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by fweespeech 9y ago
Tbh, mindless entertainment where I shut my brain off is critical to staying chill for me.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
I'm really sorry. :\ That is absurd. You should be able to find remote work that pays £50k+ relatively easily. Although the whole Brexit thing may make that harder. :\ To me, £70k was more a geographic / economic area issue. Under
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by fweespeech 9y ago
There is no real reason to pay developers (or anyone really) over $200k to be perfectly honest. At $200k/year, if you are valuing money over intangibles you are making terrible life choices imho. Work less, get out and do fun things mo
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> How would that work? For the company to make a profit, employees by definition have to produce more value than they consume. Most people aren't primarily motivated by money once they are making a full salary as a developer. PTO, W
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by fweespeech 9y ago
The big Media companies want it to work like cable because they think their "premium content" will get people to pay more. In reality, they are likely to trigger a backlash that increases piracy instead.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken. https://geekalabama.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/500x1000px-l... That is what Media
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Expecting countries to match salaries an ocean apart is...unwise. Countries have very different economic situations.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
To be honest (at least in my experience) if you are really worth $X as a developer, you can generally get your current employer to give you $X if you are proactive about it. Quitting generally has more to do with: A) "You (the employer
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> It's not legally dubious. Fundraising money with an explicitly legal purpose is legal. The potential for misuse at some future date does not an accessory make The purpose with patreon being to fund her "journalistic activitie
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> If you're lonely, ask yourself why you refuse to go out and meet people and make connections. Even if it's just at the grocery store. Even if it's just with the homeless guy down the road. Keep digging and eventually you
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Now remove the archive.org part from the beginning: https://twitter.com/TouchMyMalware/status/395862786602827776 > Click on the link and boom you're suddenly redirected to https://twitter.c
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> This is all easily verifiable with google and archive.org. Yes. And I've had a hostile fellow once upon a time put my RL info in the whois and post a bunch of shit on it. I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when its r
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by fweespeech 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845619 That might help.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> This is not necessarily true. I believe in the US, fundraising would make you an accessory, just as encouraging someone's criminal action where they have clear intent to commit a crime would be. And now you understand why they bo
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> This is effectively saying that investigative journalists shouldn't get too political in unpopular causes, lest they have their livelihood taken away from them. This is a suppression of free speech (not legally ofc) on a platform
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by fweespeech 9y ago
If you tweet and stop using an account that is what happens and that was a shady group of people in 2013.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> She was arrested for participation in this act of protest and then Patreon made the claim that her activities could have caused loss of life (which is ridiculous). You don't get to go into other countries, break their laws, and ex
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by fweespeech 9y ago
They may be trying to identify the real identity of the redacted co-conspirator and were cross checking suspects against who he met at DefCon.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> TouchMe is MalwareTech, 0 doubt https://twitter.com/touchmymalware If I was a bad man in the security profession who was certain he was anonymous, I'd point to someone else who was a security professional on twit
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Ah perhaps it changed then. I opened my account awhile ago via OVH CA in USD.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Maybe I'm just a bad developer but it does take me 6 months to find any kind of pay/benefits bump. And no, it isn't easy to do it in parallel because I'm almost always employed so my bandwidth is about one interview a mo
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Ha! A few gb ram and a few tb disk is real cheap in the cloud. > If your dataset fits in ram, and when it doesn't you have to buy more boxes with more ram rather than just buying more disk, then I think you are making a very u
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> My personal experience is that InnoDB performance drops off a cliff as tables grow and parts of tables stop fitting in RAM. TokuDB just keeps on going. Yes but at least in my experience as things fit in RAM, InnoDB is still the correct
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by fweespeech 9y ago
I think a not-Voat will ultimately win any protracted contest simply because people will get sick of the fact Voat is mostly free speech absolutists, racists, and trolls. That said... > I will never understand this romanticising of free
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by fweespeech 9y ago
It was amusing when Voat booted them out by refusing to tolerate their power mod-y BS. Watching that little civil war was entertaining.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Stop gaming peer review by having the papers reviewed by a group of people who all agree. https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ > Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show t
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Because the left has politicized science. Science should be apolitical. Many on the left do not fail to provide those on the right justifications for dismissing science outright. This will not be fixed until those on the left with a hi
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by fweespeech 9y ago
No. It uses the OpenStack API. https://github.com/openstack/python-openstacksdk You'd need to use that to build it out.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Experience. If you dig into the billing information and/or actually attempt to create a cloud project it'll tell you there is $40/year minimum. On OVH you create an "OpenStack/Cloud" project -> They charge y
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn't prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing? They can't because they'd need a brokerage in every state, real estate agents in every metro, and enough leverage to

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