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by byoung2 10y ago
A long time ago I came across an ebook from Sitepoint that talked about this very subject. Pricing per hour has the effect of placing a cap on your income: your hourly rate x the max hours you can bill in a year. Instead, you should bill ba
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Email is tough to kill because it's not a company or a product, it's a decentralized set of standards. Email sucks in a lot of ways, but it's simple, works everywhere, and it's baked into a lot of places (confirmation em
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2000: we'll be able to comparison shop online and brick and mortar stores using one interface. 2004: in the future we'll use the same language on the server and in the browser (though I incorrectly predicted PHP would move to the
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"all correspondence are designed to make the motorist believe they have been caught by a CPM patrol warden" That sounds unethical. You should have the right to confront your accuser, especially someone with an incentive to possi
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why don't I see more sites using Amazon logins? I almost always see Google, Twitter and FB only. It could be that Google, Twitter, and Facebook are truly international, while Amazon is not available in many countries. Unless your app
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From the guidelines [1]: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The recent news in the US might qualify as "some interesting new phenomenon"
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Luckily the things we looked for in a home made the ideal home office: lots of space, an extra room that wasn't a bedroom, big lot so we couldn't hear the neighbors even when they party, fast Internet. The house we ended up buying
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Exactly this. When you just get 2 weeks, you save those up for a week long cruise and Christmas. You wouldn't take a random Tuesday off and burn a vacation day.
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0%...I work remote and make my own schedule. I'm on my way to the airport for a month long vacation. As a contractor I can take a month off without needing approval from anyone. I can take a Tuesday off and go to Disneyland with my dau
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http://carnewmodels.com/new-toyota-celica-2017-release/ Don't know when the release will be
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It was discontinued in 2006 and brought back later. The same thing happened with the Camaro.
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Isn't the 124 actually made on the same assembly line as the Miata MX-5? Edit: yes it is http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons/2017-fiat-124-spider...
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For reasons of economics, they need to be able to share parts with other models so they can't deviate too much in terms of design. When regular car companies do build unique sports cars (e.g. Nissan GTR, Lexus LFA, Ford GT, Acura NSX),
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And their grandparents were probably much more independent. My grandparents' grandparents were slaves. On my dad's side in North Carolina, on my mom's side in the Caribbean. Not too much independence there.
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Most people don't want 'on demand' employment, they want stability. Because of outsourcing and automation, the economy doesn't need as many workers anymore. Uber's business model is entirely dependent on this pheno
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I'm curious to know this as well. 5 years ago, it seemed like the big players were ditching hybrid apps in favor of native [1]. The common wisdom is that hybrid is the way to go when you're small, but if you have the resources the
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In this case they were more afraid of their unemployment insurance rate going up if 20% of the company claimed unemployment. It was much cheaper to pay an extra 2 weeks. You're right you have to know the company, and in this case it wa
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I had a similar situation back in 2009. I gave my resignation to my boss on a Friday and he said I should hold off until Monday. Monday came around and they laid off most the the dev staff. Instead of having to work for 2 more weeks I got
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2015 Toyota Highlander XLE
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Travel writer/photographer: I travel enough for pleasure as it is, I could probably do this as a side gig, but doing it full time would be interesting. Indy rapper: My favorite artists are all YouTube stars (Futuristic, Devon Terrell,
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extremely hazardous materials used to coat the original containers What materials are those, and why is it safe for transporting goods and possibly items for consumption?
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by byoung2 10y ago
I studied English and I was a test prep instructor and manager for Kaplan before switching careers to be a Web developer at age 27. It was the right decision for me because the hours and pay were better. At Kaplan, especially as a manager,
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by byoung2 10y ago
I'very always been a software guy but recently I've been getting into hardware recently, particularly with the raspberry pi. I built a barbell tilt sensor using berryIMU and raspberry pi to track my squat technique and analyze it.
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Some of these companies didn't even have the data in CSV format...we had to buy it from another vendor in CSV form ( https://www.aggdata.com ).
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I am currently working on a project for a client in real estate management. They are aggregating data from state licensing agencies, insurance rating agencies, etc., and there are a lot that only provide CSV data. I imagine on the other sid
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by byoung2 10y ago
Yeah I found this description of the process: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-how-chip-cards-wor... Do the systems in Europe take the same amount of time, and have the same amount of communication? I can&#x27
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Before, swipe to approved was 2-3 seconds at most. The chip takes 15-30 seconds with no indication of the breakdown of time (e.g. connecting, transmitting, encrypting, etc). I'd like to know what takes the bulk of the time.
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Anyone who has traveled with a baby knows they can easily scan liquids inside the bag (e.g. formula and a gallon of distilled water). There is no need to even put them in a separate plastic bag. Sometimes they do a bomb residue test, howeve
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The entire shuttle program was plagued by a pattern of ignoring safety objections. It was widely known ahead of disasters that the whistle-blowers were right about many issues, but were ignored. I made this point in another HN thread about
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For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option. For people with small kids, driving to pick up food can be a huge production, with car seats, diaper bags, strollers, etc. Curbside

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