mchan

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by mchan 7y ago
"A $500 a week cocaine habit is not a money problem" - a favourite quote I heard from somewhere, which I unfortunately cannot credit
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by mchan 8y ago
Does anyone know of any good resources for learning Rust from a beginner's perspective? For someone with very little or no C/C++ experience?
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by mchan 8y ago
> The telecom folks make a bunch of noise about how you can replace a home connection with these kinds of technologies, but until prices come down and speeds go (way) up, the wireline people don't have much to worry about. In Austri
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by mchan 8y ago
Interested to see how this compares in performance and resource usage with Alacritty[1] [1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
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Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by mchan 9y ago|0 comments
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by mchan 9y ago
I use both Runbox and Fastmail. Of the two, I use Runbox more, because I use it to consolidate mail from different accounts, and I have been using it for over 10 years. However, if I were to start over now, I would probably prefer Fastmail.
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The Power of Silence in the Smartphone Age(theguardian.com)
1 points by mchan 9y ago|0 comments
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by mchan 9y ago
A friend of mine is - she trained to become a Pilates instructor a number of years ago. Now she does 2 group classes a week (corporate clients) of 1 hour each, earns about $300 per class. That's enough for her to live on.
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by mchan 9y ago
Upvoted not just for the comment, but also the user name. Had to do a double-take on that one!
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by mchan 9y ago
I did this, at 33, similar situation. While it took me about a year to find work after coming back, I still don't regret it. I was travelling for about 15 months in total. After returning, I did a bit of contract work, but took almost
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by mchan 9y ago
What are some good devops forums? I remember trying to find them a year ago, and I didn't seem to be looking in the right places
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by mchan 10y ago
Taking something personally - e.g. what happens to you, or how someone treats you - is a choice. Choose not to take everything personal, because things rarely are.
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by mchan 10y ago
Other potential users: People who are overseas who need to make transactions, but don't have cellular roaming available (whether by choice, or because the carriers don't have a roaming agreement), but can get Wifi. This particular
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by mchan 10y ago
I believe they mentioned business use. They are getting reimbursed by their employer.
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by mchan 10y ago
> Might have been FSB, but there were plenty of other parties that really didn't like Litvinenko and could have used Russian Polonium either to blame the FSB or to tell the FSB not to fuck with them, because they had the means to bl
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by mchan 10y ago
First of all, try not to beat yourself up about screwing up or making the wrong decisions. This is all normal and a part of your experience. What you have gone through may need some time to process. Start with small steps. Over thinking and
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How I Became a Morning Person, Read More Books, and Learned a Language in a Year(fastcompany.com)
2 points by mchan 10y ago|0 comments
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by mchan 10y ago
But think about the sort of pressure that would be on Larry's shoulders. If he quits, or makes the wrong decision, that potentially affects thousands of his employees, and their families. For a poor single mother or 40 something factor
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by mchan 10y ago
That's OK. Sometimes it takes time to find the real motivation behind something. Sometimes it doesn't make sense either, and that's OK, because it doesn't have to make sense, despite your mind thinking that it should. It
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by mchan 10y ago
Some really good points and advice here. I just want to add: you're 22. What you are experiencing is totally normal. Everyone goes through this struggle at some point in their lives - not necessarily with video games, it can be with ot