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by rick888 15y ago
okay, tell me why. I'm just telling you my experience of seeing this first-hand many many times.
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by rick888 15y ago
"This stupid idea that poor = lazy/bad is so entrenched in the US society (and was when I was growing up too) that it can ruin your social life from very early on" If you aren't mentally or physically unable to do something (which is the ca
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by rick888 15y ago
I've never had this problem. They've made it so easy that you only ever have to talk to someone once. The rest of the time it's all online and is automatically deposited into your bank account. It may have been a problem because your ex-e
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by rick888 15y ago
"When we allowed 20% of the population to assume ownership of 80% of the wealth, forcing everyone else to scramble for scraps" Allowed? I suppose you mean we didn't tax them at 90% to "redistribute" it. "the loudest complaints about "socia
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by rick888 15y ago
"In the mean time, piracy is certainly a valuable signal for the industry that demand exists - it's just that the price and mechanisms aren't right yet. (I'm sure the content producers feel the same way /s)" If you can get a show in HD qual
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by rick888 15y ago
Bill gates made billions and he's donating lots of it to the third-world.
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by rick888 15y ago
I think a better idea is to charge a flat fee for the project (you get it nailed down before working on it) and then per/hour for any additional changes.
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by rick888 15y ago
I went to my local Office max today to see if they had any left. They were sold out. The guy also told me they have only ever had 1 in stock.
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by rick888 15y ago
"The hackers found and immediately posted e-mail addresses, passwords, and physical addresses of 205 O'Reilly site members paying $5 a month to hear Bill's wisdom" It's funny how a group that claims to be so good..is nothing but evil. This
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by rick888 15y ago
Exactly. If they can consistently predict the results over a year, I will be impressed.
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by rick888 15y ago
I've seen this at companies where the boss or manager either doesn't understand the development process or just wants to make money and doesn't care. So you have situations where a feature should take 2 weeks to implement, but they want it
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by rick888 15y ago
All of the users that "liked" this article have bitcoin.. in them.
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by rick888 15y ago
Join a group that interests you on meetup.com. I did this a couple of years ago and it helped me out tremendously.
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by rick888 15y ago
"In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class "ideology of self-interest." Are they factoring in all of the people that
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by rick888 15y ago
"I work for MegaCorp. We have developers here that are incredibly difficult to get along with and a few that are great. There seems to be this sense that the more capable and intelligent a person is the more frequently they're jerks to deal
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by rick888 15y ago
You need to make sure you have near 100% uptime. If someone is using this as a PoS and it's down, they will lose money. You may also need to get some sort of insurance.
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by rick888 15y ago
guess what? You aren't going to stop me from my opinion, sorry. You sure as hell aren't stopping the mass amounts of people from down voting my above comments for merely stating my opinion on frameworks. oh and btw, my point has pretty mu
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by rick888 15y ago
Downtown might be okay. However, if you go outside just a little bit, you are in the danger zone. This isn't speculation. Even 8 years go it was bad. I worked downtown and could regularly hear gunshots from my office during the day.
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by rick888 15y ago
I get offers at least once a month. I'm wondering if it's in some newbie SEO/marketing PDF that's been passed around the community. My favorite is when they offer me $50 for a link on my blog for the lifetime of my site. That's right, not
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by rick888 15y ago
Yes, when I write a web app, I don't want to be stuck with extra code that abstracts away the database into a less-efficient object/class and forces me to break the convention of the framework to write the code that I need. I suppose it's f
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by rick888 15y ago
It doesn't stop the hordes of programmers on HN talking about Ror and Django and Cherry pi as an alternative to PHP.
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by rick888 15y ago
I figured they would need to move onto something new after Twitter started including pictures in tweets.
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by rick888 15y ago
When frameworks are the popular alternative to PHP (RoR,Django,etc), it is valid. Are we also not allowed to talk about RoR when it comes to a discussion about PHP alternatives?
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by rick888 15y ago
I've used Django and many others and while you can do this, you end up with code that isn't very clean.
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by rick888 15y ago
Wow, It's pretty apparent that there are a lot of young programmers here on HN. I was just stating my opinion and I got downvoted because I talked bad about your precious frameworks.
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by rick888 15y ago
One of the reasons I like PHP is that it still lets you get to a lower level of coding. Many of the newer languages and frameworks that have become popular in the past couple of years abstract things such as database connectivity away (Dja
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by rick888 15y ago
Yeah, this is why you don't base your entire business on something like images for twitter.
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by rick888 15y ago
"She couldn't afford the financial risk" If you are under thirty and single, you can get health care for $200 or less per month, which is pretty affordable. There are also group plans for small business owners.
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by rick888 15y ago
well, naturally, we are seeing why banks exist. Because people need a safe place to put their money.
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by rick888 15y ago
It looks like the same pictures we saw a couple of days ago....from the original source.

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