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by scottlilly 13y ago
For most countries that I'm aware of, when you apply for permanent residency you need to submit a criminal background check from your home country. They don't want to let in fugitives or violent criminals. For US citizens, that me
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by scottlilly 13y ago
You're 100% correct about the incredible amount of bureaucracy for getting residency in Uruguay. After almost a year of waiting, and being told it would probably be at least another six months to a year to have my residency completed,
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by scottlilly 13y ago
Sadly (I'm a Windows developer), it's almost all Android here in Paraguay. I spoke with a couple local companies that do mobile development and the biggest problem is still the cost of hardware. That's even though Paraguay do
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by scottlilly 13y ago
No. US -> Paraguay. I'm still surprised how much happier I am in Paraguay, even though I'm a programmer who loves efficient systems, rules, and well-defined processes - and none of those describe my new home country.
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by scottlilly 13y ago
I have a similar feeling regarding PvP games. Not so much for any simulated violence, but rather for reinforcing the zero-sum philosophy of, "For me to win, another human being has to lose." However, I don't feel the same about many non-RPG
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by scottlilly 13y ago
It sounds like we need to start a club. I moved to Paraguay a couple years ago and have been going through some of the same types of stresses and emotions. I spend my mornings working alone, in my apartment, on a personal project that will
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by scottlilly 13y ago
I also picked up IntelliJ this time around. Even though I mostly do .Net development, it's too good an offer to pass up. This gives me an excuse to translate some of my libraries to Java.
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by scottlilly 14y ago
My doctor did something similar for me. I have constant pain due to a small lesion in my CNS. The doctor tried some anti-depressants and even a couple of very old anti-psychotics. The idea was that, even though I would still mentally regi
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by scottlilly 14y ago
I'd be concerned about running an online casino with a .com domain. The US government has a track record of seizing domains. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-...
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by scottlilly 14y ago
My main goal for this month is to start applying lean manufacturing principles to my life. I'll be recording all my activities (on paper, since I'm probably the last programmer without an iPhone or Android device), the results of my effort
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by scottlilly 14y ago
They don't see the similarity because they are, in fact, different. If my house catches on fire, and someone doesn't put it out, there is a reasonable chance it will spread to other houses. So it's a societal issue - at least at the local
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by scottlilly 14y ago
I once wrote a program that stored complex rules in a database (what was required for different types of legal documents, in thousands of different jurisdictions across the country). The table names I used made the relations obvious, but t
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by scottlilly 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (unless you happen to be located in Paraguay) It may not be what the cool kids are working on, but if you need a reliable .Net back-end system that can handle large amounts of data, then we should talk. Most of my work
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by scottlilly 14y ago
Inspired by this post, I went to the website of a company I worked for back in 1999-2000. The login screen for the first "real" web app I ever wrote looks exactly like I left it. The company was in a bind with some contractors who were dev