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by hipsterrific 12y ago
I use Amazon Glacier storage for my backups. It's pretty cheap, I backed up 161GB for around $1.70/month. Since I took an Amazon AWS survey, I received a $25 promotion for AWS so my Glacier storage is paid for the next 2 years.
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
OS X is free now on the condition of using only Mac hardware. Windows is the only OS that isn't free and their market share has been gobbled up by Apple in the last decade or so. I think the only place where Windows is still pricey is
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
The austerity measures was the only rational thing that Greece did and even then they complained. There's really no out for Greece on this one: their economy seems to be dependent on tourism, they have little to no manufacturing, proba
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
The issue of tax burden is that the only loser are the people. Government issues taxes and can enforce it violently, so Government is the only winner in the tax game. For the wealthy, the move to a FairTax is neutral they don't benef
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
The FairTax replaces all taxes and the prebate makes it progressive. The rich actually have no net benefit because in the income tax world, they're still rich and in the fairtax world, they're still rich. What progressive income
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
Same here, the FairTax is a pretty good idea. I believe that Bill Gates even advocated that the US shift away from income based taxation to consumption base. If there's anything our economy that we can bank on, it will be consumption
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
I found that communication in projects and time-off is important. A company I worked for had unlimited PTO and it worked because we all planned accordingly. I took a three week trip to Europe in 2013, no one else took anything more than a
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
I think many companies dive head first into unlimited vacation policy without really thinking things through. I had a job where we had it and it somehow worked (despite the CTO's inability to follow any kind of project management stru
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
Try and not all web apps should have a mobile web app. But there's are instances where a productivity app will benefit from having a mobile app than just a responsive website. I've worked on a couple of web apps that made mobile
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
People often forget that testing cross platform functionality is difficult and time consuming. It can easily tie down designing and add more constraints than necessary. This is why I advocate focusing on essentials like usability, experien
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
I personally make decisions based on what the project requires rather than some template. Most websites for me are informational, so mobile-first works well. Not a whole lot of functionality to test so we can focus on building the website
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
Finally. I'm glad Google's giving Java the boot. I had a feeling they were heading that direction after the lawsuit and the subsequent change to AOT compilation in Android 5.0.
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
I wish this would happen in Minneapolis. When ISP's get in bed with politicians creating laws that subsequently shut out all competitions, the ones that suffer the most are the consumers. Comcast has been the bane of my existence: sl
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
Telerik wasn't half bad when I was the only .net developer for a hospital system with 3,000 employees. It made short work for me since building AJAX-y controls meant less time building business rules. The controls are really bad, they
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
You make it sound so easy when it's clearly not. I've worked jobs where I was the only .net developer in a large enterprise and worked in a team where my teammate wasn't interested in growing. It takes more than just gumsion
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
Nice app! Good to know there are other Christians here in HN. :P I've always thought about building something similar. Maybe I'll contribute, but my Rails skills is quite lacking (read: non-existant, I'm a C# guy)
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
If I didn't have bills I needed to pay, I would take a longer hiatus. Earlier this year, I was let go from my position as a senior software engineer. My review months before was like "you're a great dev, here's a 4% ra
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
My previous job had unlimited PTO and that team sucked mega-donkey balls. It worked despite the culture, here's how: - large vacation time was scheduled around projects. The SPM gave large priority to devs over the business. Thus pr
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by hipsterrific 12y ago
When I was 15 I started having major mood shifts and quickly realized that I have a personality disorder (I'm manic and suffer from bouts of mania, thankfully hypomania). I've contemplated suicide before, while I never got into d