kdamken

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by kdamken 11y ago
I hope you realize the error of your thinking soon. Money is important. It may not be as important as your health, but it comes close. Money buys freedom from the slavery of having to work. Until you have enough money to never have to work
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by kdamken 11y ago
This is very true and so important to your professional growth. There's a famous saying, "if you're the best one in the room, you're in the wrong room". At my last job I was the only developer at a small web agency,
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by kdamken 11y ago
How do you help him? You either stage an intervention, or do nothing. In reality, the decision to quit is really something people need to come to on their own, usually after hitting whatever their own form of "bottom" is. Some peo
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by kdamken 11y ago
What a hilarious misuse of power. I hope my country doesn't piss off wikipedia or something.
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You must have had a bad work ethic! Lazy baby, work harder.
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Are you some kind of wizard? This may be the coolest tech demo I've seen all year.
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That's a bad reason not to do something : ( In 5 years, you'll be happy that you did it, or sad that you didn't.
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It's funny to me how often I hear about company culture from the executives and owners of a company, but never from the actual employees working there. Here's a secret - culture isn't that important to employees. It's n
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by kdamken 11y ago
Not defending him here, he's a professional millionaire musician and should just buy it... But music software is a HUGE pain in the ass to purchase. Pro Tools, for example, is tied to a dongle. It's 2016, and that's still the
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I'm not sure why you would need this. Even if you don't have a CMS set up, it's fairly easy to show someone what parts of the HTML they need to copy and paste if you already have some FAQ's, or just write it up and assig
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Delightful!
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Seems neat, commenting for later in case I decide to start taking up more freelance again.
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I never said they don't need to be paid a living wage. I said that they shouldn't expect to be making tons of money for that kind of work. Based on her article, she made $19,064.24 a year, or $1,588.68 a month. Is that a lot of mo
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You are 100% right - she's not a charity. If she's unhappy with the amount of payment she's receiving, she can leave and find another job. It's not like she signed a lifetime contract.
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But they can offer whatever they want as allowed by law. They're a business, not a charity. People can choose to apply and work there, or not. No one is forcing them to. I would recommend looking through her post and also some of the l
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by kdamken 11y ago
Whoa. Hold on there buddy. Are you implying that someone actually take personal responsibility for their actions and financial decision making? You better hope that twitter doesn't get word of this.
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Nice lie of a title. Here's the real question: why did she chose to work in the most expensive city in the country? What was she expecting? Yes, customer service reps don't get paid well. Why? Because literally anyone who can answ
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by kdamken 11y ago
I hadn't, but I'd be surprised if that were the case. Usually bands want to get as many fans and gigs and as much publicity as they can. It seems odd that they would only want programmers as fans, unless they were especially prete
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by kdamken 11y ago
So neat, but wow is that not the best way of doing something. It's good publicity, but you immediately cut the amount of people who can contact you down to just programmers. Much better to have a basic site with a phone number, email a
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by kdamken 11y ago
I know what you mean - that's why I was so disappointed when they started marking small things "Add on items". Suddenly I needed to make it a $25 order just to get the free shipping.
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by kdamken 11y ago
They are really trying to force you into signing up for prime, aren't they? I cancelled my prime subscription at the start of the year. Some thoughts: - I buy less stuff on impulse. Since the price limit is (or was) $35 for free shippi
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Those are all valid reasons and of course it's understandable that you'd need to resort to using credit card debt if you had no other option. However, had they been more frugal and put more effort into their savings prior to the e
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... But it only takes one moment of weakness to see a new car, fall in love with it, be convinced your life will be better with it and the next thing you know you've committed to 48 payments. I'm trying not be rude here, but tha
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by kdamken 11y ago
Yeah mobile and parallax are usually bad news bears. I'm surprised they didn't have a simpler version for it.
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by kdamken 11y ago
Playing devils advocate here: you're spending $1200 a year on coffee. With that money you could not only buy a really nice coffee machine and make it yourself every morning, but also have a bunch of money leftover to put towards your l
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by kdamken 11y ago
Didn't read the article yet, but whoever designed/coded the styling on this page deserves a gold star. The parallax was smooth and really cool.
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I like buying stuff as much as the next guy, but if not buying things you don't need would make you depressed, you probably have deeper issues that need addressing.
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That's a fair point. It's sad that most people don't "wake up" from it and learn to ignore and disregard them. Those documentaries look interesting, thanks for the link.
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I'd disagree on that last part - I'd say that if you're not making a crazy salary his advice is even more valuable. Most people spend an obscene amount of money on things they don't actually really need. Some classic exa
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Better question: why do people buy things they can't afford and most often don't need, putting themselves in this position? So many of my peers don't make a lot of money, but then still go out and buy a new or newish/use

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