sotojuan

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by sotojuan 8y ago
reddit ads aren't very profitable as most of the userbase is probably logged out or just goes to /r/all. reddit also houses tons of NSFW and controversial content which probably scares some companies away, even if their ads w
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by sotojuan 8y ago
In the case of Facebook, there's no judgement or moral side to take. They broke the rules Apple set when allowing Facebook to be in the App Store and use internal enterprise certificates. Objectively, Apple's behavior was fair.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
This applies to almost every self help or business help book popular nowadays. I just listen to or read summaries.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
The book is good, but could've been one long blog post. It also sadly is not very relevant for many workers. Dr Newport is a tenured, famous professor. He sets his own schedule and probably works by himself. I'm an average tech wo
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Safari is my main browser when I am not working with frontend stuff and it's perfectly fine.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I've come to the same conclusion also by age 25, even though I have no children, am not married, or are religious. Building software is enjoyable and I do my best, but I work to support a lifestyle I enjoy and be financially secure.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I guess my point is that in my anecdotal experience, parents homeschooled kids to "protect" them from regular society. Ergo, they were very sheltered and only able to socialize within the church. If it works for them, great, not h
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by sotojuan 8y ago
In my experience growing up the homeschooled kids were usually from very religious families who did not want their kids being social with the general population, so you have a point there. I wonder how a "regular" family that happ
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by sotojuan 8y ago
My #1 thing would be learning databases and data modeling - most of the time I've made mistakes at work has been because of a bad data model. Most of the time I've made slow software was because I lacked understanding of SQL queri
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I get the sentiment but if you want to be able to point to things that you built years ago software is probably the worst career to take. We shutdown, delete, replace, and rewrite our work all the time. The small amount stuff that lasts ove
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I pay for software pretty often. Most of of it is $10-15 max unless it's professional tools. That's not a lot of money for me. Most recently, I paid for the Mac version of Soulver ( https://www.acqualia.com/soulver&
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Because we're one of the few industries where you can make six figures before age 30 without working yourself to death or going to school for a decade. We have the opportunity to save a ton of money years before others. In general most
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Python. It mostly stays out of my way. I guess I like that about it but I’m definitely not a “Pythonista”.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Not newspapers but I subscribe to or regularly purchase Monocle and Delayed Gratification.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
While grandparent's comment shows an extreme situation, I agree with the quote. I occasionally see comments here complaining about the ephemerality of the work we do... but I see no other alternative outside of a few domains. I fully a
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Rule of thumb - outside the original lists by Sindre Sorhus, most "awesome" GitHub lists are of very poor quality and curation. They're made with good intentions but rarely checked or updated.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I’m debt free as of December 14 so 2019 will be all about having sizable savings. Pretty easy. Aiming for six months but won’t stop at that.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Exercise and sleep better.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Tech: * Programming Phoenix, latest edition. I plan on launching a side project with Phoenix in 2019. * The Rust Programming Language. I want to build simple CLIs in Rust as my gateway into the language - will use what I lean here to do it.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I exclusively listen to The Great Courses courses on Audible. They're usually 20+ hours long, expensive but can be redeemed with a credit, and high quality. They have everything - music (Greenberg's How to Listen to and Understand
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by sotojuan 8y ago
In my experience NYC is way more quiet at 6am than 1am, even residential neighborhoods. It’s also not super dark out (outside of winter).
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I don't dislike them nor did they stop me from reading the article but they were all superfluous. That said, so are most words in blog posts anyway so it's all good.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Going to start running and exercising in general. A lot of my older coworkers (40+) didn't exercise at all after high school PE class and they aren't a pretty sight. I paid off all my student loans last week - 2019 will be all abo
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by sotojuan 8y ago
It has. Everyone uses computers now for less technical tasks, and some pretty much only use their phone or tablet.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
This was a problem I had with the book. Newport is a tenured professor - he can do what he wants when he wants. I can sort of get deep work time done but it’s not always at the same time or as long as I plan it to be.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
A lot of Python/Django from work, Japanese by myself, and a lot about art and history from reading.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Read history, art, music, etc. books - books on topics you're interested in? I read tons of nonfiction and I never have this problem.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I forward all my UPS packages to a local grocery store and pick up from there. If I don't do this, UPS will try to deliver up to 3 times and then leave it in a remote warehouse for me to pick up. I think if you have get the note, you c
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Always puzzled with tech worker’s constant need for self help books. Go read history or a novel every now and then!
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Enjoying life and what it has to offer is a more “productive” use of our time in this earth than being in hustle mode 24/7.

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