A year. And we both quit our jobs. But to be fair, I do work in software. However, I don’t make a squillion bucks a year, I was doing startup stuff mostly (seed funded startups pay garbage, but they’re fun) and my girlfriend is a school psychologist, so yeah, we weren’t rolling in it.

Doing it right now. Saved 20k for two people. It’s not super fucking easy, but it’s not as tough as all that if you have two people working professional jobs. A month is harder because you have to find a workplace that is cool with it and you have to spend a *lot* more. Being an expat somewhere is fairly cheap in…

Hilariously I had a friend that hosted an actual Star Trek themed gangbang for her roommate’s birthday. I wish I still had a copy of that Craigslist ad.

Number one for me would be the Illuminatus! Trilogy.

I’m not sure that Occupy’s failure was willingness to call out politicians. Or that Occupy was a failure at all. I think that the successes of Occupy are evident in that Elizabeth Warren is a senator and Bernie Sanders is a popular protest candidate—and that even the Republicans are giving (thin) lip service to income…

I can't help what? It's not condescending if it's true. It's intellectually lazy to claim something but be unwilling to argue for it. This is a big problem with the left and it's embarrassing.

I honestly didn’t mean to be a dick. Obviously was, but shouldn’t have been.

You just said the name of a city. That’s not an answer. Show your work.

> Economic advancement as a way to curtail racism has been heard before by black and latino before. But no matter how much money I have, that will never prevent me from being murdered by cop who has been told that here is a war going on and that people with brown and black skin are the enemy.

That’s the thing that gets me. What is the platform that is being advocated for that Sanders somehow isn’t endorsing? None of these handwringing thinkpieces articulate it. Is there a policy that the candidates should endorse? What’s the plan?

In New York the mailing address if you live in Brooklyn is, well, “Brooklyn, NY” not “New York, NY” So if you’re looking for a practical reason, there it is. I know, New York, rich people, insular, etc. . . .

Not really. Likely, the reason for the long peace has to do with a mixture of international trade, increased communications, the ‘expanding circle’ of rights revolutions, the UN, and the large increase in education. Check out Steven Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. He spends about 800 pages (with lots…

Holy shit, I lived in Oz right after the re-election. I feel your pain.

Not to mention generally different social mores. Violence against women just wasn’t as reviled as it is today. As late as the early 90s slapping a woman around was considered a personal issue and not a criminal one (by the general public.)

If you ever want to see the wrong way to use a knife and fork go to a Starbucks in Japan and watch someone try to attack a piece of toast. It's like going to a sushi restaurant in the midwest. Pretty amazing.

Recipes are the best but the approach has to be good as well. As I mentioned in another comment, the way to go is to actually type out the code examples by hand. There's something about the rote process that helps develop an intuitive understanding of what is going on. Then once you have a working example locally you…

You don't know what you're talking about. Maths is useful once you get more advanced but there is absolutely zero requirement at the basic Hello World level of programing.

The best way to learn to code is to have a project. Something attainable like a blog or a forum that is complex enough to require data and user management but not so complex as to be a job only a team can handle. Of course that's assuming a web bias. Other stuff is way more fun and usually has fewer moving parts but…

I can only imagine writing something that epic, but in my experience any time I write something longer the end product is far different than the outline, even if it hits a lot of the same plot points along the way. Then again, any large project tends to change as soon as it meets the real world, and that's most of the…

I recently wrote this short based on South Pacific cargo cults.