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I've found an interesting divide amongst contractors on this - some are happy to treat it precisely that way, complaining a little about the crap they have to produce, but mostly content with the fact that it's not forever, maybe
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It seems to me like the kind of thing where a 30 day free trial followed by a small monthly fee ($5? I don't know, something in that ballpark perhaps) might work - if people enjoy using it and become dependent on it during the trial, a
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I'm not really "down with the kids", but I would think most people in their twenties and thirties and older would definitely understand "bender" to mean a homosexual, and "on a bender" to mean "out ge
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"bender" actually ticks two of those boxes (homosexuality and being drunk - "on a bender"), which is quite good going for one little word, really!
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The strapline: "We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market." I read the article in full (nothing like a bit of procrastination on a Monday morning) and I think probably the two most abhorrent aspects ar
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I'm totally with you - I saw the Foxconn suicide rates at the time and thought both "That sounds very troubling" and then "How many employees do they have? Actually that sounds quite low, perhaps this is a bit of a storm
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According to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988... the, er, modus moriendi appears to be throwing themselves from the roofs of the Foxconn buildings.
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MindMeet | Rails developer | Remote (preferably UK or European timezone) | 3 month contract We're looking for an experienced Rails developer to join our growing tech team at https://www.mindmeet.us/ - initially for a t
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I've not read it either, for the same reason. I wish I'd never read "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee - it really was a miserable experience and should simply never have been published, and I don't believe Lee was
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Backbone provided some useful stuff for working with collections, a router, and, perhaps most importantly, structure to your projects. You have to look at it in the context of the time it was written - it predated React, for example, by
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You beat me to the punch: I really don't remember "you would copy and paste a library into a vendor folder, rely on global variables, try to concat everything in the right order and still would had to deal with namespace issues&qu
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They've debated something like a dozen petitions in Parliament. I'm not aware of anything meaningful having happened as a result.
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Unfortunately, whether or not the petition is debated in Parliament, it won't actually change the law or government policy, because the government doesn't in the slightest bit care about the petitions.
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Seriously, Wired, it's "millennia"! "millenia", if it means anything at all, means something like "a thousand bottoms"...
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For your second example, your JavaScript is wrong. Let's compare the ES2015 JavaScript: ((a, b) => a * b)(6, 4); ...against the Clojure: ((fn [a b] (* a b)) 6 4) Not a lot in it, really, is there?
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I totally agree, and I think a lot of people will have been in this situation too. There is, unfortunately, no simple solution other than the very obvious one, which is to use the right things for the right job, and as few of those things a
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This kind of attitude is really unhelpful. Of course this sort of situation is undesirable, demonstrably, but it's not necessarily a case of idiocy - it's actually very easy for non-technical founders to get into this situation:
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This one will always be my favourite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
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Why would you bother commenting on something you can't even be bothered reading?
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Hence the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnes...
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Learn the multi-line edit thing in Sublime Text (or equivalent in your editor or IDE). Once mastered, make sure you do this brazenly in front of as many people as possible - it will blow their minds and probably get you an instant promotion
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I didn't intend to denigrate your work - I think it's really interesting. However, to advertise it as not being programming seems bogus to me. In Excel, you click the "fx" button and choose "SUM" and then sele
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without a single line of programming code A bold statement that doesn't really seem to be supported by: <p property="name" mv-default="[readable(to(filename(image), '.'))]"></p>
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It's funny you mention people from an older generation. My mother worked as a secretary at a law firm in the UK in the 1960s, where she met my father. When I mentioned to her that "60% of women in tech reported unwanted sexual a
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Another thing to bear in mind, since many people are talking about how convenient iPads are for older parents (I too gave my parents an iPad Air a year or two ago - they get a lot more use out of it now than the MacBook I gave them about 8
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Statutory Maternity Leave in the UK is 52 weeks (you don't have to take it, of course). Statutory Maternity Pay is 39 weeks, with the first six at 90% of your average weekly salary, and the rest at £140 a week (or 90% again if that&#x
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And it's 37 in London. Of course, that leads to its own problems.
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From his "About" page: I’m now actively seeking opportunities to move me and my family somewhere overseas.
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"In light of Brexit, have you considered moving to work in another country?" 70% said yes. I'm sure a lot of people, in all industries, and even before Brexit, have considered this, especially when it's been raining f
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The very next paragraph: Alas, this is not being positioned as something mildly intrusive, nor as a creepy big brother-style service (which is the worst case scenario and one that Amazon has been taking pains to avoid in all of its Echo an

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