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by sotojuan 9y ago
Sublime because it's fast, does what I want, and I've been using it since 2012... lot of muscle memory and am too just used to it. I do have Vim keybindings on but I'm a light user of them. I haven't tried much else, hon
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> You need to compare the difference in CoL as the percentage of that salary that goes towards CoL. Great insight. Here in NYC, I know a few frugal programmers who share a 2 bedroom with a friend such that he pays about 25% of his income
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I guess Cirno counts, her name starts with C!
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Programming Rust is currently ~$50 new on Amazon ($30 digital)... if you don't mind it being digital this is a bargain. I wonder why they decided to put this on there considering it just came out, but what a great thing.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Saving movies to disk makes a lot of sense - I like not having to rely on either a big company's services or library nor some sketchy, slow illegal streaming site. Not to mention a vast number of movies are not available for streaming
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I hope torrents stay strong. No way I could've cultivated my love for films and music without Karagarga and What/Redacted, respectively.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
This. I mute all my channels except #engineering (and if it was noisy I'd mute it too). If anything is urgent, people can mention or DM me. I also turn off notifications when I'm busy.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yep. Any article or post about Facebook on this site is largely negative or full of self-congratulatory "I quit FB" posts. Neither attitude is _wrong_ but you are not going to be a balanced view point about Facebook's user ba
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by sotojuan 9y ago
"Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".
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Is your work meaningful?(lobste.rs)
3 points by sotojuan 9y ago|0 comments
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Definitely would love this in NYC!
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by sotojuan 9y ago
This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fair
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by sotojuan 9y ago
To be fair, a lot of tech company offices are not much quieter than a WeWork e.g. open plan office/many places I've seen put engineers right next to people that have to be on phones all day.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Nothing worse than the standard American corporate building restroom system - each floor has one or two bathrooms per gender and each company has to give keys to the employees when they go to the bathroom. Aside from being annoying (how man
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Author lives in the Bay Area so he's using Bay Area salary numbers.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I can't understand why someone over 25 that has a decent career (assuming you are a programmer since it's HN) would still care about what some chad from high school is doing. Worrying about how "unfair" life is is an ene
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Hardly a waste of time unless you're driving your own car. So, like most Americans and thus most of people reading and commenting on HN? Also, while a train commute is way better than a car commute, being home is better than both.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Meh. Last year I spent ~500 hours playing JRPGs. Enjoyed all of that. It's only a waste of time if it's getting in the way of your ogoals. For me, I had nothing else I wanted to do with that free time.
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A new way to join the Recurse Center community(recurse.com)
4 points by sotojuan 9y ago|0 comments
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Private trackers have not slowed down at all.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
If Japan isn't doing it, then I am guessing Americans don't either. You barely see 3DSs outside anymore. Personally I don't bring my Switch outside because it cost a lot of money, while my 3DS was $100 used. Kind of a weird a
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Maybe hindsight is 20/20, but the only people that thought phone games would replace console/PC "real" games were people that aren't gamers.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Most HN users live in urban areas. Here in NYC your average check out line is people on their phones and/or with headphones on. And before you say NYC is an outlier, it was the same when I lived in semi-rural suburban Texas.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Throughout history, "the marketplace" had been one of the major centers of interpersonal interaction If you shop at Whole Foods, Target, Trader Joe's, Kroger, etc. this has never been true for you, unless by social inter
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Difference is that tech poses itself as "new" (i.e. different from old, traditional things/companies) and its leaders (actual business magnates or your average CEO) either indirectly or directly talk about making the world&#x
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Ironically, the suburb/city of LA my parents live in (Glendale) felt extremely walkable and not suffocating. My parents live in a residential area that looks like your average American suburb - no stores, just houses and cars. But if y
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Agreed. I would feel suffocated if I lived in Midtown Manhattan. In my Brooklyn neighborhood the density feels fairly low (10-15 visible in the street). Green space isn't great for most but I happen to live two blocks from a park. Many
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I see your but many students will end up using PHP for work. In my NYC college a good amount of people I graduated with are doing PHP, there's probably more PHP jobs between the coasts. I think Lisp or Scheme is great for that kind of
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I mean, it's Mental Floss...
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by sotojuan 9y ago
They are talking about the Rickroll meme which did start in 2007 when people in /v/ would post a link to it saying it was a GTAIV trailer.

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