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by b_t_s 10y ago
It's a bit more accurate for non-game apps. Those are a lot more likely to have recurring revenue. Still "the majority below $10K" would probably still be true at $1k or even $100. And if you've got a 10k app it might
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by b_t_s 10y ago
That link on deaths per 100k people is gold. I think most people(cops most of all) would be absolutely shocked at all the "normal" jobs that are more dangerous or almost as dangerous as being a cop.
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Imagine if he had crank windows & had to reach across the seat to roll it down the passenger side...woulda been shot for sure ;P
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Not America? In what other first world countries does this sort of thing happen with such regularity? Is it terrorism? Yup. We have a serious police terrorism problem in the US.
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by b_t_s 10y ago
totally agree.
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by b_t_s 10y ago
I tried that about 5 years ago because I was temporarily broke, already owned a mostly compatible PC, and wanted to do iPhone dev. It was a nightmare. It took like a week to set up & managed to brick itself within a year. If you abso
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by b_t_s 10y ago
There are plenty of state schools where 30 grand or so will get you a BS in CS. 15 years ago when I went that route it only cost 20k. That makes 20k for what's effectively one semester seem pretty pricy. Still I suppose it's th
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Born and raised in Maine, worked there for 5 year or so, but can't imagine going back. Maybe if I got something remote I'd go back for a few months in the summer(Maine is awesome for about 2-3 months) but there's almost no
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by b_t_s 10y ago
I'd wager that python's ease of expression is enough to beat C/C++'s strict static types as far as reducing bugs. I'm all about strict static types, but C++'s incarnation of them is surprisingly un-helpful. S
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Because what I can clearly express in one line of swift/haskell/etc is often like 15 lines of nasty in C/C++. And when I make a mistake, the former has around a 90% chance of telling me about it immediately whereas the later
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by b_t_s 11y ago
I agree that businesses need estimates, but the problem is the form they take. It's always "2 weeks", or maybe at a better place it'll be "2-3 weeks" both of which are basically lies because they imply high co
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by b_t_s 11y ago
You don't even have to offload the processing to a server unless you're working with a compiled language. Python/ruby/node/any other interpreted language plus PostgreSQL, plus a text editor like atom, plus a couple
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by b_t_s 11y ago
What's with the section on volunteer work? Is that a thing now?
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by b_t_s 11y ago
I arguably learn things more _thoroughly_ slogging through the docs. But only if it is important enough to justify the much higher initial effort, otherwise I don't learn them at all. However, I learn more things faster from tutorials
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by b_t_s 11y ago
Fishflex FTW....for fish of course. It's even better than fishmox :P
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by b_t_s 11y ago
I always wanted to learn to fly, but it's really expensive & fairly time consuming so I never got around to it. Then I had a kid, and that was the end of that idea. Maybe I'll have the time/energy/money again when
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by b_t_s 11y ago
I suspect the milestones thing is more a matter of birth weight and how well they eat. I've got an intense baby who just turned 10 months and is literally running around the apartment, trying to climb the furniture, signing a dozen or
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by b_t_s 11y ago
Actually a lot of us buy Apple for the hardware performance, just not the kind of performance you measure in GigaWhatevers :) A touchpad that's not horrific, great battery life, a quality screen, and managing to fit it all into a smal
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by b_t_s 11y ago
Normally I'd have to pay a few grand to to go the Caymans and then leave in a week or two....and you're going to pay me to stay there....and it's tax free? Seriously, programming jobs in the tropics are pretty rare, well at
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by b_t_s 12y ago
There's only one questions that matters: Can I sell it? Sort your list by how quickly you can honestly answer that question. By honestly I mean multiple people actually paying you, or at least attempting to do so. Ideally you can do t
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by b_t_s 12y ago
every year or two I'll give nibs/storyboards another go for a toy project. Usually a few days later I'm deleting them and re-doing the layout in code. Plain old frames or something like AutoLayoutShorthand is easier and more
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by b_t_s 12y ago
One reason is that literally every programming language ever invented is a viable choice. Firmware is generally C. iPhone apps pretty much have to be Objective-C/swift. Android apps are Java, or occasionally another JVM language. Web
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by b_t_s 12y ago
Yup. He had no CS education/work experience but he'd just finished a fairly solid side project(cocos2d ios game) so we hired him as a junior dev. That was about a year ago and he's still with us and doing fine.
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by b_t_s 12y ago
invest in a high quality dividend index fund(DVY for example) and retire. You ought to be able to get over 1k EUR a month no problem. Might not sound like a lot in the EU, but you can travel or live very comfortably most places in Asia,
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by b_t_s 12y ago
"Surgery without surgery?" That's PRK(Photorefractive Keratectomy) that the OP mentioned. I had PRK about 8 or 10 years ago and am very happy with the results. PRK is the older technology where they just laser the surface
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by b_t_s 12y ago
Walk away. If you want to be a good guy, walk away and do something else. Besides, it sounds like the idea has zero validation. That means your gut feeling that you can connect with significant numbers of customers who want this thing and
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by b_t_s 13y ago
along the same lines: one of those diamond sharpening rods. $15 at walmart, 5 strokes on each side before every use, and you've got a 9 inch scalpel that you'll never have to take a real whetstone to. Also, the knife doesn't