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by balloot 13y ago
What's your point? Nobody here is arguing that the client should be able to not pay for services rendered.
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by balloot 13y ago
and how do you know the client didn't pay?
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by balloot 13y ago
So you think the contract designer now owns nycfreshmarket.com and the contents of the site unless its demands are met? I would love to see a single case ever where a company's domain and website were turned over to a contract designer
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by balloot 13y ago
So you think onemine.com, and not NYC Fresh Market, has IP rights to nycfreshmarket.com and its website contents, simply because onemine.com was hired as a contract designer? I would LOVE to see a legal precedent for this claim.
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by balloot 13y ago
Actually, nobody knows anything except that onemine.com is willing to hijack the websites of its clients. Everything else is you simply accepting their side of the story without question.
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by balloot 13y ago
Why are you assuming the client didn't pay? You know absolutely nothing except that the designer ripped down the website and replaced it with a nastygram. Given that information, I'm certainly not quick to rule out the possibili
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by balloot 13y ago
I can't believe people are defending this. If a brick-and-mortar store has a pay dispute with a contractor, would that contractor have the right to put a giant padlock on the store doors and spray paint a message on the door saying th
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by balloot 13y ago
Instead of being "stiffed", it is far more likely there is some degree of nuance. I'm sure if you called the market they would give their side of the story, and it would be something different than "we just took his ser
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by balloot 13y ago
Having a proper contract is the responsibility of the contractor. If he didn't bother to present one, he doesn't get to make up for it by holding the website hostage.
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by balloot 13y ago
Not quite sure how you came to that conclusion when the first two sentences of the post are "This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke."
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by balloot 13y ago
This is way too narrow in general, and a number of the points are just wrong. He spends a lot of points talking about "clients" and "revenue" like every successful company has those right off the bat. My absolute favori
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by balloot 13y ago
You're using a terrible example. There is exactly one city in Arkansas with greater than 100k people, and that is Little Rock with 193k. That state has zero claim to being "a cross section of what makes up the US".
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by balloot 13y ago
I typed in 3 large US cities and got 3 "no results found". Google map API is your friend.
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by balloot 13y ago
3. Get a job at another company that doesn't hire via silly hazing rituals. Preferably one that isn't past its heyday like the two you mentioned.
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by balloot 13y ago
I don't know what it is about technical interview-style code puzzles, but I have always been terrible at them. Every time I go through a job hunt, I end up with at least one fabulous flameout where I just can't do something that
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by balloot 13y ago
Same here. Was expecting some cool canvas demo. This is fine, but a lack of zoom out makes it decidedly less useful than other maps out there.
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by balloot 13y ago
I would love to meet this mythical being who understands functional programming but has no clue how to write an imperative program.
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by balloot 13y ago
I would love to see this! One of the fundamental issues I have with functional languages is every example I see is basically "See this thing that's relatively simple and uncomplicated in Ruby/PHP/C/whatever? Here's how to do that in Haske
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by balloot 13y ago
I know a bit about Haskell and have played with it. I guess it just seems like functional languages are for those who want to solve super complicated mental exercises when doing tasks that would otherwise be easy using a traditional langua
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by balloot 13y ago
Yikes. That might as well be titled "Why functional languages will never catch on." It took something dead simple (a function that adds 3), and made it insanely complicated. Why would anyone choose to deal with that?
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by balloot 13y ago
1) You clearly don't work at a fairly liberal company. 2) I disagree with the "regardless of context". Let's say someone did see you reading this. You would say "this is the top ranked item on Hacker News. Didn't realize one of the dra
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by balloot 13y ago
In a totally and completely unrelated fact, the rate of gun ownership is also down 30% since the 1980's. It's almost as if the two may have a relationship, but that certainly cannot be the case because the NRA has spent a jillion dollars t
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by balloot 13y ago
I despise interviewing for software positions. Engineers love to treat interviews like some kind of hazing. They're gonna make you quiver and sweat and if you can still solve their stupid brainteaser maybe they'll give you the honor of wo
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by balloot 13y ago
Totally. The market, and a dozen or two dead people, typically sorts this stuff out. So what's the problem?
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by balloot 14y ago
Hearing Republicans hyperventilate about Solyndra et al drives me up a wall. Private VC firms invest all the time in companies that fail, but somehow the government is supposed to have a 100% success rate in its VC investments? Please spa
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by balloot 14y ago
Your problem is you are confusing skepticism for fear. Evolution has given us a brain that is so complex that we still have very little understanding of how it actually functions. So do I believe that a drug company came up with a way to im
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by balloot 14y ago
You're missing his point, which is a reasonable one. If the human body truly functioned better with modafinil, then evolution would have given us humans that naturally produced modafinil. That isn't the case, so the assumption is there is
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by balloot 14y ago
This article only scratches the surface of why most brilliant lower-middle class kids can't get into an Ivy. Just look at what's expected: - lots of extracurriculars Rich kid: spent the summer spoon feeding starving children in Honduras Po
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by balloot 14y ago
I resolve merge conflicts as well. Every system I've ever used gives you one file with delineated chunks (<<<<, === >>>). Never once have I said "this is too difficult - I need three windows open." And even if
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by balloot 14y ago
So why not make it 60 characters? Then you could have 4 files side by side! But seriously - I guess there is some workflow where you would like to have 3 files side by side, but I certainly have never felt like that is something I need.

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