thesagan

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by thesagan 9y ago
I'm also going to hop on this train and move away from react. Personally and professionally, I don't like the direction the big players are taking the internet. (The closed, proprietary model.) I suppose there's not much I ca
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by thesagan 9y ago
Just exporting?
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by thesagan 9y ago
I saw it too, it starts as a dark dot at the top of the cloud.
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by thesagan 9y ago
Cost of car ownership = cost of car + insurance + fuel + storage + maintenance + misc tickets and administrative fees.
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by thesagan 9y ago
First couple months I was the most impatient and impulsive. However, my whole life is an effort in staving off boredom and red traffic lights, so I try and practice mindful meditation every day to stay patient and "still" in my mi
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by thesagan 9y ago
Mindfulness, and studying the little details of your immediate surroundings. Meditation on-the-spot. When I realized how dependent I became on the phone for my well-being I decided to go through a painful-ish withdrawal to get back my own s
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by thesagan 9y ago
I have a cheap-as-costanza dumb phone with texting which has served me very well. I definitely need a phone! Can't whistle that loudly.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I have a little widget similar to this hooked on my keychain for AWS: https://safenet.gemalto.com/multi-factor-authentication/auth...
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by thesagan 9y ago
I do miss the camera sometimes. :(
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by thesagan 9y ago
I did – I love it!!!! And a great suggestion. I already have three pocket-sized notebooks filled up already with tons of art and ideas from my fountain pen! (Love that pen. Now I write in a crude Spencerian script for extra fun points.)
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by thesagan 9y ago
I lost mine about six months ago and I haven't replaced it. First couple months I noticed I got VERY irritable when I got a momentary flash of boredom, especially waiting in line in stores, etc. Figured that might've been a buddin
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by thesagan 9y ago
100% – I think this is a shortsighted move predicated by fear and it will backfire (hopefully). Google probably wants/expects to remain dominate forever, and that's very hard to do in this space without becoming a problem yourself
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by thesagan 9y ago
AMP is pretty much mandatory. If you don't do it you're "left behind."
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by thesagan 9y ago
> No, they're trying to protect their bottom line. Same thing. Maybe your words are better said. > If they wanted to they could easily compute a page weight : content ratio and penalize severely on that alone. Agreed.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I agree, too. I have the feeling Google is trying to protect the Internet but that this is a heavy-handed approach that actually makes developing on the open web less attractive. I don't see a lot of praise for AMP, and I'm not su
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by thesagan 9y ago
Right? Sometimes I wonder about sticking around in this business.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I kind of like having a selection to choose from, like restaurants. I even still like the older, less-polished ones from time-to-time. (As long as the food checks out, which is pretty easy to handle.) Same with online retailing – I like the
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by thesagan 9y ago
Show off strong outer armor and a soft, furry underbelly – I find this does well for me in interviews, as well!
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by thesagan 9y ago
Same for me. I really don't like breakfast foods, and it's very difficult to grab a burger in the morning. Every place seems to serve the same boring morning breakfast until 10:30am. (And McD's breakfast seems overpriced for
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by thesagan 9y ago
Straight consulting... probably not that much, I suppose, but you still need enough to carry you through a couple rough quarters (at least) to retain and serve a steady pipeline of clientele, and be able to account for payment scheduling is
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by thesagan 9y ago
This works if you're young (health insurance is expensive, working/traveling away from family), have resources (for those unexpected expenses, and the slow payers), and are able to take your work with you on vacation (important cu
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by thesagan 9y ago
He asked how is that related to gender?
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by thesagan 9y ago
A pattern I notice on this site, and reddit: that it's far easier to ask left-and-right for evidence than it is producing your own or going on a limb to make a point in your own words. Is open discussion discouraged on HN? Now, I don&#
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by thesagan 9y ago
You bet, the system as it is needs real reform! My previous post uses the word "kinks" and I don't mean to minimize the problem we have today. Old capitalist thinking seems out of date, and this does feel like late-stage.
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by thesagan 9y ago
I have concerns as well. My own suspicion is that UBI would give policymakers a mighty political carrot-and-stick; debating the morality of certain spending habits, etc., and slowly de-universalizing UBI into something with strings attached
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by thesagan 9y ago
"Fair and balanced?"
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by thesagan 9y ago
I'd like to see more data that counteracts the data I keep seeing: 1. Baby boomers are not retiring at the levels previously expected, and they're not retiring (and slowing down promotions for juniors). 2. Marriage rates are lowe
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by thesagan 9y ago
Yeah, I think this one of the great oversights of the higher ed discussion: the near collapse of much of the public school system "outcome profile". Sounds like we're trying to bandaid that with a declining uni system, too.
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by thesagan 9y ago
To be more precise I think blue collar culture is pointing out conceit and arrogance when it refers to a class of people in an "ivory tower" – they're just pointing out a perceived hypocrisy/hubris. They're leveled
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by thesagan 9y ago
I think the risk/return profiles are very different between those two types of financial instruments. And the goals and incentives for lenders [generally] aren't the same for young, individual investors, anyhow.

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