eddy_chan

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by eddy_chan 2y ago
What about for a whole family of iPhone users? I've got the 2TB cloud plan which my elderly parents are on, my kids are on and me and my wife are on which is letting us get away with the smallest class of storage for each device we hav
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by eddy_chan 3y ago
I think the writer just suffers a huge case of imposter syndrome! Most seemingly 'smart' and 'talented' people are just people who know that 'Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard'
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by eddy_chan 3y ago
> Nope. Now I'm just a shitty business person and a shitty dev. Forcing myself to do the actual work of talking to customers now. This level of humility will take you far. You will get better at talking to customers over time, keep
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by eddy_chan 3y ago
Thanks for sharing publicly. May I ask if the Caduet has any side effects? I'm going through a similar issue. I know that my problem is alcohol, being overweight and middle age (40+). I'm also on Telmisartan which takes it down fr
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by eddy_chan 3y ago
Today I learnt I'm fucking old. My first web programming exposure was Perl CGI scripts
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by eddy_chan 3y ago
I would imagine in the southern states where it's 40 degrees C+ every day for 3 months-4 months or more on end the heatpump (aka reverse cycle a/c) is basically kept on constantly. Let's say it draws 1kw on average, that&#x27
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
I'm from Australia and I was blown away by a run of the mill H-E-B supermarket in 2022. The size, scale, selection was quadruple what I'm used to at home. A co-founder took me to when I visited him in Fort Worth and I joked that I
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
I just had to quit Reddit this weekend. Deleted the app off my phone, edited my hosts file on my computer to send it to 127.0.0.1 along with a whole bunch of mass media sites. I noticed this year that I was scrolling and scrolling and scrol
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
Too much of what you pay goes to the rentier that owns the premises. Inflation of ingredients, inflation of wages, inflation of utilities. It all adds up. Something gets squeezed, either the experience or your wallet. As other posters have
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
Yes it does. I don't journal every day, I keep each year to about 40-50 A4 pages and I won't write down all the banal stuff. The value lies in the fact that I will usually look at what life was like a year ago, 3 years ago, 5 year
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
I have been journaling for 9 years now. Actually closer to 12 but we'll discount the first 3 years because it was done haphazardly handwritten in notebooks in fits and bursts. Repeatedly throughout the journals I wrote about how circul
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
Man that is so true about 35. I would say it's not about your prime but more about the fact it is the point where you have gained enough experience/wisdom but still retain enough risk tolerance that you can make big decisions abou
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
Where I live we have 'council clean-up' days. It's a designated day once per year you can leave a reasonable amount of rubbish outside your house including old furniture, tools, utensils etc etc. The good thing is it's w
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
I think that Atlassian's core issues stem from the CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company. The lack of vision starts from the top and flows down through the rest of the company. If MCB is so interested in those th
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by eddy_chan 4y ago
My engineering team runs off Github Issues > Projects > Project Boards but it's been hard to get anyone outside of product managers and devs themselves to be fully immersed in it. Sales and management throw their hands up in the
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by eddy_chan 5y ago
Thank you for writing this. It resonated deeply with me, I spent 2 years in the SFBA and left in the end because I had this nagging feeling that something wasn't right but could not verbalise as clearly as you have. Your blog post has
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by eddy_chan 5y ago
This comment deserves to be higher. People just think you can put these anywhere but you need water connection, sewer connection, electrical, telephone line/cable, permits and red tape, by the time you're done it'll be double
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by eddy_chan 5y ago
If I was a sailor I'd rather go around the Cape of Good Hope than deal with this.
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by eddy_chan 8y ago
I came here to find your comment. All the vivid dreams I have are either 1) resitting an exam from 20 years ago and being completely unprepared for it or 2) running around in an endless dreamscape that is created by taking a known familiar
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by eddy_chan 8y ago
They have a virtual monopoly on the corporate market. At the peak times of Monday morning and Friday evening seats can go for A$300-$A400 or more one way for an economy class seat on a 737 for a 55 minute flight.
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by eddy_chan 9y ago
> I have had way too many evenings after I get the kids in bed where I think, "I'll just unwind on my phone for a few minutes and then work on something." There's a hack for this which I find works, just go to sleep a
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by eddy_chan 9y ago
A lot of people who get seduced to work in startupville should heed this guy. The cost is not only the difference in pay for the years you are working in startups but the fact that career progression inside a bigcorp is forgone (and that it
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by eddy_chan 9y ago
Thanks for posting that. It's amazing how accessible the english language was (190 years ago) to a reader today. Spelling and vocabulary are pretty much the same. Compare that with a period 190 years before 1829, 1639 and you'd al
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by eddy_chan 10y ago
One of the points missed here in the discussion thread is that over and above ethical/moral animal wellbeing concerns we need this as quickly as possible because antibiotic use in livestock is one of main contributors to antibiotic res
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by eddy_chan 10y ago
Yeah but you need to understand it's not the actual coding they sell, it's the 'online business consulting' which brings in the moolah
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by eddy_chan 10y ago
The whole point of basic income is that it enables such young males to devote their time to pursuing non-monetary goals in music, arts which would signal 'mate quality'. Or longer term monetary goals such as autodidactically acqui
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by eddy_chan 10y ago
Forgive the laymans question but how much would it cost to ferry one extra rocket whose mission is to help it land by giving a larger margin of error when landing on the drone ship. I'm guessing carrying a few extra tonnes of deadweigh
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by eddy_chan 11y ago
I actually think a lot less people would be shut-ins if they had kids. All those 'menial chores' are actually become interesting because you're 'not just doing the grocery shopping anymore'. You're taking you k
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by eddy_chan 11y ago
I feel this, 32M with kids. FB usage by actual friends that I cared about fell to zero and my feed was full of shallow experiential grandstanding. Deleted my FB account but copped a hiding from the silent majority for being 'hard to ge
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by eddy_chan 12y ago
Going to be tough for that competitor to survive if they don't pivot from a 'Stripe-clone'. Hope they're well funded and well backed. You need to do a huge volume of transactions to be able to live off 2.6% + 30c, close

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