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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Stay loyal, but always keep your options open. Never stop networking, never stop exploring new opportunities.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
England?
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
The Mythical Man-Month is REQUIRED reading for anyone who might ever come close to estimating a software project in any setting. +++++1
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Mater Pater
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
The title alone makes me all "Yissssssssssssss".
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
This reminds me of reading _why's stuff back in the day. Bravo.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
For remote workers within the United States, this is one of the best ways to perform currency arbitrage. Work for company in high cost area, live in low cost area. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, go work remotely from Mexico
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
I believe Pivotal will actually come out of this amazingly. With GE and IBM money fueling Cloud Foundry (an amazing PaaS), I would imagine Pivotal to be the best positioned here.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
For me, the value I get from StackExchange is that potential employers see me as more valuable. GitHub stars and open source commits are all forms of social currency and in my opinion, are worth way more than inflated USDs.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Also top 20 financial institutions, USG orgs and places that store your healthcare and tax information ;-) I'd argue that a good number of startups these days (especially ones borne out of larger organizations with lots of combined exp
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It's Financial Suicide to Own a House(linkedin.com)
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Who Makes Below Minimum Wage on Mechanical Turk?(priceonomics.com)
74 points by xacaxulu 11y ago|57 comments
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
This is strong medicine, but the reports around ayahuasca, ibogaine, psilocybin, DMT and peyote all indicate the possibility of deep and lasting positive psychological shifts. I'd personally submit to treatment in the safety of a psych
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Yay. Solving the important problems of our lifetime...</sarcasm>
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Mostly agree, but I would argue that requiring animal protein could be optional, especially with the follow-on climactic effects that raising so much animal meat causes. There are a number of cultures and sub-groups that are perfectly healt
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
It doesn't seem surprising that Zillow is pump-and-dumping in an already extremely bubbly market.
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One could argue that some the worst things happen precisely when you think you have god on your side. In the paraphrased words of Christopher Hitchens, "The suicide bombing communities and the child genital mutilation communities are a
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
TheLastPsychiatrist explains expertly why the whole form of this argument is wrong in a post questioning Randi Zuckerberg. It's well worth reading, especially if you are considering the benefits of opting out of Facebook (and I strongl
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
>That’s 95 percent of Americans — who are utterly wrong. Sad, funny and completely unsurprising. At least this writer understands his profession's complicity in the stultifying of America.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
#IStandWithElon
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Well, he had the added benefit of not living in California and hence not being taxed to death. Additionally there is the idea that working on something exciting and dangerous is much more intellectually enriching than pumping out some featu
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Amongst other things, the UN has some extremely dangerous leftist (like farrrrr left) tendencies, bordering on dystopian nanny-statist ideas. It's almost considered a cabal in political circles that I've worked in. Christopher Hit
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Pleasantly surprised that this bit of frivolity didn't swing towards the direction the PC mob would have liked.
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Good thing mine are in a non-US based wallet :-)
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
This is a great article. Unfortunately he's dead on about all the Bootcamp/Dev schools out there (and I attended one of the first). It has heavily diluted the market and Rails is almost the new HTML. I sensed this years ago and st
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
Attention all poor Southern states desperate for new revenue sources who coincidentally refuse to legalize, QC and tax something that people are already producing, trafficking, distributing and consuming inside your borders.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
I probably would have killed myself if it wasn't for pot and video games when I was younger.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
As soon as French salaries come ANYWHERE CLOSE to similar salaries in London or the US or even Berlin, then maybe I'd consider it. France just isn't competitive on the salary front, hence the brain drain.
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
The Nanny State didn't Show Up, You Hired It. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3095062/posts
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by xacaxulu 11y ago
More evidence that school serves to simply stultify the youth. Unschooling is looking more attractive all the time.

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