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by remyp 5y ago
Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism is a good place to start. Think of it as a mindset, not a to do list. https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
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by remyp 5y ago
Most full-time American nomads claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion via the physical presence test, which would make anything on US soil a non-starter for them.
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by remyp 6y ago
I'm willing to bet this is influenced more by SLAs and Slack's lawyers than marketing speak.
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by remyp 6y ago
If you're unsure whether you should be investing or not I created a simple questionnaire to help (based on the /r/personalfinance flow chart): https://shouldibuystock.com
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by remyp 6y ago
I am not an SRE, but in my years of working with them as a developer the unifying trait seems to be the ability to answer all requests with one of the following: 1. "Not now." 2. "No." 3. "Hell no." 4. "Ar
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by remyp 6y ago
I do consulting for non-technical founders of software companies. This is an incredibly common question. A lot of ink has been spilled over it, including my own ( https://jeremyphelps.com/blog/how-to-interview-a-freel
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by remyp 6y ago
All of the suggestions in this thread are good, but there are others. I spent a couple years working on this at messagecontrol.com to build an enterprise email tracker blocker, and I'm sure they have continued to enhance it since I le
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by remyp 6y ago
I spent over a year building a company that tried to fix meetings. It’s not enough of a burning problem for companies and we pivoted away. Happy to share more insights; email is in my profile.
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by remyp 6y ago
C/C++ is most common. Good luck getting their attention if you didn’t go to MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc.
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by remyp 6y ago
Many other products are good at helping you discover companies, which is great! However, what they usually end up doing is funneling you directly to the job application and leaving you on your own. What our product does is take your anonym
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by remyp 6y ago
We've fixed this. Thanks for the bug report!
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by remyp 6y ago
Hi all, OP here. We were interviewing developers for a project and kept hearing how much they hated looking for a new job. We dug into why and it was usually because they couldn't find companies with the culture and work environment th
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Show HN: Shepherd – Get inside intros to dev teams with great culture(shepherd.com)
49 points by remyp 6y ago|22 comments
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by remyp 7y ago
Hiring developers when you're a small or medium size company is really hard. Nobody knows you exist and if they do there's no way you can compete with FAANG compensation. So what can you do? You show off what makes you different
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by remyp 7y ago
It's a demo profile, not a real company :)
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by remyp 7y ago
Recruiters told you those roles don't exist because recruiters are compensated on a percentage of your salary. Lower salary, lower fee, but it takes the same amount of work to fill the role. So why should they bother with part-time w
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by remyp 7y ago
ughhh now I lost the game too why would you do that
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by remyp 7y ago
I’m quite happy with my Anker noise cancelling headphones. They were ~$50. I haven’t tried the Bose ones that are the consensus best, but somehow I doubt they’re 6x better.
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by remyp 7y ago
Non-obnoxious text ads in the emails people receive. Mostly it's just a passion project, though.
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by remyp 7y ago
Looking for a collaborator for my side project https://findkismet.com Coincidentally, the app itself could be used to find a cofounder. It's how I met mine.
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by remyp 7y ago
Of course everyone hates them, but if you're going to operate in the EU you're stuck with 'em.
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by remyp 7y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote Looking for part-time frontend developer to do pixel pushing for our Angular 2/Bootstrap app and web site. Questions, applications, etc. to jeremy@shepherd.com, please.
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by remyp 7y ago
Hi all, OP here. Inspired by Cal Newport’s book “Deep Work”, our app crunches 12 months of calendar data and shows you how much time you have for deep work and shallow work, how much of your life is spent in meetings, and compares you to th
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Show HN: Deep Work Stats – How much time do you have for deep work?(shepherd.com)
76 points by remyp 7y ago|18 comments
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by remyp 7y ago
I've been happy with Lively. I was able to sign up quickly and they made transferring my existing HSA over really easy. Here's my referral code if you want to give it a shot: https://secure.livelyme.com/referral&#x
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by remyp 7y ago
> interns start pushing to prod hey everybody, I spotted the problem! I'll keep an eye on my mailbox for the giant consulting fee that I assume is enroute.
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by remyp 7y ago
I'm getting "Sorry, something went wrong there. Try again".
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by remyp 7y ago
A few years ago my neighborhood did one better and replaced two parking spaces with a parklet: http://moss-design.com/chicagos-first-parklet-in-andersonvil... People > cars, always.
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by remyp 7y ago
You have to block loading of ALL external resources. Smarter trackers will try to load much more than just images.
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by remyp 7y ago
They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't

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