xyzzy4

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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   ORMs are more difficult to use than queries, and they often make them slower. It's lose/lose
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   The world where employees care more about management satisfaction than customer satisfaction? And it's difficult to prove that bothering some customers here and there is impacting corporate revenue. Policies like this slip through the
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   I guess it's difficult to maintain a high stock price with an infinite price/earnings ratio. Why not just own something else with zero earnings, such as gold or cash.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   Also forgot to mention - the amount of sleep you get can greatly affect your perceived happiness.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   You can make a difference working at any company. It doesn't have to be a special one that currently has over 50% growth.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   I like to sit down instead of stand. Just make sure to change your posture all the time. Fidgeting is good. And stand up to do something at least once every 15-30 minutes.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   Like most happiness articles, this didn't mention issues such as: 1. Having personal space 2. Privacy 3. Freedom to take naps whenever you like 4. Freedom to set your work hours 5. Whether you are near windows or not, ceiling height 6.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   You also don't need more than one employee. But the marginal value of hiring more employees (including DevOps) might be good enough to justify it.
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   by xyzzy4 11y ago

   You can make very nice applications with the same LAMP stack that's worked since 2002 or so. All these modern frameworks are just a huge time-waste in my opinion. You don't need 20 libraries to make an XMLHttpRequest.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Premiums go up because information is revealed to the insurance company that you are the type of person who gets into accidents. You were always this kind of person, but the insurance company didn't know until it happened. From this po
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    So Facebook axed Parse, while devoting resources to this instead? Mark Zuckerberg is really losing it.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I think some people would enjoy it simply because they like being in positions of power and feeling important.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Or ban birth control, abortion, porn, and have more arranged marriages.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I'm on my phone so it wasn't easy for me to see that.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    So did he actually die or not? The article was somewhat unclear.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I think Amazon's revenue could grow another 10X though.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I wouldn't count on that. Apple seems to have a lot of volatility lately.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Good time to short Alphabet? I haven't looked yet but I bet their P/E ratio is bubble-ish.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Well they get a lot of non-Asian revenue still so it comes from somewhere.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Doesn't Yahoo go on hiring sprees all the time?
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    C is a beautiful and pure language. It is like the Latin of programming languages. I recommend everyone to at least learn it.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I actually got fired once because I didn't work crazy hours. Now I work at another company where it's much more laid back. I don't do any work when I get home or on the weekends.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    First of all, forcing collaboration onto people by making them sit together isn't proven to be effective. There is no evidence to show it's in the company's best interests to have an open office environment. Doing it just bec
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Well ideally you'd want to delegate basically everything in your life that feels like work and takes energy.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    You don't like the movie Dumb and Dumber ?
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Parse is shutting down though.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    Or maybe life is like chess with timed turns.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    I really like PHP.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    You should build an experimental city that has zero laws and regulations.
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    by xyzzy4 11y ago

    You should get the college degree. Recruiters and HR people care about it and it facilitates the job search process.