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by devs1010 15y ago
You have to make a lot to 'EASILY' afford Bay Area housing... I currently live in Arizona and to live in an equivalent house like I live in here (nothing too special, just a 3 bed 1 story newer home) would be at least 2.5 to 3 times the cos
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by devs1010 15y ago
Being from the Bay Area and planning to move back at some point, I can say that you don't have to go all the way to Modesto to get a lower cost, if you're going to build a community you could do it somewhere down south of San Jose, such as
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by devs1010 15y ago
The flight I was on last week mentioned they had some sort of sensor that picked up 8 devices that were still on, and they waited for everyone to turn them off before taking off, so I think they do know if people "forget" to turn them off.
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by devs1010 15y ago
Please don't go down that route, my brother committed suicide about a year ago and its wrong on so many levels, surely there is at least one person that would be devastated and it would adversely affect their life for a long time, if not fo
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by devs1010 15y ago
Thanks for asking this question so I didn't have to.. this sounds so interesting but its a bit hard to grasp not having a science background in this field
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by devs1010 15y ago
exactly. This would be all too easy for someone in their organization to do to keep a favorable relationship with a client.
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by devs1010 15y ago
they have no direct influence unless they are a customer (paying money to Wikipedia), sure they can try to game the system, but Wikipedia isn't going to do some action at their request. If a company pays a lot of money to Wikipedia its poss
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by devs1010 15y ago
I've worked for companies where one client has an inordinate amount of influence over the company, why... because they are the biggest client, they represent a significant percentage of the company's revenue. Market forces inevitably can cr
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by devs1010 15y ago
so, this is just hypothetical, but lets say McDonald's ends up having some major scandal (say, like Enron, but not so bad that they go out of business), this scandal ends up being well known and there's a Wikipedia article written about it,
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by devs1010 15y ago
Interesting dilemma I suppose, I think what they are worried about is the slippery slope, Wikipedia is used to this frugal operation where theoretically they have minimal pressure and influence as far as what is published on their site. As
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by devs1010 15y ago
It depends what you do in America with regard to 55k / year after 2 years, I gravitated towards a platform / language that pays higher than median for developers as a whole so I got past that fairly quickly, but for guys who work mainly on
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by devs1010 15y ago
This just goes back to the "people as resources" (which is code word for developers are widgets) garbage that constantly comes up within organizations, etc, it wouldn't surprise me at all if creativityhurts is a manager of some sort. People
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by devs1010 15y ago
I did something similar when I got started and yeah it got me a job but that was just the beginning, now, about 2 years later, I'm still learning and pushing myself to learn lower and lower level things about software development (as I star
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by devs1010 15y ago
Even 2k gbp is under 40k USD, and thats for 2 years experience and in London? thats a bit hard to believe that dev's get paid that little over there. You'd be hard pressed to find an entry level development job anywhere in the U.S. that doe
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by devs1010 15y ago
Well, one thing is that at least here in the U.S., its common to work on an hourly rate, so you set your rate and then maybe give an estimate of time but you aren't tied down to a monthly salary (which is especially important for a freelanc
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by devs1010 15y ago
I think having them steal the work is the least of your worries, you have to first actually get them to produce a successful product across three platforms. This is something thats challenging to do in-house so good luck making that work wh
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by devs1010 15y ago
I recently started an open source application relating to web crawling / data analyzing, is there anything small that you could do to get my project a few eyeballs, I know its raw at this point but I work on it at least a few days a week an
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New Open Source Project: Workflow-powered Web Scraping and Analytics Application(webgatherer-open-source-java.tumblr.com)
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by devs1010 15y ago
write a letter / email once to them and then move on, if you hear back, great, but there's no sense in waiting around for a company to get back to you when you can keep applying to other opportunities
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by devs1010 15y ago
I've printed my own boarding pass many times, never had a problem
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by devs1010 15y ago
completely agree.. it takes experience to be able to quickly write code that is also good, but its a worthwhile effort. The hype of trying to start a startup before having really mastered the art of writing code leads to some buggy products
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by devs1010 15y ago
linkbait garbage... you can write good code without wasting a bunch of time. Having worked for companies that have products that were started out the way this guy describes, I can attest that no one should ever build software that way, at o
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by devs1010 15y ago
I can see this, think of it sort of like a football game where you have breaks in between each play, you may spend 10 solid minutes intently coding but then usually you would then divert attention for at least a minute or two, sometimes lon
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by devs1010 15y ago
at a job I've had they actually told us that they expect 5 hours of work out of us and the rest would just be wasted time, meetings, filler crap, etc so I guess 3 hours is just taking that to the extreme
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by devs1010 15y ago
yes, I know the feeling, I think its human nature to need a change of scenery on a nearly daily basis, there's a certain feeling to coming home from being at the office that just feels relaxing and if you are always at home you don't get th
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by devs1010 15y ago
What you say is true, but if you really think about it, if you are going to have this work lifestyle its probably best to be doing it yourself (running your own startup) as why should you, or anyone, work 18 hours straight for an employer?
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by devs1010 15y ago
I found a job with a startup that didn't have an office, it made the work from home option pretty much default. Then, after not too long, I got sick of it and got a job in an office, its not for everyone.. now I do get to work from home 1 d
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by devs1010 15y ago
I remember hearing a few months (or so) back that Google is catching up to these people anyways, Demand Studios ended up losing a lot of high-up spots on search results, etc. Its only a matter of time as natural language processing technolo
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by devs1010 15y ago
good, hopefully this can spell the end of these asshats digging around in everyone's data
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by devs1010 15y ago
I don't know if "this" usage has spread to the general population as a whole but it seems like it at least started with sites frequented by programmers / hackers and I don't think its hard to see why something like "this" would become commo

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