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by zapperdapper 9y ago
I love it. Check my website (see HN profile) or contact me if you want more info.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template. GitHub pages is also a great way to get started quickly - Markdown is easy to learn and there are several cheat sheets out
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Here's how I learned it. I downloaded it, installed it, ran it. Then ran the built-in tutorial and worked my way through it slowly. I then started using it for every day editing. I then created my own cheat sheet (in Emacs) based on co
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
> I'm extremely tired of waiting for my green card but due to a family situation, I cannot go back to my home country. Could you move to a third country, say Canada, or perhaps somewhere in Europe?
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
1. A rational critique of capitalism. 2. Decent philosophy and theology classes. 3. Managing money as per Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Yeah, it's funny. I recently attended a school reunion and a few of the real high fliers actually ended up doing OK but not in line with expectations. On the other hand there were the low fliers who never stood out who went on to do am
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
I'm average. I've had no problem building a successful career. I've had some great jobs and a successful freelancing business too. Stop worrying about "being average" - you are almost certainly above average anyway,
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Yep, that's the one - I'm in the studio apartment - quite big though. When you book you can ask the owner which floor it's on, so I knew I'd be on floor 32. They also usually have photos of the view as it's often a
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Yep, option 2 sounds like the best bet.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
It may be the new job is just as boring, in which case the only difference is the money. On the other hand you are very unhappy where you are so isn't it worth forgoing the money, in the hope that you do find something more appealing?
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
It sounds like if you don't say stop, they will say stop for you.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
If you want to learn Math, Kahn Academy is very good.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Great idea then! Twin Oaks Place, Manila. View from 32nd floor out over Manila is incredible especially at night. There are even distant mountains you can see once the smog clears in the morning! ;)
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Don't put too much pressure on yourself to find the new perfect career. You could easily take a year off and just try anything that catches your fancy for a brief amount of time. For example you could do a weekend course on gardening.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
I hear you - I've often wanted a feature to reject apartments/hotels without an outdoor pool (don't like indoor pools). The trouble is building a database is going to be a huge project and "view" is a little subject
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Joel at Joel on Software has written about "hiring developers" on his blog. That could be a good starting point. "Team management" is a very broad area. One skill I wasn't familiar with when I was a manager (I was w
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
I've actually been picking up contract work offers through LinkedIn. I was a very early adopter of LinkedIn, but quit about 6 or 7 years ago for various reasons. Recently rejoined and it is much improved. I got a contract offer (3 mont
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
That's the one - thanks for reminding me!! :)
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I've done it a fair few times now. I've always tried to plan everything in advance, but I've learnt you will always run into unexpected problems, which you just have to solve as you are going along, rather than get frustrated
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
There's the searching itself, and then all the additional work. It can be quite cumbersome, especially with multiple tailored CVs, letters of application, multiple agencies and so on. I'm back on LinkedIn again and finding that he
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
There are a range of services out there already. There was a YCombinator startup where you could sign up and be a volunteer "listener" after completing some online training - sorry forget the name now - it was designed to solve th
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Emacs. I wrote a few reasons why I still use it here: https://coffeeandcode.neocities.org/why-i-still-use-emacs.ht... Every now and then I play with other editors, but always end up coming back to Emacs. There are some nice
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
You could start by taking a look at the Squid web site ( http://www.squid-cache.org ). Also the HAProxy web site ( http://www.haproxy.org ). There's some useful background info there. There's also a commercial
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Funnily enough I will be taking a month's holiday shortly. I will be swimming in an open air pool, diving some wrecks, eating some great food, reading, climbing some volcanoes, relaxing and luuurvin'...
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Oh I know EXACTLY how you feel. I also happen to agree a lot with what you say. I do also think things have got worse. There was a time when with a copy of TurboBasic, a list of BIOS and DOS interrupts, you could do ANYTHING. I once wrote a
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Almost anywhere in Europe would be a good choice. Free at the point of use health care. Stable. I'm in UK. Canada is another good choice. Personally I would not move to USA for reasons I won't go into here. But there's a poin
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
I spent about 8 years running my own Thailand-related web site. I had a lot of photos, a lot of content, interviews, articles, a blog. I had people write me saying the site had changed their lives, or they moved to Thailand because of my si
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
You could file a bug report with Stripe letting them know where you think they could improve their docs.
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - for some reason I never read this before although I've known about it for years. Enjoying it so far. * How I Became Free in an Unfree World by Harry Browne - I read this ye
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by zapperdapper 9y ago
Agree with all of Doreen's comments plus "Fluent in server-side technologies such as non-relational databases; NodeJS, etc" - sounds vague. Don't use 'etc.'. I would consider removing all this and having a SUMM

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