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by porker 12y ago
> $100/hr * 9 hr/day * 23 days/mo = $20700/mo. I know you mention a Saturday, but if you can bill 9 productive hours a day, I take my hat off to you. I could in my early-mid 20's, I can't any longer. > Ma
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by porker 12y ago
> Why would you keep labeling yourself a generalist? Because variety and new challenges are the spice of life? All jesting aside, if I had deep passion/believed deeply in something, I would be the specialist for that ("Appointm
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by porker 12y ago
I have seen Paul Jarvis' site before, and coupled with the teaser for this course, have come away feeling I've missed something. Great writing, good work, and obviously talented. But... "bringing in more than $20K a month for
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HP's Sprout uses a smart mat instead of keyboard and mouse(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by porker 12y ago|9 comments
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by porker 12y ago
Thanks, that's brilliant!
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by porker 12y ago
It'd be great if HN added a way to view comments I've upvoted.
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by porker 12y ago
Do share how you get on. I'm in the same position as you.
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by porker 12y ago
> Maybe techies are slowly realizing that this whole trendy web industry is 50% schlep, 49% bullshit and 1% of something actually valuable to the world. Couldn't put it better myself.
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by porker 12y ago
> He said a lot of the same things mentioned in this article - about the suffocating culture, people "faking it until they make it", the tons of businesses being built on what he called, "bullshit and blue skies". Mix
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by porker 12y ago
And yet that's what people pay money for/perceive value in. Disillusioned web zealot here.
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by porker 12y ago
An excellent article, well written and incredibly easy to follow along and understand what's going on. We need projects to start doing documentation like this.
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Learn to code: Should industry be allowed to dictate our school curriculums?(modelviewculture.com)
1 points by porker 12y ago|0 comments
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by porker 12y ago
Mediocre salary???? Either you live in the square mile bubble, or you're not British. £50k is what a senior software developer outside London gets.
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by porker 12y ago
Though the Symfony2 community hasn't been open to criticism and suggestions for improvement. And eventually, when they've taken some of the original criticisms on-board (at v2.6) [0], they themselves get shot down by parts of the
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by porker 12y ago
> They've wrecked countless Java projects over the years and are now going to do PHP the same favor. Oooh do enlighten. I made an argument when Symfony2 first came out that PHP isn't Java, and now I've been brainwashed to
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by porker 12y ago
CodeIgniter... isn't exactly a high bar to beat.
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by porker 12y ago
What do you do for healthcare? For dental cover? The older I get, the more important these become, however much I'd love to live somewhere with a slower pace of life.
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What supplanted the wiki – and why?
6 points by porker 12y ago|2 comments
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by porker 12y ago
That's a fair point. I sat down and tried to sketch it on paper after posting my comment, and found there was too much domain knowledge involved to do versioning directly in the database. My comment can be rephrased that it's stil
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by porker 12y ago
I've been watching RethinkDB and it looks really cool, but... One need I have in nearly every project is record versioning. Think implementing a modern wiki, in a CRM (what did X alter? Which phone numbers have been assigned to this pe
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by porker 12y ago
> One surprising purchase correlation was customers bought TV stands after buying DVD players. So, this nugget was trumpeted at countless meetings about the value of big data analytics. Multiple marketing campaigns were designed around t
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by porker 12y ago
Do we know anything about the methodologies used inside Slack HQ? Are they agile, do they work in small teams, what's the style of management/PM? Spotify IIRC have been transparent about this; it would be v interesting to find the
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by porker 12y ago
> I'll play only €208 per month for my flat in Bremen, including heating, waste removal and water. I only pay €100 for my yacht per year, including boats house in winter and mooring in summer. Sheesh that's cheap. I can't
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by porker 12y ago
The other advantage with GWT I see is.. as the target changes, your app doesn't have to, only the transpiler. GWT can output to ExtJS, to <insert next HTML5/JS framework>, to <future platform>. And barring minor change
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by porker 12y ago
> bitbucket makes it uncommonly awkward to step through a series of commit diffs for a given file, whilst github makes it a bit easier (although still not perfect - am I the only one who wants this feature?) I want it too :) A time-mach
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by porker 12y ago
Of the people dozen I know who were early adopters of Angular or do AngularJS now, only one wasn't a serious back-end developer. I think the split may be better worded as programmer/scripter. Some of my unscientific sample were us
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Distributed wiki keeps idea ownership visible(hapgood.us)
2 points by porker 12y ago|0 comments
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by porker 12y ago
Not that I've seen, but they are wrapped in scarves etc today (source: photos) so will have warned the air before inhaling. Also, much drier air than we would find inside a house.
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by porker 12y ago
Do you use something like http://habilis.net/cronic/ ?
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by porker 12y ago
This brings up a tangential problem I've yet to solve: how do you warn that something didn't happen when it should? E.g. you have a script that does backups. You log the script's output, but one day something fails and the

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