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by greenshackle 10y ago
Maybe what they meant is that without a wage floor people working for extra cash could take the job for below-living wage rate, outcompeting people who are looking to support themselves fully with the job. (I don't endorse that point o
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Yeah, that looks a lot more like typical millenials.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Granted, but it's still a decent margin above the median millenial at $33k/yr. I would have liked to see at least one closer to the median.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
It was 5-10 pages. Static content. Yeah, even if they had 10k concurrent users node.js would have been the wrong technology.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Quickly followed by articles blaming Uber for it.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
3 'more or less' typical millenials? 3 CEOs and one poor guy? Really?
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by greenshackle 10y ago
My friend was brought in by a client after the previous contractor had spent 300+ hours coding a simple organizational website - here is who we are, here is our phone number - using node.js. I doubt the website will ever see more than 20 co
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by greenshackle 10y ago
From my experience as a nerd playing werewolf with non-nerds I'm afraid you're right. Me: "Here's a plan that will defeat the werewolf in any case, even if I am the werewolf" Them: "That sounds complicated, t
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Our team has lunch together every week or so. I wouldn't be happy with the norm of having lunch together all the time. I like to get out of the office and play stupid games on my tablet over lunch. Doing that around people is seen as a
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I guess it makes about as much sense as paying employees per hour.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I've found that I can tell my team, sorry my brain isn't working anymore, there's no point in staying any later, and they understand. Actually when I tried telling my manager that, he answered, why are you telling me this, I
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Have you seen this? FedEx Bandwidth: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Definitely. A similar example: at one point studies started coming out that showed the best performing schools were small. Cue a lot of noise on how small schools are better, if you want your kids to be successful, send them to a small scho
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I've read Learned Optimism, Seligman at no point makes the recommendation that overly optimistic people should be less optimistic. He doesn't seem too concerned with accuracy, he just says that optimism will make you happier and m
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I agree with you that accuracy should be the goal, but Seligman doesn't. I read most of the book, he thinks that delusional optimism is good, because it will make you happier and more productive. He's used his research to teach op
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Rice and beans at the very least, to get all the important amino acids. You need at least some fat too. You can survive for a long time on just rice+beans+vegetable oil - emphasis on survive - it's not optimal for health, obviously. Yo
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by greenshackle 10y ago
> They looked for a link between a child’s behavioral problems at age 7 and acetaminophen use by the mother’s partner during pregnancy They thought about that. Doesn't look like it.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Of course, there are so many factors to eating. I was responding narrowly to OP's claim that eating out is bad because it's expensive.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
However much you value your free time then. Which may actually be more than your regular hourly wage. Consider that most people need to be paid more to work overtime. It also depends whether you consider cooking work or fun. Some people lik
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by greenshackle 10y ago
How much time do you spend grocery shopping and cooking? If you make 100$ per hour it doesnt take long before eating out is more economical.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
in this attack the card reader is compromised. the attackers can make it display whatever they want it to. Edit: For this to work the card itself would have to have it's own display. Another commenter suggested e-ink.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Also: PHP has a JavaScript engine, V8js ( http://php.net/manual/en/book.v8js.php ) So you could run a PHP VM on top of a Javascript VM in PHP.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Oh I didn't start with SICP either, I programmed very casually as a hobby for years before that
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I mean obviously there is no one-size-fits-all recommendation. It depends a lot what their goals and background are. I started out learning PHP on a LAMP stack on an old laptop, and reading C tutorials online. Probably my best move was work
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by greenshackle 10y ago
I bet someone somewhere is working on a PHP interpreter in Javascript. Ninja edit: yep. ( http://asmblah.github.io/uniter/demo/interactive.html )
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Yeah it's definitely improving. But last I checked the PHP internals team was very reluctant to change anything, even plain-crazy stuff, to maintain backward compatibility. In PHP, if a bug sticks around long enough, it becomes a featu
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Amusingly, the tactic resembles in-person haggling in China (and many other places). Salesman offers price, you walk away, they run after you offering a lower price.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Where I live it is unsafe for multiple reasons. Almost no one does it.
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by greenshackle 10y ago
Among, say, the top 10 most used languages, PHP is easily the worst. I'm sure you can learn a lot from PHP/Wordpress, but everything has opportunity costs. You can learn better from better languages and frameworks. My shop does Py
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by greenshackle 10y ago
PHP/Wordpress are ok if you're willing to cut corners. I'm not being sarcastic, everything is a tradeoff, usually you have to cut corners somewhere .

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