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  1. Re:the nihilist in me says no. on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention with the contract option you need to work another job for free on top of the technical job ensuring that you promote yourself enough to get the next job without a break in between. Since contract positions rarely cover cost of health benefits, you start behind everyone else from the start.

  2. Re:If they would only lift the age cap... on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can be the most brilliant technical person in the world, if you don't have self-sales skills or like to talk about yourself or like to do a lot of useless job interviews then you won't go anywhere.

  3. Questions:
    1) How many of those companies say 'Ok we're going to offer more pay than any other company in an attempt to lure someone who is better', and
    2) How many of those companies try to add a benefit, such as working from home, in an attempt to find something better, and
    3) How much thinking 'outside of the box' is there at all? It seems most companies see that other companies are paying $X for skill Y so they offer $X for skill Y. If you're not exceeding the market you're not using the market properly.

  4. As a person who has had a lot of development 'side-projects' I can tell you that experience gained out of work means very little to potential employers. You have to be at a job doing 'skill X' for five years for it to register with them as having that qualification. Your Zuckerberg example isn't really fitting either since Zuckerberg's real 'in' was not knowing any special technology, but starting a website that a lot of people liked at the right time in the internet expansion, and they told others. He also has the lack of conscience to use the things people put on that site to make a lot of money from. A lot of people could have started the same website at the same time but wouldn't have found it appropriate to share information with others and so didn't start Facebook.

  5. Re:Meanwhile, in Japan on New York's Subway Is Slow Because They Slowed Down the Trains After A 1995 Accident · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to find out the amount funding required from the Japanese governments to keep it that way and compare to the dollars that New York gets.

  6. Re:Inefficient on Amazon Recalls 260,000 Portable Power Banks For Fire Hazard (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they could just put decently sized batteries in the phones in the first place.

  7. I don't need to change your mind. I'd have to be pretty full on myself to think I would be doing anything the CIA would care about.

  8. I'd call it a declarative language.

  9. So you're basically saying even a script kiddie can do something productive with Python but they would find O'Caml confusing, and you think that is a problem with Python??!?

  10. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    These cars are basically golf carts with batteries large enough to take you around a city. I think the price has to come down closer to golf cart or electricity needs to be almost free for this to make much sense.

  11. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    Most of the damage caused on the roads where I live is from the weather. Gasoline taxes are paying to hold the roads together, which both ICE and EVs need.

  12. One company on Facebook Has Turned Into a Beast in Myanmar, UN Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You let one large company control most of the mainstream media people read GLOBALLY, some fucked up shit is going to go down. Imagine how bad it would be if Facebook would have been allowed by the Indian government to offer 'their brand of internet' to the poor masses.

  13. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    I would have thought an EV would be cents on the dollar with respect to milage. There has to be some big payoff to putting up with the inconvenience.

  14. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 1

    How can they know how to charge you an appropriate amount without knowing how many miles you will put on the vehicle? That's why the tax is on gasoline, because then you pay more as you use more.

  15. Re:Google services and Android price performance on Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    All that means is that you don't sue your phone like I do.

  16. Re:design flaw on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Tried it.. The space around the keys is so infinitesimally small not enough air gets in at the right angle to do anything.

  17. It sounds to me like you need to have more control over your dogs. If they attack animals they're also likely to bite a deliveryman. You are the reason for drones. And yes I know, every dog owner thinks their pets are little angels.

  18. Re:How are they going to address thieves? on Coming Soon to a Front Porch Near You: Package Delivery Via Drone (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    My problem with it was more the exposure to the weather than the security. Are they going to fly it under an overhang and leave it there, or will it be somewhere out in the vertically open?

  19. The other day UPS dropped off a large package. No doorbell, no knock, we just found it lying on the driveway outside. It would have been ruined if we had noticed it there an hour later. I certainly hope they don't start dropping packages on lawns and expect people to deal with it.

  20. Re:Share an account, so easy! on MoviePass Wants To Gather a Whole Lot of Data About Its Users (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    People expect to pay shit because usually the quality is shit. I mean seriously, not many quality movies made these days. But of course in these days with shit quality, the companies that put them out expect record profits and so charge through the nose. This generations' concept over what value to expect for a dollar must surely be messed up, when companies can charge more than ever for the worst movies made in history. Entertainment companies quit working hard for that dollar a long time ago.

  21. Re: The region 43N to 43S on Scientists Unsure Where Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth · · Score: 1

    That is how I took it as well.

  22. Re: Google services and Android price performance on Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I donâ(TM)t need to do secure stuff with my phone... thatâ(TM)s what laptops are for.

  23. Re:Câ(TM)mon Tim.... on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't eat over my laptop either, yet the keyboard for my 2017 Macbook pro sounds like I'm walking on a old theater floor with dried soda goop and squished gummy candies all over it. It's quite annoying. I'm assuming Applecare will cover it.

  24. Re:Design a nazi-killing macbook keyboard on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    ..or have a lot of pets, or are doing construction, or the many other things that cause dust in houses.

  25. design flaw on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was a design flaw to create a keyboard that couldn't be cleaned in the first place. More of Apple putting form over function. Besides.. there are laptops with waterproof keyboards already, how is a dust free keyboard even eligible for a new patent?