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by aggieben 11y ago
No, you don't. If you want to stick with the $75k number, then you say "I make just under $75k". If you want to round, you say "I make $73k".
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by aggieben 11y ago
I don't think this is controversial at all. I wouldn't even give a second thought to a FB deal (unless it was for my own mother, I suppose) - the incentives are all completely misaligned. It starts off adversarial and is extreme
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by aggieben 11y ago
Apparently whatever number of readers hit your blog made it fall over :-(
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by aggieben 11y ago
Totally agree here. LinkedIn is both annoying and singular - there isn't another universally-used online professional profile out there that can fully replace LinkedIn. Even if you only use it for an online profile and PDF resume-gen
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by aggieben 11y ago
For people who have problems with innumeracy (and lacking a tax advisor's phone number, I guess) this can be a real problem. For the rest of us, it's not that hard to figure out what those things cost, add it to how much you want
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by aggieben 11y ago
The OP has essentially used circular logic: RPC is as good as REST because I know how to use it to address the issues that REST addresses (which I doubt, incidentally). This to me is like arguing that object-oriented programming isn't
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by aggieben 11y ago
because one can be both remote _and_ local
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by aggieben 11y ago
I've taught a graduate-level class in which I caught every single student cheating at least once (18 students), including 6 of them on the final paper (for which I set an absurdly low bar). I failed those 6, and I gave zeros for all t
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by aggieben 12y ago
Agreed. And really it's pretty simple to get it working and start using it even for straight crud - much easier than EF or other heavy ORMs, I think.
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by aggieben 12y ago
It's worth adding, too: aside from the legal liability angle, what about what the invitation to a romantic encounter does to that applicant for the rest of the interview? Now the rest of the interview, from her perspective, is all abo
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by aggieben 12y ago
Having once been a close follower of OpenBSD, I eventually just kind of lost interest because Linux (and other BSDs) were just moving so much faster on features that mattered more to me. Multiprocessor support was the big one for me at the
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by aggieben 12y ago
Yep, this is the right answer: don't panic, lawyer up.
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by aggieben 12y ago
I take some of his points, but this seems kinda...a couple years late here. It seems to me that Git/Mercurial just became the best centralized systems; being distributed fixed some critical faults with being centralized, and didn&#x27
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by aggieben 12y ago
Interstate highways were built as a system of highways with no stops to anywhere in the country. I think in theory they are maintained by the federal government, but in practice, the feds give money to the states because the states each ha
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by aggieben 12y ago
I completely agree. I would add that Lessig is spectacularly self-unaware as he goes about raising money for his cause. I have no idea how I got subscribed to the Rootstrikers mailing list, but I stay subscribed for the occasional lulz
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by aggieben 12y ago
My friend, $5000 is cheap for a good developer. It's practically bottom of the barrel if you're talking about an app that has very much customization in it at all. Pretty much the same goes for a good designer. A highly custo
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by aggieben 12y ago
It sounds like you and your father weren't addicted - that sounds great for you! I currently know a number of people in 12-step programs (Christian and secular), ages ranging all over the place, who struggle with it in an entirely dif
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by aggieben 12y ago
Sounds neat, and the device itself is reasonably priced ($99 for the next 30 days). $14/GiB isn't a steal, though. There are better-priced data plans out there (T-Mobile has a 11GiB plan for $70, for instance).
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by aggieben 12y ago
My answer to the main question in the faq, "Why do I need Paket instead of nuget?" (my paraphrase) is this: meh. NuGet's behavior simply doesn't cause me that many problems, and when it's a superbigdeal I can just
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by aggieben 12y ago
Not sure I get it....didn't Hangouts already do this? I've been making outgoing calls from Hangouts for months, at least. Edit: ooooohhhh , this is just Android catching up to the rest of us. Got it.
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by aggieben 12y ago
My answer to that would be either (a) be more selective with the tenants and (b) consider hiring a management company after the first few properties. They take a bite of of the profit, but it might be worth it in the long run.
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by aggieben 12y ago
I think if I were you (25, statistically likely to be single), I would live in the cheapest accommodations I could stand and use the mostly-excess portion of that 100k to buy rental homes in cash. Do that for a number of years, and it won&
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by aggieben 12y ago
> be far away from office politics. heh. it may actually be worse , because being remote adds a new dynamic to all the politics. Good luck.
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by aggieben 12y ago
This is a medium-term investment of time, but my advice is to network. In my experience, personal connections are the best way to find the kind of work you want consistently. Show up to user groups, recruiting events, conferences, seminar
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by aggieben 12y ago
I wouldn't worry about actually translating, but I for sure would do as much as possible to build out the infrastructure necessary to support it. In most cases I think it would be more work to shoehorn it in after the fact than it wou
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by aggieben 12y ago
> Sure, what you're saying may be true of coffee vs. cocaine and aspirin vs. heroin, but there are plenty of pharmaceutical companies establishing new markets in the vast swaths of grey that lie in between. That's the whole poi
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by aggieben 12y ago
I get the criticism of remote working; but the thesis statement "The very technology that enables telecommuting and working from home could be destroying its value" doesn't even make sense. Somebody was working a little too h
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by aggieben 12y ago
I checked out the moment the author drew a kind of strained equivalency between illegal amphetamines (i.e., meth) and modafinil and caffeine . I'm all for ending the drug war as we know it, but I don't find this kind of thing hel
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by aggieben 12y ago
Short answer: yes, of course. A great many programmers are very young, and so I think our industry tends to get pretty myopic when it comes to career arcs, and even just time in general. There are many, many professional programmers who h
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by aggieben 12y ago
If you can stand a little self-promotion: Careers 2.0 has a nice way to search for these jobs. For instance, within 60 miles of London: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?location=London&range=...

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