jabits

53 ms·

181.
by jabits 14y ago
About time, on many fronts. Sales tax is the most economically beneficial tax (from a long-term viewpoint), encouraging savings, reducing consumption, and is taxpayer controllable. And it captures gray/black market transactions as well. N
182.
by jabits 14y ago
I am a fan of Microsoft, and I agree.
183.
by jabits 14y ago
Subtle. A lot of effort just to prove that there will never be a "C++ Grandmaster".
184.
by jabits 14y ago
Do you really feel that going all over the planet and turning the crust to sand is a viable long-term solution? Many mining engineer types and even geologists see no problem with this approach, but consider Appalachian coal: just because
185.
by jabits 14y ago
"The only reason DNT exists is to express a non-default option," Fielding wrote in a post defending the change. "That's all it does. It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a
186.
by jabits 14y ago
There is nothing "weird" about blind "taste" tests. It's a good way to attempt to filter out at least a little bias, and here you have two competing products that do the same thing (unless your baseline assumption is that no one could ever
187.
by jabits 14y ago
Don't bet on it. I have been consulting for many years, and the majority of my clients discount those with no college degree (doesn't usually matter what in), if they consider them at all. I don't really like to admit it, and I know many c
188.
by jabits 14y ago
Well then you are just awesome. For anyone who has been using various source-control systems for many years, its commands are not intuitive, and cause unnecessary friction. Unfortunately, as elsewhere in life, the best tech does not alway
189.
by jabits 14y ago
Tough decision, nonsense. This is a total cop-out! Edit: Toned it down a bit, but I hate this kind of thing.
190.
by jabits 14y ago
Bogus analogy. One ASE mechanic, one cert. One dev, one cert.
191.
by jabits 14y ago
Yes, this is what happened. I have the 25 gig as well.
192.
by jabits 14y ago
Although Microsoft is not as cool these days, I am liking the new SkyDrive ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/compare ). (I also use a paid SpiderOak account for backup and sharing.)
193.
by jabits 14y ago
Not sure why an enterprise would want to host their source code at a separate company when it is just as easy to host their own source control system (git, mercurial, tfs, whatever) with their other cloud services (S3, Azure). I do not thi
194.
by jabits 14y ago
I think something like Bootstrap is fine for any "web app"; working with a "standard" takes care of a lot of the details, and saves a hell of a lot of time. Maybe it's many years of Windows development, but it's kind of nice working to a C
195.
by jabits 14y ago
You're right. It is dogmatic. Anybody who says, "...only acceptable practice.", hasn't been around enough.
196.
by jabits 15y ago
I can't up this enough. My wife is a Java dev (I am a .Net dev), and I hear about the crap she has to endure almost weekly. It truly makes me want to walk into her client site and smack some faces. It is so hard to believe that this can
197.
by jabits 15y ago
Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhanc
198.
by jabits 15y ago
I sure hope so. This is an ideal, long-term strategy. Whenever I hear the "reducing dependence on foreign oil by exploiting ours" argument, I think, "Perfect!". Our resources are not going anywhere, and are there for the taking if ever s
199.
by jabits 15y ago
What is it with these giant fonts? Why the useless scrolling when you could fit three times the information on one screen? I see this nonsense all over the place...
200.
by jabits 15y ago
My favorite is 'JavaScript Patterns' ( http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp... ).
201.
by jabits 15y ago
... 2. Unemployment is calculated differently today because we factor out "discouraged workers". See here where Motley Fool put 2009 Unemployment closer to 17.5% : http://tinyurl.com/3lappx9 ... I think he covered this here: "Even by the
202.
by jabits 15y ago
Not according to this (at least not the same way), http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/04/windows-phone-... : "In contrast with iOS and Android, Microsoft says that its Windows Phone OS doesn't create any persistent on-phone record
203.
by jabits 15y ago
Awesome. What an amazing, inspiring human being.
204.
by jabits 16y ago
As a monthly Orlando visitor, I would love to be able to hop a train to Tampa, as well as down the eastern shore to Miami. And easier alternative airport options vs MCO would be nice as well. A two hour train ride would make Miami a viabl
205.
by jabits 16y ago
"One country he is certain won't be a customer anytime soon is the U.S., which doesn't yet have a certification process for reactors like TerraPower's. It would likely be a decade or more before the reactor could be tested on U.S. soil. "I
206.
by jabits 16y ago
Yeah, I was going to comment on this as well. This is a good deal compared with most consultancy shops I've subcontracted through, more typically 15-20%. Or in several cases, they expect me not to know the ultimate rate billed to the clien
207.
by jabits 16y ago
You bet! Every chance I get. If I am in a section of code for some sort of change, I will definitely take the opportunity to update/improve the current state of affairs. Doesn't mean you need to go through and rewrite the entire thing. F
208.
by jabits 16y ago
"...you owe FICA on your compensation". Exactly. I want to be taxed (and get the same breaks) as my corporate client employees. Business writes off all possibly related equipment, as do I. I try to write off everything a C-corp would
209.
by jabits 16y ago
So then as a small Sub-S owner (wife and me), I would have to pay FICA and Medicare on the money spent on health care insurance, disability insurance, etc., which you as a W-2 employee do not pay payroll taxes on. In the end, the payroll
210.
by jabits 16y ago
Just what I want to do as a paying customer: go into the store and act like an ass to get what I already paid for; great...

More ›