patrickbolle

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by patrickbolle 9y ago
Uber is great, but I've relocated to Bali and the competitors here are doing such a fantastic job at giving me reasons not to use Uber. Go-jek is cheaper, you can pay with cash, and they offer like 15 other services like... go-food, go
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
HN threads on anything related to Ethereum (not Bitcoin) seem to really stir up a lot of junk and hate comments. So weird. I'm just a web dev that thinks Ethereum is really cool technology (and have made some great money from ETH), but
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
Wow, never seen/heard of that movie. Really cool!!
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
Seriously, been reading your blog this afternoon and love it man. Maybe I'll stop by in Africa next year! Hah. I 100% agree. Maybe I just wasn't built for the tech field, but something about sitting on the computer all day feels w
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
That's what I've been considering for sure. I'll (hopefully) always have web dev as a fallback to make some extra cash on the side if something falls through. Thanks.
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
For sure! I totally agree with that. I love my current position in life because of that flexibility and freedom, just the work is so-so :)
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
Thanks for this. I'm a web developer, recent college grad. I freelance and travel a lot. It's cool, but I hate the work for the most part. I do lots of tiny UI tweaks and stuff every day. It's slowly killing me inside I thi
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
/r/webdev /r/learnspanish /r/meditation /r/leafs (GO LEAFS!!) /r/linux That's about it. I did a massive purge of subreddits a few weeks ago, now I spend 1000x less time on reddit (more
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by patrickbolle 9y ago
Cool site. Quick question re: these 'stash/curated/stack/list' sites that seem to be popping up everywhere (especially on Product Hunt lol). How are people making money from sites like this? I've been working
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
I'm a diehard racing fan and F1 is the absolute pinnacle of car technology. I go to the Montreal Grand Prix every year (Singapore this year) and it's by far the most exciting point of my year. The only thing though... with this in
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Kitchener, Canada - Prefer Remote I'm a Canadian Shopify developer specialising in store setups and theme customization. I have lots of experience within the Shopify ecosystem as well as working with the Shopify API buil
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind The Dharma Bums - kerouac Desolation Angels - kerouac Wake Up - Kerouac Mindfulness in plain english 10% Happier Big Sur - kerouac ... Yeah I'm on a Buddhism and Kerouac kick right now
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
This is late, but checkout hellobonsai.com ... I'm a freelancer and use it for all my clients. Customized pre-made contracts + built in invoicing and payments through Stripe, Bonsai takes a very minimal fee too.. Made my life so much e
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
I really enjoy Nylas. I got in under the 1 year free membership thankfully, but I'm for sure going to pay next year. I've got so many different emails with different services, having it all under one (nice looking) interface is wo
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
Great analogy. Hits home as a Leafs fan from Kitchener.
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
Did you look at the Apollo link? it allows you to use any db you choose. some of the starter apps use mongo,postgres, rest api. it's quite cool.
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
only thing left for Meteor is the release of Apollo !
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
bedroom producer here too ! the greatest thing about making music all in the box (or majority of it) is being able to mix on the go. majority of my tracks sound great (imo) before I even touch a limiter/mastering chain. lots of advice
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
thanks for the link ! question though does anybody have any good resources for doing something similar to this in javascript? I know a small amount of java, no python, and want to brush up my js skills anyways.
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
I've been a lifetime BlackBerry user (from waterloo) and just got the priv. it's a really great device but having the passport on android would be a gamechanger imo
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
You are talking about Atom ? I've never had that problem, weird
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
were they just stored on your phone ?
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by patrickbolle 10y ago
woo my city is on HN! this is cool, and like others have said Europe got this down ages ago
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
I agree with your idea of configuring stuff to an extent I'm a recent switcher to Arch and love it so far, but on my other laptop I use a Debian minimal install with i3wm and all my manually installed programs, and I find it is that fi
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
incredible. blows my mind how people can build stuff like this. I do Web development and this seems Soooooooo far out of my reach
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
only lag I get now (and other users as well) is on first game start up, and when moving mass amounts of troops at once. totally playable though, great game.
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
the biggest thing for me is those demo sites for packages. I can do without free meteor deployment, although it was awesome, but all the package.meteor.com sites are incredible when browsing atmosphere
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
I love hearthis.at, it's like soundcloud properly done. never heard of baboom, is it essentially bandcamp? bandcamp seems to do everything right imo
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by patrickbolle 11y ago
I agree with a lot of the concerns in the posts so far. As of now it is simply Facebook with a different colour and focused on a group. Nothing special. But I do think that Facebook will end up releasing a better collaboration feature to he