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ErrantX wrote: post #177
tocomment wrote: post #167

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Where do you buy the land? How do you find it? What do you look for in land? How do you even start to do something like this? I'd love to do this too but I'm overwhelmed by thousands of questions.

I am at the early stages of this; so I can only part answer your questions. But, basically, land is fairly easy to come buy. There will be various land agents nearby (particularly in the countryside) you just have to track them down.b (I've also used this site before: http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/index.asp ) Alternatively find a nice spot and find out who owns it; make an offer. You might get a good deal this wa…

I'm in the US but I guess the process would be similar.

Would a small cabin be much harder to build, more expensive, less eco-friendly? It seems like there would be less planning approval stuff?

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Post by peteypao »

quan wrote: post #98
lionhearted wrote: post #2

I'm going to design my first article of clothing for myself next month. I'm going to Vietnam, and I'll do it in either Saigon, Hanoi, or Ho An. I'll be in the first two cities anyways, I might go to third just for its reputation as a tailor and fashion city. I've got a shirt I used to like a lot that's worn out, going to have a tailor use it as a model to make another. Going to get two shirts made. Depending on how t…

Hey, I just quit my job recently and my goal is to travel to as many places as possible for a year. My flight to Saigon is this Sunday, and I'm planning to do the whole country tour from Hanoi to the South for about 2 weeks. Let me know if you're interested in meeting up, just dropped you an email.

I am going to Ho Chi Minh city next week, too! Talk about synchronicity!

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Post by shade »

My most interesting goal right now is to try to make the time to start moving off of Microsoft development technology. I like C#, but ASP.NET annoys me and the whole platform feels like a massive dead end unless I want to work on boring corporate stuff.

My primary roadblock there is trying to decide what tech I want to pick up. Ruby and Rails are appealing, Python looks interesting, and I wonder if I shouldn't be looking at some new stuff like Clojure or node.js as well. I also wonder if I shouldn't get into some of the evented frameworks like Tornado or EventMachine. This has always been my problem -- I'm interested in too many aspects of technology and there's just no time to pursue them all.

My secondary roadblock, once I decide on a tech, is getting some good documentation and perhaps some mentoring on it. Some of those frameworks seem to be pretty lacking in good documentation and examples.

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Post by garply »

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #212
thaumaturgy wrote: post #165

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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/related/ch1qn/ive_had_all_my_te...

Excellent read, I appreicate the link. Thankfully, I haven't waited so long to go the dentist that I need implants or dentures. They're saving everything via root canals, crowns and fillings. I do have two missing teeth which really aren't visible when smiling that I may eventually get implants for, but for now it's not severe or costly enough that I would really entertain going out of the country to have it done.

My dentist has told me that in the long run an implant is cheaper than a root canal, as most root canals will eventually fail and need the implant anyway (I have an implant because I was just genetically missing a tooth and I absolutely love it - I'm a bit jealous of the guy with nothing but implants, I've thought to myself many times how great it would be to do just that, but I didn't know it was a realistic option).

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Post by Gibbon »

terra_t wrote: post #23

launch a web site that brings in enough income that I can quit my day job

I suggest signing up for the Challenge (formerly the 30-day challenge). It's just starting now and runs through the end of october.. you'll learn everything you need to know. The right way.

http://www.challenge.co/

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Post by philwelch »

JayNeely wrote: post #256
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #247

Publish a book (like on dead trees). The biggest roadblock for me so far is just having time to execute on it. I have friends who have published books through ORA, so I'm not too concerned about getting proper introductions to people in the tech publishing world; I just don't know if I have the time to sit down and bang out 200 pages of quality material.

Try joining NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month): http://nanowrimo.org It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). Though the focus is on novel writing, there's nothing to stop you from working on a non-fiction book. The in-person write-ins, online community available for short word-count sprints, and other community-momentum / enco…

It's terrible luck, for me, that nanowrimo is always November, which is always end-of-semester crunch time for me.

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Post by Gibbon »

acangiano wrote: post #50
terryjsmith wrote: post #32

I would like to get my black belt in Taekwondo by the age of 30 (turning 23 in August) and fight at a Canadian national or Ontario provincial competition. I am currently a yellow belt (started about a year ago) but have won a gold and a silver at two recent invitational competitions. I had an excellent teacher in Thunder Bay, but just moved to Toronto a month ago to be in a more tech savvy town (I'm a developer) and…

If you are getting into competitive martial arts, I highly recommend that you read The Art of Learning ( http://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Performan... ).

I just read that last week.. great book! The end is absolutely riveting.

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Post by eel »

Summer: learn prereq material including functional programming and basic ai for an ai course that I want to take in the fall.

Life 1: live with less (stuff)

Life 2: meet a girl

As far as progress... I've started on Summer's, but I'm not as far as I hoped. Currently working on SICP. Life 1 is actually progressing, as very often I find things that I can get rid of and not miss. Life 2... not yet..

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