iolothebard

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by iolothebard 11y ago
Seems dickish toward the company you work at for 4 months though. Were your offices by that famous Gaol? I thought it was interesting seeing a mix of the old and new so close together.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
It's like having a discussion with a wall. Have a nice day :-)
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Maybe, we tend to put up with less nonsense though. However, that's typically beneficial to business as well. The only software engineers I've ever worked with that actually consider the costs are those that have either owned thei
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Well now you and my wife can agree on that. So I've got two people in my corner! I'm actually a mediocre software engineer. Making an accounting system do XYZ for the 4000th time isn't interesting anymore. Doing it in Angular
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I was going to say you're late to ICQ if you found it in the late 90s, but then I realized I'm still using my yahoo mail account and have no room talk ;-) When I first used ICQ in 1996 (a buddy introduced it to me) I couldn't
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by iolothebard 11y ago
How is this a dickish thing to say about white men. I am a white man. Having worked with 1 woman in 15 years in Oklahoma & Texas in development I worked with roughly 60/40 (men to women) developer teams in the Bay Area. Also the br
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by iolothebard 11y ago
So charge for it. I don't see what the big deal is. I've built a good amount of software. I never did any of it for free, although it's why I've never came up with anything like Facebook, etc. I could never figure out ho
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Never heard of FOSS & GNU I take it? What a bunch of chumps, right? Linux, what a scam.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I'd say JavaScript instead of a strongly typed client-side interpreter. Or maybe the ability to execute binary blobs that's cross browser compatible (similar to Flash, yeah I know, ActiveScript is essentially JS, or ActiveX) but s
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I ask them to give me a full design document with their coding style guide. Since it's an 'easy test', this is my 'easy test' to check their procedures. They should already have a coding document in place and they c
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I'm a C, I hire A++ and steal all the credit!
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Any interview I've ever had where HR is involved is somewhere I would never work. Last time this happened I was informed that Russian and Indian are races. Talking about my coworkers by their country of origin (I was saying how refresh
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I've had this happen multiple times. Why would you hire your own replacement? (This is how they think.) When they have someone hiring not based on what's best for the company but what's best for their own career goals, you k
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I gave up caffeine for 2 years. Got tired of drinking just water, beer or milk. Sodas and coffee w/milk sugar are too tasty. All I did to quit was pop advil for a few days. Quitting caffeine wasn't remotely difficult physically. I
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Depends on how much capital you have and how paranoid you are about failure. So, yes.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Mame is fantastic for this reason. Although, I'm not sure how I played a lot of those games, they're much more difficult than I remember. I guess when you had only $5 in quarters you had to make them last. Getting a $20 for games
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I just threw up a little in my mouth at the thought. Probably still tastes better than the bill brew you're suggesting :-)
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by iolothebard 11y ago
It's graded vesting, I've always seen it at 5 years (20%/year). It seems they do 20% after the first year then 1/48th afterward monthly (which is nice). Legally they can do up to 6 years.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I assume you live paycheck to paycheck on an income that's probably 2-3x the median income for your location?
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Lol, I've seen this once in a lifetime fluke 5 times now and I was only born in 1973. In financial planning it's called vulture money.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I've seen so many small business owners ripped off by their business managers or partners due to simple ignorance of accounting that it really should be a required course. My father is an architect and home builder. After building his
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by iolothebard 11y ago
179 is the best thing in the history of tax law IMO. :-)
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Nolo books are really good in my opinion. I got a degree in Finance so I'd know what to do if I ever made money :-) Looking back it seemed overkill, but maybe it wasn't. S-Corp has it's disadvantages as well (essentially requ
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by iolothebard 11y ago
All the musician's online sites do this. It's price anchoring, just like at JCPenney, etc.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
They key is to save madly and prepare for the downturns. One of my friends in SF bought his house in 2011 for 500k. The comps in the area 5 years later are 1.2-1.4m He was prepared (waited 10 years). You can do it, you just have to look at
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Or you can just message them with your email and ask for their contact info. I did this a few years ago. Have a nice list. Never email any of them :-/
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Wonder how this works in relation to the earthquakes we're getting here in Oklahoma due to injection wells.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
I have copies of Adobe CS for Mac and PC. I always install the cracked versions so I don't have to mess with uninstalling (deregistering) when I wipe my systems.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Making Oxycontin harder to get is why. Also people trying to get clean, then going back to doing their "old" dose.
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by iolothebard 11y ago
Lots of money in law enforcement, prisons, etc. Just like getting simple tax code, lots of accountants/lawyers, etc.

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