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by sockgrant 9y ago
What? Did we read the same article? The one I read didn't say "exercise is good for you". It distinguished between 3 forms of exercise and the interesting results they had on young and old people. That's hardly a dead ho
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by sockgrant 10y ago
Whaaaat? Maybe you're not that into video games. Valve helped define a generation of gaming. You can't tell the history of video games without devoting some time to them. Box is a great company but I don't think it's as
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by sockgrant 10y ago
True, but this isn't unique to Traveling. Doing anything in long unbalanced timeframes becomes monotonous.
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by sockgrant 10y ago
Some people live to travel and to constantly have exciting new experiences and care more about that than having enough money to buy the latest iphone, enjoy artesian bread for breakfast, or have a nice apartment with a view and plush furnit
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by sockgrant 10y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by sockgrant 10y ago
Agreed. Checkout RxJS to hold you over while you're in Javascript land.
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by sockgrant 11y ago
That's one of the few examples that hasn't burned developer trust. But it's still not a shining example -- there were times of price changes and rate limit changes.
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by sockgrant 11y ago
Absolutely. I have categorically declined all recruitment e-mails from Comcast. There's no way I would work for them unless I was starving. I hope the rest of you feel the same...
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by sockgrant 11y ago
Criticism of all of the people offering advice on how to find a mentor but missing the fact that OP really wants them to offer to mentor.
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by sockgrant 11y ago
ITT: No one offering to mentor.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Turn it off?
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Paul -- I'm sorry there's so much hate in the comments. Thanks for posting this and thanks for sharing what you've learned :)
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Congrats! That's awesome :)
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Similar to this, at Google they do "snippets". Every week they write a short e-mail blurb about what they accomplished last week and what they plan to complete this week. I gave this method a try and it's been great. It helps
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Yeah. I agree with you. Just saying each side has a valid point. As employee 10+ with 0.5% equity, there's no chance I'm going to work as much as a founder. But as a founder or a very early employee, I'm going to try to hire
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by sockgrant 12y ago
I'm strongly in your camp. However, to play devils advocate, a founder has to make the company the focus of their life. They're gonna be working long hours, 6-7 days a week, with little to no vacation. There's diminishing ret
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by sockgrant 12y ago
They announced the end of archiving of videos a few months ago. So there's nothing really to get off of your account.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Sure. But they also have the right to hangup (which is what the rep said he'd do). I believe the law is that you have to notify the other party that you are recording, otherwise it can't be used in court.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Yeah, exactly :| I had asked him to send the contract over, he said he'd send the contract but that they don't put the plan (e.g. "unlimited data") in the contract. Sure sounds shady and worthy of better business bureau.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
I have tethering. I'm a remote employee and I work from coffee shops, other cities, etc. so I use my tethering connection for work (software) when I can't get wifi.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Thanks for the info about 2 and 3. For 4, he "promised" me multiple times that they would keep unlimited data in my new contract. He said they just wanted me moved to the new network. Messed up, if they're actually trying to
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Ask HN: Verizon unlimited data plans getting customer calls?
6 points by sockgrant 12y ago|17 comments
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by sockgrant 12y ago
My take was that the author was talking about situations where people say "I _need_ to take a holiday" with the implication that work is too much for them right now. E.g. a holiday for the sake of getting away from a burnout work
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by sockgrant 12y ago
Holy fucking pedantics, It's too bad people are focusing on REST. This API makes me want to have a Tesla. There are so many interesting apps/utilities that can be made with this!
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by sockgrant 12y ago
You will feel like that and it's a good thing. There's plenty of life outside of an 8hr/day desk job. Don't be afraid :) Your desk job will always be there.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
It sounds like OP just wanted to play video games. I've been there in my life, so I can relate. However, it's a tragic use of time that could be spent exploring the world. I did 3 months backpacking in America's best national
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by sockgrant 12y ago
I did funemployment for 3 months, too (11 months, if you consider part time work). This is a great post on it. OP really hit the nail on the head -- one of the hardest parts of the time off is not having work-related goals and being OK with
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by sockgrant 12y ago
He's didn't mean obligatory was the wrong word. He's saying we could have done without the xkcd.
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by sockgrant 12y ago
> I don't think culture has anything to do with it. Yah, I guess this is where we're missing each other. See, I believe that if you put 2 west coast americans in a room, their morals, likes/dislikes, and goals are more lik
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by sockgrant 12y ago
I think this is the hardest part about doing this. But I try to find other productive things to do while things are compiling. - Write code comments - Write tests - Have a separate code checkout where you can work on another feature. - Rese

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