I have good news and bad news: you can totally get little contract jobs on the side for extra cash as a developer, but you have to put time and effort into drumming up clients, list as if you were doing contract development full time. You have to convince each new client that you're worth their money. I've had some luck doing contract work for previous employers that already know I'm trustworthy, but I can't just turn it on and off like a money faucet.
Your other option is to make something and sell it yourself, which is even more of an up-front investment of time with less guarantee of a return. You'll be spending even more time doing marketing and business management.
So, the short version is you're not likely to get easy money without putting more effort into it, unless you've already built up numerous business relationships. Sorry! I wish I could just write useful code and get paid for it too, but it turns out I have to keep convincing someone to give me money for my work.
Maybe. I don't have any data to refute your claims.
That being said, it's been a long time since I tried to hold a company's marketing material up against the piercing scrutiny of science. I also don't expect most companies to describe in reproducible detail the process they go through to produce their products, or the detailed results of any internal comparison studies they performed. Not for consumer products, anyway.
It may be a placebo, but it's the most effective placebo I've ever had.
I'm used to interpreting "glare sensitivity" to meaning the screen is generally too bright for your eyes, but the subsequent comments about needing to use high contrast color palettes has me thinking maybe you mean something else.
Anyway: I stare at a monitor all day, and for quite a while I had some serious dry eye problems because of it. Then about a year ago I bought some Gunnar glasses ( http://www.gunnars.com/ ) and my eyes got happier within 24 hours. Wear them all the time now.
Full disclosure: I'm not even kind of affiliated with Gunnar. I just wear their glasses and I like them.
Cluster of Raspberry Pis = Bramble. Slashdot has been so drooly over every nitpicky update about these, I thought everyone here would know that by now.
One the one hand, this would be a very new business for Valve, even given their previous experience, which means it's a big risk. On the other hand, it seems like it's been impossible for Valve to not make money these days. Fun! I would love to see someone shake up the gaming hardware market, and they're certainly in an interesting position to do so.
I stopped reading as soon as I saw the phrase "a way to fuse babies with robots". Nothing the rest of the summary or the article could say could possibly be more rad.
As an iOS developer, if I submitted an app to the app store that does this, I'm certain it would be rejected for not meeting Apple's guidelines. Makes me wonder who had to be friends with who to get this greenlighted.
For reference, 0.189 Hz is roughly once cycle per five seconds. Take a finger and raise it for 2.5 seconds, then lower it for 2.5 seconds.
This doesn't count as anything more than discrete pulses. I understand that the muscles controlling his vocal folds are performing similar activities to singing, but this is not sound anymore.
This feels like a victory for the "correlation is not causation" camp, and it also helps me feel superior to more aggressive drivers in general. Two points for things I agree with! Definitely don't need to investigate the research any further.
Oh my. I really hope this was a troll, but I'm going to bite anyway. If not, know that you are in good company; most people struggle with the idea that watts already include "per unit of time". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
Of course, this is from the same person that wishes the power company would stop using kilowatt-hours to report my electricity usage and start using kilo/mega/gigajoules.
That being said, you may have some legitimate arguments if you have the units straightened out.
This sounds like a "5 to 10% tolerance" policy instead of a zero tolerance policy. Maybe I'm just overreacting, but anything that suggests to the guys that sexual harassment is just kind of wrong is missing the point.
Here's an idea: Get some fun, simple ideas for a solution from a group of women. That should get you pointed in the right direction.
I'm glad you asked for the citation. After tracking down the source, it turns out my statement was slightly misleading and I get an opportunity to correct it. I apologize. Also, it pisses me off when other people make claims like this without backing them up, so I get to eat my own dog food.
A more accurate statement: 75% of health care costs in the U.S. are due to chronic conditions, and the chronic conditions that are due to lifestyle choices dominate this category.
75% of money spent on health care in the U.S. is for self-inflicted diseases or the consequences thereof. That might be a good place to start looking.
I'm not saying that people that need dialysis or bypass surgery shouldn't be helped; I'm saying we should be spending money on ways to help them not get there in the first place.
Link/source? Some cursory googling produced results that weren't quite what you're talking about, and I'd love to learn more about what was happening there.
I know this is still a research project and they don't know how well it's actually going to work in practice, but the fact that we're approaching a machine-nerve interface at all is incredible. If they are successful, they will end up with a permanent, prominent place in our history books.
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That was mean.
I have good news and bad news: you can totally get little contract jobs on the side for extra cash as a developer, but you have to put time and effort into drumming up clients, list as if you were doing contract development full time. You have to convince each new client that you're worth their money. I've had some luck doing contract work for previous employers that already know I'm trustworthy, but I can't just turn it on and off like a money faucet.
Your other option is to make something and sell it yourself, which is even more of an up-front investment of time with less guarantee of a return. You'll be spending even more time doing marketing and business management.
So, the short version is you're not likely to get easy money without putting more effort into it, unless you've already built up numerous business relationships. Sorry! I wish I could just write useful code and get paid for it too, but it turns out I have to keep convincing someone to give me money for my work.
Maybe. I don't have any data to refute your claims.
That being said, it's been a long time since I tried to hold a company's marketing material up against the piercing scrutiny of science. I also don't expect most companies to describe in reproducible detail the process they go through to produce their products, or the detailed results of any internal comparison studies they performed. Not for consumer products, anyway.
It may be a placebo, but it's the most effective placebo I've ever had.
I'm used to interpreting "glare sensitivity" to meaning the screen is generally too bright for your eyes, but the subsequent comments about needing to use high contrast color palettes has me thinking maybe you mean something else.
Anyway: I stare at a monitor all day, and for quite a while I had some serious dry eye problems because of it. Then about a year ago I bought some Gunnar glasses ( http://www.gunnars.com/ ) and my eyes got happier within 24 hours. Wear them all the time now.
Full disclosure: I'm not even kind of affiliated with Gunnar. I just wear their glasses and I like them.
I suppose their advice for those running legacy deployments of Rails 2.x apps is to upgrade to 3.x. Rad.
I read the headline as "James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Hive".
Oh, so that's what he was doing down there.
...and too deep. It awoke a being of segfaults and kernel panics.
You are doing something right as a parent. Bravo.
Cluster of Raspberry Pis = Bramble. Slashdot has been so drooly over every nitpicky update about these, I thought everyone here would know that by now.
One the one hand, this would be a very new business for Valve, even given their previous experience, which means it's a big risk. On the other hand, it seems like it's been impossible for Valve to not make money these days. Fun! I would love to see someone shake up the gaming hardware market, and they're certainly in an interesting position to do so.
I stopped reading as soon as I saw the phrase "a way to fuse babies with robots". Nothing the rest of the summary or the article could say could possibly be more rad.
As an iOS developer, if I submitted an app to the app store that does this, I'm certain it would be rejected for not meeting Apple's guidelines. Makes me wonder who had to be friends with who to get this greenlighted.
For reference, 0.189 Hz is roughly once cycle per five seconds. Take a finger and raise it for 2.5 seconds, then lower it for 2.5 seconds.
This doesn't count as anything more than discrete pulses. I understand that the muscles controlling his vocal folds are performing similar activities to singing, but this is not sound anymore.
This feels like a victory for the "correlation is not causation" camp, and it also helps me feel superior to more aggressive drivers in general. Two points for things I agree with! Definitely don't need to investigate the research any further.
has to mean 200,000 gigawatts per hour
Oh my. I really hope this was a troll, but I'm going to bite anyway. If not, know that you are in good company; most people struggle with the idea that watts already include "per unit of time". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
Of course, this is from the same person that wishes the power company would stop using kilowatt-hours to report my electricity usage and start using kilo/mega/gigajoules.
That being said, you may have some legitimate arguments if you have the units straightened out.
This sounds like a "5 to 10% tolerance" policy instead of a zero tolerance policy. Maybe I'm just overreacting, but anything that suggests to the guys that sexual harassment is just kind of wrong is missing the point.
Here's an idea: Get some fun, simple ideas for a solution from a group of women. That should get you pointed in the right direction.
--Respectfully written by a dude
I'm glad you asked for the citation. After tracking down the source, it turns out my statement was slightly misleading and I get an opportunity to correct it. I apologize. Also, it pisses me off when other people make claims like this without backing them up, so I get to eat my own dog food.
A more accurate statement: 75% of health care costs in the U.S. are due to chronic conditions, and the chronic conditions that are due to lifestyle choices dominate this category.
Source (it's a nice overview of the problem): http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/AAG/chronic.htm
75% of money spent on health care in the U.S. is for self-inflicted diseases or the consequences thereof. That might be a good place to start looking.
I'm not saying that people that need dialysis or bypass surgery shouldn't be helped; I'm saying we should be spending money on ways to help them not get there in the first place.
Link/source? Some cursory googling produced results that weren't quite what you're talking about, and I'd love to learn more about what was happening there.
I know this is still a research project and they don't know how well it's actually going to work in practice, but the fact that we're approaching a machine-nerve interface at all is incredible. If they are successful, they will end up with a permanent, prominent place in our history books.
Good work, people.
That was almost a haiku if you drag "wire" out into two syllables, but the last line completely strays. What about this?
Synchrotron light source
Positron tomography
Superconductors
...fuchsia? fucoids? I can't tell what you're spelling out.
Oh man! I knew these seemed oddly familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thank you.
I glanced at the article and the first word was "Toronto". Apparently that's why this isn't a story about them getting arrested.
In related news:
Apple spent a tiny, tiny portion of their profits bludgeoning their competition in patent litigation.
$100 million sure sounds like a lot until you see how much they make.