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by smarri 5y ago
London's good, fintech is doing well. Plenty of interesting things to do and see in the city, lots of different industries all collide here, plus the regulators are all here too. Very international city. Cost of living is expensive lik
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I'm in my mid 30s and decided to move country, I gave myself almost a year to get sorted (find a job, house, etc) and it's given me something to look forward to. It's also a challenge that's kept me busy. This might not
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by smarri 5y ago
Awesome video and thanks for the list, I was just going to write that down and you saved me a job.
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I remember from when you posted this before, I think it's great, nice work!
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I find I'm competitive with myself rather than trying to do better than others, consistently trying to be better than I was. I think it's partly as I have stretching goals I want to achieve in life, partly because I didn't ha
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I've seen lead Node developers get paid very well.
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Just commenting to say I have just applied for an online masters (part time 3 years) in software development. It's a conversion course for people without a computer science undergrad. It's around $10,000. From a respected universi
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Ask HN: Have you done a masters conversion degree for software development?
1 points by smarri 5y ago|0 comments
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High volumes of chargebacks are an indication of fraud which is a larger issue than the fees. Especially if a processor uses a big bank to use the payment rails, the bank will monitor fraud levels of the processors and will exit a processor
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Both of these are slightly over 100 but; Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway Both gave me an appreciation of the writers that led me to read more of their work which ultimately made chan
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3 months, no they haven't and I've spoken to the owner of the company since then. They aren't worried about it at all as far as I can tell.
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Same happened to me. I just treat it as my own property now.
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I recent played Onward, the War Sim on the Oculus Rift. I learned that I greatly increase my team's chance of winning if we work as a team and communicate. Going solo/Rambo was not the optimal strategy.
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A way I try to manage various interests is to set a goal and think of that interest as a project. So if it's guitar, learn a tricky tab that will take a month or so to get the hang of, or mobile app development would be create an MVP,
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by smarri 5y ago
An indefinite obligation is unreasonable, I'd ask them to reduce that to 2 years.
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by smarri 6y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: What are your go-to sources for cutting edge tech updates?
4 points by smarri 6y ago|3 comments
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London
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I spent 9 months in the Balkans region in my early 20s and later in life I had 5 years of work travel which took me all over the world. Both are some of the best times on my life, and two very different experiences. I'd recommend it to
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by smarri 6y ago
You can connect a personal account to Square too.
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by smarri 6y ago
A colleague of mine makes over $100k a year buying and selling art in his spare time.
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I would advise to spend the next 10 years getting as much varied experience as possible, through travel, work, friendships, relationships, self learning and so on. Try to form a broad idea of what you want from your life, and move on that d
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by smarri 6y ago
Yes I believe he is a web developer or something :)
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Ask HN: What would you do with 5 weeks off?
3 points by smarri 6y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Should you be loyal to a company/job?
1 points by smarri 6y ago|7 comments
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Gocardless is built specifically for recurring payments. Former YC company.
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I think this is great, I found a few good threads and articles this morning that I missed. Ironically the first was about spending too much time online :)
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For brevity my friend.
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Deepfake Queens Christmas Message(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by smarri 6y ago|3 comments
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My hypothesis would be look to modern day science fiction to get an idea about the future. Shows like Black Mirror & Devs, and I'm sure many others have curious ideas about the near to mid future. There are some examples of early 2

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