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by robodale 6y ago
NOT Trick-or-Treating
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by robodale 6y ago
47. I want to be effective. Now. Time is not on my side. If the tech I learned and mastered gets me from point A to B, and the users love the results...that's all I need. Read Joel Spolsky's "Fire and Motion" if you h
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by robodale 6y ago
Yea, I can register a domain name, spin up a wordpress site on some shared hosting platform and point it to that domain, install some nice-ish template, connect an email service, and even get some basic pages, (very) basic content, and a ha
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by robodale 6y ago
Also nothing new: Online banks. "Hey, put your money in us and get this great interest rate!" Couple years later: "Oh, now you get .005%. Enjoy."
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by robodale 6y ago
I've implemented Vuex on a Vue 2 project to reduce adding props all the way down in my sub-components. Looking back, I would only add Vuex to a project if it needed it. Hint: small projects do not need it. Just rely on "Events up
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by robodale 6y ago
Bringing the egg....versus being the bacon.
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by robodale 6y ago
...and I can concur on the performance. It's hilariously fast.
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by robodale 6y ago
I've been running a website and API with .NET Core for over a year...deploying to Digital Ocean droplets that run Ubuntu. Using MySQL instead of PostGres, sorry HN. It all runs like a champ, and costs me $17.05 USD per month. I only h
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by robodale 6y ago
Adjusted Gross Income?
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by robodale 6y ago
Agreed. I don't sneak up on the ant colony that's become too close to my house before I dispatch it.
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by robodale 6y ago
Why I have not been buying their stock over the last 15-ish years, I'll never know. My buying habits have certainly (fractionally) contributed to their success.
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by robodale 6y ago
The fact there are simultaneous vaccines entering final phases of testing as I'm typing this is breathtaking. These usually take years, decades even. And Yes, I've really enjoyed getting my food selected, paid, and delivered from
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by robodale 6y ago
Visual Studio Code! :O
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by robodale 6y ago
Wordpress. Downvote me, but you know it will be there 20 years from now.
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by robodale 6y ago
Downside to this is you fall under Google's terms of service. They could cut you off at any time and leave you without a backend. That being said, I've ran my little Google Chrome extension I've made last year using Sheets
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by robodale 6y ago
I worry that other far more advanced civilizations out there routinely stamp out any new "pest" civilizations....much like how I handle ant colonies behind my house. They get too large or too close...then I knock them out.
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by robodale 6y ago
6 hours of actual heads-in-the-code software dev work. It does vary, sometimes I get nearly 8 hrs, but meetings/etc drop it to the average of 6.
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by robodale 6y ago
I own a swimming pool and do most of my own maintenance and water chemistry. I created https://poolforthought.com as a place to organize my knowledge. I later realized other people want the same info, and now 7 years later it&#
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by robodale 6y ago
skimfeed.com I actually use this site to aggregate HN.
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by robodale 6y ago
Do you read directly from SEC's EDGAR system?
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by robodale 6y ago
This is the answer.
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by robodale 6y ago
The (US) stock market collectively "thinks" the economy will pop back up relatively soon (Q4-ish, 2020). If that rosy picture in the stock market's mind turns out incorrect, then rally go bye bye.
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by robodale 6y ago
I read the title as car-shaming....and thought wow that's a thing?
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by robodale 6y ago
I know a few people that have ~$400K USD leisure boats, and they really are not that large. ...and this is in Iowa, USA, mind you. My point is...you get alot of boat for $17 Million USD.
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by robodale 6y ago
If this goes sour...stock market go down arrow. (It's been propped up on hopes treatments like this will work).
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by robodale 6y ago
What on earth are all those empty office spaces going to be used for if they are vastly underutilized?
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by robodale 6y ago
Very slick UI. Also, very intuitive. I like the countdown...made me feel like "oh crap! I better get started on this task".
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by robodale 6y ago
I was just yesterday contemplating cutting my sides, leaving a fairly proper mullet.
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by robodale 7y ago
I assume this is the real dead cat bounce. Buckle up.
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by robodale 7y ago
I'm right there with you (although I'm 46). I'm doing regular buys into S&P, a little bonds, and even a few blue chip + high dividend individual stocks that have been beat down by the crash. The money I already had in st

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