avstraliitski

Hello world in machine code for any platform.

Simple: you value your time to little. This is a classic tech mistake for younger / less experienced programmers. Your time is worth a lot. Demand more, take less jobs. You will be happier in mind and body for it.

I usually manage remote workers with a clear spec and a timeframe. If they fail, I offer help and a few chances. After that, their work is reallocated elsewhere and they are fired. This keeps people a little more engaging/realistic with estimates than the 'black hole and hope for the best' model.

What worked for me was travel - long term travel, working overseas. Then I became interested in the linguistics, art, geography and history of other parts of the world. I think I could pretty happily live almost anywhere now, and notice and value the good things about my environment a lot more than I used to, having gone without. Things like art galleries, museums, good cinema, interesting bars, global food.

There's only one clear answer: go there, surround yourself with the language, get a partner who speaks the language, have sex in the language!

Amateurs, the lot of you.

English.

Move to a developing country and retire. If you get bored, you can always work again.

Yeah, I've noticed this too and it sucks.

Very happy to see the end of copied Wikipedia sites.

Cycle to/from work, preferably with some mountains in between.

Swim laps (it's faster than you think, and meditative too).

Use your weekends to socially exercise (kayak, rock climb, ski, whatever!)

Work one less day a week (I just had this approved, I am over the top about it!) and use that extra time to improve your health, lifestyle and happiness in ways that money cannot.

Mobile video specialist.

Some of the real story.

http://www.skandinaviflorida.com/web/sif.nsf/d6plinks/JEIE-8...