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Thanks, actually I wasn't aware of that even now!

Really this would have been great to know from my high school advisor to be able to convince my parents to let me consider other types of universities.

Illinois, it was a private school, a semester's cost was 15k.

Granted I should have went to a community college to get my basic classes sorted out.

But being a first generation immigrant and the first to go to college I had little guidance and a high pressure to appease my parents.

At the same time they could not make any payments on my behalf but also did not allow me to go to community college either.

Some would say I should have been smarter, but my parents were sold the "American Dream",

I was forced to foot the bill :)

I went to school 2008-2012.

Went in state,

lived at home (commuted 2-2.5~ hours twice a day)

lived cheap (no real spending outside of school bills)

Had scholarships which knocked off 50% of the sticker price.

After all that, and the high interest rates at the time on my initial loans it was north of 200k.

My parents helped with food and rent (living at home) but everything else I took a loan off.

I considered my loans heavily predatory and wish I could have done things differently.

Are you talking about the squat toilets? Because the other smart toilets are very nice, even if you don't use the cleaning options, having a heated seat in the winter is amazing.

In Japan, seemingly everyone doing commercials is "number one", by that same logic.

Thankfully things are changing positively for me.

But I fully agree with what you've said and I will keep it in mind moving forward.

Thanks, you're 100% correct and when I recently explained my history to startups out here they have the exact same reaction.

I've been jumping from small pond to small pond until now.

This large company's project is outsourced to over 30+ people where none of the devs have even touched React and come from an Enterprise Java background. It's 6+ months and late, when really the product would take a team of about 8 to do in 4 months. I come in and suddenly I'm tech lead managing and mentoring others.

I understand even this post feels like I'm unappreciative but it wasn't until two months ago that I had a teammate I could feel happy working with rather than me mentoring them.

I don't consider myself great or a genius, but this pain of knowing you can only teach yourself so much has bothered me since my first job.

Hence, how does one find a mentor?

How would you find such a mentor?

So far every job I've joined since finishing school in 2012 I've been the "smartest person in the room". It's been incredibly frustrating to not have peers to learn from technically.

It was so bad that I left my city (Recruiters and the jobs felt very toxic to me) and became an expat, started self learning what I wanted until I could consult enough to sustain myself.

Now I joined a large company for a large project in asia and I'm STILL missing people I can learn from.

I'm reaching my 30's, and have only worked at small to medium places with near zero mentorship.

Can also attest to this, had plenty of head-scratching issues before I realized on my home computer using kaspersky why our app was breaking.

Also, whether by design or not, this links back to your personal website which leads to directly identifiable information about you.

Just FYI!

That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

I saw a site that highlighted the official audiobook/ebook of "The Lean Startup" on one page. I love this as a generic solution.

To add to that, I couldn't make it work following these steps, but logging out and following the steps above worked for me. Thanks.

Reminded me of "Glitch City" in the original pokemon games.

https://youtu.be/86VvAY-Rhzo

Thanks for sharing your story.

Could you share pictures of the arrangements? I assume you gutted it out and did some clever interior decorating.

I can also confirm that I've noticed after a very stressful period of over 4 years that my memory was completely shot.

When I entered the workforce, at first I noticed I couldn't remember names at all, I would have to either concentrate on the name while ignoring the conversation in front of me, or I pay attention to the conversation but have an almost certain chance I will forget the name.

I've noticed in general that I had poor short term memory, but I never realised this issue when I was in college.

The worst part was not being able to remember what tasks I accomplished just a few hours before at work, boy that always made me feel good.

It's been driving me nuts for years, I'm unsure how much I have recovered if at all.

Left my job and my life as I knew it and ran away halfway across the world to consult while traveling.

Went from no network and no experience consulting / selling to being able to support myself in Tokyo without needing savings.

Changed my image and gained a lot of confidence and soft skills.

Met many people I otherwise would not have.

Grew my view of the world, myself and life in general.

You just described me, my memory recall is horrible and I'm very curious in finding an explanation.

My memory is poor and seems to only get worse and I'm not even in my 30s yet.

But if the host traffic is compromised you can serve malicious payment gateways/forms.

I'm very thankful to have quit my job to travel and freelance 8 months ago.

It wasn't all pretty but I have grown and challenged myself in many ways that I otherwise would not have been able to!

I'd be glad to discuss with anyone interested in doing the same either over a Tokyo beer or email (:

Can you please elaborate on Seoul VS Tokyo?

I've seen the work culture (non programming) in both and as far as my friends go.. I have a VERY difficult time seeing my korean friends vs my tokyo friends.

As far as compensation, I'm not sure about Seoul but Tokyo wages for software is very low I've found.

>For example, I’ve told recruiters about my salary expectations and had them laugh and say “no one gives that kind of [salary/equity/vacation/benefits].”

I had a similar experience looking for my first job in Chicago a few years back.

I met with a fairly large general recruiting firm in the area just so they could feel me out.

I named my expectation of 50-60k to which the recruiter replied.

"You know... when I moved to Chicago I was living on 18k"

Not exactly the type of response I expected.

I believe this is what he meant.

'From 2007 on, Hotz became a coding vagabond. He briefly attended Rochester Institute of Technology, did a couple five-month internships at Google, worked at SpaceX for four months, then at Facebook for eight. The jobs left him unsatisfied and depressed. At Google, he found very smart developers who were often assigned mundane tasks like fixing bugs in a Web browser; at Facebook, brainy coders toiled away trying to figure out how to make users click on ads. “It scares me what Facebook is doing with AI,” Hotz says. “They’re using machine-learning techniques to coax people into spending more time on Facebook."' http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

Interested in your opinion on what the range should be, currently struggling with knowing my true value in this market.

I've had them a little over a month and show no signs of breaking down.

I'm also a side sleeper and had trouble with normal earplugs. A month back I bought these DIY custom molded earplugs. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003A28OW6 I use them every night with no discomfort, they do a better job of blocking out noise and they stick in all night regardless of my tossing and turning.

Didn't even know about this when I wrote the comment. Now I'm a little more inspired to look into hardware hacking. Thanks!

Pretty cool! Soon you can teach her to text you when your dryer finishes its cycle (;

"...the examiner found a hit in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. This file stores debug information when a system failure occurs."

Seems to be generated on a previous system failure.

"Like a lot of Airbnb listings, it was rented as “entire place” rather than “private room,” which meant no host was in residence. But in this case, I’m not sure any host was ever in residence. The listing was run by some sort of conglomerate or management company, and checking in involved no human interaction whatsoever. To get there, I carried my luggage up a neon-lit hill — past something called Hotel Fifteen Love, past places called Pub Slow Jam, Adult Shop Joyful and Baby Doll and a pet store that sold fluffed-up puppies and kittens and still somehow managed to look seedy — to the concrete apartment building where it was located. The door was unlocked. A key had been left inside. I had no idea where I’d landed."

That's wild, is there really such a low expectation of crime over there?