swaggyBoatswain

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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
Massages too (massage envy) The tipping there is kind of stupid since they tip at the base cost of the massage even if you get a discount for the membership. Probably going to cancel it given how expensive it's getting
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
100% this Some of these places will also auto add grauituity charges as well for larger parties, and auto select a tip so if you don't look at the bill you could be footing out as much as 40%. Super shady UI practices. I don't wan
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
My last project had a lot of overly brilliant and smart engineers. There was a lot of code consistency on that project, but the app ended up becoming so complex in nature and overengineered that I didn't know where to begin. We added s
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
Middle of no where. There weren't any hills nearby
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Learning Spanish as a Dev – Week 1 thoughts(vincentntang.com)
1 points by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago|1 comments
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
This reminds me of a time when I went to the grand canyon with some buddies. We stayed there for a few days. Then made the drive back to the airport to fly home Along the way to the airport some asshat setup traps along the highway. These w
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
A few steps 1. Meet people smarter than you, could be through meetups or discord etc. The more people you meet, the higher chance of someone you'd meet someone you'd want as a mentor 2. Being active as a mentee. Most people love m
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
Most people I've noticed that are successful and productive in their respective fields have very simple systems. Using simple systems prevents productivity porn, the act of over gardening your tool sheds. It prevents you from wasting t
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
but thats the fun part
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Dealing with Impostor Syndrome(vincentntang.com)
1 points by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago|0 comments
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
This was so poorly written and misleading that I couldn't finish reading it
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by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago
Related, I started a rather successful tech meetup in Tampa, Fl. In just under a year we grew it to 1000 active members. We're expected to hit 30-50k revenue (possibly even higher) as a almost newly nonprofit next year that we're
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Designing the Tampa Devs Logo(vincentntang.com)
2 points by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago|0 comments
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Let Things Burn(vincentntang.com)
1 points by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Favorite tech communities besides Hacker News?
3 points by swaggyBoatswain 4y ago|4 comments
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Event hosting – do not always ask for permission(vincentntang.com)
1 points by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago|0 comments
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Sponsors and Dirty Money(vincentntang.com)
1 points by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago|0 comments
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Tenacity and Life Lessons through the 33% rule(vincentntang.com)
42 points by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago|8 comments
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
https://vincentntang.com Its pretty minimalistic but gets the point across. I forked it from another Gatsby/reactjs theme and modified it to my liking
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
this is super impressive! I was actually looking for alternatives to use over kahoot for my local tech meetup for giving free tshirts, I think I like this more than kahoot I did run into an issue on the scoreboard? at the very end of the se
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
I evaluated flexport along time ago when I used to do importing Basically, if you want to buy goods from China, usually you do it by container load. You rent the container, get a 3pl ( a broker) to arrange the shipments and port If you want
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
Ah yeah that's how my friend described my first house warming... "A giant melting pot" Friends from my hometown. Friends in my new city. Random people I met at a meetup and bars. Some elderly neighbors
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
I did nasal surgery (deviated septum) and I asked around for quotes on how much it'd cost. I was verbally quoted about $2500 out of pocket expenses. I have a really good hdhp plan that covers $1500 hdhp before a 10k max coverage at 90%
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
so I tried to cancel my lastpass account, I didn't find an easy way to cancel my subscription. So I deleted my account instead. Still not sure if I'll be hit with a rebill next year though I don't know if this is becoming the
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
There is, I just did it recently. It's an unncrypted copy paste dump from lastpass into 1password
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
I just look at what my KPIs are (key performance indicators) and maximize those. Management won't tell you what they are, but it's usually the same between companies - making managers look good by stakeholder demos - making sure y
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
Or demoing to stakeholders, gathering business requirements, communicating new content that needs to be received etc. Those are all important reasons to go slower too Moving too fast doesn't benefit anyone
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
Not true. I wrote my own RSS distribution feed for my podcast, codechefs.dev. Every major service integration (Spotify, iTunes, google Podcast, pocketcasts) subscribes to an RSS feed. That's how it knows when a new episode is uploaded.
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Applying to jobs is like dating(vincentntang.com)
2 points by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago|0 comments
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by swaggyBoatswain 5y ago
Question to those in that did this What did you do about your health insurance?

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