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Ask HN: How do you track your monthly spending
1 points by cwt 6y ago|1 comments
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Working for a US company while traveling outside the US
1 points by cwt 6y ago|0 comments
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by cwt 7y ago
Not much time. I've almost naturally fallen into a rhythm of wearing the same 4 shirts to work M-Th and Friday is jeans/casual. I alternate between a few pairs of pants. So, less than a minute is spent deciding and looking for my
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by cwt 7y ago
It shows mastery of the language, one could argue. With the tools available today it makes development a lot faster and easier. Functions have tooltips on how to use it, you can scroll through the available functions, libraries imported, an
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by cwt 7y ago
The only time I've used my personal computer for remote work was when it was freelance/independent contractor work. The companies I've worked remote for have all provided a computer for remote work. The main reason is usually
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Ask HN: What do you do to boost creativity?
5 points by cwt 8y ago|4 comments
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by cwt 8y ago
it worked for me on ubuntu 16.04 $ unrar e shakespeare.part001.rar UNRAR 5.30 beta 2 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2015 Alexander Roshal Extracting from shakespeare.part001.rar
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Ask HN: Have you returned to you former profession after leaving it?
1 points by cwt 8y ago|0 comments
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by cwt 8y ago
Are you getting paid for 40h a week when you work less? If yes, enjoy the extra free time. If no, talk to your boss.
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by cwt 8y ago
This goes for homebrewing (beer/wine) too. If you can make oatmeal you can make beer, but if you want to make the same beer exactly the same over and over it is very complex. The fact that Budweiser tastes the same all over the US and
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by cwt 8y ago
Congrats! I've been working on a personal project now for a couple months that I originally conceived 2 years ago. It is still difficult to stick with but it is getting easier the more progress I make.
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by cwt 8y ago
I hope they don't leave out Tom Bombadil.
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by cwt 8y ago
I saved a lump of money for the short-term and took a very long vacation. I have a bit saved for the long-term from before, but now the focus is long-term saving.
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by cwt 8y ago
The company didn't want to invest in my department but kept setting higher expectations. It caused the team to be overworked and understaffed. You couldn't focus on a project because you were always needed somewhere else. The peop
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by cwt 8y ago
I was in a similar situation. I took a break from work and rediscovered the reasons I got into software. Then, I went back to work after a nice long break. My advice: Don't just save money, invest it in an S&P 500 index fund. Time
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Ask HN: Career value of being bilingual +
2 points by cwt 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Starting a small business
3 points by cwt 10y ago|7 comments
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by cwt 10y ago
This is so true from my experience working for companies using PHP. You can advocate all you want to clean up code, but in the end, if it doesn't create a new feature its not going to happen.
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by cwt 10y ago
Code that replaces/relieves humans.
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by cwt 10y ago
I always felt that working out was a hassle. My parents tried forcing me to work out with a trainer multiple times and it never worked out. Then one summer I worked out with a friend a few times and that got me going to the gym a few times
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by cwt 10y ago
I think the fascination comes from an early introduction to Japanese culture, even if we're not aware. Japan probably has the largest cultural footprint in America for Eastern countries. A lot of cartoons I watched growing up were Japa
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by cwt 10y ago
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was founded in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
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by cwt 10y ago
Use Chrome, install the Vimium plugin: F + {Letter Combo}
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by cwt 10y ago
The knowledge to answer this question.
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by cwt 10y ago
Most books I read come from personal recommendations, a friend tells me they liked a book and think I will like it. If I read it and like it I might read others from the author. Free books (and on sale <$1.00) are also an incentive and h
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by cwt 10y ago
At my current job, 2 years, we have a bug that existed before I joined. However, I was able to provide an alternate solution to it. Its hard to quantify the time spent on it because it was always around. When it became a main focus it proba
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by cwt 10y ago
Not sure if you are looking for specific data about "brick and mortar" classrooms or if you are open to digital and blended classrooms, too. You can see videos and papers about new educational technology here: https://w
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by cwt 10y ago
> 3. Higher-priority projects intervene, and when I go back to the original project (sometimes months later), additional time is needed to figure out what I was doing when I was interrupted. This is major for me at my current employer. I
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Ask HN: Best Hiking Trails
2 points by cwt 11y ago|0 comments
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by cwt 11y ago
Feels a bit on the spammy side since there is no user activity to curate the list. Catch-22.

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