paolomaffei

I laughed when I read the substraction of 0 legs for each legless elephant. Then I did a double take... 8 legs per elephant is standard?

Had a permanent role (mid weight) level before, applied for contracts. Nothing special!

Personally I've seen quite a few of up and downs in my market (UK contracting), this might be a bit longer than usual, but not a permanent situation.

An encouraging sign I'm seeing is that there's more permanent positions advertising higher salaries than in the past (maybe just the +20% of inflation from march 2020, but still!).

The market will change again... software is still eating the world, there will be shortage of SKILLED developers for the foreseeable future. And even if I need to make 25% less of what I used to at the peak of pandemic hiring, it's not that bad really!

About 2 years ago I found myself once more checking my phone while on the toilet. I decided that was enough, I don't want to be an addict.

Since then, all my devices (phones, laptop) now stay in a specific room of the house: the office and they never leave

If I badly need GPS to get somewhere I take the dumbphone with me, the phone with the apps simply never leaves the office. But I'll look up the road before instead unless absolutely needed. If I need to meet someone I tell them be on time where we agreed to meet, I won't have a phone with me

It's scary to notice how as soon as there's a phone in my pocket the old addiction kicks up

This very translation has been put to music by an artist called Indiajiva [1], I find it very peaceful

[1] https://open.spotify.com/track/1bBMoUSm7Oc07l3JdQoP4g?si=671...

I'm a bit confused why nobody suggested cryptocurrency mining? not feasible?

Absolutely gold suggestion. This might just be the future for most internet-connected device use, and particularly for children/supervised use like you're describing.

Hey this is great and something I started on working myself. Just a note that if you pin the extension on the extension page itself it gives a very, very confusing message of "SuperFocus works on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

SuperFocus is not yet available for dboceidahklphhjpfbpnicodnbkoiokn."

thought it was a bug before I realised that must be the chrome extension id, but it's quite likely people will first open the extension on this tab as that's where you teach them to pin it

keep up the good work!

Great work! I think apps like this will be seen as pioneers in the age of getting back our attention. From somebody else very interested in the topic, with a pending HN application for a startup app in the same space

what day is today?

the problem is how to identify capable non-technical founders.

I suspect the ratio of capable non-technical and technical founders is nearer 0.1-0.5:1

any thoughts on how to identify the unicorns?

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a Buddhist would say that just in the same way that a rock evolves into a human, a human evolves into a Buddha.

Precisely, ultimately everything is empty.

Scientific rationalism at its worst: trying to apply logic for something that is beyond logic, and all the way not realizing the basic mistake of thinking that everything in experience can be expressed or understood with logic, thought and scientific experiments.

The writer (and a very large part of society) is so oblivious to the unconscious dogma "Everything can be explained in a consistent scientific system" that he doesn't even see it he's holding it - precisely like a Christian will tell you "Look stuff is like this, it says so in the bible".

All this mental masturbation about trying to locate consciousness in the brain/body is utterly ridicoulous. Why do you think you haven't found it yet? Hello?

But according to scientific rationalism everything that exist is matter (for only matter can be PROVED to exist with a scientific experiment...), so consciousness must be there too right? Just like a man who's lost his keys outside, but the street is very dark and cold, so he decided to search for them in his house, which has lights to see better and is much more comfortable.

I agree that this sound like self-promoting, but calling that bit of the book "obviously unacceptable"?

(Buddhist here)

Could I see quotations about the history of violence? Buddhism has by far the lowest score of violence of all five big religions of the world. Not to mention that when that violence did happen (zen priests blessing kamikazes during WW2, myanmar riots these days...) it has been condemned as explicitly not-buddhist by the wider Buddhist world (for violence has no place in the Buddha's thought).

As for it being a religion, well yes it is, however it is not a theistical religion that explicitly asks you to believe in a vengeful, retributing god.

The Buddha describes how reality works (karma - from a certain action an appropriate consequence will follow, and there's nothing fixed or permanent, just conditions giving rise to other conditions) with the important corollary that if you want to be happy, then do actions that are ethical because "good" consequences will follow from those. This is what we call a "philosophy" in western thought.

It only becomes a "religion" when one believes that one too, could be like the Buddha, becoming something that's much higher than what one is right now. One doesn't have to believe this bit however, one could very well follow the Buddha's teachings (and meditation, which is an integral part of) just to become a happier human being.

Would be interested to see the actual prices for the examples

"We modern smart men have figured a way to have trippy experiences without puking and going into an uncomfortable jungle with this funny superstitious shamans, we are the best!" As if doing a hit of DMT was nearly the same thing as a proper Ayahuasca ceremony done with a shaman coming from a 10.000 years lineage. Sigh.

local registers often have very cheap prices for local TLDs for example for .it, gidinet.it has a way lower price than $14.99

then again finding a job with a software engineering related PhD (in UK or US) is not that hard at all, is it?

work with angularJS is actually quite easy to find in London, write me an email if you want some contacts

In London with 5 years experience that's a reasonable estimation for web developers, especially if you are contracting

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based between Thailand and London, UK)

Frontend Developer with strong focus on JS frameworks Before the frontend contracts in London I ran a web development shop in Italy so I have experience in a broad set of technologies Specialized in MVP/prototypes.

My LinkedIn profile (1) is currently missing my last position after RocketLawyer: Lead Developer for a mapping cross-platform web application (from zero to alpha release) for a UK defense company

Contact via email (2)

(1) http://www.linkedin.com/in/maffei (2) paolo@paolomaffei.it

If you are half-decent at JS (specially if you actually can use Angular) I can get you a job in London (or even near Basingstoke if you now happen to live there) no problem, I'm literally swamped with work requests and got so many colleagues looking to hire decent frontend developers (probably Rails too but I don't do that so don't know that well)

IMHO if you are in UK there's no financial sense in staying outside London as jobs (and their compensation) are much better here

(contact: paolo-at-paolomaffei-dot-it)

Forcing to tweet AND not making clear it's a sweepstake?

That some two dark patterns.

What's that 14.7% of 'Information Systems' unemployed graduates?

People that degree in IT but can't actually code/sysadmin/whatever is the technical skill they're supposed to have?

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To be honest Italians prefer .it to .com, and I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did the same (It seems to be the case here in the UK, too).

Also hulu.com even before meaning something would have retailed for the sum that you mentioned.

if they also sell to people that think those flyers are amazing then is it really a problem for them?