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by fr0man 16y ago
Wow. I'm going to go sit in the corner in shame now.
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by fr0man 16y ago
True, unless you can't pay your bills. I took my job before last in that situation. It was for a C# job maintaining a legacy app for $45k/yr. We were literally selling stuff to pay our bills at that point, so I had to take it. It turned
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by fr0man 16y ago
Wow, that's a terrific article. Even if I don't agree with 100% of it, I really like his no-BS delivery.
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by fr0man 16y ago
I would agree that that's the perception, and certainly the case with some of their products (I'm thinking of IE and Vista, among others), but Windows 7, Xbox Live, Zune music software, and the ZuneHD/Windows 7 Phone Series are all pretty d
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by fr0man 16y ago
All good points, but can we really afford to be picky when we're job hunting in this economy? I do suppose a better listing leads to better applicants.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Odd, it's a guy who's not nor has ever been a freelance web developer giving advice on how to become a freelance web developer.
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm not sure which part of my response you consider not defending. Throwing MA out there as 'proof' that the government can drive insurance companies out of business when the MA legislation has done no such thing, and even if it had driven
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by fr0man 16y ago
Well, first of all, I think providing medical care to the poor outweighs keeping super profitable insurance companies in business. This country would be a LOT better off if we DID drive every insurance company out of business while providin
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by fr0man 16y ago
Very very true. But they put it there to benefit themselves, not the applicant. It sucks, but if they try to use your salary history to lowball you, that's when you negotiate. I'd just explain I felt I was previously underpaid and that the
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by fr0man 16y ago
Yeah, Ballmer's not the most pleasant person, and it's easy and fun to hate Microsoft, but they've consistently made a LOT of money for 25+ straight years now. Jobs record is much spottier over that time frame, to say the least. Granted,
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by fr0man 16y ago
Wow, is this ever a load of partisan tripe. Anyone expecting private insurance companies to go out of business in America anytime soon is delusional. They wield too much influence. Not to mention despite his 'poor insurance companies only
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by fr0man 16y ago
It's very common. The purpose is really twofold: they want to make sure they aren't going to waste their time hiring you for a $15/hr job when you've made double that for the last 5 years and are likely to leave when something better comes
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by fr0man 16y ago
Yeah, other than Rails, I pretty much agree. I actually prefer Vim on windows to Vim on *nix, (I guess I'm mostly speaking of gVim),Visual Studio is terrific if you don't mind working in .NET, Eclipse and Netbeans are equally mature on Wind
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by fr0man 16y ago
That all makes sense. I actually do a lot of time-killing blog reading on my Blackberry, of all things, so I could see it being cool for that. I'm just not in an income bracket where I can drop that kind of money for that kind of gadget, s
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by fr0man 16y ago
That good of an experience? I'm genuinely curious, how is it "interacting with knowledge, entertainment, my pictures, and the web in ways that I had never done so before"? Is it not still just Safari Mobile? That's just a web browser. W
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by fr0man 16y ago
That's fine, but don't sell your tutorial as 'works in every browser'. The article is giving CSS hints that just won't work in IE<8 (and frankly, I've had very sketchy luck with 8 as well). That creates more work than it saves in some
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm all about that, but quite a few of the jQuery plugins I've tried to use lately just flat break things in IE<8. I've had to back quite a few changes out.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Nifty, but I could see this causing aggravation on the backend (i.e. using the data from one generation of your form to another). Still, very flexible.
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by fr0man 16y ago
What is it with all the CSS articles/tutorials out there that rely on functionality that won't work in IE? I loathe IE with the fiery passion of a thousand suns, but if your tutorial for an image-free drop shadow technique won't work in it,
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by fr0man 16y ago
Lumbar punctures for children in a study designed to strengthen a bogus lawsuit? Yikes! That makes me angrier at the parents that volunteered(/were paid for) their kids' participation than at the doctor. Though still pretty angry at him, t
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by fr0man 16y ago
Fair enough. I do nearly 100% web development, so I haven't messed with those yet. They still don't give you anymore language interoperability than anything else, though.
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm not saying I don't like to get out of the .NET box; I do. But the point was within a single framework you have multiple languages that work well together. I'm fairly language agnostic, but out of curiousity, what language doesn't .NET
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by fr0man 16y ago
Terrific post, but he's overlooking the .NET framework. It has successfully made "cross-language interoperability work well." Granted, you're limited to windows programming, but that's not his point. Moreover, you could even argue that C#
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by fr0man 16y ago
Not at Best Buy, apparently. I probably still would have chosen the smaller one and then lived to regret it, though.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Except it's what came with my full-size 27'' beast of an iMac. That sort of thing should come with a full keyboard or something that's supposed to be a substitute for it. If I'd gotten it with a laptop purchase, then yeah, I wouldn't be
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm using it for both. I find it tolerable under OSX (precisely because of the Command key thing), though I don't like chording for things when there's a perfectly good one key option (like delete, home and end). And how do you Shift+Home
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by fr0man 16y ago
Perhaps you're right. I guess it's more of a keyboard efficiency thing. I can still DO everything I can on a full keyboard, just much less efficiently.
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by fr0man 16y ago
Maybe from a hardware perspective, but not from a usability perspective. No right control key. No page up or page down. No home or end. No delete key. No number keypad. I was in love with the ergonomics of it...for about a day.
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by fr0man 16y ago
I'm trying to figure out when Apple wasn't "The Man". Even when they were slugging it out with M$ and IBM in the 80s, they weren't small potatoes. And frequently engaged in scorched earth business practices.
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by fr0man 16y ago
They reached an agreement over standing patents with one of their business partners. That's hardly a dick move. Now, if they'd sued a 50 person startup into oblivion over a questionable set of patents, that's a different story. But that's

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