mrpoptart

It's awesome that you have a budget, and a process for doing it. Would you find it useful to know whether or not you can afford something you're about to buy, be it a taco, a couch or a car? Your budget works well in as a reflection process, my budget gives you the constant knowledge of how you're doing right now and how you'll probably be doing in the future.

Building a personal budgeting system that reduces the complexity of the process to paying attention to 1 number and about 5 minutes per week to be sure you're on budget all the time. I came up with a solution to this problem about 5 years ago and have been testing iterations with friends and family. In process of building an app to manage it for me.

Motivation comes from three things, provided you're in a creative role and money's not an issue: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. You need to be able to decide how to get the job done, you need to be able to get better and better at your job, and you need to understand why your job matters in the scope of something larger than yourself. Figure out which is missing, decide if you can find it, and if not, go somewhere that can give it to you.

Do everything with no framework. Vanilla JS, basic Rails, Basic PHP. Whatever you know the best, use it and build it. Don't get distracted by features. Until you have a working system, you don't need to refactor. Start with one tiny bit and move on from there.

Friendly correction: you meant "breath" not "breathe."

name checks out.

Choose FI. Being exposed to the concept of financial independence, retiring early and providing a framework and mindset for achieving them has completely transformed my life from aimless working for money to working for a goal.

Decide if you want to be a designer. If you don't, then hire one and make sure you pay them as well as you'd want to be paid. If you do, then do your equivalent of going to school for it.

Here's the abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30269951

And here's the paywalled paper: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1534-5807(18)3...

After 4 years of excellent growth my partner and I had enough income to support one person full-time. Both of us were programmers, the company was a side gig for us. When his dad was laid off from his job, we hired him to handle the day-to-day of the company, which was mostly turn-key at that point.

He did a bad job, drove the company into the ground, and we couldn't fire him without major personal issues, so we let the company die. I divested myself before things got really bad, but it was so sad to watch all that work and potential go up in flames.

We should have fired him anyway, but that's how you learn.

Better workflow:

Star every individual you talk to

Star channels you talk to often

Mute channels you only read occasionally

Occasionally close messages to people to clear the list.

Important things stay on the top, everything else moves to the bottom.

This kind of response is amazing. Mistakes happen, it's the response and the resolution that matter. I was already a happy user. I am now even moreso. Well done.

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if someone leaves a Top-Secret document on the ground, and you pick it up, you don't go to jail for that. The data is accessible to the public -- this isn't a hack, this is just downloading.

The best answer to this is the same answer to the question "How can I make money while I sleep?" Answer that and your commute becomes profitable by default.

If you were only going for a few minutes, why not bring your dog?

Spending 50% of your income on rent is only a big deal if the other 50% isn't significant. Someone who makes 20k a month but spends 10k on rent still has 10k a month for other expenses.

That said, I am a developer and live with my family about 45min public transit-only commute away. I've done the driving thing, I love reading too much to give that time away. My kids and my wife much prefer not living in the city and I get a 3+br for less than the 1br listed here.

Why is it defined that a single grain of wheat isn't a very small heap?

Small edit would improve your statement a lot: I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Learn How to Reverse a Binary Tree

brevity is the soul of wit

There's some conflicting data out there about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/41231470...

Sleeping takes practice like any other skill. If your bedtime is erratic, if your sleep pattern is erratic, if your environment is erratic, your brain isn't sure when it's time to go to bed.

Pick a time for a week and go to bed then regardless of anything else. Try to limit light exposure for the hour before sleeping (no phones in bed) and see if that helps. The more consistent you can be, the more consistent your sleep will be.

Find someone to code with you. Being alone is half your problem, and even explaining it to someone requires more focus than you have. If you don't have someone like this, hire someone at minimum wage to listen to you.

> There's just no good other place to put 'gradually'!

She wants to get rid of her teddy bears gradually.

I believe that your path didn't teach you to learn how to code, per-se, but that learning to code was a side benefit of learning how to teach yourself. Schools exist because specialization is useful, because having lots of people to help is useful, and because information is diffuse. On the bright side, once you know how to learn, learning additional things is easier, especially new things in the same field.

It's only the title that's the problem. You're going to work in a professional place, that means you have to be a professional. Any company is taking a risk by hiring you, and the risk that you're the kind of person who would tattoo "Go Fuck Yourself" as the highest priority item on your website is worrisome. Consider the title "GFY" instead. It's a little less grating and a shows you're capable of being professional when dealing with sensitive subjects.

Breathe in a count of 2 and out a count of 1. Sleep with your mouth open, but breathe only through your nose. Remember that quiet resting with eyes shut is 80% as good as sleeping when it comes to naps.

Installed, got soundcloud and spotify installed on OSX Mavericks, set to full screen. Tried to play a song, got an audio device not available error. Turned off peer upnp and restarted. Crashes on load.

I've been building a little project called guppy it's at http://gpy.me and it requires less registration and is still being tested right now, but's a fun idea.

nexus 4: goal amount: this will cost put cursor in field keyboard opens window registers as landscape due to width/height problem keyboard closes repeat.

Homejoy has been the worst experience for me. I got credit for their company as a perk from my job and I'm so happy we've moved on. I got 3 cleanings from them -- never again. Every single cleaning I got from them required 2 phone calls. Every phone call was 15 mins on hold. Every payment was wrong, every credit was wrong.

Try Exec if you can. They seem to know what they're doing.