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by frobozz 16y ago
Yes, but how do you value a bonus, if you don't know how much it is, or whether you'll get it? A salary of 50K is a salary of 50K, you get 50K over a year. How does that compare to a salary of 45K + bonus? Is it more, less, or the same?
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by frobozz 16y ago
Not all web applications are written in PHP. Not all Web Developer jobs require PHP. If the only reason you don't want to be a web developer is because you don't want to do PHP, then one of the alternatives is to be an ASP Web Developer.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I spent 7 years, full time in failed startups, I would declare 3-4 of that "wasted". For the first 2-3 years, we were reasonably well funded (by both Investors and customers) and doing interesting work. I was drawing a reasonable but not o
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by frobozz 16y ago
It isn't, 0.999... is, but 0.999 is exactly 0.001 less than 1.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I don't understand the point of this. All of those browsers have javascript enabled by default. If you have managed to turn it off, surely you can work out how to turn it back on again.
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by frobozz 16y ago
It's not the facts themselves, but the way they are expressed: 1) Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings, than the building of the pyramids. 2) The Comparison of Moores Law to A Series paper at the start of this talk: http://w
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by frobozz 16y ago
It may solve a problem, but it creates a new one. Before listening to my mp3 player on a train, I leave the buds out of my ears and hold them in front of me, to gauge volume so as to not annoy my fellow passengers. This practice is rendere
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by frobozz 16y ago
The Roman Catholic Church refused to deliver mass in vernacular until very recently. This was the entire point. The message from the RC Church was indeed "Don't read the bible, we'll tell you what it's all about". In fact, Bible ownership
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by frobozz 16y ago
What an exceptionally helpful tool! thanks.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I'm not expressing an opinion on the case either way, but comparing Paul Chambers to John Betjeman is rather flawed. There's a big difference between "I wish someone would bomb X", and "I'm going to blow X up". Even out of context, Betjeman
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by frobozz 16y ago
There are two reasons: 1) It drives your customers to your competitors If you had a choice between a shop that detained you in an "interview room", and checked your bags, pockets and body cavities against the receipt, every single time you
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by frobozz 16y ago
Figs prefer a bit of constraint in their roots, so they should be planted out in a buried pot.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Exactly - the author has a clear anti-XHTML, pro-HTML bias, even to the point of telling us that Google don't support any XML-born technology.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I believe that the "million dollar homepage", and "one red paperclip" were quite financially successful. Both super simple and quick to build, however, as others have mentioned - it's not the thing itself, but the marketing of it that is i
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by frobozz 16y ago
"it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage" Isn't collateral damage the entire problem with removing things from complex systems?
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by frobozz 16y ago
From the article: "Unlike all the ideology surrounding XML that never came to fruition, Microdata is already being adopted by Google as part of their rich snippets to aid in providing richer search results" O RLY: http://www.google.com/sup
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by frobozz 16y ago
I forgot the positive part of my feedback - It does look good, and you've certainly hit the 80% solution. nice work.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Here is a bunch of feedback: There doesn't appear to be any opportunity for TDD (or any kind of testing or iteration), even for something simple like checking syntax (I submitted one with a missing ';'). As a result, it does not come close
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by frobozz 16y ago
Right, that makes sense now.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Only working 10/11 days per month - 8 in February? Where is this?
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by frobozz 16y ago
I have no choice but to believe in free will.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Where did that question come from? This is about Twitter, so the more relevant question is "What's the difference between an essay and a tweet?" I'm not sure how to define that difference without something weak like "essays are longer", bu
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by frobozz 16y ago
Data: All my docs are also on my NAS. Programs and Configuration: I have a USB Key with all the info needed for guests/new machines to connect to my wifi & NAS. I use Ubuntu. I can't think of anything I really use that doesn't come thr
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by frobozz 16y ago
I don't see where you get that idea, because it isn't what he said. What he said was "If you pass anybody, you are not walking slowly enough for it to be “taking a walk.”" i.e. You can only be classed as "taking a walk", if you are the sl
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by frobozz 16y ago
I strongly disagree with this point: > If you pass anybody, you are not walking slowly enough for it to be “taking a walk.” There are people around who walk painfully slowly. When I go for a walk, I let my legs swing at a natural caden
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by frobozz 16y ago
1) A good idea about which history books to read, and in what order. 2) A collection of knowledgeable colleagues with whom to discuss history 3) (optional) A pretty certificate.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Buy 4 lottery tickets. If one of them wins a sum >=$25004, then I've succeeded. If none of them wins, declare that I've failed, and pocket the $24996 leftovers.
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by frobozz 16y ago
It didn't catch on in France during The Revolution either.
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by frobozz 16y ago
That looks like an example of PNS Syndrome to me.