don_draper

In America rent and healthcare are two big expenses that you can't escape from. You could live in rural areas and then you don't have a job or you do but you're spending most of your income on car expenses.

Real estate is one of the biggest intergenerational scams ever. Be smart and just buy a cheaper house and then work less. pretty simple

You should try meditating a few hours a day.

I question the assertion that allowing things to fail like big banks or China would be bad in the long term. And this is economics, which like religion, isn't an exact science so neither of us know for sure.

It's an engineering company that does math/science stuff along with regular software development.

I haven't done standup in 6 months and I just feel generally better. Where I work you just report to the tech lead every 2 or 3 weeks. So much nicer than daily standups. Could you imagine other professions doing what we do?

I went from being the most anxious, scattered mind person in the room to the most calm and focused. I went all in - 4 hours a day for over a year. But it's made a huge difference. It's given me many insights into life - one of which is that you ultimately choose whether you want to be happy in life.

I don't know how Amazon succeeds if those rates are true. My experience has been that any company with a turnover like that is going to have a ton of tech debt.

You said there's no way to rationalize it, but it depends on the person. For some becoming more mindful allows you to see bad mental habits that may contribute to the anxiety. Once you are mindful of these you are empowered to change them.

I'd argue it's not even how good you are but how good you negotiate. If you negotiate well transparency is not in your interest.

Don't forget to estimate and log your work

It's interesting to me that fear (even paranoia) was useful for our species for a long time. But now in modern society it actually is used against us.

Anecdotally, I use Google Fi in the DC are and love it.

Net Neutrality means the Internet should be treated as a utility and not a luxury.

Any UI that is not honest with users is a bad thing. I use this service and I know that my original is no longer there when I allow Google to delete my local files but maybe i'm the exception. I will add that it depends on your perspective as to how you see this. You can look at how easy Google makes it to take photos on your phone and then have them all backed up and available with a click of a button. And in addition you can look at how hard it used to be to do anything like that (my grandparents never had photos when they lived in Italy because the town they lived in didn't have any photographers). If you see it through that lens then it's awesome.

The code is so clean and simple. This is great PR for the company. I want to work there.

As more data is indexed the system "learns" what makes a relevant search based upon the words in each document. Though I agree the definition of learning in a machine learning context is kind of grey.

Anybody know how these companies continue to get money from investors? SolarCity, Tesla, Sun Edison lose money year after year. None of them are profitable. And they won't be for years. I guess the thinking is that once, or if, they get profitable they will benefit from being the established players.

Quick tip for hackers: Cook big meals and then freeze the rest in many small bags for later meals.

I'll bet a lot of people take these drugs not because they have to but want to. They want to look the part for work, or talk to the hot chick in the bar.

Everyone is different and there is no single elixir to solve all problems, but meditation helped me greatly.

It would help if I saw a real world problem and how you can solve it Lisp and not in say Python.

I'm in my early 40s and I don't have a problem finding work. I tend to work for big companies though. I would like to work at smaller, startup-like companies in the future, but it sounds like there is bias against older workers in that realm.

Warning: It's a paywall.

Meditate 2 hours a day. Be patient and you'll see a dramatic difference.

This probably isn't a movement. But my gut tells me somebody is going to create a truly open and free network. And once it's established it will feel like it was inevitable.

Another good question: Why are S&P500 stock dividends so low? The average S&P500 stock dividend yield is like 2%. In theory, you buy stocks to receive earnings. But if companies only give out a fraction of those earnings, you as an investor are not really getting much. So how can companies get away with a 2% dividend yield?

The very definition of being a victim of their own success

Uber is super easy to use and it helps prevent DUI's. nuff said

Common sense tells me that if he cared about the average USA programmer he would promote a more specific policy that would help prevent companies from abusing the H1B Visa program.