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by danssig 14y ago
>Entrepreneurship is a classic "high risk, high return" venture. Sure, for the ones investing capital . For the workers, I can't imagine startup's mean pay being anywhere near as high as a "normal" job. A mean will cut out the Zucker
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by danssig 14y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. It hasn't worked out well in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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by danssig 14y ago
Yea, my first thought when I saw this title: "who on earth would pay to have AT&T involved in their home security. May as well just hook up a web cam pointed to your shower and be done with it.
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by danssig 14y ago
I would say the stupidity here is any modern OS still having case sensitive file systems.
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by danssig 14y ago
Pretty much no. There are exceptions but they fit the term "exception" nicely.
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by danssig 14y ago
But we could try. What good does it do to lock them in a cage?
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by danssig 14y ago
Personally, I think "deterrence" has an incredibly awful success rate. I also think that, if prisons should even exist, they should only be for physically dangerous people. Never for "money" crimes. Being locked away from society for yea
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by danssig 14y ago
Like Hilary Clinton getting shot at. I'm still shocked that she was let off after "well... I have those memories". That would have been the end of my political career.
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by danssig 14y ago
I think you've clicked on the wrong site. Digg/Myspace is --------------> that way.
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by danssig 14y ago
You're not clearing any misconceptions, you're making them. It would take a lot of research and work to discover what a "good district" is, while in western Europe you can just send your kids to school and not worry about it. Lots of stat
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by danssig 14y ago
I grew up in the US and now live in Europe so I'm at least as qualified as you. Education: Yea, get ready to pay insane prices to get in these so-called "good districts" because there are so few and everyone wants in. Realistically, you're
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by danssig 14y ago
If you raise the salaries enough, people from other locations will move to take advantage of the opportunity.
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by danssig 14y ago
More money may not get you good programmers but below market rate will absolutely get you crappy ones.
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by danssig 14y ago
I disagree. Why do we have this idea that one needs to be at a company for 20 years? I'd love to see some company pay a million dollars a year to all employees and have a limit of, say, 5 years for working there. It would be interesting
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by danssig 14y ago
Oh how I wish this would be considered more! I'd be willing to take quite a beating on the rate for even a 4 day work week (4 8 hour days, not dressed up 40 hour weeks). >and still only want to pay them 75%, then hiring will be almost
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by danssig 14y ago
It's probably easier to rob a bank with a pencil sharpener.
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by danssig 14y ago
In Germany they have to get a picture of the driver and the license plate. There was a famous case where a UK driver was speeding and putting a dummy in the passenger seat [1]. He couldn't be ticketed for speeding because a dummy appeared
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by danssig 14y ago
It doesn't matter. You should signal errors with exceptions, not by returning undefined no matter how much slower it is. After all, it's supposed to be an exceptional case.
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by danssig 14y ago
The market is notoriously inefficient in hiring/working because companies work so hard to keep prices (salaries) hidden so one has a really difficult time knowing what the market value of a given skill is.
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by danssig 14y ago
Most of western Europe, if not all, gets at least 4 weeks vacation. 40 hours is a bit more demanding but 42 is pretty common.
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by danssig 14y ago
My experience in the midwest was that they generally have very low estimates of what anything they pay for is worth (probably because they get this idea from the lower cost of living).
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by danssig 14y ago
He said 40 hours a week, not 8 hours a day. For example, he could end up working 20 hours for two days in a row. Or he could mean as an average. This is what I do. I may put in a 60 hour week, but I'll be taking time off where I can unt
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by danssig 14y ago
But on the other hand, you've created customers that are practically guaranteed to produce repeat business dollars.
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by danssig 14y ago
Oops, you just projected. He said "mate" and "dorky programmers". Both of those stereotypes could mean female programmers as well so you assuming he could only mean males means that part is coming from you.
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by danssig 14y ago
>Better half doesn't necessarily equate to girlfriend. The original post was talking about girlfriends, so contextually it sounded like you meant girlfriend by "better half". You're a terrible spokesman for ending sexism as you seem to
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by danssig 14y ago
Ideally companies would be making it harder or impossible to comply with sealed warrants.
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by danssig 14y ago
Sorry that wasn't clear. Mainstream programming is what I meant (e.g. Haskell).
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by danssig 14y ago
Yes, like a proper VM that we can compile our preferred language to. It is ridiculous that the "language of the web" is something that is forced upon us instead of chosen. The number of languages that compile to JS illustrate the point ni
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by danssig 14y ago
Windows is pretty much always going to be a second class citizen once you take a half-step outside the mainstream. I would just try to "get used to it" (i.e. run Linux/Mac).
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by danssig 14y ago
Yes, absolutely. There's a lot of money on the line, right?

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