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Re:Ask HN: How do I 3x my performance? on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:17AM (#19367029)
Start keeping a notebook how long tasks take, like morning routine 06-06:10. This simple trick makes you understand how much time you waste. At least it did for me. I doubt you can get 3x performance with a full time school, work & family though. Delegating family stuff doesn't work for most of us.
One does not have to retire to a first world country. Seriously, why would you even want to retire to USA? Health care, which old people tend to use, is stupid expensive.
Re:Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated' on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:11AM (#18352771)
How about travel by plane? Are you willing to do that?
Give a number, if they don't accept it, leave. If I want to play games, I go to an arcade.
Why would anyone pay for news is beyond my understanding. I pay for things I enjoy, not things that make my blood boil.
Re:Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:35AM (#17705517)
Very nice, I made one for our D&D group.
I'd much rather pay for healthcare, infra or basically what ever benefits us, the society, than for the war industry.
Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:52AM (#16858259)
Please, enlighten us. How is it good for the economy to take in a massive influx of people who can't read even their own language? What Sweden has, is a huge population of people who's only income is from the state and that is not going to change. If GDP growth is the key to the kind of "economic growth" we want, why are we not just taking tens of millions of said people? Without the welfare state things would be different, people would actually have to be useful/productive and pay for their own lives. Too bad that is not going to happen before the system crashes.
Re:Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video] on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:16AM (#16801525)
Good for him, but why should I care what he does?
The problem is, I don't smile to people I don't know. I've sometimes smiled to babies, but then afterwards I think "Why did I do that?". If I started smiling and waving to disabled people, that would be me treating them differently than I do other people. I think that's the last thing disabled people want.
I don't mind waiting, just be prepared to pay for the hours I wait.
Re:The man who can't face the internet on Monday January 01, 2018 @05:32AM (#16045576)
Indeed, it almost makes me want to hire him, take his picture and share it with the world.
No. It's stupid attacking the ships. Go after the people and their families. (Don't actually do that, but that's how you get things to change - make it personal.)
You probably wouldn't hire ex-cons either, because, you know, you don't want to appear welcoming criminals.
None of the pages I host have any password requirements. Well, one, you have to have a password. One char is enough. Some might wonder why would you do that, but why would you force people to make complicated passwords if the site in question doesn't have anything worthwhile to steal? Like one of my sites is a tv guide, why would I want to force my users to use +8 character passwords? Pure stupidity.
Re:Redoing all my home networking on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:08PM (#15840199)
Because why wouldn't you drop multiple grands on NUCs to encode your DVDs.
Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:51PM (#15789325)
The degree rule by me: Get one if its required to work on the field e.g. MD or if it's too hard for you to learn on your own e.g. math.

Spending money you don't have on a degree you don't probably never need is silly. You can learn history, women's studies and all that jazz on your own if you only put the time in.

Re:Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:04AM (#15748269)
Western countries should put up same kind of laws just for Chinese companies.
Re:Old School Copywriting for New School Businesses on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:53AM (#15747533)
I'm not a marketing person, but even I know that everything you or your company does is PR for the company. Then people put up stupid slides like this. In 2 minutes time, this company lost me. That's one hell of an achievement. You're in marketing, at least act like a semi-professional.
Re:Expanding Signal GIF search on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:54AM (#15608805)
Why?
Re:This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:24PM (#15588553)
Wonder if he pays taxes.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:02AM (#15567011)
I don't get it, please explain what do you mean.
Re:My personal site is a terminal on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:34AM (#15540356)
I guess it works as an art project, but as a website, it's a complete failure.
You can always not accept such clients. Why make life harder than it already is?
Re:The war to sell you a mattress on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:11AM (#15489808)
This just proves it: the worst thing a company can do is to underestimate the stupidity of its customers.
Re:I Quit Facebook on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:59AM (#15482057)
I never joined any social media site, but you don't see me making useless blog posts about it.
As much as your mother is supporting the American disinformation campaign by spawning you.
Paint me surprised, not.
I started a sports betting company that turned into an analytics company. We had zero women or minority (other than asian) employees or even applicants. One new employee became vocal about it, so he was made our "diversity officer". He was made part of our recruiting division and was present in every interview. We got one (white) woman employee. She quit soon after joining. Now there is an opening for a "diversity officer" inside the company. No takers yet.
Re:Show HN: Weekly Python Exercise on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @04:17AM (#15390949)
Seems cool. Subscribed.

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