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by crikli 15y ago
Well, I've only been in my own business for three years and employing for not yet a couple so I don't really know yet. The job I had before I started this business I always told my superiors that after three years a dev was going to start g
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I think it depends on whether an employer views passion as a character trait or a byproduct. The distinction is very important. I'm an employer (and a programmer) and I view passion as a byproduct of developers being properly incentivized
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"Industrial farming based on huge amounts of cheap oil is not sustainable either. Think about all the oil/gas used in fertilizer production, pesticides, mechanization, harvesting, processing, storage, trucking, packaging." Believe me, farme
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With respect, it is an industry lobby's viewpoint, and it belongs to the organic food industry. Organic farming is not financially sustainable at scale because the costs of production are far too high. There is a very low ceiling, relati
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by crikli 15y ago
Follow the money for all of this food-related propaganda and you'll find an industry funding it that stands to benefit somehow.
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by crikli 15y ago
There is precedent, sorta, in aviation: 100LL hit $4.50 a couple years back and is now between $5-$8. Cessna started developing an electric 172 in 2010: http://green.autoblog.com/2010/08/11/cessna-developing-elect... I say "sorta" because
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by crikli 15y ago
You might be someone like me whose Mom can't resist clicking on every effing through that makes it past Hotmail's sub-optimal spam filter. I've tried to get her to go GMail for years but she can't grasp the concept that she doesn't have to
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by crikli 15y ago
Agreed. Back in the bad old days of table-based layouts it wasn't always possible but in the modern age of CSS2+3, HTML5, and sweet libraries like jQuery it's the rare case where the site can't be bloody close to the design comp (unless yo
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Yes, that was poor phrasing on my part. It should have read something like "By all means, become a domain expert, but don't convince..."
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I would also add this: don't join a priesthood. In other words, keep your mind open. Don't become a domain expert, as advised, and then convince one's self that that domain is The One True Path. Conversely, don't glance at a particular do
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by crikli 15y ago
My minds eye always sees a '90s-era Seth Green character as the man behind the keyboard of Anonymous/LulzSec.
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Borders is dead because the folks in charge of the corporation made bad decisions. They overextended themselves borrowing to expand. They failed to shutter money-losing stores quickly enough, not in small part because they signed off on l
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Yup. The downtown library in my town is the same way; my wife refuses to go inside. I usually just have books transferred down to the library close to my house rather than deal with that branch.
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by crikli 15y ago
Sure. Our niche is working with ad/marketing/traditional media agencies, SEO firms, and design groups to provide the technical muscle they don't have to get beyond "five pages and a contact form." So what we do is pretty focused: we don't
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by crikli 15y ago
"Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla use PHP. — the plugin model aches at scale: popular plugins become abandoned plugins, energies move elsewhere. Plugin A works great, plugin B too. However, they weren’t designed to know about each other, thus l
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by crikli 15y ago
Started selling baseball cards at 8 years old. I had this database I'd put together with a software package called Q&A and I'd input the monthly data from Beckett's to see how cards were trending. It was all cash, of course, and I rem
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by crikli 15y ago
I laugh at Daily WTF but I always cringe thinking about some of those its3AMgottalaunchat8AMshitI'msotired nasty kludgy hacks I've been responsible for. Or just the times I was well rested, under no pressure, and just coughed up some stupid
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by crikli 15y ago
The reason we all know to be careful with rm -r is because of that one time we weren't. Me, it was the time I rm r'ed the MySQL data directory for my company's customer service management system. Oops. Thankfully we had a backup from the
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by crikli 15y ago
> I once took out $5K cash for a transaction where I had to show some money and an internal this-is-not-normal alarm went off. While it was an inconvenience, I'm glad that the bank did not let me walk out with the money without checking
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I'm ambivalent about this one. On one hand, I hate banks. They treated me like shit when I was penniless, now that I have a couple to rub together they won't let me cash a check without trying to suck-up their way into some new type of acc
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by crikli 15y ago
This is a great quote: "I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, s
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by crikli 15y ago
This conversation reminds me of the discussions we've had about software patents. We're all against those, of course. Yet we're taking umbrage with Apple integrating functionality from existing apps into iOS/OSX. Aren't these conversations
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> It's clear that they want to own their entire ecosystem Hasn't Jobsian Apple always been like that? They want white-knuckled control, unless it benefits them to cede a little, and they never remove their hands from the wheel, they jus
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by crikli 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots Learned something new today. I didn't have any idea Wikipedia was partially controlled by bots. I for one welcome our new NLP powered overlords. Based on that page, though, how are bots contr
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by crikli 15y ago
I'd never even heard of this practice, hellbanning, slowbanning. I gotta say, and this may not be popular sentiment, that I view using such tactics as dishonest. You got a problem with someone, deal with it head-on. Don't resort to passi
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Jason is an expert at leveraging hyperbole to a) get attention and b) initiate constructive dialogue. I respect him for his ability to do both. But sometimes I feel what he writes needs to have a disclaimer at the top that says, "This is w
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by crikli 15y ago
I effing love what I do. The result is that I frequently "work" 14+ hour days, skip social stuff to code (or sneak in my iPad to research the problem I'm stuck on), and I love talking shop. I'm this way in my own business and I was like th
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I just put in $55; this is a really slick idea.
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> the guilt I felt for my alternate vision of the world was intense Man, I feel you on that. I grew up in a religious household but started going, "seriously, over an apple?" when I was quite young. The responses always distilled down
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by crikli 15y ago
What tptacek said: get everything you sign reviewed. I re-read the OP; the overall point there was to be financially prudent, e.g. don't waste money. Don't pay an attorney for work he/she doesn't need to be doing. The counterpoint is to pa

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