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After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by pauletienney »

enraged_camel wrote: post #147
GuiA wrote: post #7

This is fantastic. Especially inspiring to me, more than the fact that she learned how to code, is the fact that she dove into something that she had no background in, and after 180 days she came out with a solid understanding of the basics of programming; enough to do stuff on her own (and, combined with her graphic design/illustration skills, probably enough to do freelance webdev or get a junior level position in…

There are two type of people in life. The first type graduates from college and their learning stops for the most part. They say to themselves, "well, I studied for four years and got a job, now it's finally time to sit back and relax." So they put in their regular 9-5 and then come home and waste their lives away by watching TV shows and playing video games and going out and getting drunk on weekends. Essentially, t…

Right. I would add eveything is white or black.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by ars_technician »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #145
ars_technician wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read your own message. You said you said the following: >I thought we were talking about someone who is making the bare minimum effort to save money Do you know what the bare minimum effort means? You are the one suggesting bare minimum effort now.

Living on your own is making zero effort. "Minimum effort" as a mathematical expression could even be negative (i.e. actively trying to rid yourself of money), but as a colloquialism typically means "appreciable," "reasonable," or "realistic." If you're not a native speaker, I can see how that might have confused you. If you are, then you're just being difficult.

You literally said the exact opposite of the point you were implying throughout the rest of the discussion. We were talking about ways to live cheaply. Then YOU were the one that changed positions and said we were talking about someone making the minimum effort to save money, which as you rightly pointed out could mean someone not saving money at all. What is the point of discussing someone who doesn't save in a thread about saving money?

A native English speaker would not make the mistake of using a colloquialism that means the opposite of the literal definition when the very disagreement is about the effort it takes to save money. You can live by yourself in the bay area and still save money. Remember, you were the one that quoted $2k/mo for rent.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by pauletienney »

jacobquick wrote: post #114
pauletienney wrote: post #45

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I should do this with arduino/electronic. Just a point : coding is free. Cooking, wood crafting, electronic, or any physical activity requires you buy some material.

"Coding is free" except for the $2000 laptop, the thousands of people working for pennies to make it, the military required to project enough power to keep them working, the endless supply of Starbucks to power through the coding process, the thousands of people working for pennies to grow that, and the military required to project enough power to keep them working as well. Free otherwise though.

You forgot a comma.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by dionidium »

lsdafjklsd wrote: post #158
enraged_camel wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two type of people in life. The first type graduates from college and their learning stops for the most part. They say to themselves, "well, I studied for four years and got a job, now it's finally time to sit back and relax." So they put in their regular 9-5 and then come home and waste their lives away by watching TV shows and playing video games and going out and getting drunk on weekends. Essentially, t…

I can just imagine how smug you were writing this, it's making me cringe.

A lot of "you should do this" posts on the internet can be summarized as, "people like me are pretty dang great."

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

percentcer wrote: post #117
ceejayoz wrote: post #107

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We don't call male coders "boy", let's not call female ones "girl" unless they're a fourteen year old or something.

"girl" is used in place of "guy" because "guy" has a masculine connotation. I'd be happy to see "gal" but it's a little anachronistic.

Gal is fine, if a little forced. Person would probably be best here though.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by ByronT »

lsdafjklsd wrote: post #158
enraged_camel wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two type of people in life. The first type graduates from college and their learning stops for the most part. They say to themselves, "well, I studied for four years and got a job, now it's finally time to sit back and relax." So they put in their regular 9-5 and then come home and waste their lives away by watching TV shows and playing video games and going out and getting drunk on weekends. Essentially, t…

I can just imagine how smug you were writing this, it's making me cringe.

I feel terrible for playing video games now.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by danielweber »

dionidium wrote: post #164
lsdafjklsd wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can just imagine how smug you were writing this, it's making me cringe.

A lot of "you should do this" posts on the internet can be summarized as, "people like me are pretty dang great."

People who judge others are the worst kind of people.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by jamesaguilar »

ars_technician wrote: post #157
jamesaguilar wrote: post #151

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It does not offend me that you assume I make more money than I'm arguing over, and you are not wrong. I also lived in a $500/mo room in an apartment with two others when I made that much money, so I was saving like a boss. Travel was actually a larger expense than housing. As far as addressing counterpoints, I've grown tired of quibbling. I think that you can live comfortably spending 66% of your income net of taxes…

>As far as addressing counterpoints, I've grown tired of quibbling. I think that you can live comfortably spending 66% of your income net of taxes per year without any undue effort if you make $80k a year in SF. I think anyone who looks into it would find the same to be true. That's my last word in this conversation. That's fine. As long as you can admit that you are just arm-chairing it and haven't actually had to l…

I didn't ever claim otherwise.
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