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Joeboo - figure out a percentage of your income you can save. At your age, while it is certainly not too late, you need to be aggressively saving. I would say a good target is 25% of your pretax income into an IRA. If you don't want to worry about picking funds just stick it in a Vanguard...

Cabrewing down the Little Miami... This hit me in the feels bros. Strongly recommended if you're in the Cincinnati area, can't say I would travel from Canada for it but it's a good time.

Thanks for that outline Hachima. That's going to keep me busy for awhile, heh. I signed up for Code School for $29/month because I like their tutorials. They're longer and more challenging than Code Academy. That should keep me busy working on HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery for the next couple weeks...

Update: I finished the CodeAcademy JavaScript tutorial. Took me 3 days at roughly 5-6 hours a day. Going to take the rest of the day off and then do the entire course again tomorrow, without looking at any hints, to reinforce what I've learned. After that I'll probably do the HTML/CSS...

Feel free to derail, I'm enjoying it. I have been grinding away the last couple days and my brain hurts. In a good way.

Again, thanks for the replies. My plan is to continue to work at my current job while I get enough experience to work on some real projects even if it's for free. After a year or two of working freelance I feel like I could probably get hired if I progress at a decent rate (similar to your...

So do I need the degree to get a job? I'm loving the Code Academy JavaScript tutorial. Could I use completion of these types of courses as a springboard into a CS grad school program? Fuck doing undergrad again.

Based on the feedback I think I'm just going to go at it on my own. Books, tutorials, and then hopefully jump into some kind of collaboration through GitHub.. I do agree that "cramming" doesn't really work, and the only real way to learn is to try, fail, succeed, repeat. Right now I'm doing...

Thanks for the replies. Khane, whats the best way for a beginner to learn? Rails is pretty straight forward... I can follow guides and tutorials and start making web pages today, even if I don't fully understand what I'm doing all the time.

Well, since I've started down the Rails road and I rather enjoy the tutorial I think I'll stick with it for now. I figure at this point the best bet is just to get started doing something. After I complete a few projects maybe I'll have some idea of what direction I'd like to go in the future.

I'm learning Ruby on Rails because it's what most of these camps teach. For most of the good ones, you have to solve a couple problems during the application process and they're Rails problems. So primarily I'm learning Rails to prep for those code problems. About it being burnt out, the...

Little background: I'm 28 with an accounting degree from a state school. I did not go into Big 4 accounting out of school (shit grades). Although I make a good salary ($70k), I'm terribly bored with my job and I'm not learning any particularly valuable job skills. There is little opportunity...

To all these people here who are so amazing at their job - did you ever stop to think that if you're always the smartest guy in the room, that you're likely in the wrong room? Personally I have a feeling that most of the people in this thread aren't quite as valuable as they think, or are...

It will be detrimental to your career and no one will think it's cute or funny. Just sayin'.

I wonder if this will release at the same time as the Kazaam remake I've been hearing so much about?

This game is a ton of fun. We have been playing it with a group of about 6 or 7 and having a blast. It brings back some EQ vibes for me... going out in the world is a real risk, you can easily lose more than you gain, there is no hand holding. It could certainly use further development, but...

I've lived in Pittsburgh and currently live in Cincinnati. They're basically the same place, but Cincinnati has a more intelligent populace as it was founded by Germans, where as Pittsburgh, as previously said, was founded by Pollocks. The chicks in Pittsburgh generally put out quicker however.

I have lots of games I haven't played or beat. When I was a kid, a game was typically about $50. At that price, I bought 2-3 a year, and played them a lot because I didn't have many other options. Now that games are cheaper and I have adult income, I have many unfinished or unplayed games.

Requires a 500 GB hard drive? Why?

Until they crash. So far anyone doing it has made a shit load. A lot of people say a crash is coming, and I tend to agree, but it could up another $5,000 in the mean time.

Dude only does big profit, high margin sales. Which is made evident by the fact that he's trying to sell a shitty three year old video card for 80 bucks in the desktop computers thread.

If you're trying to imply running 5 miles 3-4 times a week is unhealthy you're really stretching. Could it cause knee or ligament damage? Of course, so could almost any type of exercise. Are you asking if it's healthier to sprint short bursts? I don't know that, but my guess is (based on...

Doh, I actually meant the 280x. If money was no object though I'd grab that 290.

Really thinking about getting a 290x when I put my machine together. Seems like a killer performance/price point.

Bro fist. Good posting bro. Tell those other bros to get on your level bro.

6-12 months of bare minimum living expenses is your most important asset. After you have that, throw anything extra at the loans, with the exception of the matched percentage of your 401k contribution. You can probably have it paid off in 1-3 years if you are diligent, the extra interest...

So... Do you still recommend getting it? How is it out if the box? I know nothing about color calibrating a monitor, is it something a novice can do?

Thanks for the advice, really thinking about pulling the trigger on this. What did it take to calibrate the colors?

Good value? Around $500 I would say.

Good suggestions so far. Any monitor advice?

I'm surprised that if these are indeed guaranteed returns that institutional investors aren't buying tax liens up in bulk. What are your returns after expenses like? What is keeping "the smart money" out of these types of investments?

I agree with you, and I even said as much above. Trying to predict when the market is at its high point and re-balancing to bonds or selling stock is market timing. I am not doing this, I am simply increasing my contribution rate when the market goes down. I still had an unrealized loss on my...

It was 2008, when mom and pop sold their 401ks off because the market dropped 40% while the long term investors who stuck to their fundamentals furiously increased their contribution rate. If you're getting 10% annually, I applaud you. Clearly you understand the rules and processes for these...

I'm going to be building a PC on Black Friday/Cyber Monday as well. Lets keep this post up to date with the best deals.

Care to explain? Why would you invest in a market that has been in shambles for the last five years? Your chances of making money in real estate are decidedly less than the stock market. This is a fact. The inflation-adjusted growth rate of residential real estate over the last century is...

Market timing is more or less a crap shoot. Have people done it successfully? Of course. Have people failed miserably? Many more. If you want to try to time the market, my best advice is to set your asset allocation to what you're comfortable with, and rather than rebalancing to try and...

Keep in mind, investing in a single stock (or even 20 stocks) is really just gambling. You might buy the next Google, and you might buy the next Blockbuster. Unless you have a minimum of $100k, forget about real estate. Even if you have $100k, forget about real estate. Very few people are...

PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 5.65 million Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2014: 4.45 million PS4 NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 9.25 million Xbox NA Sales by March 31st 2015: 7.75million

You're telling me it's difficult to get hard dollars exchanged for bitcoins from the largest bitcoin exchange on net? And people are seemingly unconcerned that bitcoins aren't in bubble territory? Lol.

Even though I've lost about 10 lbs., I'm still hungry all the time. I eat a small breakfast (500 cals, all protein) then have some sort of snack (200 cal) every 1.5 hours until lunch, which is a salad (400 cals?), 2 or 3 afternoon snacks, then a large post workout dinner (1000 cals). I'm still...