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Start a development agency and advertise where non-tech people would look for you. Yellow pages, facebook page, fill out your details so they show up on google maps.

You'll have a ton of businesses contacting you looking to have their ancient specialised software replaced or improved upon. They wont have a budget to make doing it just for them worthwhile, but it will be a fountain of SaaS ideas that come with built in validation and a first customer to learn the specifics from and act as a reference.

Why do they need to not know that it was recently stolen from a museum?

I got fucked by that indecisiveness. Couldn't get a visa extension in the country I was living in without my country of citizenship closing its borders.

Country of citizenship shut down national airlines but let foreign ones keep flying in and out, banned tourists from flying out, banned foreigners from flying in, instituted a quarantine for people flying in. Absolutely everything they could think to do other than shut the damn border. And they have the gall to have "dont fly" up in a big red notice on all of their travel shit. I didn't want to! You forced me!

Now instead of being at home getting meals dropped off at my closed door and being in complete isolation from the outside world the entire time; I've been in a series of public transports and crowded public locations, stuck in quarantine house sitting for a friend of a friend, with more temporary housing and transportation scheduled to take place in the coming weeks. I'll be more active and in more crowds during this pandemic than I was in the entire previous year. My previous lifestyle was basically "lockdown" anyway. But noooo they have to play games with the borders so some dingus that decided March 10 was a good time to take the wife and kids on vacation doesn't get a chance to kick up a stink in the media.

Kicker is that the country I was living in issued emergency visas to everyone still there a couple days after I left anyway.

CFR can give you an indication of how long its going to last. If its low and you're getting smashed, that tells you that significant portions of the population are getting infected and it will run out of steam sooner. Higher CFR tells you that the exceeded capacity will last for longer. That will impact the strategies you use.

I don't know if its enough to offset the scenario you're familiar with but there's 1. people moving from other forms of transport to cars thanks to the convenience of uber and 2. journeys happening that otherwise would not have happened.

I think .co is a smart get for any .com's where someone impersonating you could hurt you. Otherwise it's not a concern. Definitely wouldn't worry about the ones you listed.

That seems way less dangerous to young people than I'm otherwise seeing reported, and this is the report that's apparently so extreme it got the UK and US to finally do something.

What with all the people who are obese, smoke heavily, have asthma, immune compromised, etc I would have assumed 0.16% of people find themselves in the ICU if they get a cold.

I'm in sales and every role I've held (a grand total of 2 tbf) has been a "be in the office if you need to be" type deal. Same as other people I know in it or other other positions I've considered.

If spending the weekend at a convention in another state is what's needed to make the sale I do that. If drinking with a visiting client until 2am is what's needed to make the sale I do that. If coming in to the office when there's no need and I might get sick and die and more importantly not be able to make sales, I don't do that.

"Sales" is a very broad role to the point where I think someone saying they do it is closer to someone saying they "make things" or "perform services" rather than "software developer" or "lawyer". It's more of a department than anything. Experiences working in it thus vary greatly.

Products often die when transferred to another organisation. They never say that they will die in the announcement.

See https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

It's entirely reasonable for people to assume this is basically Google shutting down the free WiFi service but with extra steps.

If you're talking about clothing, the unbranded/no logo high quality option is bespoke tailoring. Or just unbranded mediocre stuff off the shelf and then tailored to fit.

I was using it because it had voice command support and Spotify didn't. Was pretty important when 100% of my use was while driving. I think that's changed and Spotify has support now but I don't know how smooth that is.

If you want to run an already very large business your best bet is to go in to management consulting. In that case what you study is less important than getting top grades at a top school and interviewing like a champ.

If you want to run a business that isn't but has the potential to maybe be very large then easiest way to do that is to build your own and CS has a very low bar for entrepreneurial activity.

If you just want to run any business then no degree necessary. Just work in food service and treat it like a career. Maybe do a bookkeeping course. You'll get to manage a restaurant eventually.

I was in Singapore recently and regularly saw adults smashing away at games while on the train.

Cryptomator allows you to use local encryption with Google Drive or Dropbox as the cloud storage provider.

I haven't used it so I can't speak to its niceness.

If the question comes out of nowhere, like some guy runs up and asks you while you're walking down the street, I agree.

This question however comes within the context that they're looking at cats on the screen. Unless they get zero cats as their answer for the very first question they play, then the context tells them "cats shown here".

Try team sports. Playing the sport is exercise that's fun, but also your team practice sessions are largely exercise as well. You're doing it alongside your buddies so there's lots of joking around and whatnot so its fun.

What's more is it makes the practical effects more immediate. Delayed gratification is hard. Results that are going to be realised soon are much more motivating.

So when you're doing something like running by yourself, it's still easier because you're not running out of some vague sense of being more attractive in a year, or avoiding a heart attack that you may or may not have in 10, you're running so that next weekend it's ever so harder for the opposing teams front rowers to flatten you.

Keep in mind that when you first start lifting you're going to be putting on muscle a lot faster than someone who has lifted for years and thus what average data tells you it will be.

It's not going to balance out the kind of fat loss an obese person dieting can be losing but if you were just a little pudgy with a completely sedentary lifestyle/no muscle previously, potentially you were just gaining muscle at a rate you lost fat.

That's why you lay your bets. 5 x turnover is really high as well. Most I encounter here in Australia just require one turnover.

Are you only interested in blogs from people with and about technical skills, or is any focus tech related all good?

Authors response to a comment in the discussion below the article:

“I’m betting that Scott went to university straight after school and then went straight into medicine after that. He might have benefited from a year off experiencing promiscuity, drug use and even petty crime. It worked for me.”

I think you’re joking, but in case not – between my junior year of college and the time I started medical school I took two years off and several different trips, during which I (for example) crossed Great Britain entirely on foot, travelled to about thirty different countries, hiked the Himalayas and got lost and had to be rescued by Sherpas, learned to scuba dive amidst poorly explored weird undersea ruins, starred in a Mongolian-language music video, taught elementary school English in Japan, got arrested twice and spent a night in a foreign jail, biked across Italy, and did various other ill-advised things.

When I say there’s nothing wrong with taking some time off in your early twenties to be a bit crazy and see the world, I’m speaking from experience. I swear I wasn’t always as boring as I am now, and if I ever decide to write my own version of “On The Road” it will be at least as interesting as Kerouac’s – as it is, my old blog is about fifty times more worth reading than this place.

But it doesn’t include any carjackings. My point isn’t that you shouldn’t explore, it’s that you should do it without being a jerk and without fetishizing exploration as the be-all-and-end-all of life.

Regularly organise them. Dump everything in to an inbox as it comes to you throughout the day and then have a set time to edit, curate, and label it properly.

For to-do's which can vary in time sensitivity this might be straight away for some that need to be done that day, that day for some that need to be later that week, or weekly for those you hope to get done just eventually.

For your links, ideas, and thoughts you could probably do it weekly.

The trick is to not let it build up so much that when you get around to looking through it, you're looking at three full days worth of organising work, much of which you can't do anyway because you've long forgotten the context within which your short hand notes made sense.

Specifically for to-do's, Getting Things Done is a very (the most?) popular organisational system with a book by the same name.

Here is a much shorter summary of it:

https://hamberg.no/gtd/

In this analogy, the violations on the form aren't the equivalent of the safety problem, they're the equivalent of the brown m&ms.

Could you elaborate please?

That's really interesting. So Singapore basically has almost a georgist type thing going on? Do they collect much revenue in other ways or just predominantly rely on rent?

Because the money it doesn't throw away for nothing more than covers the expense.

Sales aren't some abstract thing that can't be quantified.

Site gets no traffic -> Spend $X on google or facebook pointing traffic to site -> Y Amount of traffic -> $Z amount of sales.

You now know how much revenue $X worth of ads buys you. You also know how much each amount of revenue is worth to you in profit. As long as spending that $X makes profit, you're gonna do it. No matter what crap is mixed in by the ad company.

If something you want is bundled with something you don't want and is priced such that you're willing to buy the thing you want at that price, you don't turn it down. You buy it and ignore the thing you don't want.

No sin taxes are at play here. Their reference to sin taxes was to show that tax minimisation is expected behaviour.

Review by Ben Horowitz:

https://a16z.com/2015/11/13/high-output-management/

The discussion is about dropbox, a background service that used to have much more reasonable memory use and for which has competitors using far less memory. A trade-off isn't necessary.

wiki is saying she did stripteases for the camera.

She originally gave access to the stream for free and then later started charging for it. She also originally blocked it during sex but then stopped. Makes me think she had a "people will pay to see me bang" motivation.

For comparison, OneDrive on MacOS is sitting at 85mb for me.