mehphp

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by mehphp 4y ago
Nothing crazy, but I built a Shopify app years ago that some customers say is “crucial” to running their store. It’s not making me rich but it feels good knowing it’s legitimately helping people run their business.
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by mehphp 4y ago
> Randomly asking for a raise doesn't work. Randomly, no... but asking for a raise while showing reasons why you think you deserve it definitely can. I know because I literally just did that. Keep a running document of accomplishmen
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by mehphp 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious what can/should be done. If we ban it, people will still make it illegally, there will be violence, and we are in the same place that cannabis is now.
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by mehphp 4y ago
Well, it doesn't have to be either or. It's possible to think he's built impressive companies while also thinking he's an unsavory character. As far as I can tell, the people who "smear" Musk don't do so b
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by mehphp 4y ago
Now the opposing team gets less time to score and possibly win.
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by mehphp 4y ago
I was also duped on this one. I still think he shouldn't have been there, but after watching the trial and finding out the facts, he didn't appear to do anything unlawful.
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by mehphp 4y ago
Do they though? I think the problem is just more visible in densely populated areas (which tend to lean blue). Red states are filled with poverty/inequity it’s just more spread out. Drive through the derelict areas in rural America and
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by mehphp 4y ago
Very sluggish and no vim support. It looks promising but I’m going to let it bake for a while.
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by mehphp 4y ago
> only code matters Code is just an implementation detail that solves a business problem. I can't disagree more with this take.
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by mehphp 4y ago
> I really felt like I was part of this ancient order. We didn’t know each other and yet we all understood each other. I mean, we kind of are, right?
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by mehphp 4y ago
I’ve had the same experience. Watching shows like that with the captions on makes me realize how much I miss with them off. I’ve had a few instances where I didn’t “get” what had happened; I thought maybe it was just over my head. Turns out
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by mehphp 4y ago
Right, but if you transfer that money away before the bank gets it back then you would be liable for that part.
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by mehphp 4y ago
If you are just building random passion projects, then yes. If you actually spend the time to find a real problem people have and build a solution for that, I'm not sure if I'd call that luck.
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by mehphp 4y ago
Or... maybe reduce our defense budget nationally. We have endless funds for wars and bailing out large corporations. We don't need to raise taxes to accomplish this.
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by mehphp 4y ago
I mean, I'd still like for police to investigate/prevent violent crime even if they don't care about my laptop...
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by mehphp 4y ago
I think we both agree on what ought to be; just now how it is.
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by mehphp 4y ago
I think this is mostly right, but it makes it seem like successful apps are more of a crap shoot than they really are. Too many (most?) apps are built without spending any time researching whether it solves a real problem people have (and a
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by mehphp 4y ago
Do you honestly think police have the resources to track every stolen item like this?
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by mehphp 4y ago
For one, tracking devices aren’t new and none of the others alert you id they are following you.
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by mehphp 4y ago
Good luck with that.
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by mehphp 4y ago
The second definitely doesn’t require luck. I built a $3k/mo app in a couple hours a day for a few weeks. People think it’s all luck because they build things just hoping someone will buy it and when they don’t “ah well, bad luck on t
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by mehphp 4y ago
One of my favorite quotes is “motion precedes emotions”. i.e. don’t wait around until you feel like doing something, just start and it’s likely that you’ll continue to want to so said thing. Works for both work and exercise for me.
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by mehphp 4y ago
I mean, that happens but I exert myself to make myself more money. So far that has worked well.
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by mehphp 4y ago
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree then. We don't get to choose where or to whom we are born. If you are then born into "bad cultures and values", as you say, that has a huge influence on your "choices&quo
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by mehphp 4y ago
> To reverse your logic, affluent people should never commit crimes but yet sone do too. People make choices. I'm not arguing that people make choices. Also, we are talking about the rate of criminal activity, not absolutes. Nothing
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by mehphp 4y ago
Again though, if that were the case (that it's simply a choice and opportunity has nothing to do with it), we should see the same rate of people choosing crime among affluent people. It's simply not true that people in lower incom
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by mehphp 4y ago
Fair enough. I wish we structured it like that, so I could actually spend time on tech debt.
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by mehphp 4y ago
If that were true, wouldn’t crime rates be evenly distributed among income/circumstances? You don’t find it convincing that poorer/less-educated places tend to have higher crime rates? I’m not saying people aren’t culpable for the
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by mehphp 4y ago
Interesting, I’ve never been somewhere where on call entailed more than maybe an incident or two to handle during the week. I can only recall a single instance that interfered with my current sprint. From the replies, it sounds like a lot o
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by mehphp 4y ago
I don’t understand, is on-call not in addition to your normal duties where you work? I don’t understand how it could tuen into extra time to work on fun stuff.

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