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What finally worked for me is listening to history audio books/lectures. It takes my mind off of real life things, and since it's just audio there is no light involved. History is …

My retirement funds are in stock index funds. That and my daughter's 529 are the only stocks I own. Everything else is bonds, cash and real estate.

I'm not sure if my original post just wasn't clear enough or something. Retirement is great, my point was about non-retirement money. Building capital for a business is exactly the…

I agree with your point entirely, but my point is that most people don't just sock money away for decades if it isn't specifically retirement money. Usually it is saved for some me…

Personally, if I was dependent on my assets for the income I use to eat, I wouldn't want those assets to be ones that can wildly swing in value. If I had enough other investments t…

Savings accounts aren't the only option though. Bonds will return like 2-3% depending on the type, without the occasional dramatic crashes in value.

Something that's never made sense to me about stocks: Unless you're extremely wealthy, any money you are able to save (outside of retirement money) is probably money you are going …

I think you got that backwards. React's abstractions are transparent, as in the developer doesn't need to "see" them or be aware of them. Your existing web dev knowledge largely ap…

I have about two years of experience with both Angular 1 and React. What was truly astounding to me was how while Angular required months of continually poring docs and Stack Overf…

Only a year or so into my career I started getting pain in my upper right back from using a mouse. I tried various adjustments to my desk/chair setup but eventually it got to the p…

During high school I became aware of community colleges and it actually occurred to me that all the homework and stress involved with maintaining a high GPA simply wasn't worth it.…

The solution is to use a boilerplate/generator. I've used one for every JS project I've started in the past two years. The main benefit is that you get something that already has t…

As a counter-example, before I knew about Aspergers/high-functioning autism I was always frustrated and confused about my social difficulties. I forced myself to join social groups…

You basically hit the nail on the head. That said, they were in fact making an effort to increase adoption with initiatives like Famous University, famous-angular and various proje…

I briefly contracted there and it was obvious to me that this would happen. The platform they built is really amazing, but there was no sense of how they could start making money i…

I feel like a tremendous factor behind the numbers for middle-tier schools is simple geography. For example, I make more than double what many of my college friends who I consider …

I lived quite far from school in my middle and high school days. It meant an hour long bus ride both ways (plus a 1.5 mile walk from the bus stop), and having to wake at 5AM to get…

I sold in early March. To me it seems like more of a gamble to be in than out at this point.

It's fairly simple to piece together a framework with React. I'm using React, Flux, React-Router and Superagent.

I'm interested in this primarily because I don't find it appealing to invest in (basically non-transferable) iOS platform skills. I want to build native mobile UIs for my projects,…

I still use Chrome for one reason only: it's the only browser with a built-in default zoom feature. I don't like manually zooming for every single page I visit, and the zoom extens…