braindouche

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by braindouche 6y ago
A lot of landlords don't seem to really understand that their rental properties are a business and an investment, and thus inherently have risk. Fewer still really comprehend that the little landlords generally are carrying a lot more
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by braindouche 6y ago
wait a darn tootin' minute there, are you telling me that paying for a Windows licence has become a cosmetic microtransaction?
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by braindouche 7y ago
The problem is that the drug doesn't stay at an effective level in the body for 40 days (it also takes more than a month for the drug to take effect), and the consequences of allowing lupus to flair include accumulating permanent damag
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by braindouche 7y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but my background is exactly the same, self-taught web dev, started in 2007, worked for myself for a decade (no college degree, either). I understand where he's coming from. I'm also now a senior fro
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by braindouche 7y ago
how did that change go for you? because I'm living through that transition right now at my company and it's not been smooth.
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by braindouche 7y ago
Oh you're almost certainly right, it would have been easier with the degree. I don't have any degree, and programming is a second career for me, so in a world where 26 year old senior developers are a thing, it's just one mor
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by braindouche 7y ago
The only evidence I have is response rates, and about 12 companies that responded to a man's-name resume that did not respond to an identical resume with a woman's name. I have consulted with a labor lawyer, who told me that this
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by braindouche 7y ago
Hello! Now you've met a female dev with no CS degree. There may be a reason we're thin on the ground, too. My "training" as a software dev consisted of 10 years of self-employment as a freelance web developer, and when I
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by braindouche 7y ago
female law school graduates have outnumbered male law school graduates for a couple of years now. The future is here already, they're just in junior positions.
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by braindouche 7y ago
Of course it's valid. Look for patterns. If 100 Apache Helicopters sign up for your app, congratulations, you just uncovered a new and very specific marketing segment to target.
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by braindouche 7y ago
For you and your friend: http://phpdoesnotsuck.com
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by braindouche 7y ago
My personal favorite anecdote: I was out driving in the car with my partner. I said "hey, that guy is riding an electric unicycle", and then starting 4 hours later and lasting for 5 months, facebook showed me ads for electric unic
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by braindouche 7y ago
Rails is not an example. Rails was extracted from a single project codebase, Basecamp. Extracting a Solution Factory out of the solutions we make is a great idea, but starting with a factory-first mindset is what distracts and then breaks
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by braindouche 7y ago
So basically, after "disrupting" cab companies, Uber would be transitioning into a software vendor for cab companies.
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by braindouche 7y ago
It's a thing, and well-studied, at least on some levels. The top achievers in any given high school cohort usually aren't the kids with the highest measured IQs, for instance, and the kids with the highest measured IQs aren't
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by braindouche 7y ago
What I'm hearing you say is "Employers are not providing raises commensurate with employee experience and value, leading to churn and a lack of mutual investment".
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by braindouche 7y ago
If your kids get into coding and if they're doing Javascript (which I think is a good place to start for lots of reasons, but python might be better) I can personally recommend Free Code Camp for learning basics and intermediate topics
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by braindouche 7y ago
Have you ever been laid off? Because that's EXACTLY how it happens. The young, new, and expensively specialized are dumped first. (It's less about hard and soft skills than it is about generalist vs specialist, and business school
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by braindouche 7y ago
Oh this is interesting. This behavior is fairly common knowledge among cat people: if you have an adult cat that's being persistently hyperactive and displaying increased hunting/pouncing in a manner that's out of character f
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by braindouche 7y ago
In public schools in the US? No, not really.
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by braindouche 7y ago
I once decided to talk with a "Hi this is Windows your computer wanted me to tell you it has a virus" guy once, and he's going through his script, trying to determine whether I have a Windows box or a Mac by describing whethe
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by braindouche 7y ago
Disposable fountain pens are a thing now, and shockingly good writers. You can have all of the writing with none of the guilt.
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by braindouche 7y ago
Hero still makes these pens, they're such an outstanding value that these knockoffs have generated knockoffs of their own.
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by braindouche 7y ago
I've said for years, the American system gets itself all tangled up because we (want) to teach two entirely different writing systems to children: we start with manuscript (printing) and then once the kids are used to that, we consider
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by braindouche 7y ago
It's a choice to get a highly competitive "dream job" that's full of long hours and crap pay. It's exploitation when you're given crap pay, work extremely long hours, your company clears close to two billion do
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by braindouche 7y ago
Ok, but only if we can also stop saying React and Vue in the same breath. React is the spearhead of a galaxy of the biggest, heaviest, enterprisiest solutions in it's class, and it has it's place, but Vue is at it's best in l
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by braindouche 8y ago
The FEE is a libertarian think-tank, and quite comfortably to the right.
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by braindouche 8y ago
That is literally every open office I've ever worked in. Walls are desirable, windows moreso, and corners are coveted. Remarkably, the highest-ranking workers seem to all occupy those desirable desks. Even more interesting, I've s
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by braindouche 8y ago
Those are also two communities with extraordinarily high rates of eating disorders.
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by braindouche 8y ago
I've heard this old saw a million times, or maybe once a year for a million years, but what does it really mean? Nobody seems to be able to describe to me a developer with one year of experience ten times. What does this look like in p

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