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by wildgift 13y ago
True, techs are often nerds, but not always. Look at someone like Larry Ellison, or a lot of startup founders, etc. Also, look at how FOSS was created - by nerds. So, nerds can organize socially. There are unions for cinematographers and
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by wildgift 13y ago
Capitalism hates competition. I think Adam Smith said that.
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by wildgift 13y ago
So was Rockefeller.
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by wildgift 13y ago
What's the situation like for women in tech in Bulgaria?
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by wildgift 13y ago
As people age, they don't always "keep up" on all the social changes. McCarthy clearly didn't. I've met a lot of old folks say things that would be gaffes, outdated, or otherwise out of step with the current socia
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by wildgift 13y ago
Another word for empowerment is "autonomy" or "slack". If the regular job is easy, let the employee do other things during the slack time, whether it's helping the company or not. If it helps - that's great,
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by wildgift 13y ago
Here's the code in either C or C#: return ( (price > 100) ? 10 : 5); Computer languages are for people. It should really be more like this: # # Description of what this does. # PRICE-THRESHOLD = 100 LOWER-PRIC
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's that saying, you can have it done right, fast, and cheap... pick any two. Generally the construction unions go for right and fast, not cheap. Often, they won't even do fast, mainly because speed and safety are often at o
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by wildgift 13y ago
Regarding point 3, I should have worded it differently. What I mean is that Agile is inherently adversarial to what are generally considered the tactics of management, which include being able to replace workers, to move production to diff
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by wildgift 13y ago
It's K-12. They don't name anything quite right. Having some programming background is a good thing. In fact, I think it would be better if the courses were more broad than deep, and looked at things like programming graphics, p
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by wildgift 13y ago
If that extra pay for recruiting girls more heavily works, that's ok. If, absent that reward, there weren't many or any girls in the class, isn't that some kind of problem right off the bat?
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by wildgift 13y ago
Not all unions are for factory workers. We all have to get beyond that stereotype. There are unions for journalists, social workers, teacher, police officers, college instructors, and nurses. What the union represents in these fields is
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by wildgift 13y ago
The article says that Agile was a way to get what amounts to a contract of work rules, without the labor unions.
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by wildgift 13y ago
It's warning that UCD is going in that direction - and that management is going to use UCD to marginalize programmers. It doesn't have to be that way, though, if Agile is willing to get in and work with UCD to develop disciplines
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by wildgift 13y ago
Loomio's comment gets the gist of it. The software creation process has been moving to Agile, which beats waterfall, but there's an emerging practice of UCD. If programmers cannot find some way to work with and within UCD, a div
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by wildgift 13y ago
How does the cost of ASIC mining compare to the cost of fiat currency? What about compared to the quantitative easing?
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by wildgift 13y ago
Isn't that still very expensive?
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by wildgift 13y ago
The Sherpa are an ethnic group, not a job.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Good luck. I found myself in a similar situation with pretty good estimates, but unable to bid low. I'd be bidding double or triple the competition. One time, I was bidding at triple, and the previous dev had failed totally. They w
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by wildgift 13y ago
I used to estimate small websites (<70k lines of PHP), and generally got to around 30% of the final time required. My method was to fully describe the product, then break it down into tables, queries and pages. Estimates were based on
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by wildgift 13y ago
It would be better for everyone if writers could get paid for views of their lyrics. It would set a precedent for paying the artist. Even if it's just a few ten-thousandths of a penny per view.
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by wildgift 13y ago
lyrics without errors. what a concept.
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by wildgift 13y ago
It's not maximalist to say that a website cannot make a copy of something for someone who owns the item in another form. That right to copy belongs to the copyright owner, not the person who owns a copy.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Maybe they should sue over the price. I don't think it's realistic to expect to get the lyrics for free.
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by wildgift 13y ago
For other readers, here's a comparison of these plans. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-insurance/articl...
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by wildgift 13y ago
money * low information voters * paranoid messages = tea party Also, around 80% of people are in private insurance plans through a plan at work. Some fraction of these people are happy with their HMO or PPO. These are the middle class and
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by wildgift 13y ago
Or allow one state to operate another state's exchange. The states were given federal money to build their state ACA programs... so the government already owns it. Now, imagine if they had been forced to open source this stuff, at leas
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by wildgift 13y ago
I don't know how it would be done, but I can only see two scenarios. One is to charge the insured the full, unsubsidized premium, and give the tax credit in 2015. The other is to pay the subsidy to the insurance company throughout th
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by wildgift 13y ago
And video editors.... except that video editors spend a lot of money to buy controllers for video editing, because video editing is about frames. It's about maintaining some illusion of continuity by messing with video by the frame.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Depends on how close the page is to your face, and how well you see. The type's size also matters. 7pt type at 300 dpi is not that attractive due to pixelation. However, to even see that, I need my face at 10 inches from the page.

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