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One addition to the shortcuts:

I instinctively tried to press RIGHT instead of ENTER to open category, and LEFT to close category.

Watch out not to fall for the "Carbs is evil" thing that happens right now. :P

I think as a programmer (employed or freelance) you have to improve skillsets in two areas: technical and business. Technical is what you focused on mostly, now it's time to brush up your skills as a business-dude. By starting your own project, venture, startup you will eventually learn first-hand what your current and future employer expects/values of you.

Running my own (bootstrapped) start-up helped me a lot in becoming a better freelancer (and probably employee) - I do freelancing for some beer-money. Once you pay somebody to do something for you, you see the little and big things that an employer values. You also realize that your code is essentially just another part of your company, that has to make money. You will also see if it really matters if the project is written in python or in clojure/scala/node.js.

it's pretty simple.

OS: Linux programming language: Ruby web server: Apache + Passenger database management system: Mysql server-side web framework: Ruby on Rails - includes ORM client-side web framework: jquery + backbone.js deployment: capistrano

and adjust those settings when it doesn't work for you.

worked for all my projects, and I did some really non-trivial CRUD applications.

btw, contact me, i've got some Ruby/Rails projects/work every now and then. kmc16sq@tempalias.com

You have to prove yourself in that period. If they're hooked they will let you do anything. Also of course you have to be lucky to find open-minded managers.

In my experience if they see that you are a valuable resource management accepts A LOT.

Have you considered to offer relocating for 2-3 months work onsite, and then transition to work remotely?

I'm hiring a mid to senior Level Ruby on Rails developers.

We're a bootstrapped company in the finance/investing sector. It's a leading information platform for a niche area (no algo-trading or real-time stuff).

Duties: - Move to Rails 3. - Refactoring - End-user facing features and internal Admin features

3-5 days a week.

Write me a mail to el0w0uy@tempalias.com for more details.

ALT + f on a mac, not too hard. but I agree

which also heavily depends on how old you/what period of life you are. Switzerland is less appealing in your 20ies but much more when you're 40 with wife and kids. You just can't have an exciting, always changing, but still well-organised and super-stable country.

Maybe use a core satellite approach.

The large chunk (70-80%) goes into the core-part, which consists of Exchange-traded (index) funds, such as MSCI World. If you live in the US, I would not invest everything in S&P 500, as you already have enough of US exposure living there. Maybe 30% US, 30% Emerging Markets (MSCI emerging markets), 30% Europe, 10% something else.

Then with the satellite (20-30%), you can gamble a bit. Like investing in a startup, or in special market, (a index tracker in a special sector or in an emerging market for example).

For European ETF:

1.) Depends on the ETF. There is

a) Full Replication. All stocks are 1 to 1 in the ETF.

b) Swap based. EU swap ETFs can have up to 10% (but not more) in swap (what you mean by option/hedge), the rest is stocks. Oftentimes ETF issuers have an insurance on those swaps. If the swap counterparty goes bankrupt you loose that 10%.

c) optimized sampling. You have different stocks (or not all of that index) in your ETF. The idea is to find stocks that corelate closely to those in the index.

2.) By buying the ETF you "own" the stocks. ETF are regulated like mutual funds (at least in EU).

3.) ETF are only a small fraction of the worldwide trade. But obviously if your company gets into a popular index (s&p 500) you can be quite happy.

4.) If everybody would only invest in indices, the market won't play anymore and it would be smarter to buy individual stocks again. This is the index investing paradox. But very unlikely to happen.