -- that's a huge management/leadership technique and is very important for any team, regardless of what they're try
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by mcdougle 11y ago
You're definitely not wrong. Of course there are those in the younger generation who want to own things. I bet most of them do, in fact. I own my car, of course, and although I'm happy renting an apartment now, I'll be gett
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by mcdougle 11y ago
When I was growing up, I was always taught to do my chores, then I could play. But rather than simply enforcing the rule, I remember my dad actually explaining the logic to me while I was young -- basically, if you start to play first, the

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