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by totalrobe 10y ago
5x? If you hustled, sales in many industries should have gotten you to six figures in 8 years.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
The iPhone itself may be a small part (depending on your budget) but wireless plan costs also vary widely. I know that UK/EU plans are substantially cheaper than the US where many pay $150+ per month for a couple lines.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Yep, NYC to EU isn't too bad but from the DC area $700 roundtrip to europe is a great price.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
In my experience, $400 in airfare from the US will get you about as far as mexico.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
I think the point you are trying to make is that complex traditional businesses supported by modern tech will continue to grow. Flexport is not a tech company. It's a traditional freight forwarder/customs brokerage masquerading as
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by totalrobe 10y ago
These calculations never seem to include future increases in rent..and the incalculable costs of dealing with shitty landlords or property managers.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
What's your point? If you can afford to rent a manhattan penthouse, you could afford a house pretty much anywhere on earth. You're just bragging..this article isn't about choosing to live in the city or the burbs - it's
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by totalrobe 11y ago
>swings in demand when a cloud rolls through town Reminded me of this article about abrupt power swings during commercial breaks in the UK: http://www.geek.com/news/tea-time-in-britain-causes-predicta... They solved
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Does nobody here remember early Saturday morning cartoons?! Transformers, Thundercats, Spiderman...before parents got up and the chores started..
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by totalrobe 11y ago
I think all individuals have to build social skills to bring to towards 'socially normal', and it varies from where on the spectrum they started. Very outgoing and empathetic people have to learn to tone it down and vice versa. It
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by totalrobe 11y ago
They don't go into details on available jobs but I would speculate that these graduates are working in either in hospitality/food service, which recovered after katrina, or petroleum, which increased dramatically with the expansio
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Very wrong. American here, was in the UK last summer and it physically hurt me to buy anything. UK and American prices are around the same number but in pounds which meant ~1.6x USD at the time.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
NOLA is oil, food, and booze. No tech options unless you're in Chem/Process Engg.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Wow, so accepting a high paying engineering job with a consumer tech company is now immoral? It's not like they're building weapons like the majority of tech on the east coast.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
From personal experience, it's better to try to make a move within a related industry - for example if she has law experience, look for software companies that create applications and systems used in the law world. She could probably m
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by totalrobe 11y ago
If one likes to argue in circles on the internet, maybe one should look into some philosophy/logic classes?
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by totalrobe 11y ago
First, they are not learning comp science. The article states they are learning to code HTML/PHP/JS. Second, we do all learn biology....that's fairly standard high school and college curriculum. Third, I would argue that basi
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by totalrobe 11y ago
>If we're not at peak computer science already, we're very close to it. Is there a 'peak' reading/writing ability? Just because the majority can write doesn't mean they can pump out award winning novels. On
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Atlassian Confluence is also great. It's built around planning and idea/document management but has a lot of social elements like a company-wide questions board, a blog, notifications (@user), etc.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
To further the confusion, under the 'Personal' option it says you can have either one 2GB or two 1GB servers...so is it two or unlimited? edit I'm assuming they are trying to convey that you quickly can spin instances up an
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by totalrobe 11y ago
In SDLC terms, college is an education delivered via the waterfall method whereas the workplace requires a continuing agile process.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Venture capital is important, but don't forget that the recent private space ventures have piggybacked on 50 years of government funded technologies...same as pretty much the entire modern IT industry that developed out of military and
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by totalrobe 11y ago
I think the point is that the developer should attempt to understand what the client actually needs and act intelligently to determine what tools or technologies would be best for the job.
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Totally understand what you're saying, but instead of even attempting to tackle any of the issues he mentions, pg just comes across in this as "I am rich because I'm productive and if I couldn't earn a lot of money I wou
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by totalrobe 11y ago
It does imply that, actually. This is a life or death topic for millions worldwide and he decided to trample all over by making an argument in a vacuum. There is a great deal of circumstance, nepotism, and luck that goes into success, and t
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Truth. His last essay actually hurt me pretty personally. There aren't too many figures in the business or tech world that I actually admire, and I was really disappointed when a guy that has been this lucky is too scared to acknowledg
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Same
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Many high achievers grow up in a bubble through high school and many not understand if their behavior comes off as extremely creepy until they interact more widely and get negative reactions. I'm saying maybe it's better to learn
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by totalrobe 11y ago
The 'broken background' anecdote sounds nice, but the majority (>50%) of the forbes 400 these days comes from upper middle class backgrounds. These kids are the majority at elite schools which are feeders for the best career op
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by totalrobe 11y ago
Well I'd never personally buy a brand new Thinkpad. Against a new mac or dell it's not a super great deal. But if you like to tinker, Thinkpad is really your only option. It has widely available and inexpensive user replaceable co

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