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by sotojuan 8y ago
Then why comment on this thread at all? This is like someone making a thread saying "How do I do X in Swift?" and I come in and say "I only know Python, so I have no idea LOL!". Was the point of your comment to just comp
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Not only does he probably have a good amount of savings, he can easily get a new job if this experiment fails. It’s a gutsy move I’d never be able to do but not really something he can’t recover from.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Personally I work in the health tech space - specifically a pharmacy. Our customers are people who are able to get cheaper medications and better health help and pharmacy technicians who are more productive due to our software. The job is t
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Doubt it, in the long run. I also question the move from one VC-backed company to another unless you're only using their self hosted options (though I guess being open source is better).
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Keynote to PDF is good enough for me, but note that I make slides max 3 times a year. I don't think I have any templates or anything. I've tried Slides.com and it's great as well.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I really can't understand why you didn't quit as soon as you found out the lack of pay or as soon as you realized your first paycheck was late. In fact, it seems you worked even harder, so I guess the CEO and client got what they
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by sotojuan 8y ago
All blue boards mean is no actual porn or like, gore. You can post people in the underwear or other racy imagery that is not actually safe for work.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Quitting a typical salaryman job is a tough mental and cultural barrier for a lot of Japanese, so the best bet would be to hire new grads or young people. Even then, it might be tougher than it looks. That said, megacorps in Japan offer &qu
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by sotojuan 8y ago
The cynical side of me thinks that companies, particularly in populated areas, don't want to pay for relocation or travel for interviews. Their attitude might be "well, why would we pay for relocation/travel for someone in PA
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Law of the internet says any app that is geared towards friendship will be used for dating or sex, regardless of its marketing or advertising. Even sites/apps like Interpals or HelloTalk, which are 100% focused on language exchange, st
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by sotojuan 8y ago
> It sorely needed an editor. Echoing other's sentiments, it could have been < 1/3 of its length. So like every self help book ever?
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I don't know about China, but at least the Japanese get something out of their crazy work agreement, at least traditional salaryman jobs. Lifetime employment, solid middle class salary forever, pension, etc. Some companies will do your
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by sotojuan 8y ago
Those people don't go on HN. This is a forum mostly comprised of college students, web developers with <5 years experience, Silicon Valley startup/tech company developers, and a few experts that have stuck around.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
They made that decision because it is cheaper, everyone else is doing it, and companies like Facebook "biggest open office plan ever" do it as well.
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by sotojuan 8y ago
The second idea sounds like video games, or at the very least some sort of VR experience that will always be niche. Most people just want to watch a movie, not play it. For VR movie watching in general... I think this should absolutely be a
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by sotojuan 8y ago
I really enjoyed going to the theater to see Isle of Dogs (at Alamo). Sure, it wasn't cheap but the experience was great and it's not much more expensive than the nice dinner + drinks people do every weekend. The problem for movie
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Most high school students, including top students, are in classes where the teacher teaches towards a test (state exam, AP test). Because the actual test follows a format you can game, so does the class. Students therefore learn to write in
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Measuring Duolingo’s quality by kana learning is not a good idea. Kana are so simple you can learn them in a week using any method ever. What Duolingo fails at is the important part of learning Japanese (aside from kanji) - grammar and sent
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Skip the apps and hit the books. Apps aside from Anki are useless. https://djtguide.neocities.org/guide.html
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Not everyone is a programmer in the Valley or East Coast that can just Slack their manager "will be an hour late today because X!" and everything is fine. For the vast majority of people, even white collar employees, not being at
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by sotojuan 9y ago
A big chunk of the tech industry doesn't think in 7+ years long terms. They think in "next seed round" terms. Therefore, they want senior devs now so they build whatever they need to hopefully hit the user count for the next
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yeah. Very eye opening how many of my friends in my age group (early and mid 20s) outside of the tech industry work. And none of them bat an eye - "That's just how it is".
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Another option would be to have more official team, group, or project-based lunches, rather than a free-for-all, where specific members of a team privately invite other specific members of a team. That would just lead to people doing s
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Aside from what was mentioned, hashtags are not standard. You'll get people using "#javascript", "#js, "#nodejs", and "#node". Standardizing tags is possible but requires a lot of moderation time or a
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Most middle class parents who aren't first or second generation immigrants won't even know the answer to this. To them, the answer is "high school counselor" or another similarly uninformed high school individual. Maybe
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Most advice parents or anyone who went to college before say, the mid 90s or before is fairly useless anyway, unless it's study advice. The job market, costs of college, and many other factors are incredibly different. Just as an examp
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by sotojuan 9y ago
You're not wrong! Also doesn't help that the companies managers look up (FB, Google, successfully SV startups) also do open office or similarly had layouts.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> The latter is purely subjective, and aims to pleasure us. A lot of composers of the Classical era such as Haydn would gladly say their music is made for the pleasure of all or as many people as possible ("I write my music in order
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I'm a Mozart (and Haydn) fan and this quote is still correct. I prefer the humanist approach to music of the late 1700s over Bach's. They're all great though :-)
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Get exposure to content not made for learners or beginners (native content) ASAP.

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