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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I think this misses a huge issue with the internet, * There is a lot of content being pushed in front of people * There are a lot of click-baity methods/headlines to get people to the content A tl;dr also distills the article down in a
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
So if you want to accomplish something you have to do it, and if you have a financial stake in a company you'll over market it ("iconic companies of our time") ... nothing new here.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
If you're making that much more than you were full-time (and remembering this is contract work), I would probably try to hire someone on to help ... to keep your head in the game I'd recommend you do a feature or two as well as ar
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I'm working solo right now and I have to say, I absolutely love it. Prior to my project I was in firmware at a large corp and after years we got moved into a shared lab and I could not stand it. Working from home (and solo) gives me
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Can not agree with this post more.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Exactly. Considering how much data they have on your phones, through web activity, etc, adding in direct home access with video, audio, and pattern recognition I'd imagine ... I wouldn't feel comfortable jumping in considering who
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
How do you figure they need Docker for that? Seems like it's what they chose, not that they had an undying belief that Docker is the One-True-Solution.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
However if you get the self-employment visa, you have residency status in Germany and are no longer under those restrictions (and thus have nothing to worry about crossing borders) for the duration of the visa.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of hoops you have to go through, but that also opens up your Schengen Area travel opportunities considerably (for duration at least) if I remember the details correctly.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
IIRC, you can apply for a 1-year self-employment/freelancer/artist visa in Germany if you're from the US.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Man, as much as I'd love to use Xamarin w/ VS, 3 platforms for a single developer (myself) is $3000. It looks like a great product but wow, I can't swing that solo while bootstrapping. Have you considered a free-until-relea
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
He asked a simple question, what's with the hostility of asking if he's "dense" ?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Regardless of what your team ends up doing, get it in writing and have it legally reviewed before anyone signs it ... this applies to both unpaid interns and employees. If you do this, it'll pretty much force your team to face the l
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Powerlifting and rowing, and I make sure to use a workout tracker to measure my progress. And sleep, definitely sleep.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I'm waiting for you to send me the $31.50 to read the full-text. Their conclusion is about a specific claim for fish oil, re CAD. Examine.com is looking at more than just CAD. If it has a health benefit outside of the CAD claims, the
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Oh, we're going to play this game of "I post something, people critique it, I respond by being butthurt and missing the point of the downvotes because I couldn't hear a differing opinion" ? Because that's how it lo
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> Have the grace to just accept that you're wrong and admit that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about Why are you being a jackass to him? What is your justification for saying he has "no fucking clue" ?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> fish oil is more like snake oil[0] Except it's not - http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/#main_clinical_resul... All studies are cited at the very bottom (720+ in total)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Same here. As a user of Twitch, I do not want this to happen. As a person with common sense, if I had an acquisition offer for $1 billion on the table, I'd sell out so freaking fast.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
There are rumors of partnership with Comcast (which is looking to merge w/ Time Warner)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
You close those other bugs as "same-source-fix". As a developer, when you root-cause the bug, you'd inform QA that the bug you root-caused will have an impact on X, Y, and Z, and that they will need to rerun those tests afte
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I've had social anxiety for 25+ years. > When you focus only on boosting your internal state, your social anxiety will disappear. That is the line I drew the connection from. The first part of metta is to focus on yourself before m
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Metta-meditation (similar to what is described by OP) is starting to be researched by the west (as well as general mindfulness and meditation without religious undertones) and is showing some promising signs - http://en.wikiped
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
This is the Android app I've been using that has helped me more than any other app or forum or any other resource - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nwalex.med... (I am not associated with th
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Oh for sure, there's definitely a market for the ones you know will fail ... but I'm one of those "take calculated risks instead of just risks". Of those 20 that failed, I wouldn't be surprised if you could hav
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Easier said than done, hehe, but still good advice. I'd definitely recommend mindfullness and meditation to those that suffer from social anxiety, it's worked wonder for me (and may or may not work for you ... ymmv)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Maybe VCs should be more selective about who they give their money to. I'll get downvoted for this, but it seems 90% of funded start-ups don't deserve the mass funding they deserve (a portion of it sure, but the hundreds of thous
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
If we admit there is no Silver Bullet, how will we ever generate link-baity headlines about programming methodologies to attempt to validate my beliefs as correct instead of being open-minded about different approaches? ;-)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
* TDD is not the end-all-be-all * BDD is not the end-all-be-all * Waterfall/XP/Scrum/Kanban/next-year's-methodolgy-buzzword is not the end-all-be-all * An individual language or framework is not the end-all-be-all.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Horrible implementation approach. Mixing runtime exceptions with project management that you're not guaranteed to hit while testing? lol. A pre-commit hook is the way to go, * Post-commit: You'll always catch the exception, but

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