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There are some markets where the real estate business is insane, you don't get to make those studies.

I once had 30 minutes to make an offer on a flat, I actually matched the asking price... and was outbid an hour later.

Current price for that flat is 50% higher now. I'm still renting :( .

And it was a sketchy part of town with known crime (mostly theft, not violence).

I had no idea time-domain reflectometry existed. TIL.

I agree that I could also think of several ways to implement it and I'm only a software dev.

Not true. Me and my family are on Xiaomis, they're on a different level.

I have a company-issued S8 and an iPhone, and I wouldn't trade them for my Xiaomi.

Best part is, they cost less than half of an equivalent iPhone, have better battery and amazing performance.

I used to buy Samsungs (and Nokias earlier before they suicided).

I have an iPad and it's a great piece of hardware, but I don't stand the Apple ecosystem (iTunes in particular is a piece of crap).

Currently waiting for the Pocophone F1 to be distributed by the local carrier. Another slam dunk by Xiaomi.

You launched an app, I think you could get a job as a junior programmer (heck, you're ahead of most) :)

Don't sell yourself short.

I'm also interested (about to start my own diet but I hate non-varied diets). Any fasting method worked better than others?

Paywalled. An interesting exercise in how much value branding adds though.

I got my grandmother to use a computer, but she always used a few predefined paths.

Another elderly relative relied on a relatively inexpensive, patient tech support person (basically an advanced user). There was a cottage industry of techies helping the elderly in my country, maybe there's something similar where you live?

I wonder how many companies actually need Istio. It's definitely for large scale.

Check previous threads about this. I'm not a consultant but it seems you already have a network to start.

This is something I saved up from here:

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1) Produce publicly visible artifacts which demonstrate that you're able to apply technology to impact business outcomes. You do not need many of these; ~3 is fine. You do not need to block on the other steps. You do need to plausibly connect the technology to a business outcome; blockchain and beginner-level cryptography probably do not get you there.

2) Begin getting into conversations with people who either a) have purchasing authority or b) talk to people with purchasing authority, at your target clients or firms very similar to them. This can be as simple as bonding over technical things with technical people. You want to become Internet buddies with e.g. senior engineers / team leads / etc at software companies.

3) Walk the network of your new friends to engagements, either at their firms or peer firms. Do not make another WordPress site for the average business; make something for a software company.

4) For every engagement you land, attempt to get referrals to more clients, attempt to land follow-on work with the same client, and attempt to land ongoing maintenance/retainer/etc agreements with the client.

And then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615

If you're interested, these slides are a cool introduction to the complexity of air travel:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf

Edit: I missed that someone had already linked to them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531203

They don't exactly advertise it. I remember Snapchat's founder (Evan Spiegel) was even weathier than Gates and Zuck (and that helped him resist buyout offers).

It's not entirely P2P, you need a server for initial connectivity.

But it's probably good enough for most P2P applications (I saw someone building P2P CDNs with it !!!)

Some games (League of Legends, Ingress) have or had crowdsourced 1st level appeals for minor infractions.

Maybe that's the way to go. I know many volunteers answer Google's forums.

A newer submission got traction, see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527917

I'm a foreigner with ties to Toronto, and I ruled it out. Salaries vs housing costs don't add up.

Adding to that: 15/hr is a decent wage in many countries, but you'll be paying at least 30 due to overhead and a middleman which will be the one really profiting.

And the middleman might bait and switch you on a 7/hr junior coder.

It depends a LOT on what you're estimating.

Estimating a CRUD line of business app is very much doable. On the other hand, estimating an innovative product using unproven tech or novel methods requires a proof of concept before even knowing feasibility.

I worked with major consultancies, and the most serious gave you order-of-magnitude estimates, with iterating improvements on the estimation itself until you reached a +/- 15% estimation that was the best they could do.

Very similar to: https://www.construx.com/software-thought-leadership/books/t...

In those cases, it was a very reasonable estimate because they'd done very similar things before.

One of those consultancies used an tool and they had measured their teams' velocity and were very confident on their estimates.

For one of my own projects, we had to estimate a rewrite of an existing app (with slight improvements), which is as easy as it can get in regards to estimation. We used several approaches, the one that ended up being closest to reality was Steve McConnell's tool Construx Estimate (no longer available but you can find a mirror here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170920093850/https://www.const... )

I loved an estimation tool called Construx Estimate, by Steve McConnell. The few times I used it it was far more accurate than the other estimation techniques we were using at the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920093850/https://www.const...

Definitely a bad fit for Google, they aren't especially well known for caring about user experience or the user these days... (/s)

As someone who paid for a non-top MBA and regrets it, I agree with the grandparent - don't take a (non-top) MBA unless your employer is paying (and don't take the top one unless you know what you'll do with it, though connections will be very sweet).

If you can get into Wharton or Harvard I think it's very likely someone other than yourself will be paying.

I've worked in insurance for almost a decade (P&C), and I believe what the U.S. calls "health insurance" is a travesty.

"Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss"

Insurance should never be used for something CERTAIN and inelastic such as healthcare. For specific health risks, sure, but for standard care? It makes absolutely no sense.

I don't know how the U.S. can fix its healthcare crisis, but it's an absolute disaster. Other countries don't have 48k allergy tests.

I got a job at an U.S. company and so I now have a T-Mobile phone as well as my Uruguayan phone.

I've never gotten a robocall on my Uruguayan phone and half the world must have it on their database (Spammy SMS, on the other hand, are a problem).

OTOH, my U.S. phone gets several calls a day, and I've seldom given it out. Most are marked "Scam Likely" by T-Mobile. But I've never gotten a spammy SMS.

A surprising cultural shock, to be sure.

I simply don't answer the U.S. phone anymore.

Heck, president-elect Bolsonaro got stabbed campaigning in Brazil.

I'm not sure if current presidents use bulletproof clothing.

Not the OP, but this is a Big Thing for me too (and I'm from Uruguay). I am aware of a lot of other differences, but I don't see that many other things that I'd care about.

And I've been to middle-of-nowhere, USA and have family there so I know it's not a bed of roses, but you also don't fully realize how good you have it in many other ways.

iTunes used to be extremely crappy and noxious on Windows, I wonder if it's changed.

I'm STILL using mainly Winamp. I've tried some alternatives but for my old MP3 collection it's unbeatable.

I've worked with tremendously good Indian engineers as well. But in most cases they were already in the U.S. on some kind of visa, permanent residents or citizens.

I have had good experiences with outsourcing in India itself as well, there are some serious teams there too. But there were some bad cases as well.

Money is definitely an indicator of quality, expensive might not mean good but cheap almost always means they're not top talent.

Here in Uruguay if you wish to call yourself an "engineer" you need to have an accredited engineering degree.

There is a career called C.S. Engineer and it has an huge amount of math and physics (equivalent to an undergrad + master's in the U.S.). Most of us take the career that's equivalent to an undergraduate degree though, the extra math (and grueling attrition) is mostly useless.

But graduates are very sought after because they've proven themselves able to go through a tough grind (even though they don't have a shred of practical experience after graduating)

I remember my mind being blown when I saw a newspaper dispensing machine in Canada for the first time...

That would absolutely not work in South America.

You can clearly see which tourists are from our part of the world in Europe where paying for transport is "optional"...

Don't get into debt. Manage your finances carefully. Exercise more and eat healthier. Learn to cook.

I can't stress the part about debt and finances enough.

I'm also having similar issues. I was recommended Cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm also going to have a doctor's visit.

They always recommend exercise, so I agree with DoreenMichele's advice. I'm overweight and have poor fitness.