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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 yo…

ha. I love it when people talk about "the good ol days" - like when women couldn't vote and black people were treated like second class citizens.

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 n…

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 …

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. …

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…

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 th…

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 cont…

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 y…

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.