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by patja 13y ago
While it doesn't literally cost the charity anything this go-around, it is pretty unseemly behavior in a charity event. If I was a player in said charity's poker tournament and saw the organizers gaming the system to their own profit, I wo
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by patja 14y ago
Very cool. Django and the associated stuff (south, virtualenv, etc) would be a nice addition.
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by patja 14y ago
That is awesome. Is that a common thing for organizations to have internal fitbit rankings?
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by patja 14y ago
True, true. I certainly have experienced a lot of what you describe, quitting my last job-type-job in December 2008 and promptly watching much of my savings evaporate. And my youngest child's congenital birth defect certainly wasn't part
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by patja 14y ago
I was really replying to the comment asking what will we do at 65 and lamenting the fact that older workers get pushed out of the industry. My point is to put your house in order financially so you can have the luxury of doing what you lov
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by patja 14y ago
Does anybody who has spent their adult working career in this industry have an excuse for not achieving financial independence by age 65?
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by patja 14y ago
Tangentially related, for similar reasons Paypal remains my payment processor. Lots of people have Paypal accounts and find it much more convenient to use it rather than haul out their credit card and hand key all of their address and paym
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by patja 14y ago
I believe the big advantage of Arduino is in the tooling and vast quantity of working code samples and projects you can find on the web. While the IDE has its quirks it is easy for newbs getting started, has decent samples bundled in, and
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by patja 14y ago
Testers are mostly a labor commodity. Seems like the body shop contracting agencies and big offshore firms (Wipro, TCS, etc.) have this market cornered. Any potential client who really values having a dedicated testing team will build up
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by patja 14y ago
Yes, absolutely, let's make it harder for kids to compete with us and put us out of work when we are in our 50's. I don't want them innovating and creating new open source libraries that make us more productive or open up new opportunities
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by patja 14y ago
I think the point is there is a huge gap between the supply and demand for programming education, particularly for ages from 8 to 18. It is so easy and rewarding to feed the spark of desire to learn and create among kids of this age range,
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by patja 14y ago
Linked Gamasutra article just copy/pastes selected content from the Econtalk podcast, adding no additional content or commentary. Nice reporting Frank Cifaldi! Original content: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.ht
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by patja 14y ago
I have a hard enough time justifying upgrading Office. Versions n-1 are almost always "good enough" and I see no killer features that justify these new licensing restrictions that at a minimum double the cost for the same install base. I
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by patja 14y ago
Yes, the loss of the ability to install on a second portable device used by the same person who has the desktop license is a huge step backwards. They should cut the price in half to make up for this. As if that will happen.
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by patja 14y ago
There is no excuse why a movie ticket for a 7:00 PM showing should cost more than a movie ticket for the first showing of the day. If anything it should cost less because there are more people in attendance making the cost per attendee low
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by patja 14y ago
Just curious why you think the article is "spammy"? That is a pretty pejorative term to toss around. It seems like sound testing and analysis of the things that are readily tested. He doesn't even have a link to either provider. Doesn't l
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by patja 14y ago
just curious who you think is more generous?
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by patja 14y ago
I've always found IETester to be a great "good enough" lightweight testing tool. No VM images to download/spin up separately or worry about expiration.
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by patja 14y ago
Why do you change the title when you post it here to be so provocative and arrogant? Linkbait? "Why you need..." just sets you up for a negative reaction such as "who are you to tell me what I need to do?" and "what makes you think this is
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by patja 14y ago
This reminds me of an EconTalk podcast from about 6 months ago where the assertion was made that college has become an extension of adolescence, as opposed to a direct path to a middle class career. Given that the ability to write and reas
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by patja 14y ago
If you make me watch a video to get what your product is about and offer no succinct text explanation, I bounce 100% of the time.
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by patja 14y ago
Thanks for this nice list. Small nitpick/question: why put the commands in inputs? Do you edit them on that page? Or is it just to format them? I tried to do a copy/paste on the page contents to my personal offline notebook but the most
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by patja 14y ago
$60k as a developer in Seattle is pretty crappy, but I guess if you need a class like this to break into the profession...you gotta start somewhere. You would need to double that salary to enter the range where you could afford to buy a ho
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by patja 14y ago
Still no PCI passthrough support though, right?
565.
by patja 14y ago
I see many parents who forbid their children from using Facebook, but they are barely aware of what Instagram is and have never heard of Snapchat. Needless to say, those children are all over Instagram and Snapchat. The first thing every a
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by patja 14y ago
Mindstorms is pretty cool...but the price puts it out of reach of any but the well-heeled. I run an after school tech program for kids in grades 5 - 8 where we've worked with Scratch quite a bit, and did one session on robotics using the Po
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by patja 14y ago
I'm not certain it will work but you might look into the Logitech Media Server http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download with SoftSqueeze clients http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/ While intended for use with Squeezebox hardware clients, I
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by patja 14y ago
Yes, by all means, let's sue the schools! I was promised a six figure job if I finished this expensive law degree, but there was a recession and now I have to shift gears.
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by patja 14y ago
Thank you for bringing several hours of frustration to an end
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by patja 14y ago
The statement "I’ve had access to the Internet longer than others" sure reads funny coming from someone born in 1988

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