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8 years ago I graduated with a bachelors degree in pure math and theoretical physics. 2 years later I settled down and decided to just become a software engineer building CRUD apps…

This morning I started to stir when my Casper Glow light turned on. But what really got me out of bed was when I heard the faint gurgle of my timed coffee machine auto brewing the …

Hundred Rabbits[0] have been an inspiration for me for a while. They work from their sailboat! [0] https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html

There's no surfing in BC ;)

You make a great point about finding remote work. I lived in the Victoria area before I left Canada and found that a lot of my peers worked remotely for US-based companies. During …

Canadian software engineer here. About a year ago I moved away from Canada specifically because cost of living was too high compared to Canadian market-rate salaries in the softwar…

100% really hope Andrew Jervis is able to keep his show going. So much of the music that I keep coming back to is music that I discovered through his show!

Another vote for bandcamp. Definitely higher effort, but also higher reward in my opinion. One of my favourite things to do is sit on the sofa with my headphones on and actively li…

> Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, and I Heart Huckabees satirized the dreary emptiness of white collar life. Didn’t my coworkers realize how ridiculous it sounds to use …

I completed a four-year honours level program at a research university. Math has always been one of my biggest passions, but I wanted some real world work experience before heading…

I recently started refreshing my knowledge of data structures and algorithms and discovered that I actually really enjoy the subject. Studying the Union-Find data structure, for ex…

I also experience Deuteranopia. I am usually only impacted if I'm trying to read a chart which requires that I map the colors in a legend to the colors on the lines/bars. This is u…

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

I'm also getting a timeout. Your mirror worked for me.

> Also lots of Math is involved in what I specifically do. I’ve always dreamed of using my math skills in my day job. What kind of math do you work with? Any tips on finding positi…

I’ve always wondered if jobs like this exist, but I’ve never actually seen a job posting for one. As a developer with a math degree, these kinds of jobs have always been something …

Another whole-album-listener here, but I'm the minority among my peers (millennials). I find looking for complete albums where all of the songs are high quality really guides my ta…

More and more employers these days offer access to workplace giving software that enables people to donate money to causes of their choice and get matching from their employer. The…

100%. You picked up on something that I thought about but didn’t write in the post in the end. All through undergrad I had one friend in my program who was laid back but also inter…

After browsing HN for a couple of years, I've seen that a fair few members of this community have studied math at the post-secondary level. It's not uncommon to see Ask HN posts ab…

I'm about to embark on building a tiny house this summer. We have done a lot of planning and a lot of learning so far (this is our first major building project). The more I think a…

A notification seems like it would be a great idea. Users could ignore it and carry on with with the free listening premise. But the very existence of the platform seems to be base…

> Listen to your favorite music for free on any device. Do you plan on adding a paywall when a listener has heard a song a certain amount? I’m a huge fan of Bandcamp, and I love th…

Build and launch a small SaaS before you start your PhD. Then while your PhD is in progress, offer support and small feature improvements that don't take up too much of your time.