mcdougle

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by mcdougle 12y ago
It doesn't come across like it's trying to really prove anything exists or is true. Just some fun speculation and what it might mean if it were true.
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by mcdougle 12y ago
This. I'd suggest making his own stuff instead of getting into an internship, maybe building some small apps he could even charge for and make some side money. Start at 13 and build enough of those, and he might never need a job. I wis
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I don't really know why you're getting downvoted. That's a great answer to the question. The article is about how we over-analyze and over-optimize and look for a distinctly obvious purpose in everything in an effort to ens
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Me too. I figure, if I can get some shit done in my 20s, I can have a pretty sweet time in my 30s, running a small company and spending time with my future family rather than working an unfulfilling 9 to 5 and trying to make up for it by pa
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by mcdougle 12y ago
And then the full-screen application crashes because it was designed for Windows 7
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but judges are not voted in. At least, I know that supreme court justices are not and I assume other positions are done the same way. US judges are elected by politicians (Supreme Court justice
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by mcdougle 12y ago
A pretty common argument around the pro-gun community is that removing guns from a specific area (schools, movie theaters, airlines) makes those places a prime target for mass shootings/terrorism -- the attacker knows that the area i
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by mcdougle 12y ago
That's, in my opinion, one of the greatest problems with the world, the economy, and the education system today. For one thing, we train people to be workers, so they can end up as cogs in the machine of the big corporate system. Then,
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I grew up with parents who worked in healthcare (my dad, specifically, has a ton of connections within the health and life insurance industry), I've sold health insurance, I now have a full-time job in a hospital system, and I'm w
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I'm not a huge fan of cold brewing for normal coffee -- but then again, I kind of like a slight bitter taste to it (and I tend to drink it black). My technique was crazy simple though, so maybe I didn't do it very well? I did, how
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by mcdougle 12y ago
You do raise a good point. I know that, when I started driving, my dad taught me a neat trick: drive 8.5 mph over the speed limit, and you'll never get pulled over. That's (supposedly) because a ticket for anything less than 10mp
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by mcdougle 12y ago
> how do you know someone's a Texan? Don't worry, they'll tell you I never noticed this before, but I'm a Texan, and I do this.
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I looked the book up, just out of curiosity, and I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's not available on any bookstore's site (Amazon, Half.com, Barnes & Noble). Even on the author's website (doubleyourfreelancing.co
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I could be wrong, but I think uTrim is designed with professors in mind -- namely, the ones that publish their research. They'd be the end users. I honestly don't think students would care enough (maybe grad students who are publi
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by mcdougle 12y ago
True. But, as I said before, my strategy is about mitigating risk and increasing control over the outcome. To get that 700% increase in Tesla, you would've had to get in early; and how do you know at that point that the stock's go
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by mcdougle 12y ago
What kind of crisis are you thinking? Because if you're talking something like 2008 again, dividend stocks should be fine -- the market value of the stock will drop, but the dividends should remain stable. In fact, the smart investor
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Well, let's see if I can put this into words well enough (I'm not great at that sometimes). In very basic terms, it's a medium of exchange. "Money" is not some objective, universal concept (although people think it
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Yeah, I find that most people really don't know what money is. They think the cash in their hand has some sort of intrinsic value, but can't explain it (and don't want to think about it). I know I was like that until I gradua
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Hm. That makes sense. I use Gedit/Sublime for coding myself, only using VIM for a short period during college (never really cared to learn it more than I had to)
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by mcdougle 12y ago
The third party graphics are helpful (but still make your eyes bleed) but the main issue is the controls -- I just couldn't get past how difficult it was to do anything. It's been a while since I've played, but if I remember,
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I think it's supposed to be implied that stuff goes inside the loop: while (1) { // code goes here }
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I was actually just discussing this with a buddy at lunch today. I'm far from CO or WA so all I know is what I read online, but it seems like all of the providers are small dispensaries. There seems to be a lot of room for someone to m
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by mcdougle 12y ago
If you're interested in real estate, I'd suggest checking out biggerpockets.com I'm hoping to do something similar to the guy you responded to -- launch a side-business, automate it well enough, and reinvest the proceeds into
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by mcdougle 12y ago
It depends on your goals. If you want to be a Python specialist, for example, working at a job where you do exclusively Python and you get paid more and more as you gain expertise, then your time is probably better spent learning Python and
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by mcdougle 12y ago
That's interesting. It's not something I think I'd want to do but that's probably because we're just different people with different passions and goals (I honestly don't care much for travel anyways -- though I
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Yep, finding a property manager is one great solution to the problem. Did you find a good one easily? I've heard it's really hard to find a good one that actually manages the property well and keeps it rented out consistently. I h
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by mcdougle 12y ago
If you decide to move, you have to do something with the house. I'm not sure about Hong Kong, but in the US, even once you own the house free-and-clear, a house is still a major expense -- insurance, property taxes, etc. You can sell i
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by mcdougle 12y ago
I think I understand what you're saying. Allowing them to learn at their own pace would still be doing something, though. In school, whenever a new concept was introduced, I often found that I understood it pretty quickly, but that we&
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by mcdougle 12y ago
We need to be doing something for these kids. I know when I was in school I was incredibly bored and underwhelmed. I'd typically understand a concept pretty quickly when it was introduced, and then have nothing to do while the teache
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by mcdougle 12y ago
Do you have experience in Rails? Honestly, Laravel just feels like "PHP on Rails" to me. It's a full framework like Rails, so it takes some getting used to. The Code Bright [1] tutorial was great for learning the syntax, and

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