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mandlar

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mandlar··on Zenefits will pay $3.4M in unpaid overtime to 743 employees
Honestly, when I get home I try to avoid the computer as much as possible. It's why I enjoy playing video games on consoles instead of a PC because I don't have to continue doing what I've already done for 8 hours that day (sit close to a monitor, use mouse/keyboard, etc).
mandlar··on Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined
You may also want to check out /r/financialindependence on reddit.
mandlar··on Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
If you like CS, then you should check out Rainbow Six Siege. Very similar play style (one life rounds with an objective). Everyone chooses a unique operator (each operator has their own weapon set/special ability). It's a lot of fun and reminds me of the days I used to play CS in college 10 years ago.
mandlar··on Data Loss at GitLab
Is there an archive of the stream?
mandlar··on I've removed all ad network code from my blog
I don't know what I'm looking for in the demo. I turned off adblock and have hovered over the images but I'm not seeing anything. Maybe I have another plugin interfering. I'm using Chrome.

The pleenq website demos the idea well though.

mandlar··on Chrome browser for businesses
My company has already disabled the auto-updates in our installed versions of Chrome :/
mandlar··on Amazon Fined for Shipping Lithium Batteries on Passenger Planes
Interesting. Although I actually find it useful that they include the flashlight. Win/win.
mandlar··on Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
How are they going to verify your current salary? Do companies really go out of their way to do that?
mandlar··on Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked
My first thought with WWF was wrestling...
mandlar··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
And if you really want notifications, they can still be enabled via the Google Chrome app when you visit the Facebook website.
mandlar··on On Quitting
I'm not a trust fund kid, but I could safely quit my job any minute and be okay for at least a year.

I'm 28. I have a net worth over $130k and a $25k emergency fund. I make over $70k (web dev) in a low cost of living area. I am maxing out my 401k and Roth IRA every year and will be opening a taxable account this year to dump more money into. I'm a renter (2BR for $515/month not including utilities), but I am fully supporting my fiancée who is finishing her masters of accounting degree.

I still spend quite a bit of extra money on video games and board games and a few other luxuries that I could and probably should cut back on. But I don't eat out (we cook in every night) and I live a mile away from my work.

My ultimate goal is financial independence. I want to be able to live off the 4% returns of my investments and not have to work (although I probably would do something, but more for myself than a company).

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence and http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

mandlar··on Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
I would suggest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming or http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions
mandlar··on Show HN: My reply to LinkedIn recruiters
I've had this happen multiple times. I find it very disrespectful to call me unsolicited at my job about another job.
mandlar··on Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
I really thought that Spartan would have been a great name for the browser.
mandlar··on German author Guenter Grass dies
I really enjoyed his book My Century, where each chapter covers one year of Germany, 1900-1999.
mandlar··on Open Source .NET libraries that make your life easier
I also can recommend StackExchange Exceptional and Opserver from the StackExchange crew for logging: https://github.com/opserver/Opserver
mandlar··on Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
Peeling the Onion, Gunter Grass or any other books by him (My Century is an interesting read on 100 years of Germany).
mandlar··on GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain
Couldn't you technically take the output of GitBook and publish to each service (Amazon, Google Books, iTunes, etc) yourself? It seems you are only paying for the convenience of them doing it for you.
mandlar··on Ex-Google employee says she was reprimanded for speaking about sexual harassment
Original title was: "A former Google employee claims she was reprimanded for speaking out about sexual harassment" but had to reword it meet 80 character title limit.
mandlar··on Ask HN: Has anyone here used Axosoft for project management?
Thanks for the comment! We're also a Microsoft shop and I did like the VS integration with what I've seen so far. We've been using Track-it for our help desk and as a pseudo-project management system for years and it's terrible. Thanks again.
mandlar··on Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
$495? Wasn't it just about $350 not too long ago?
mandlar··on GoFundMe Tops Kickstarter as World’s #1 Crowdfunding Platform
Easier to transfer money? Can use a CC/debit card, etc.? Don't even have to leave home to donate or maybe the cause is further away (your hometown but you live far away now).
mandlar··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Where did you find these recruiting contracts? Are they easy to obtain?
mandlar··on Cat Litter Boxes and DRM
Pretty sure they mean literally eating the (cat's) shit.
mandlar··on Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise
Well, that explains why they were looking for a Cryptocurrency Engineer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditjobs/comments/2c9d61/cryptocur...

mandlar··on Eleventh Grade Tech Trends
That reminds me of my high school days where people played games on TI-83 calculators. I built a level for the Super Mario game and it spread like wildfire throughout the school.
mandlar··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
Funny story, I'm a native English speaker but I've been studying French for the past few years. I now constantly and subconsciously add spaces before punctuation like French grammar.
mandlar··on Show HN: The Rap Test
Oh. There's more than two rappers to choose from. Didn't notice that the first time I went to the page.
mandlar··on Avast forum offline due to attack
Direct link to blog post: http://blog.avast.com/2014/05/26/avast-forum-offline-due-to-...
mandlar··on Go Read: One Year with Money and App Engine
Just remember, the MSDN Azure credits are not meant for production. But BizSpark gives you a production use clause with the free Azure credits.
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