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by irrigation 11y ago
Even more flagging -- tptacek and friends are flagging off posts, leaving their ridiculous replies to things not actually said (the tactic of responding to things not actually stated, and then leaving their aghast reply. This is tptacek&#
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by irrigation 11y ago
This is exactly the sort of post that you find regarding quick fix solutions and Make Money Fast schemes. Don't believe in the magical cure-all nature of Trend Of The Week? So bitter and negative.
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by irrigation 11y ago
Instead you are employing classic and cowardly character assassination techniques. This is the "untouchable" argument that attempts to short circuit any critical discussion. If skepticism is a character assassination, then hopef
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by irrigation 11y ago
Harass him? What an outrageously transparent attempt to prejudice the audience, which in this case happens to also be for your own benefit as well: Good judgment would have been that you should stay away from these threads (for those who
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by irrigation 11y ago
It seems like you are saying "Patio11 clearly is lying about his consulting rates and the sale of BCC proves it." The root of this thread is someone who is a little surprised at how small of a transaction the sale of BCC was. De
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by irrigation 11y ago
This sounds like a variation of the "you're just jealous" reply, which is an easy, convenient retort to virtually all skepticism for even the most incredible claims. When we want something to be true, the easiest way to under
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by irrigation 11y ago
That is a fantastic blog, thank you very much. I love reading stuff like that. I have the luxury, of sorts, that the farm doesn't really need to support anyone financially (the primary income still coming from `traditional' sour
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by irrigation 11y ago
Professionally I can essentially work anywhere with a high speed connection, and my wife is in healthcare and can work anywhere near even a somewhat built up area. We would like to do low-intensity farming, have some chickens (primarily for
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by irrigation 11y ago
"If every neighborhood had its own vertical farm, how many fewer semis would be choking up the metro area?" In my area - Southern Ontario -- farmland is cheap and plentiful, a lot of it turning to brush or "hobby" farms
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by irrigation 11y ago
Rather incredibly, the comments and moderation throughout this very story are a microcosm of what is being discussed -- people drag so much baggage into these discussions, with pekk just loading their comment with a mountain sized chip on t
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by irrigation 11y ago
The article may have made this unclear, but just being happy about good news for you isn't self-promotion. The article quite clearly states that such self-promotion is what is often termed "humble bragging" (and in case the
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by irrigation 11y ago
There's a large retailer here in Canada -- Canadian Tire -- that I personally think should be legally forbidden from selling a good portion of the products they sell: Tools that break on the first use. Toys that have a very short path
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by irrigation 11y ago
A Dell R920 with four E7-8880L v2 15 core processors (e.g. 60 real threads, 120 with HT), and 1024GB / 1TB of memory costs about $50,000 USD. To go to 1.5TB of memory pushes you to $60,000 USD. Expensive in a relative to a low-end serv
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by irrigation 11y ago
JSON is used for persistence in a limited number of projects, and still lacks fundamental things like a validation schema or even a date type. Yes, it absolutely is "trendy", and it absolutely pales compared to XML. They both fi
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by irrigation 11y ago
As someone who extensively uses pgsql and SQL Server, I don't think it's fair to say that PostgreSQL is "more advanced" because it has one particular, somewhat trendy feature. There are many critical features that pgsql
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by irrigation 11y ago
Worth noting that there is an Instagram Hyperlapse-type app on Android called "Gallus". It's made by some guy (e.g. lacks polish), and apparently isn't perfect on all devices (1), but my experience has been that it yield
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by irrigation 11y ago
Speaking of strawmen, where did I cite waterfall? The entire foundation of your post is a fiction. Software is tough. It is always, and has always been tough. The same flexibility that is the great benefit of the domain is also its curse. T
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by irrigation 11y ago
The "argument" is that making software is an ugly, brutish affairs in virtually every case, with virtually every approach. There are extraordinarily few cases throughout history where a team converged, looked at the problem, bui
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by irrigation 11y ago
Any discussion about agile invariably yields the predictable flurry of personal hangups and misrepresentations. Most common of all, though, are the claims that if you just have a great team full of great developers, you don't need a pr
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by irrigation 11y ago
This terrible article is actually a great example of a submarine. Note the mention of a completely irrelevant "security" company halfway down, and then a link to their blog post. In any case, it's terrible because it takes te
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by irrigation 11y ago
Saturated means that you've filled (or can fill at will) the time you've allotted and targeted, not 100% of your possible time. e.g. 100% of 50% of available time. >he never claimed to have a continuous stream of $30k/week
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by irrigation 11y ago
I didn't say that it was counterintuitive, or that you can't turn down clients. I was observing the reality that most freelancers are more likely to find themselves absolutely starving for business, and shouldn't look at this
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by irrigation 11y ago
The 30K thing was related to a post on here a few days back where an author claimed that they had their pick of "30K / week" engagements. As an interesting contrast with your policy, they claimed that they kept their rates hi
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by irrigation 11y ago
"Patio11, back when he still did consulting, charged 30k/wk" He says , adding heavy draw to an initiative. Absolutely nothing or anyone can validate those incredible claims, though. Every engagement was, to us, like the girl
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by irrigation 11y ago
I'm a cynical sort with a lot of experience in the industry consulting, and I can't help but view a lot of these pieces as heavily...embellished. Akin to "fake it to make it". Ala "I'm so overwhelmed with busin