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Because sometimes quality content in buried underneath a bad user experience.

EDIT: Not that I actually think its a bad UI. But either way its not always about the UI.

I'm very surprised to hear how hard it was for you to swim in light chop. I grew up surfing and you paddle with your head up so you are used to craning your neck and stroke at an angle down.

When I finally starting doing some swimming in a pool I was amazed at how much easier it was to swim. Especially maintaining momentum. I also swim quite frequently without a board in open water when the waves are small, but there is still light chop and although it's surprising how slow it is I've never felt it was particularly difficult. Interesting how things work much differently transitioning the other way.

Also when you talk about wetsuit, it sounds like you haven't used a good/thick wetsuit. Or maybe this was a while ago. Wetsuit technology has been pushed really far in the last 5 years. Dry suits have always been good thanks to the military, but sports wetsuits have really progressed a lot with the explosion of the surf industry. I stay in the water easily twice as long now than I did with my first suit I bought five years ago.

It's not free rent. Its just for up to a week. Similar situation to job interviews, but most of them will pay for accommodation if they fly you out.

I just applied and this is really a perfect fit for me. However, I have a hard time seeing who else would be interested in this opportunity. I'm currently traveling and bouncing around so spending some time in San Francisco sounds great.

Anyone else who signed up, what position are you in where living in San Francisco for a couple days works for you?

The title of this article is too ironic not to comment on.

I think it's interesting because a good title itself is intrinsically "clickbait" or begging you to stop and look for more. From the Paul Graham essay to the header on a high school science fair board, titles are design to get your attention. The problem lies now with content which content created with greater attention to the bait than to the actual body itself. A good designed title is just that, until it lures you into content which does not live up to its billing.

If we can't trust titles what now do we use to decide what content is worth our time?

A hundred million dollars would change my decisions, but it also changes the nature of the problem I'll be working on. The contracts I get are on a much smaller scale which means the problem I'm solving is also of a different scale. The language I chose is based on the fact that my client wants their project done on time and on budget along with the ability to change direction when new requests come in.

If my client wants something as robust as a hundred million dollar budget; they will need a 100 million dollar budget. More often then not they just want something that works.

I'm curious on some numbers on how this performs compared to the commercial units the expensive food industry models and the new kick starter wave.

Something like this could be really neat since it is versatile and you could use it to heat/cool other things. Thinking about food the first time to mind would be temperature control for charcuterie and cheeses.

At the last company I worked at clearcase never left.

Going to resorts and fancy hotels is expensive. Traveling is not. Most people I meet traveling including myself are spending way less money than they do at home.

Well clojure having a lisp syntax allows an optional type system to be build as a library.

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

As someone who is currently building out some products with Firebase I don't think the cost to swap platform would be too high as long as you isolating your data layer properly.

I'm writing it with om/clojurescript; however, the same would be true for reactjs or any declarative setup. The only code I would need to rewrite would be the read and write hookups to the server.

I'm doing it now, and unfortunately I can't really tell you how easy it easy to get a job because I was lucky enough to have an incredibly flexible and reliable long term contract fall into my lap. I'm making less than I would like, but my hours and methods are flexible.

If you can find a good client relationship I would fully recommend it; however, I think it would be pretty rough doing it scrounging on E-lance. It would put a good strain on the joy that is traveling.

That is a problem in college, but once they hit pro they've gone through the combine and they are measured.

I was thinking this exact same thing while traveling. Location based wikitravel essentially.