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bluedino on April 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-n...

I understand the importance of face-to-face human contact, but there are lot of avenues of seeing what other developers are up to, and showing off your stuff. StackExchange (chat and Q&A), Freenode IRC, a hundred random messageboards...

The author mentions YouTube so I'm assuming he has a decent internet connection.

bemmu on April 18, 2013 [–]

Yes, I try to help people on StackOverflow whenever I can. But it's not the same feeling of trying to make meaningful progress so that you won't be ashamed to have nothing to show the next weekend you meet your hacker friend for a gaming session.

I'm on #startups

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