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I've used C* (36 nodes/20Tb) and it was pleasure to manage it even in the early versions. At the time of picking the db (3 years ago) Riak was slower as they only had http available so C* won by a large margin.

One case I thought Riak can be a good choice for is for quick prototyping / interacting directly from web clients (as it has neat http API).

I visualize graphs sometimes or draw them on paper for particularly tricky pieces of code.

I was subvocalizing things to remember to do before learning to use task tracking software for that.

You might want to benchmark yourself e.g. with http://www.readingsoft.com/ (I ranked 398 wpm and I know my bottleneck is eye movements)

Also I think code reading speed is only a part of a larger process (e.g. code review or making a fix). For both of these external tools are available making reading speed not as important (iterative development / unit tests for fixing + static code analysis tools for reviews)

TLDR: check out vipassana meditation - it's free and I use it to stay calm.

I'm also from a country without great access to health care(Ukraine) :)

My experience is about remembering the moment in my life where I was lying on the floor, then saying in rattling voice "I've decided to live" and getting on my feet. Not sure what was the reason to live before that :)

Now it's probably more about things to look forward to. Mine thing is hanging out with children(they're so energetic!). If you're on hacker news, you probably know some programming, if so maybe volunteering as a teacher for an orphanage can be an inspiring thing to do?

TLDR: check out vipassana meditation - it's free and I use it to stay calm.

I'm also from a country without great access to health care(Ukraine) :)

My experience is about remembering the moment in my life where I was lying on the floor, then saying in rattling voice "I've decided to live" and getting on my feet. Not sure what was the reason to live before that :)

Now it's probably more about things to look forward to. Mine thing is hanging out with children(they're so energetic!). If you're on hacker news, you probably know some programming, if so maybe volunteering as a teacher for an orphanage can be a nice thing to do?

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I don't see a problem in seeing exes(if that's not a funky american idiom for having sex which). I see a problem in people exploiting fears of other people to get what they want.

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Is there any way to try the workflow before giving up e-mail/phone?

I do similar thing with my friends and it's whole lot of fun to know that ten other people are achieving something great too:)

I'm 25 years old and Ukrainian. Had like 2 'natural' opportunities to stay there(but I'm still in Ukraine). My model is the following: * Start with something * Remote worker for a while * Good feedback on the stuff done * Personal connection - we tend to get along

Starting in my case was based on the following factors: * Cost * Some not rather common knowledge/experience needed