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by peelle 8y ago
I am remote, and for the last few years did not work in a fixed location. My SO traveled with me and managed us, but had no job. Because of the way we lived I think my communication skills have gotten better. Each new place we either lived
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by peelle 8y ago
My personal experience is that you can often find work with companies that are headquartered in rural towns. They know they cannot easily get skilled workers to move to them. The downside to this is these type of companies still put out ads
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by peelle 9y ago
I'm usually down by 1 am, and up at 9 am weekdays. My fit bit says I get about 7 hours sleep during that period. Most weeks I have 1-2 days where I take an afternoon nap of about an hour.
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by peelle 9y ago
Has it hurt my career? Maybe. I work for a small company <50 people. Tech team of 2 people is remote, everyone else works at a main office. As far as learning from others, I worked in office for the first 5ish years as a programmer. I le
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by peelle 9y ago
This year I read 31 books. Only 8 were non-fiction. I'm hoping to finish another 2 before the year ends. My top 3 were. 1. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. This series did a good job of balancing big and little picture, while
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by peelle 9y ago
Most people don't want to look too closely at the stock market. In order for someone to make money, someone else has to loose some, eventually.
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by peelle 9y ago
For the longest time we had a torrid affair. Pot+ everyday. About 1.5 years ago, I quit cold turkey. What followed was 10 days of horrible headaches, weird sleep, and moods. Now a days, I have 1 - 3 cups a week. Usually when I am working ou
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by peelle 9y ago
Profession: Software Developer - full time, Remote from Asian metropolis, with a US based company <20 employees. I work 9hr days Mon-Thur, and 4 hours on Friday morning. A lot of my work is lone ranger type projects. Typical Workday: [09
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by peelle 10y ago
Not yet been to a European conference, but my first conference will be The Perl Conference in Amsterdam http://act.perlconference.org/tpc-2017-amsterdam/
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by peelle 10y ago
When you say you "switched" I hope that means you took the time to go through one of those touch typing tutor programs, like GNU Typist. If you do the exercises and practice, the mental drain should go away. My experience switchin
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by peelle 10y ago
Yes! I did it around the beginning of 2016. Anyone can use the techniques, and habits they talk about. One thing they imparted was that frequent testing is better for learning than repeated reviewing. This caused me to put more emphasis on
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by peelle 10y ago
-Perl -Bash -C++
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by peelle 10y ago
There are already some great answers, but here is my two cents. > What did you do to become fluent in another language? For me the short answer was I took classes for the beginner levels, and actively looked for opportunities to use the
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by peelle 10y ago
Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style. He has several great talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs
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by peelle 10y ago
Programmer, Missouri. My first few years full time I worked from 7 - 3:30, with a half hour lunch. During this time this I was working to live. I had an overly active social life, and night classes at College. My next few years I worked fro
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by peelle 10y ago
This is not exactly true. In regards to tourists visas, the law is almost always about not working locally. Most foreign governments don't care at all if as a foreigner you work from your laptop for a foreign company. You are not takin
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by peelle 12y ago
I read daily. I'm always part of the way through something, and I try to finish at least 1 fiction book a month, and a non fiction ever 2-3 months.
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by peelle 12y ago
Here in the midwest of USA, I spent $200~ for a used good bike at a local bike shop. You can spend thousands for a bike here if you want, but generally speaking at a local bike shop you can get a good durable bike for less than $500. This y
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by peelle 13y ago
If you want it bad enough you can do it. I think for Americans many perceive it to be too difficult. I think we put our own biases onto other countries. For example: It's hard to get a visa here in America, so it must be hard to do it
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by peelle 13y ago
I use it all the time. I am a runner, and biker who does not drive but once a week. When I leave the house I jack in the head phones and go. It would be a pain if I had to take out my phone to call people, or change playlists while biking o
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by peelle 14y ago
That chart isn't really that insane. There are many ways to legally immigrate, and it just lumped most of them all together. Refugee status is missing. This is just a Top Level Design Doc. Most people are gonna answer the first question or
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by peelle 15y ago
I think there should be a option between the top two. "We have a test suite that tests most things" That's where our dev team is really at.
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by peelle 15y ago
A E O U H T N S <- A better home
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by peelle 15y ago
Mostly Catalyst - http://www.catalystframework.org/
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by peelle 15y ago
I wanted to address your marriage comments. First off I do not think people should get married unless they are in love. Marrying for citizenship is terrible in my opinion. Also, below is just my experience. It may not be the norm. I'm Ameri
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by peelle 16y ago
Perl/Catalyst
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by peelle 16y ago
What opportunities are avaliable? Part-time? Contract? Telecommute?
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by peelle 16y ago
Do you have a link for your popularity statement? Just curious.
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by peelle 16y ago
These are good ways to stop your basic scraper. One of my jobs is to scrape websites. The websites we scrape we have permission to scrape. Sadly many companys we work with don't have full time developers, or they have rules set up to stop o
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by peelle 16y ago
Is anyone looking for a part time Perl programmer?

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