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by troels 9y ago
In my experience, the most effective counter measure to scraping is not to block, but rather to poison the well. When you detect a scraper - through what ever means - you don't block it, as that would tip it off that you are on to it.
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by troels 9y ago
Full quote was: > If not Vim, then maybe Emacs. Or, well, just anything that is not a web browser masquerading as a text editor. I'll just leave this here: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/w3 ;)
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by troels 9y ago
There's a lot of talk about this, including in the article. But I would suggest that it is somewhat distasteful to outright threaten to quit, when you can be more subtle about it. Diplomacy is about making sure both parties win. And in
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by troels 9y ago
Did you mail businesses out of the blue? What did you write to them?
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by troels 9y ago
Agree. Dates are good for limiting scope. Without that constraint, it is usually very hard to set boundaries as to what should and what shouldn't go into a project. There is also validity to the notion that time is money. Eventually, w
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by troels 9y ago
Surely. (Too many) firings have a negative impact on morale. Especially if not done once. I think the point being made though is that it is very uncomfortable to fire people, so managers tend to avoid it, even if it's the right thing t
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by troels 9y ago
It would be great if you can give any feedback. There are quite a few rough edges currently.
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by troels 9y ago
Interestingly, I made a similar tool for php some time ago. It was recently revived and is now in active development to bring it up to speed with recent developments in the language. https://github.com/troelskn/phpweave
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by troels 9y ago
To be fair, maybe they aren't deliberately discriminating. Advertisement isn't free, so with a limited budget you will want to optimise your ads for conversion. That's marketing 101. Maybe they think (or even have evidence to
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by troels 9y ago
It says they were found in 2009. I wonder what period they were from then?
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by troels 9y ago
There many other factors to optimize for, like the people you’ll work with, the technologies you’ll work on, commute, etc.
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by troels 9y ago
Coffeescript isn't part of Rails anymore.
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by troels 9y ago
Article draws a lot of conclusions based of averages and statistics that may as well be correlations as causes. The industry is expanding rapidly. 20 years ago we were a lot fewer people. Even if we had perfect retention, the +40yo's w
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by troels 9y ago
Most businesses I've worked for/with had one reason or another to scrape data from various places. Often it's watching competitors, but can also be part of an automation of some process that is already happening manually.
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by troels 9y ago
Symfony already provides this functionality. I fail to see why I would use this project over the de-facto standard PHP framework?
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by troels 9y ago
Yeah, a bit hyperbole. The point though, is that being a millionaire isn't as impressive as it used to be 50 years ago, but we still use the term to signify someone incredibly wealthy.
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by troels 9y ago
Six figures is a pretty useless distinction these days. It's like how every homeowner is technically a millionaire. The term sticks though. In any case, freelancer is a vague term. Working on smaller, ad-hoc tasks it is probably harder
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by troels 9y ago
If you tried and still aren't getting anywhere, move on to option #2.
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by troels 9y ago
The standard variant is pretty close to whole milk in taste/texture, although it has a slight "graininess" to it. It's definitely fuller than any rice or soy product I've tried.
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by troels 9y ago
Nah, eterm is right. If you can fix it, you can stay. But if that isn't possible, I wholeheartedly agree.
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by troels 9y ago
You forgot the good old "clueless top-down micromanagement". Usually wrapped in some flavour of "agile", although it's anything but.
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by troels 9y ago
Just got to add that Oatly is a great product. Unlike most other plant based substitute for milk, it isn't overly sweet.
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by troels 9y ago
Second that. I had the same hike in income by calling myself a consultant. Funny thing is that my current contract has run for longer than some perm positions I've had in the past and for all intents and purposes I function like a regu
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by troels 9y ago
In addition to what others have already said here (Games are super hard to do, so any interviewer with even a modicum of technical acumen will value it highly), I would add that there might be some cultural factors at work here. My experien
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by troels 9y ago
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler made a big difference for me at the time. Also, "Domain Driven Design" by Eric Evans. Both have a focus on high level architecture. Of books that are mor
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by troels 9y ago
Yeah, that seems accurate to me.
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by troels 9y ago
Where have you heard that argument? That is absolutely bonkers. Why didn't they just use css as intended and collect all these inline styles into generic classes? Or turn on gzip-compression?
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Yahoo reinvented inline styles through classes(imgur.com)
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by troels 9y ago
I'll wager to say that a good technical manager need not be a stellar coder. I've worked with people who were "business" people on the face of it - went to business school, had a career of management/administrative
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by troels 9y ago
Not sure about the US, but here in socialist Europe, that's pretty much how the entire public sector works. You have very fixed salary-steps, based on education, job function and seniority and there is little to no room for negotiation

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