mrpoptart

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by mrpoptart 7y ago
It's awesome that you have a budget, and a process for doing it. Would you find it useful to know whether or not you can afford something you're about to buy, be it a taco, a couch or a car? Your budget works well in as a reflecti
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by mrpoptart 7y ago
Building a personal budgeting system that reduces the complexity of the process to paying attention to 1 number and about 5 minutes per week to be sure you're on budget all the time. I came up with a solution to this problem about 5 y
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by mrpoptart 7y ago
Motivation comes from three things, provided you're in a creative role and money's not an issue: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. You need to be able to decide how to get the job done, you need to be able to get better and better a
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by mrpoptart 7y ago
Do everything with no framework. Vanilla JS, basic Rails, Basic PHP. Whatever you know the best, use it and build it. Don't get distracted by features. Until you have a working system, you don't need to refactor. Start with one ti
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by mrpoptart 7y ago
Friendly correction: you meant "breath" not "breathe."
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by mrpoptart 7y ago
name checks out.
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by mrpoptart 8y ago
Choose FI. Being exposed to the concept of financial independence, retiring early and providing a framework and mindset for achieving them has completely transformed my life from aimless working for money to working for a goal.
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by mrpoptart 8y ago
Decide if you want to be a designer. If you don't, then hire one and make sure you pay them as well as you'd want to be paid. If you do, then do your equivalent of going to school for it.
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by mrpoptart 8y ago
Here's the abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30269951 And here's the paywalled paper: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1534-5807(18)3...
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by mrpoptart 8y ago
After 4 years of excellent growth my partner and I had enough income to support one person full-time. Both of us were programmers, the company was a side gig for us. When his dad was laid off from his job, we hired him to handle the day-to-
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by mrpoptart 8y ago
Better workflow: Star every individual you talk to Star channels you talk to often Mute channels you only read occasionally Occasionally close messages to people to clear the list. Important things stay on the top, everything else moves to
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by mrpoptart 9y ago
This kind of response is amazing. Mistakes happen, it's the response and the resolution that matter. I was already a happy user. I am now even moreso. Well done.
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by mrpoptart 9y ago
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if someone leaves a Top-Secret document on the ground, and you pick it up, you don't go to jail for that. The data is accessible to the public -- this isn't a hack, this is just downloading.
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by mrpoptart 9y ago
The best answer to this is the same answer to the question "How can I make money while I sleep?" Answer that and your commute becomes profitable by default.
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by mrpoptart 10y ago
If you were only going for a few minutes, why not bring your dog?
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by mrpoptart 10y ago
Spending 50% of your income on rent is only a big deal if the other 50% isn't significant. Someone who makes 20k a month but spends 10k on rent still has 10k a month for other expenses. That said, I am a developer and live with my fami
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by mrpoptart 10y ago
Why is it defined that a single grain of wheat isn't a very small heap?
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by mrpoptart 10y ago
Small edit would improve your statement a lot: I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Learn How to Reverse a Binary Tree
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by mrpoptart 11y ago
brevity is the soul of wit
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by mrpoptart 11y ago
There's some conflicting data out there about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/41231470...
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by mrpoptart 11y ago
Sleeping takes practice like any other skill. If your bedtime is erratic, if your sleep pattern is erratic, if your environment is erratic, your brain isn't sure when it's time to go to bed. Pick a time for a week and go to bed th
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
Find someone to code with you. Being alone is half your problem, and even explaining it to someone requires more focus than you have. If you don't have someone like this, hire someone at minimum wage to listen to you.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
> There's just no good other place to put 'gradually'! She wants to get rid of her teddy bears gradually.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
I believe that your path didn't teach you to learn how to code, per-se, but that learning to code was a side benefit of learning how to teach yourself. Schools exist because specialization is useful, because having lots of people to he
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
It's only the title that's the problem. You're going to work in a professional place, that means you have to be a professional. Any company is taking a risk by hiring you, and the risk that you're the kind of person who
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
Breathe in a count of 2 and out a count of 1. Sleep with your mouth open, but breathe only through your nose. Remember that quiet resting with eyes shut is 80% as good as sleeping when it comes to naps.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
Installed, got soundcloud and spotify installed on OSX Mavericks, set to full screen. Tried to play a song, got an audio device not available error. Turned off peer upnp and restarted. Crashes on load.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
I've been building a little project called guppy it's at http://gpy.me and it requires less registration and is still being tested right now, but's a fun idea.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
nexus 4: goal amount: this will cost put cursor in field keyboard opens window registers as landscape due to width/height problem keyboard closes repeat.
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by mrpoptart 12y ago
Homejoy has been the worst experience for me. I got credit for their company as a perk from my job and I'm so happy we've moved on. I got 3 cleanings from them -- never again. Every single cleaning I got from them required 2 phone

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