wildmindwriting

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by wildmindwriting 6y ago
I did an 83b when stock options were granted since I was a very early employee. Paid $30 for 30,000 shares, which then went through a 10-to-1 split, so I had 300,000 shares. But, in the end, we went bankrupt and I received nothing. Wasn&#x2
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by wildmindwriting 6y ago
The Financial Gym | REMOTE | Front & Back End Developers/TPM/QA Engineer | https://financialgym.com/ The Financial Gym is putting the ‘personal’ back into ‘personal finance’. We take a fitness-inspired approac
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
I write about personal things, fiction writing, and tech over at https://www.wildmind.io . It's been a minute since my last post because new job, new city... Also built in Hugo and deployed to Netlify. I keep going back and
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
I believe in being careful with words, for sure, but having to modify and monitor every piece of publicly accessible content because it may be triggering or aggressive is just too much. I feel like I must mention that I am a left-wing, ve
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
I think this is often what Gary Vee is misjudged on. I've listened to more than a few of his talks, read his books, and find his message is that you should throw your all in, if that's what you want . If you want to have your Sat
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
I switched because I've done a lot of WordPress development over the years and I wanted to learn something else. Liking it better is because it's a far simpler set-up for me: no database, write in the terminal, don't have to
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
What a lovely comment to read. Thank you! Netlify has taken the pain of maintaining a server away.
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
You know, I've been using the Bitbucket & Netlify ecosystem for my Wild Mind[1] website for a little over a year. I moved from a self-install of WordPress on Digital Ocean to the Victor Hugo[2] boilerplate and then used my own them
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
Does this not imply that your "way" is the "correct way"? As frustrating as teams, peers, and different stakeholders are, they make the thing we are building better. Yes, group think doesn't produce the best results
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by wildmindwriting 7y ago
I like your site design (and the most recent article), particularly the side/margin notes. I had done a similar thing on a previous incarnation of my own site but eventually decided to keep them in the footnotes section so that the foc
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I also work in Boston and have done so since 2010. My experience has been the same as yours. A little over 15 years of experience, worked at a fairly well-known Boston startup, now in a VP level at a digital agency and I was also shocked at
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
Personally, I do hope you are right and that the direction this country is moving toward a more egalitarian society where a pre-existing condition doesn't mean a death sentence and that we have social programs in place in order to supp
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
> It is clear to me that 2020 or later there will be a more socialist America, whether the Americans like it or not. And that could be good for America. I'm not entirely sure. We (I'm American) have an attitude of what befalls
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I have also found this to be the case too. Most people would rather have a GUI before even touching the command line. Most notably is Git; every single one of my developers use Sourcetree and if I have to help them with something, I always
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I'm only on the fourth video so far in his class but already I'm finding it useful, if for nothing other than having validation that it's okay to write the kind of stories you want to write. It's also quite interesting t
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I read this article and saw only a wistful look back at the past, contrasting with her life now. I didn't detect any sort of sadness. I read her coming to the realization that she's happy as she is, a single woman in her forties.
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
No, not all. My IdeaPad works just fine with similar specs and it's older than the XPS.
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I do have the Developer Edition. It may not be officially supported but everything works out of the box. I've got a personal IdeaPad laptop from years ago that has a worse configuration but doesn't freeze like this Dell.
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I have a 2017 13" XPS running Solus Linux. I have come to abhor this machine. I can't tell you the amount of times I've had to reboot the computer due to frozen or halting apps. I only have 8GB of RAM so that might be it but
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I have noticed the female SWE are in the minority in the Boston/Cambridge area, too. At my first company in Boston, I was the first and only female programmer for a good year and it wasn't for lack of trying to hire more. I don&#x
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
This is the same thing that happened to me. It got to be such a bear to boot up that I eventually moved to Solus, which is a lovely, snappy, refreshing distribution. Really enjoying it. Beware of 18!
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
I think the reason why Facebook is used is due to the ease of setup and management of the group. Rather than installing forum software, paying for hosting, etc., it's just easier to use Facebook Groups. And, as adrianratnapala wrote, I
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
This is the one problem I have with not having a Facebook account. There are one or two groups that I would like to be a member of but their online forum is only available through their Facebook group. Not ever having an account with Fb pre
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. That book embodies so much: love, redemption, justice, perceived justice, human growth, rebellion, religion...it can be a hard slog of a read at times but Hugo really gives his characters space to
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
* Writing on a consistent basis is both rewarding and eye-opening. * Bumbling a tech interview can still bowl me over and make me feel inadequate, even though I've been in tech for 15 years. * International travel is life-changing. See
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by wildmindwriting 8y ago
This too was a problem for me (and sometimes continues to be). I've been using `hosts` ( https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts ) to block all of the social sites so I have to rethink my decision to visit one. It&#x27
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by wildmindwriting 9y ago
I wanted to add a number 4 to your list and that is the user experience to the client. I work in a digital agency and our main focus is on WordPress (after coming from the start-up world, this is sometimes painful for me). But, the ubiquity