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by Tactic 13y ago
And yet you can find all the latest episodes for free from many sources via bittorrent. When enough people find piracy convenient enough to use as their full-time solution the market will evolve a reasonable monetized solution. Until then t
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by Tactic 13y ago
It is called an opportunity cost . The employee/employer relationship is a business relationship. As such, think of yourself like a business. Sometimes you have to spend money (time/effort) to make money (paycheck). To view it an
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by Tactic 13y ago
Not a big deal because the real use case is a user that doesn't want someone else (say parents or SO) to come along later and find the pictures.
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by Tactic 13y ago
Tangential to the topic, but I can recommend Tixati as a new "I need a small, efficient, unbloated (with additional software) and free torrent client" alternative to what uTorrent has become.
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by Tactic 13y ago
He isn't advising you don't need to lock your house because the locks are insecure. He's just pointing out that you probably shouldn't lose sleep over if someone can break in or not, especially when windows are easily br
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by Tactic 13y ago
That is a common concern and as such easily avoided. Many homeschoolers get together for lessons, field trips and just socializing for this exact reason. They are also generally active in assuring their children have a social network of oth
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by Tactic 13y ago
I wish more sites would use a validation email. I get a good number of emails for people that have my (real) name but use my email address on gmail (since I have the same name) to sign up when they don't want to recieve emails from the site
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by Tactic 13y ago
And hence the issue. Those that take advantage of a system never feel that they are. Look at why it is provided. It's not a prize or a bonus. It is to keep you happy and productive while you work. The company feels that is worth the cost. W
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by Tactic 13y ago
So now I can have a UI with ads overlaid on my TV ads? Fantastic!
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by Tactic 13y ago
Except with an array you can change things programmatically on the fly. Or have it setup in a configuration file or database table. Very useful.
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by Tactic 13y ago
There are adapters and such to use the XBox controller with the PS3 as well as look-alikes.
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by Tactic 13y ago
Form follows function. That said, I find it best to divide the tiers and document where they meet ahead of time. Then develop each tier independently to the spec. That makes it so much easier when it is time to maintain/iterate/swap out one
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by Tactic 13y ago
I moved from front end work to back end work for some very simple reasons a) in general it pays better and related b) front end guys are far move common so the backend has less competition. Work, as I have become older, is more and more jus
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by Tactic 14y ago
Expecting services to continue forever is like expecting that you will never be laid off. It is a rude awakening when it happens, but it should hardly be surprising for anyone that has been around for a while.
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by Tactic 14y ago
I ran a site (stomped.com) in the late '90s and we did this. We were serving up news items to millions of unique visitors a month and hitting the DB on each page hit. Rather than try to implement a bunch of caching methods we went with gene