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Eating too much. Exercising too little.

Go for the weather and prices, not the politics. You can live as you want in the US. Plenty of hippy communes, survivalists, polygamists, vegetarians. Work in the web, relax in goo…

There are some truly free universities. But you've still got to pay for essentials. The MIT curricula are on the web somewhere for free. Including texts. If you do your own open so…

I've had it, and it did get better slowly. It cost me many thousands of dollars of lost work. The doctors are pretty useless in many cases. 0. Proper sleep, exercise and nutrition …

Very few of us have extensive experience in more than one library. JavaScript muddled along without standard libraries for a long time. I use Ruby on Rails, which has support for P…

You'll also want to look at this recent NYT article on fatigue: http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-chronic...

Some people do better without caffeine. There is also a condition called Mononucleosis that can cause fatigue, as well as other conditions. Lots of things from vitamin deficiencies…

In some places the message is "Leave". Leave this grody little town. I think it's been the message of Detroit. Jerusalem, where I live, has a message, "Pray". The biggest industry …

I haven't looked at Django, so I can't compare. I've used Rails on a few projects and I like it. I've coded for decades and Ruby is the most programmer-friendly language I've found…

Nothing left. It's the end of the internet. In a few years every person and machine on earth will have a couple of web pages. A public one for professional use and a private one fo…

I don't think you can become a proficient C++ coder in one month unless you're really, really smart and unusual. Maybe not even then. Although, it depends on what you mean by "Hack…

A lot of it will probably happen virally. Somebody will put up a "Web 2.0" intranet app inside the company that uses the corporate database for some small job. Then the change requ…

People do this from all over. I have a friend here in Jerusalem who is a translator between Japanese and English. Having made many contacts when in Japan, all the work is now done …

I don't live near Staples but there happened to be several printshops all near each other in the local business district. I found one that gave me a hefty discount if I would just …

I've been through most of the rails books, at least partway, and none of them is a great programming book. The classic, AWDWR from pragmatic programmers is a bit out of date, other…

1. Forget coding, study management. Managers get more money. 2. NEVER put the word 'test' on a resume. Do not mention it in any interview. If they ask if you tested anything, say n…

Some ballpoint pen vendor agonized for who knows how long to come up with the name 'Pen Island' only end up with the domain 'penisland.com', so don't sweat the small stuff.

Postgresql is free, it is less encumbered, possibly, than MySQL in the long run. Postgresql is more totally Open Source, whereas MySQL is owned by Sun Microsystems. And it is not f…

Hey, if it's too easy everybody will be doing it. Nobody will be an employee again...

Lots of schools teach CS and say "Code it first and fix it later". They call this preventing "Premature optimization". It's not totally wrong. But it's often wrong. The world isn't…