jamesknelson

While I can't say for sure where I'll be 30 years from now, I feel like it is better to dream big than to give up while I'm still young. With that in mind, I'd love to be helping to get us off of this rock before we accidentally sterilise it - even better if I can do so before 30 years passes.

I also built a tutorial around the same idea a few weeks ago, with a similar domain name, but aimed more at complete beginners than this site. My target audience would be graphic designers who want to get into web design, but don't have a clue where to start.

I stopped after writing one article because I didn't get much interest, but then I didn't put much work into publicising it either. If people found it useful I'd certainly like to keep adding to it until it explains how to go from never having programmed to building a website which can take payments.

You can find it at http://makethispage.com/chapter-1.html

This article made me think of the short story Manna:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

The only difference being that instead of being directed with headsets, people are now being directed with apps.

I wonder how long until the world reaches chapter 3?

I've also come to that conclusion after a number of years of freelancing, but I understand the other point of view as well.

While freelancing, especially for people in another country, it isn't uncommon for customers to just disappear without any trace (or pay) half-way through a project. As such, when confronted with some problem mid-project, finishing the job in a half-assed manner can be a way of ensuring you get paid. Of course, a better method is making sure you have a solid plan before agreeing to the job, and trying to avoid unreliable customers - but accomplishing this can be difficult in any setting, even non-freelancing.

On the customer side, making sure you have a number of reasonably sized milestones and pay for them immediately on delivery can help keep freelancers confident, and thus encourage better quality work.

For Gifu/Nagoya, it really depends on what kind of lifestyle you want, but I'd say anywhere from about ¥120,000 to ¥200,000 a month if you're single, or ¥200,000+ for a couple.

We're aiming this at people who can get/already have a visa. I haven't specifically mentioned it on the front page, as I think most people who would consider applying for this would already understand the visa situation. I have mentioned the requirement on the actual "apply" page, however.

Thanks for the idea - I'll try and add this today

Hi everyone! This is something our Startup Weekend team from Nagoya, Japan is building. We'd love to hear any feedback!

While a lot of browsers are still lacking pretty much any ES6 support, you can get around this by using Traceur [1] to compile your ES6 javascript down to ES5, and then using the es6-shim [2] for new ES6 libraries (Promise, etc.)

Given that you'll need to compile dart down to JS for it to run on any browser (including chrome), and given that it seems unlikely Mozilla will ever include a dart VM, I'd say that starting to learn ES6 now is probably a better long-term bet than learning dart. Which isn't to say Dart isn't a nice language...

[1] https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

[2] https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim

As somebody who lives in a non-English speaking country, with not-so-great prospects of well-paid local work, I encounter the opposite problem of not knowing where to look to find people willing to hire professionals.

Also, it seems that a big proportion of people who are looking for "remote" work are actually looking for people who live in the US, and can still go to the office when required. That is going to limit your pool a lot too.

Assuming you are someone who actually looks for these professionals, what sort of process would you go through to actually try and find them?

The idea sounds reasonable, although I think I'd struggle with the whole "actually getting up when the alarm goes off" problem.

I found a linked article on his page which addresses this problem, with a solution I'm going to have to try:

> This is going to sound really stupid, but it works. Practice getting up as soon as your alarm goes off. That’s right — practice. But don’t do it in the morning. Do it during the day when you’re wide awake.

This may sound kinda stupid, but when people ask you to send them an e-mail in a social setting, what are you expected to actually send? I've had a few times when there are people I've met who use the "send me an e-mail" line, but I never find something worth actually sending an e-mail about, and thus never get around to it.

"tomo no tomo" is roughly "friends of friends" in Japanese - so I guess thats what they were going for. It is a bit of a mouthful, though.

I've been recommended to take these three (D3, Omega 3, Iodine) by my own GP, but I'd still be really interested in being able to read some of your mentioned sources. Any chance you could make a list?

There are a number of common ways of doing it - my favourite being a project called ng-boilerplate [1], which encourages you to create directories based on features, and then place all the files related to a specific feature (tests, javascript/coffeescript, html, css) in the same directory. It uses grunt to compile the various files into a single file as you are coding.

Another good resource is a well made example app called angular-app [2], which includes security, a small backend, some crud pages, etc.

1. https://github.com/joshdmiller/ng-boilerplate

2. https://github.com/angular-app/angular-app

The way you have worded it makes it sound like you have put all the blame on women for having affairs ("women have affairs to..."). It takes two to tango, so to speak. In fact, according to wikipedia, men are significantly more likely to have an affair than women (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidelity).

The fact that men are often actively trying to get in women's pants likely has a greater effect on these statistics than women's genes' desire to reproduce.