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by mercer 11y ago
Yeah, that was the only one I immediately questioned. Many companies that I've worked for as a contractor were permanently looking for developers, and I was their more-expensive plan B. The problem was that they either just didn't
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by mercer 11y ago
> Microsoft have shown it possible. I suspect Apple is perfectly happy to let Microsoft experiment with this until they figure it out (assuming they do). But from everything I hear they aren't quite there yet, and until they do, I&#
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by mercer 11y ago
I have a client who calls me every few months to ask for her email password. I've considered adding an item to my next invoice that says 'password manager'. It baffles me that she thinks this is okay, but in her defense it se
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by mercer 11y ago
Wouldn't it be better for the police not to presume people to be 'red'? For example, here in Holland the police are (still) very much public servants alongside 'enforcers of the law'. I actively seek them out if I n
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by mercer 11y ago
Heh. I was about to write "lower their threat score by not being gun nuts and not committing felonies?" but it appears XKCD got there first...
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by mercer 11y ago
I agree, or rather I think that the 'meaning' religion offers is not a cause but more of a facilitator for all the good things you mention at the end of your comment. So it's not the meaning itself primarily, but everything t
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by mercer 11y ago
In a broader sense I'd say it's also a societal problem. Growing up in a more traditional society as well as a Christian community, I had to deal with a huge variety of people and opinions on a regular basis, whereas nowadays the
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by mercer 11y ago
I think that's actually a very good question. Intuitively I'd say no, people with clear medical issues and resulting dependency are adults. But on the other hand, I'm much more inclined to consider that people with psycholo
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by mercer 11y ago
Hmm... I've known a few people who are as you describe, and in conversations about these people they'd often be described as 'basically still a child'. So I think in this case the definition stands.
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by mercer 11y ago
This is the reason why I've always gravitated towards friends who were aware of their own weaknesses, open about them, and open to leaning on others for support when they needed it. In practice these were often people who suffered from
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by mercer 11y ago
While it might work, I've read that while cannabis helps you fall asleep, it's actually often not conducive to 'good' sleep. This has also been the experience of a number of people I know. Lack of deep sleep, waking up i
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by mercer 11y ago
Have you tried actual meditation? I also have sleep problems because my mind just won't quiet down. Few things have helped as well as meditation before bedtime. I've also read that the frequent habit of meditation (which sadly I&#
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by mercer 11y ago
Finances (billing, quarterly taxes, yearly taxes), lack of colleagues (I feel at best a semi-colleague if I'm somewhere long enough), lots of costs, some hidden or vague (insurances, office space, travel, laptop, utilities, etc.), poss
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by mercer 11y ago
Compare it to Twitter limiting your communication to 140 characters. Or Instagram limiting your posts to photos (as far as I know; never used it). Or Vine limiting you even more than Instagram. Or Tinder limiting you to swipes (compared to
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by mercer 11y ago
Same here. I've gone for long periods working primarily for one or two clients, and 1) I made more working part-time than the employees did full-time, 2) I got all the 'fun' new projects while the employees spent a lot of the
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by mercer 11y ago
Yes, and that's not always a problem. I remember this issue was addressed in my 'methodology' classes where it was explained that a lot of research has been done to figure out in which ways student/non-student participan
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by mercer 11y ago
But repression (medication) or fixing (therapy) is closer to 'locking away' than it is to giving purpose or providing acceptance.
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by mercer 11y ago
Indeed! I've been able to compare friends with similar issues either deal with them as a problem to fix or suppress (therapy, medication, etc.), or as a 'weird, but functional' state to 'live with'. The latter, assu
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by mercer 11y ago
My experience in a developing nation is that schizophrenics, provided they were not actively dangerous to their surroundings, were well cared for by family and their general environment. The 'village idiot' (even in the big city
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by mercer 11y ago
I'm still in my early thirties and while I already occasionally look at the early-twenties crowd with a sense of longing, I quickly snap out of that when I remember how much of a drama-filled rollercoaster it was, and how much of that
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by mercer 11y ago
That strikes me as sort of circular in reasoning. To create benevolent AI using AI, the latter would already have to know what 'benevolent' means. In which case we might as well just create benevolent AI in the first place. In fac
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by mercer 11y ago
Perhaps in the future there will be a time where an 'old-fashioned' server-side app is a bad idea, but right now I think it's still a perfectly valid approach, and even preferable in some cases. Consider whether your app will
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by mercer 11y ago
> I prefer JSX because it's not pulling wool over your eyes - you're building a JS app, not an HTML app - so let's stop pretending. Yeah, that's what it really boils down to. Many of the principles we apply are holdov
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by mercer 11y ago
Not at all! I might not have expressed myself clearly... The point I was trying to make is that JSX is significantly more convenient for coders like me, as the markup is is the trivial part and the logic is usually the complicated part. So
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by mercer 11y ago
I assumed that 'within the boundaries of acceptable human behavior' was an implicit assumption, but I've actually heard an uncomfortably large amount of people defend unacceptable behavior as 'college acceptable'. S
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by mercer 11y ago
I quite liked Vue.js, but I really don't like how it takes the Angular approach of putting 'js in your templates' (sort of). Furthermore, while I'm holding off on 'universal apps' for now, I love being able to
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by mercer 11y ago
But do you want web designers to mess with your markup? Many of the projects I work on still involve the 'old-fashioned' server-side rendering approach with bits of jQuery for interactive elements. If a non-coder webdesigner were
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by mercer 11y ago
Agreed. In every single project I've worked on that used mustache/handlebars, haml, or some similar 'restricted logic' approach, the long-term result consisted of view templates that contained hacks, a lot of logic hidde
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by mercer 11y ago
To some extent, yes. In some of my projects I decided to avoid using Babel and just limit myself to Node's (new) features. The advantages of not having a build step for the backend js is sometimes worth it. However, there are so many c
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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (book)(poodr.com)
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