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Re:Buy Yourself a Latte on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#19585241)
yep, I agree with that. Which is why Im not crazy about people (like this author) who is discouraging millennials from even getting started. If you're in college, or just out of college, you have decades to figure out how to be able to retire. There's no need to just accept whatever happens, or to just assume people will figure out how to fund Social Security between now and then.
Re:Buy Yourself a Latte on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#19583914)
I wonder if the author would be ok if people spend $1 on a coffee a day from McDonalds or a gas station and save the other $4?

I always hate how people always jump to "but inflation..." or "12% is not realistic...". Ok, maybe 12% isn't reasonable and $1M won't be as much decades from now. But having $500k or $750k or however much you end up saving by saving a few bucks each day could still be a pretty good chunk of change when you are ready to retire! That's much more than $0! The earlier you start, let's say when you're 18 buying a $5 cup of coffee and not really thinking about retirement, gives you more time to build wealth when you're ready to retire.

As more people start to reach retirement age, there's going to be a lot of people surprised to realize they can't afford to retire. With few companies offering pensions and some uncertainty about social security with Baby Boomers reaching retirement age, millennials better start thinking about how they can retire as soon as possible. Saving a few bucks each day (whether it is by giving up fancy coffee or something else) can be a great way to get started!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018) on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:50AM (#16062586)
I've had a similar experience with AHA. Although when I did that, it was a different email address, so maybe it's better now.
Re:Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping? on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:39AM (#15695341)
I generally use mechanize when I need to scrape something from the web. I found this awhile back and it's helped me https://www.chrismytton.uk/2015/01/19/web-scraping-with-ruby...
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017) on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:36PM (#14902571)
Location: Central Kentucky Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Rails, Ember, Postgresql, interested in Elixir and phoenix Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-sayre-4978477b/ Email: [email protected]
I built https://cocoa.dog recently. The idea is that you can send somebody random pictures of dogs with a message. Kinda like the Goats thing awhile back.

I mostly built it just to get some experience building something using Stripe and was not really intended to make a huge amount of money. But Im not sure if anybody has really used it. Im guessing the novelty of sending people pictures of things from a random number has worn off.

Re:Taking the pulse of ESPN on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:02AM (#14663843)
They have a left wing biased, but it gets blown way out of proportion. ESPN's biggest problem is exactly what this article is talking about. They have spent so much money on TV rights, that it causes price of getting cable to go up and more people are cutting the cord because of that (not because they are liberal)
Re:Taking the pulse of ESPN on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:02AM (#14663361)
Im not sure. I remember reading an article about it awhile back and wondered if they would get re-elected, though I cannot find that article at the moment. I believe it was to approve additional funds for the Braves new stadium. If I remember right, they kept anybody who was against the deal from speaking about it at the meeting. There was a big scene and they went ahead and voted for the additional funding.
Re:Taking the pulse of ESPN on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:17AM (#14663018)
Federal Government should not be allowed to tell cities how to spend their money, but something needs to be done what devinhelton said. Look up Atlanta about their stadium deals for the Falcons and Braves. The City Council basically ignored the citizens completely and went ahead to spend millions to replace 2 stadiums that really wasn't that old to begin with.
Anybody having issues trying to login using Twitter? It says "Creating Profile" and does nothing.
Re:Show HN: Send random dog pictures to your friends on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:31PM (#14212768)
I mostly built this for fun and to get more experience working with Stripe. But if anybody has experience with apps that sends SMS, I would like to know if there's anything else I need to do.
Does the Arrow keys not work for anybody else?
Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:17PM (#14117485)
Agreed. King of the Hill is amazing and is always underrated.
Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:12PM (#14117442)
Technically they already have. Mike Judge was the voice of Kenny in the South Park movie.
Re:Launch HN: Lively (YC W17) – 401(k) for Healthcare on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:52PM (#13786407)
The only odd thing for me was it got stuck at a loading screen when I was redirected to my account page. Other than that, I didnt have any problems.

Also it would be nice if Ally was a bank you could link directly with... but I understand if there is some technical issues that prevent certain banks from being able to link automatically.

Re:Launch HN: Lively (YC W17) – 401(k) for Healthcare on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:16PM (#13786004)
This seems awesome to me! Ive had a HSA qualifying health care plan for awhile now, but never really found a bank that had an account without having to pay a monthly fee. Good luck guys!
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017) on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:20AM (#13764978)
Location: Central Kentucky

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Rails, Ember, Postgresql, interested in Elixir and phoenix

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-sayre-4978477b/

Email: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017) on Monday January 02, 2017 @08:38PM (#13305977)
Location: Central Kentucky Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Rails, Ember, PostgreSQL, would like to learn more about Elixir Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-sayre-4978477b Email: [email protected]
That's part of my frustration at my current job. Being having to work on different projects allows things like reliability and performance issues to get ignored.
In a day, it's not unusual I work on issues for 2 different projects and have to troubleshoot a Tier 2 issue for a couple of other projects.

Your second paragraph seems accurate. My friends are ex co-workers that moved on to much larger companies.

Re:Ask HN: Accept better position or better company? on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:13PM (#13098457)
I think I would go with the better company. Im not sure I would want to be in charge of a team when you might not see eye to eye with your bosses.

Ask HN: At your 9-5 job, how many projects are you involved with?

Hopefully I can ask this in a way that makes sense. At your main place of employment, how many different projects are you involved with at a given time? I'm a Ruby developer at a small company. In the past month or so, I've probably worked on 4 or 5 different projects, either to fix a bug or to implement a new feature. I want to know if this is normal at most places or not. It seems like...

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I either heard about this article or read this article a few days ago... Which got me to thinking, did people actually think the 5 second rule was a real thing?
Re:Newton inventor claims ‘Shark Tank’ is all a lie on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:53AM (#12514849)
Everybody who watches this show knows the Sharks can pull out of the deal later on. I enjoy the show, even though I realize a lot of it has to be staged. However, I don't like how they force the people to make a decision within minutes, but the Sharks can research the product some later and pull out if they want to.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:05AM (#12405799)
Location: Central Kentucky

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Ember (Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix or Express)

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/DrSayre

Email: [email protected]

My main experience is using Rails with nearly 5 years at a Church Management Software company. I have started to use Ember more recently. Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2016) on Monday August 01, 2016 @12:32PM (#12203748)
Location: Central Kentucky

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Ember (Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix or Express)

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/DrSayre

Email: [email protected] My main experience is using Rails with nearly 5 years at a Church Management Software company. I have started to use Ember more recently. Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:33AM (#12016924)
Location: Central Kentucky

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Ember (Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix or Express)

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/DrSayre

Email: [email protected]

My main experience is using Rails with nearly 5 years at a Church Management Software company. I have started to use Ember more recently. Would like to learn more about Elixir Phoenix.

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