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by pw 9y ago
That's interesting 'cause the $75k figure/study is so commonly cited.
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by pw 9y ago
So I take it you're not a fan of Vegas?
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by pw 9y ago
If you're on Mac, another great, albeit not free, Postgres admin app is Postico ( https://eggerapps.at/postico/ ).
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by pw 9y ago
Is your recommendation of 1Password contingent on any particular set up (like only using a "local vault" and not their cloud solution)?
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by pw 9y ago
So you know founders that went through YC and don't feel like they got much out of it? I wouldn't want you to break any confidences, but I'd be interested in hearing more such folks and what they think of YC.
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by pw 9y ago
It sounds like you're talking about something more complicated than a blood test, but in case you didn't know, most blood tests can be purchased online (and completed at a local branch of a national testing service e.g. Quest Diag
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by pw 9y ago
It seems like he might have been better off working on his social skills than his date generating machine.
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by pw 9y ago
I think there's some value if you're more interested in creating a lifestyle business than a unicorn (as it seems like we both are), but it's certainly not perfectly matched to that goal. It's a shame there's not
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by pw 9y ago
I wonder if this is an independent effort or if it's built on top of AWS Lambda. Also, anyone know why all these serverless environments that are coming out focus on Node.js?
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Notes from an Emergency(idlewords.com)
9 points by pw 9y ago|0 comments
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by pw 9y ago
Psychiatrists (well, ER doctors, usually) do, in fact, perform MRI's before prescribing meds. This happened to me when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and I assumed it's not an uncommon practice. It's easy to thi
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by pw 9y ago
There's an undercurrent here that I find troubling, and I think it's the belief that, because psychiatric diagnoses rely on something other than "objective biological tests", mental illness is somehow less "real&quo
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by pw 10y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but assuming you're not a doctor (and, even if you are, he's not your patient), I don't think it's good form to give medical advice on the Internet, particularly if it's advice that&#x2
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by pw 10y ago
It requires a little bit of frontend work, but I've had good luck with content websites based on public data sets.
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Hacker News doesn’t pay the bills(blog.reifyworks.com)
4 points by pw 10y ago|1 comments
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Whiteboard Interviews(tbray.org)
73 points by pw 10y ago|80 comments
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by pw 10y ago
No.
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by pw 10y ago
Fail.
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Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion(medium.com)
46 points by pw 10y ago|53 comments
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by pw 10y ago
I usually buy a HTML theme from ThemeForest. It won't match what you're doing exactly, but I find it pretty easy to manipulate the elements a good theme provides to create something that both doesn't look generic like Bootstr
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by pw 10y ago
What makes it the best Macbook you've ever owned?
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by pw 10y ago
It hardly seems accurate to say the average software development job is in any way analogous to what Bukowski describes. We're well compensated professionals who, relative to the other professions, tend to have reasonable hours and a l
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Make More Money as a Software Developer II: Side Projects (Content Businesses)(pwhite.org)
3 points by pw 10y ago|0 comments
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Build Your Product by Marketing It First(pwhite.org)
2 points by pw 10y ago|0 comments
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by pw 10y ago
What makes you say that?
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by pw 10y ago
That trick doesn't seem to work for me anymore.
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by pw 10y ago
What's this collusion you speak of? Not saying it doesn't exist (and true, prosecutable collusion has happened in the tech industry), just wondering exctly what you're referring to.
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by pw 10y ago
Judging by the upvotes, a lot of people in tech apparently feel like they're underpaid.
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by pw 10y ago
Yeah, because of the paywall, I have to assume most of the upvotes have not read the article :-(
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by pw 10y ago
Yes, thank you :-)

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