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by ritchiea 13y ago
I understand your concern but to answer it I think a necessity with a BI would be stricter regulation around credit. If you offer a BI and people can take the BI while simultaneously accepting predatory credit offers, the prices of things w
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by ritchiea 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Brooklyn/NYC - Remote or Local - Part Time Ideally I am a Ruby and Javascript developer. The majority of my experience has been with Rails but I've played around with or done small projects in other frameworks such
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by ritchiea 13y ago
This is exactly it. Practically everyone has some legitimate financial concerns but when your financial concerns get to the point that every single purchase feels like it's effecting your bottom line in a meaningful way is when there&#
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I can speak to this. For a while in 2010 I was completely broke after leaving my first job out of college, which I hated, and having some other employment opportunities fall through. Having that little money changes your decision making pro
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Is Your Staff Always Busy? Then You Have a Problem(inc.com)
2 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I agree. For years I've turned to yahoo first for sports because they had a simple UI, easily accessible box scores, and good bloggers (at least for basketball). And everything came without forcing too many ads down my throat.
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Poll: As a freelance web developer, how much do you bill hourly?
1 points by ritchiea 13y ago|1 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Less than 50
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by ritchiea 13y ago
50-74
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by ritchiea 13y ago
75-99
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by ritchiea 13y ago
100-124
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by ritchiea 13y ago
125-149
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by ritchiea 13y ago
150-174
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by ritchiea 13y ago
175-200
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Over 200
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by ritchiea 13y ago
So how do the people at the high end get there if not exclusively by becoming better Rubyists?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
For a second I asked myself why is this at the top of HN and then I realized chartio posted it and had their employees immediately upvote it.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I agree that wage slavery exists but let's be serious, slavery in many societies, including the US was a brutal existence that included beatings & intentional separations of families, often even if you as a slave were compliant in
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by ritchiea 13y ago
There aren't bathrooms on public transportation either and yet many people still take subway and bus rides that are 35 minutes or longer.
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Ask HN: Someone is trying to break into my Facebook account, what should I do?
4 points by ritchiea 13y ago|3 comments
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Interactive Map of Bike Share Use in New York(newyorker.com)
6 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Huge relief to see that this page has a horrible design. Wouldn't feel legit otherwise.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well who are they trying to attract with this visa? If you are the kind of person that has 50K in savings, is this startup visa really going to help you? If you have 50K in savings you are already wealthy on a global scale even though you a
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Isn't having 11k around a slightly high bar? Do most under 25 founders have that kind of cash lying around? And if you are the kind of foreigner that has that kind of North American cash in your account you probably come from a family
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The Story Behind Football's Innovative Yellow First Down Line(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
11 points by ritchiea 13y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I'm distinctly of two minds about this. On one hand I believe interacting with other people is essential to learning. That studying together, or talking about a text, or hacking on a project together is where the best sort of critical
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. As someone who has a university degree that is academic at most tangentially related to developing software (cognitive science), the way I go about educating myself and the analytical approach I take to my work is de
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by ritchiea 13y ago
He didn't have to, we all understood that he meant he wasn't comfortable cutting back on certain types of speech. And I'm not trying to be a PC zealot here. I've told and laughed at many an inappropriate joke. But I also
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by ritchiea 13y ago
If he wasn't responding to my comment then a general comment about the court system is off topic. I didn't bring up the court system. It would be strange for me to assume he is veering off topic rather than commenting on the situa
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by ritchiea 13y ago
To be fair he wrote one line which in the context of the thread could easily be perceived as defending sexist hiring practices. He may not have said "man or woman" but he responded to a comment I made where I described a manager o

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