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It's awesome that you have a budget, and a process for doing it. Would you find it useful to know whether or not you can afford something you're about to buy, be it a taco, a couch…

Building a personal budgeting system that reduces the complexity of the process to paying attention to 1 number and about 5 minutes per week to be sure you're on budget all the tim…

Motivation comes from three things, provided you're in a creative role and money's not an issue: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. You need to be able to decide how to get the job do…

Do everything with no framework. Vanilla JS, basic Rails, Basic PHP. Whatever you know the best, use it and build it. Don't get distracted by features. Until you have a working sys…

Friendly correction: you meant "breath" not "breathe."

name checks out.

Choose FI. Being exposed to the concept of financial independence, retiring early and providing a framework and mindset for achieving them has completely transformed my life from a…

Decide if you want to be a designer. If you don't, then hire one and make sure you pay them as well as you'd want to be paid. If you do, then do your equivalent of going to school …

Here's the abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30269951 And here's the paywalled paper: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1534-5807(18)3...

After 4 years of excellent growth my partner and I had enough income to support one person full-time. Both of us were programmers, the company was a side gig for us. When his dad w…

Better workflow: Star every individual you talk to Star channels you talk to often Mute channels you only read occasionally Occasionally close messages to people to clear the list.…

This kind of response is amazing. Mistakes happen, it's the response and the resolution that matter. I was already a happy user. I am now even moreso. Well done.

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if someone leaves a Top-Secret document on the ground, and you pick it up, you don't go to jail for that. The data is accessible to the public -- this is…

The best answer to this is the same answer to the question "How can I make money while I sleep?" Answer that and your commute becomes profitable by default.

If you were only going for a few minutes, why not bring your dog?

Spending 50% of your income on rent is only a big deal if the other 50% isn't significant. Someone who makes 20k a month but spends 10k on rent still has 10k a month for other expe…

Why is it defined that a single grain of wheat isn't a very small heap?

Small edit would improve your statement a lot: I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Learn How to Reverse a Binary Tree

brevity is the soul of wit

There's some conflicting data out there about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/41231470...

Sleeping takes practice like any other skill. If your bedtime is erratic, if your sleep pattern is erratic, if your environment is erratic, your brain isn't sure when it's time to …

Find someone to code with you. Being alone is half your problem, and even explaining it to someone requires more focus than you have. If you don't have someone like this, hire some…

> There's just no good other place to put 'gradually'! She wants to get rid of her teddy bears gradually.

I believe that your path didn't teach you to learn how to code, per-se, but that learning to code was a side benefit of learning how to teach yourself. Schools exist because specia…

It's only the title that's the problem. You're going to work in a professional place, that means you have to be a professional. Any company is taking a risk by hiring you, and the …