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by hiou 11y ago
Not surprised. I'm still very confused why someone would use a web browser built by a company that has a business plan based on shrinking the web.
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by hiou 11y ago
I didn't see a link to the actual report which I believe is this[0] [0] http://www.realtor.org/reports/profile-of-international-home...
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by hiou 11y ago
You might be interested in how California is dealing with the franchise relationship as well[0] There are specific rules about that relationship that separates it from an employee. [0] http://www.entrepreneur.com/article&#x2
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by hiou 11y ago
There is a fair amount of case law in regards for drivers as opposed to other professions. Taxi's, pizza delivery, trucking etc. I'm not sure how or if this flattens out to other sharing economy type businesses.
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by hiou 11y ago
Curious to see what the public markets will do in response. Nasdaq is taking a bit of a slide as we speak.
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by hiou 11y ago
Because in an economic downturn an enormous 1099 based workforce would cause serious shock to the economy as they do not qualify for unemployment benefits to smooth the transition as it did in the last downturn. For examples, take a look at
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by hiou 11y ago
> The tech industry is a sick, male dominated, misogynistic, flaccid void that continues to permit weak, small, frightened men to abuse and harass women from a presumed position of anonymous safety. That's from the article. This i
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by hiou 11y ago
> At present, the analyzer reports problems caused by null pointer access and resource and memory leaks, which cause a large percentage of app crashes. Did you mean you were looking for something more specific?
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by hiou 11y ago
I've been there as well. I interviewed at a design agency a while back. I nailed all of their puzzles pretty easily only to get there and realize I was going to be doing Wordpress hacking and other CMS work from 2010. I left after a fe
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by hiou 11y ago
I didn't see anyone here mention it so I'm going to bring up the elephant in the room. Performance enhancing drugs. I think most of us around here are aware of our contemporaries who use quite a bit of prescription assistance to o
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by hiou 12y ago
> But in Walmart's case the growth was slow I'm not sure I can agree with WalMart having slow growth[0]. http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/history/history-timel...
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by hiou 12y ago
Here are a few reasons[0] you might want to look into about this fabled "equilibrium" in commercial real estate. [0] http://www.ezracompany.com/2012/04/30/why-do-landlords-let-s...
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by hiou 12y ago
I will add some of my own anecdotal evidence to your anecdotal evidence. I have yet to meet a single person in life that has admitted they they had it easier or an advantage. I've always believed that was because for the most part ever
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by hiou 12y ago
The use of the description "manual laborers or shift workers" leads me to believe this is a lot more about the upper middle class to wealthy under 35 group ending up in tech related occupations than anything else. Time to go grab
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by hiou 12y ago
I'm doing some interviewing right now, and what I'm trying to do is help perspective employers decide if they would actually like working with me. I could easily prep the interview and say all the right things, but then comes the
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by hiou 12y ago
> it has bugs and it's not good enough to begin marketing yet Measure and prioritize the bugs. If you don't know how many people are dealing with them you can't figure out how many you need to fix. > I'm learnin
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by hiou 12y ago
From what I understand, the bar to get on the pre-disclosure list is not high. If you are a legitimate company serving the public you will likely qualify.
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by hiou 12y ago
I think many people confuse "ship it" culture with just doing crap work. I've seen too many ship it projects die because the biggest feedback from the customers was "This thing doesn't actually seem to work" or
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by hiou 12y ago
With all the SV talk about $100k+ salaries, the reality is that in the US you can pick up average developers at a pretty reasonable salary. Think closer to $30k-60k. Add on top of that the cultural issues that make it more difficult to have
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by hiou 12y ago
I upvoted you to get you out of the grey because I didn't feel like your comment was too inflammatory and did bring up specific issues which are relevant in a big picture view to this change. That said, the CEO comment was a bit unprod
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by hiou 12y ago
> Regarding order pickers, I think that's just a question of economics. I think it will in effect be those tasks that are fully digital. Working in the physical world is a much more expensive and libelous undertaking. So I believe
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by hiou 12y ago
Interesting point. But it brings up that scarier part of AI. I believe AI will become better at humans at mental processes far before it will be better than human physical labor. For exactly the points you mention. This is already becoming
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by hiou 12y ago
I've been using Crunchbang as my base Debian starter for years now. It's a great distro to get some sensible defaults and then switch over to tracking Debian testing and go from there. Very excited to see a new update!
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by hiou 12y ago
> There is a part of me who isn't comfortable with talking this way about an employer who provided my income for three and a half years, but I, along with most people I worked with, put in far more than we got back. Unfortunately,
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by hiou 12y ago
Let me just sit back and take in a big whiff of that smug. Ahhhhh.... Engineering is implementation. Nothing more nothing less. Sometimes it's messy and barely getting something done. Sometimes it's about dotting every i and cross
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by hiou 12y ago
Honestly, it's more about finding a results based org. I've worked with a lot of different companies and some are very culture fit and some are very results oriented. You will never get a shot at the culture fit crowd so go for th
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by hiou 12y ago
The point more is about how money isn't actually a thing. It's one of many ways to obtain something. Just one of them. For example if you are a high profile game developer, no matter what you release for a long time you will pay y
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by hiou 12y ago
I also have been using TaxACT for a couple years. I used a few other only ones in the past and honestly can't really tell much difference. They've all seemed fine to me. That said, my taxes are your standard pile of 1099s type dea
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by hiou 12y ago
If 24/7 uptime is important enough that it requires pager duty and the pager goes off more than once a month, someone should be working during that time. Otherwise it's a tell tale sign of an employer that does not respect their e
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by hiou 12y ago
I ditched any large scale banking and contract, lease, debt arrangements over 7 years ago. I have a crappy no credit check bank card for online payments and getting money transferred. I never sign a lease over month to month, no car loan, n

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