BSousa

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by BSousa 11y ago
If you are right, then his point about discriminating is moot. Seems more like he can't find a job he wants, and dismiss others that would be happy to hire him. I can say: "I want to work in Haskel, making games for the Wii U, fro
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by BSousa 11y ago
But they pay pennies compared to London. What you save on rent you lose on income. I get a lot of recruiter spam from UK recruiters, but truth be told, don't think I've ever got an email where the minimum offered was lower than £4
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by BSousa 11y ago
Quick question since you have a few kids. Is real Wyoming a good place for them in terms of school and future? (really asking, no idea as I live on the other side of the pond). I work from home so I can move anywhere, and a more rural/
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by BSousa 11y ago
I agree. I work remotely and do this a lot with team members, but when people suggest pair programming, they are (usually) referring to 2 seats on 1 keyboard kind of thing, which I hate and would probably quit if I had to do it on a day to
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by BSousa 11y ago
See, this is where 'different strokes' thing comes in handy. I HATE HATE HATE pair programming. If you tell me I have to do 1 hour of pair programming on a job interview, I won't go. Not because I'll get nervous or anyth
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by BSousa 11y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I don't think you should stop posting photos from your trips just because you are 'afraid' you will be pissing off your friends. They can always unfollow you (or whatever FB allows you to do, I'
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by BSousa 11y ago
For me, StackExchange's 'reputation' is inversely correlated with that. Don't want to attack the contributors, but honestly, the higher levels of reputation just either show me that he either has too much free time outsi
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by BSousa 11y ago
You move to Europe? ;)
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by BSousa 11y ago
I think there are two options that play in your favour: a) be honest, but when they ask (and they will) why you are leaving the current company, say you know they are paying their employees way below market rate. This allows you to tell the
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by BSousa 11y ago
I fully agree with that sentiment. I have a lot of non-tech folks ask me about money (when they ask me what I do and if it pays well) and I always try to avoid giving numbers and go with a more generic 'I can't complain, things ar
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by BSousa 11y ago
Things are better on the company/bureaucracy front. Not as good as US/UK where you can do everything online, but it is 90% there. As for the tax climate, corporate tax has come down quite a bit (and is quite low compared to rest o
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by BSousa 11y ago
In a nutshell: Rails isn't shinny anymore. By migrating from (now) old Rails to new shiny Go, people can write these kinds of articles and pretend to be cutting edge and forward thinking.
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by BSousa 11y ago
I'm Portuguese so maybe I'm biased, but seems Lisbon is becoming quite an attractive startup hub where the cost of living isn't too high (compared to London/Paris/etc) and you have nice weather, people, good quality
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by BSousa 11y ago
Don't know of any research about those lamps specifically, but based on research from blue light devices use and what I know about our circadian rhythms, you will probably end up with sleep issues (difficulty falling asleep as well as
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by BSousa 11y ago
I started losing mine at 17 and I worked out/moved a lot at the time (played 2 sports + fun activities) so I doubt there is a connection there.
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by BSousa 11y ago
The idea is to hire as you grow. You can be one founder or 10, at a point, you hire for what you need. I do agree with GP a bit on the solo founder. Here is the thing, I have enough contacts in the industry that if I wanted, I could form a
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by BSousa 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, but that is easy to say when you are you ;) Most folks need that paycheck and don't live in the magical Bay Area where they find jobs laying in the street when they go for a stroll. I personally would think abo
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by BSousa 11y ago
Someone speaking in not so flattering terms about an industry (vc based growth startups) that this site caters to... it isn't hard to understand why they get downvotted. I personally like to read his comments on these kinds of threads.
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by BSousa 11y ago
Not to pick, but usually calorie counting only really works if you are precise with it (this includes accounting for every beer or the milk you add to your coffee everyday). Another thing to consider, if you are on the obese side of the BMI
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by BSousa 11y ago
I watched it a few months ago so I maybe confused, but wasn't one of the main ideas the movie tried expose is that "move more, eat less" didn't work? I may be confused, but I think she spent a good part of the movie tryi
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by BSousa 11y ago
I'm on the opposite camp and think Fed Up is not a good movie to watch and seems the author (Kuric I think) had a bone to grind mostly with the fast food and shitty food industry. I remember a scene about a mother going to the store, a
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by BSousa 11y ago
Hi Jim One of the main problems people have with counting calories is accurately being able to do so. While I don't think counting calories is for everyone, if you do try again, try to weight everything you eat. Don't forget the t
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by BSousa 11y ago
It really isn't and I say this as someone that never went over 180 pounds and is usually around 12% body fat. Just the 'lifting 3 times a week' will take out a lot of the working population out of the picture. Why? If include
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by BSousa 11y ago
The first EA open source project I remember was their own implementation of STL [1] many years ago to deal with STL slow parts. [1] https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL seems to be a clone of it and has commits from 4 ye
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by BSousa 11y ago
PathFinder from cocoatech.com For me, it is everything Finder should have been
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by BSousa 12y ago
If you are outside any big tech hub, most jobs and candidates will be filled by recruiters or normal job posts. I've been developing professionally for about 15 years, changed jobs a lot of times, and never was through a referral/
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by BSousa 12y ago
Depends. I find myself more alert for some stints of time while in a ketogenic state, but on the other hand, have difficulty falling asleep (as in, normal day I'm drop dead asleep at 11-12pm, while in keto, I'm sleepy (very sleepy
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by BSousa 12y ago
Only references to Lecithin as a supplement I found were Soy Lecithin, is this it?
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by BSousa 12y ago
This will really depend on you and your home life to be honest. I've been working from home for more than a year (with some half year stints before) and I can't imagine going back to an office. I have my kid to play with and my wi
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by BSousa 12y ago
hmm on second read, I think I meant polish (as in fingernail paint) and not varnish (for wood treatment). Does it also use alcohol? My mother used acetone to remove nail polish from her fingernails from what I remember, that is why I was sh

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