I used to use this excuse to justify ridiculous levels of spending. My time is valuable, etc. It's definitely true for some people but probably not most and certainly not me. Unless you actually are earning more (and saving it too, not just spending it) as a result of this mindset, I'd recommend reconsidering.
I think the point is that it's very easy to convince yourself of the time is money concept when you really just don't want to care about money or want fancier things. While forgetting that money is also time.
Of the two (money coming in and money coming out), you can only restrict money going out so much.
You have your basic expenses you need to live (food, shelter, water), which cost most people at least tens of thousands per year.
If you live miserably only allowing money out to expense those needs, you're still only saving tens of thousands.
You have a lot more ability to increase money coming in than money going out.
I think this is the point OP's father was trying to make. Don't get stuck in a loop of allowing your employer to pay you $xx,xxx (or $1xx,xxx) for decades and restrict yourself for your whole life just to retire old and live an average lifestyle. Take control of your life and control your success.
Adblockers on iOS require the 64 bit A7 SoC which was released with the 5S. I'm not sure if there's a valid reason why they couldn't make it work on 32 bit too, whether it was just extra effort or whether they'd have had to make technical concessions, but the way they implemented ad blocking within Safari is different to other solutions (e.g. the side-loaded ad blockers that 05 mentioned) so it's hard to be sure.
I haven't tried one myself, although I am tempted as I often get quite bad back pain (at age 23 :-/ ), however I can't quite bring myself to add yet another device to my life that needs looking after, charging, etc.
However, I wonder if you can solve this problem purely with software. Could an app detect slouching by monitoring the user through the webcam?
Amazing. That seems to be almost exactly what I was thinking of. I would think that the sensor would need to be on one's head, though, particularly if one is trying to achieve the "poise" I was speaking of.
>I can't quite bring myself to add yet another device to my life that needs looking after, charging, etc.
I'm with you there, however, having scoliosis, it's nearly impossible to tell when the posture's going "adrift". The Lumo smartphone integration is a turnoff, but if the device is otherwise simple I might just pick one up.
Try user groups for your languages / technologies of choice. I subscribe to a couple of Ruby user groups in the UK where jobs and contracts are routinely posted - in fact, it's how I found my current contract.
I use Arq[1] for backing up my Mac. It's also available on Windows, but not Linux. However, it does allow you to back up to Linux, via SFTP. It also supports S3 and a few other cloud services.
It does cost. You can either pay for a subscription to use their servers, similar to Backblaze, etc, or you can pay $40 (this is what I did) for the stand-alone app. Personally I back my Macbook up to S3 - it costs me less than $5/month. I've been using it for a couple of years now and it gets regular updates and has saved the day for me more than a few times.
That sounds like a good possible solution. Online backups are not an option for me, due to internet limitations, but paid app with open source restore tool is an acceptable solution. At least that way I am not going to be stuck with no way to retrieve my files in case the company ever goes out of business or something like that. I wish there was a way to make it run in powernap, like Time Machine does. I was even considering using TM with a network drive. It's not terribly difficult to setup, you just need to setup AFS I believe , and set a few flags. I have done this before. But TM is annoyingly not configurable and insists on "backing" things up locally until it can offload the backup to the server.
For the past month or so I've been building a notes app as I wanted to move away from Evernote and couldn't find a good replacement. It has been really fun building something that I use every day and building it exactly as I want to use it.
First of all, thanks for your feedback - really appreciate you trying it out and taking the time to offer your thoughts. Regarding your points:
1. I'll check the search tonight and add some tests to cover it, thanks for letting me know.
2. Agreed regarding the design - could do with some improvements. I'll tweak it.
3. The reason there's a notes icon is because I'm planning to have other icons there too (I'm considering a few options but perhaps bookmarks, contacts, files, etc - that kind of thing). Doesn't really need to be there now, admittedly, but it shouldn't be too long until there are other sections.
