Can we get a link directly to the project instead of this testflight page?
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There's a housing crisis in Ireland too. A 2-bed in Dublin in an alright location is 2k+. Here's rents in Dublin: https://www.daft.ie/property-for-rent/dublin-city
Capital Gains in Ireland is 33%, income tax is high, and the quality of life isn't as high as mainland Europe. Just look at those apartments. Depressing.
If I were you I'd move to the Netherlands. The no-tax year is unbelievably good, nl is less car-dependant so you get to live a different lifestyle, and it's easier to tour around the rest of Europe. Ireland isn't even in the fucking Schengen!
And switch soon, or you'll lose all your games.
I'm not sure who's in charge over there but it feels like they hate me personally.
Especially if (like me) he's got an ad blocker in Chrome but not in Safari.
Bond would be better compared with a character like Ricki Tarr. The 00 section seems to exist in the Smiley organization, they're called the 'scalphunters'. Here's Carre's description:
"The scalphunters' official name was Travel. They had been formed [...] in the pioneer days of the cold war, when murder and kidnapping and crash blackmail were common currency [...] They were a small outfit, about a dozen men, and they were there to handle the hit-and-run jobs that were too dirty or too risky for the residents abroad."
Sounds a lot like Bond. Tarr even shows up at the office unexpectedly, having problems with a woman, wanting money...
It's incredible the number of people who use the words "affordance" and "signifier" incorrectly.
(This is also my coding process.)
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. How to navigate the landscape. And who has right-of-way on the trail.
Any textbook on Statics and Dynamics. Physics.
How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is the book that people trying to manipulate you have read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases These serve as lenses through which you can view a situation to get new perspective. Like looking through a piece of red plastic to filter out red ink and see a hidden message in yellow ink, if you remember that as a child. Not in some authoritative sense, but different perspectives you can hold in your mind.
It's well-shot and more interesting than you'd expect.
Maya Gabeira (from the article) is featured too.
As a longtime dev and recent dev manager, I hate most self-described 10x coders. I want people who are net-positive. Team players, focused on adding value, doing unsexy work, keeping the build and tests green. Being nice to each other.
Even if they're barely productive, as long as they're net-positive I'm perfectly happy having them on the team.
We could have had an Irish space program! A monorail! We could have bought Greenland!
Rock climbing: I was very happy about all the coverage around the Dawn Wall project, with Caldwell and Jorgeson. A big part of that climb was finding ways to do it safely, protected all the way. Great contrast with all the free solo hype that had gotten so much coverage before.
One of the worst experiences of my life was trying to spot and move pads around for a buddy trying to climb a super-highball in the Buttermilks. Horrifying. I didn't want to help but nobody else was around.
It's not clear-cut, either. If you turn around and the group continues, and they don't die, it's really hard to accept that you made the right choice. Just because they got lucky and survived, sometimes the right choice was still to turn around. But there's no certainty, and it's hard not to second-guess your choices.
I'd love to think of it all as some kind of art project, but there are always undertones of manipulation and intentional disaffection.
People in here complaining that they like to clean or cook so the study is wrong. Focusing on the wrong part of the study. Which tasks you'd outsource is up to you. If you like cooking, then obviously don't outsource cooking!
But if there's something you dislike doing, outsource it! You'll be happier than if you spent the money on junk.
In practice we paired when doing difficult stuff. It worked well.
Tips:
Don't pair at your desk. Use a pairing station.
Pair for a task, short if possible. If not, timebox.
Pair for short periods!
Train yourself to be productive while pairing. Don't relax. A short period of hard work.
Pick a consistent pairing time and make it a habit. Such as after standup, after lunch, whatever. Some times when you would not be productive solo, like after lunch, you can be productive in a pair. Experiment.
Failure modes:
Long, unproductive, exhausting pairing periods. People will quit.
That one guy that nobody wants to pair with. Happens, sorry.
Sitting there twiddling your thumbs while your pair partner writes an email. Only pair for coding / debugging / testing! Don't pair at your desk.
Plus the Dems play the same game when they can: http://www.propublica.org/article/in-california-democrats-re...
Do you have an alternative strategy? Should it matter at all which district you live in?
What would be the consequences of representatives coming straight from population breakdown? Worse schools in districts with smaller populations?