I don't think you have even the beginning of a glimmer of understanding of what science is.
Having worked with physicists, you'll forgive me that I'm not really impressed? It's just a job for lots of physicists, and they're good in varying degrees. The best do a bit of programming, but most just used the libraries we programmed for them.
Freelance iOS developer here. I've dabbled with Android Studio two years ago, but was really used to the convenience of the iOS Simulator. So how does Android Studio handle the simulator nowadays?
This is a dangerous precedent for freelance developers in the face of legal threats: damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Well, not quite. I'm a freelancer. Would I work for a client that is a bad citizen in their particular niche? No, I don't think so.
I'm not a gamer, but if I understand correctly these bots give you an unfair advantage and are forbidden by Blizzard. Yeah well, don't look surprised if the shit hits the fan at some point.
but no one has ever published proof of those claims or explored how the propaganda machine operates in public
On the other hand, just turn on the TV and watch our own propaganda machine in public. I don't know how many Syrian and Iraqi civilians died in the past year, but it's surely bound to be a multitude of the recent Western victims.
There's a small city called Nashua just over the border in New Hampshire. Houses aren't too bad, traffic isn't too bad, no income tax, no sales tax but property taxes are relatively high
For us non-USians, what range constitutes "relatively high"?
Here in Utrecht (~25 miles from Amsterdam, The Netherlands), property taxes are about 120 euros (US$ 130), and a software engineer earns about 45.000 pre-tax.
Totally agree, the novelty quickly wore off. I use iTerm2; whenever I get a fresh install of OS X, I run my installation script. It consists of a bunch of calls to "brew install" and " brew cask install". iTerm gets installed as one of the first.
I use Cathode, a fully-working terminal emulator that visually looks like an old black-and-green CRT monitor.
I like OS X best when it's running Cathode at full-screen. I use the demo version, that starts sputtering and flaking more and more over time. So that fucking $3500 company-issued MacBook with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and 2,8 GHz quad-core Intel i7 looks nothing more than a flickering and dying pile of barely glowing phosphorous horse-shit.
I worked at a scientific institute, and they simply installed OwnCloud everywhere. It's got a client for most platforms, syncs to a server, and allows you to back up the server in the usual fashion.
It worked so well, that when I started doing consulting (at the client site), I got my own VPS with Debian, and installed OwnCloud server on that. Then installed the client on my private laptop and the laptop that I got from the client. Works beautifully, because communication is over HTTPS. Company firewalls don't block that. I tried other things like BitTorrent Sync, but these use special ports.
Tuesday evenings are usually our AD&D nights. Last session, we met some friendly halflings. Later, we encountered them fighting a bunch of monsters and without question, we jumped into the fight trying to help the halflings. Turns out the halflings had been hunting for these monsters, which were just minding their own business.
Whoops. Since I'm a priest, my god will probably not like it. Now I have to figure out how to make it up:)
I'm almost 40, but since we picked up AD&D with some colleagues, I almost never skip a gaming night. It is sooo much fun!
Right now, I'm freelancing as a software developer, working for a company with a 10 billion yearly revenue. As you can imagine, the IT here is very complex and you have dozens of "software architects" trying to keep an eye on all the connections between systems.
At some point, an internal iOS app wouldn't work because since iOS 9, Apple by default requires decent algorithms for secure network connections. Upgrading these requires consulting half a dozen software architects, just to coordinate a simultaneous upgrade of all the systems.
And before that, I find myself explaining to software architects what the difference is between SSL and TLS.
For the last four projects, we've been using Swift exclusively. I really like it. The syntax feels modern to me (subjective, I agree).
The compiler however still needs a lot of work. I feel it's quite slow. It's somewhat better where it won't recompile related files when you make one change. But I was used to the Objective-C compiler. That thing _flies_. On a MacBook Air, three years old, I am able to work on pretty big Objective-C projects.
For Swift, that's simply not an option. Especially if you use mogenerator and Core Data (for those not in the know, it's a object layer on top of an SQLite database, and mogenerator generates two class files for every table), our last project ran into about 200 class files. Compiling took minutes.
Things have gotten better. Especially if you're able to put parts of your projects in modules, it's really much better. But still I feel the Swift compiler requires a speedy quad core CPU. If you can afford it, get whatever top of the line quad core Apple offers.
Whoa, this is going to cost them! Oh wait, the App Store prices have hit rock bottom for a couple of years now, so I guess this is not going to cost them hardly anything at all.
Disclaimer: I'm an iOS developer who does barely anything in the App Store. Instead, I develop for clients who at least pay me decently.
You can't park within 1000 feet of the supermarket doors in their own parking lot now.
I bike 2,5 kilometers to a supermarket and buy a week's food for two adults and a toddler. I'm not saying that's so much better, but please get a perspective about walking 300 meters/1000 feet with a supermarket cart.
Mark Saltzman, who falls into the last category, was so concerned by the time his third child was born that he wanted to engineer a better sunblock.
Little children don't belong in the sun, in my opinion. I dress my two year old such that only her face, hands and feet are exposed by clothing. Every hour or so, I apply sunscreen. During summer, we'll be outside of course but if possible in some sort of shaded place. I've seen small children burned red by the sun, and I'm amazed at the carelessness. Better your child is hot than burned, right?
That was my pet peeve. Besides that, I applaud this research.
I have to say, it sounds extremely appealing to me. It's just that I haven't succeeded with these sites so far. They'd say stuff like: "amazing opportunity, huge budget", and the budget would actually be 5 or 10 K. I'm looking for the 30-60 K range, at the very least.
And yes, it's not all about the money. Especially being able to pick up my daughter somewhat earlier from daycare would be a huge boon. In any case, you're saying that WeWorkRemotely and Remotive are the places to find good clients?
I totally agree, and the cost of living in a city offsets the decent rate I mentioned.
My best time in the last couple of years was when I took a $300/month internship at a small startup on Bali, with housing included. Office hours between 11 AM and 4 PM, swimming pool at the back of the office, and the office basically consisted of two large tables under a giant gazebo, with two fibers coming in.
I actually had to cry when I got on the plane back to Europe, but my SO was pregnant and did not (still does not) want to move.
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I don't think you have even the beginning of a glimmer of understanding of what science is.
Having worked with physicists, you'll forgive me that I'm not really impressed? It's just a job for lots of physicists, and they're good in varying degrees. The best do a bit of programming, but most just used the libraries we programmed for them.
Freelance iOS developer here. I've dabbled with Android Studio two years ago, but was really used to the convenience of the iOS Simulator. So how does Android Studio handle the simulator nowadays?
This is a dangerous precedent for freelance developers in the face of legal threats: damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Well, not quite. I'm a freelancer. Would I work for a client that is a bad citizen in their particular niche? No, I don't think so.
I'm not a gamer, but if I understand correctly these bots give you an unfair advantage and are forbidden by Blizzard. Yeah well, don't look surprised if the shit hits the fan at some point.
but no one has ever published proof of those claims or explored how the propaganda machine operates in public
On the other hand, just turn on the TV and watch our own propaganda machine in public. I don't know how many Syrian and Iraqi civilians died in the past year, but it's surely bound to be a multitude of the recent Western victims.
There's a small city called Nashua just over the border in New Hampshire. Houses aren't too bad, traffic isn't too bad, no income tax, no sales tax but property taxes are relatively high
For us non-USians, what range constitutes "relatively high"?
Here in Utrecht (~25 miles from Amsterdam, The Netherlands), property taxes are about 120 euros (US$ 130), and a software engineer earns about 45.000 pre-tax.
Totally agree, the novelty quickly wore off. I use iTerm2; whenever I get a fresh install of OS X, I run my installation script. It consists of a bunch of calls to "brew install" and " brew cask install". iTerm gets installed as one of the first.
I use Cathode, a fully-working terminal emulator that visually looks like an old black-and-green CRT monitor.
I like OS X best when it's running Cathode at full-screen. I use the demo version, that starts sputtering and flaking more and more over time. So that fucking $3500 company-issued MacBook with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and 2,8 GHz quad-core Intel i7 looks nothing more than a flickering and dying pile of barely glowing phosphorous horse-shit.
I worked at a scientific institute, and they simply installed OwnCloud everywhere. It's got a client for most platforms, syncs to a server, and allows you to back up the server in the usual fashion.
It worked so well, that when I started doing consulting (at the client site), I got my own VPS with Debian, and installed OwnCloud server on that. Then installed the client on my private laptop and the laptop that I got from the client. Works beautifully, because communication is over HTTPS. Company firewalls don't block that. I tried other things like BitTorrent Sync, but these use special ports.
He actually had us fall through a portal where we encountered "dragons" which turned out to be a good adventuring party
Nice :)
Gotta say, I never imagined picking up D&D again after having left college for 10 years. But now I hate missing the weekly game.
Tuesday evenings are usually our AD&D nights. Last session, we met some friendly halflings. Later, we encountered them fighting a bunch of monsters and without question, we jumped into the fight trying to help the halflings. Turns out the halflings had been hunting for these monsters, which were just minding their own business.
Whoops. Since I'm a priest, my god will probably not like it. Now I have to figure out how to make it up :)
I'm almost 40, but since we picked up AD&D with some colleagues, I almost never skip a gaming night. It is sooo much fun!
Right now, I'm freelancing as a software developer, working for a company with a 10 billion yearly revenue. As you can imagine, the IT here is very complex and you have dozens of "software architects" trying to keep an eye on all the connections between systems.
At some point, an internal iOS app wouldn't work because since iOS 9, Apple by default requires decent algorithms for secure network connections. Upgrading these requires consulting half a dozen software architects, just to coordinate a simultaneous upgrade of all the systems.
And before that, I find myself explaining to software architects what the difference is between SSL and TLS.
For the last four projects, we've been using Swift exclusively. I really like it. The syntax feels modern to me (subjective, I agree).
The compiler however still needs a lot of work. I feel it's quite slow. It's somewhat better where it won't recompile related files when you make one change. But I was used to the Objective-C compiler. That thing _flies_. On a MacBook Air, three years old, I am able to work on pretty big Objective-C projects.
For Swift, that's simply not an option. Especially if you use mogenerator and Core Data (for those not in the know, it's a object layer on top of an SQLite database, and mogenerator generates two class files for every table), our last project ran into about 200 class files. Compiling took minutes.
Things have gotten better. Especially if you're able to put parts of your projects in modules, it's really much better. But still I feel the Swift compiler requires a speedy quad core CPU. If you can afford it, get whatever top of the line quad core Apple offers.
Like SQLGuru below answered, the client I'm working for is a big national airliner in Europe. They have their own enterprise App Store.
Whoa, this is going to cost them! Oh wait, the App Store prices have hit rock bottom for a couple of years now, so I guess this is not going to cost them hardly anything at all.
Disclaimer: I'm an iOS developer who does barely anything in the App Store. Instead, I develop for clients who at least pay me decently.
You can't park within 1000 feet of the supermarket doors in their own parking lot now.
I bike 2,5 kilometers to a supermarket and buy a week's food for two adults and a toddler. I'm not saying that's so much better, but please get a perspective about walking 300 meters/1000 feet with a supermarket cart.
Sure, don't obey the law if you don't agree with it. I'm not judging, I'm just stating the facts.
Haven't we had this discussion multiple times before?
Yes, Uber gives you a lower price.
Yes, it creates competition.
Yes, they act against almost all local laws.
FTFA:
Mark Saltzman, who falls into the last category, was so concerned by the time his third child was born that he wanted to engineer a better sunblock.
Little children don't belong in the sun, in my opinion. I dress my two year old such that only her face, hands and feet are exposed by clothing. Every hour or so, I apply sunscreen. During summer, we'll be outside of course but if possible in some sort of shaded place. I've seen small children burned red by the sun, and I'm amazed at the carelessness. Better your child is hot than burned, right?
That was my pet peeve. Besides that, I applaud this research.
What, you've never seen the "Your Porn Online" section?
Does it feature Bennett Haselton and CowboyNeal? :)~
every site I browse now appears to be Russian porn.
Which apparently includes Slashdot. Is there some Slashdot section I don't know about?
I use two monitors, but I often "lose" my mouse pointer for some reason. Don't you have the same?
That's exactly how I work, too. And when I say exactly, I mean that my desktops have the exact same content as well :-)
I've never seen anyone else working the same, really. Virtual desktops are even among developers not that popular.
Thanks for some great pointers! I'm confident in my skills as a developer but I have to admit I can do better than this.
Really appreciate your replies.
I have to say, it sounds extremely appealing to me. It's just that I haven't succeeded with these sites so far. They'd say stuff like: "amazing opportunity, huge budget", and the budget would actually be 5 or 10 K. I'm looking for the 30-60 K range, at the very least.
And yes, it's not all about the money. Especially being able to pick up my daughter somewhat earlier from daycare would be a huge boon. In any case, you're saying that WeWorkRemotely and Remotive are the places to find good clients?
I totally agree, and the cost of living in a city offsets the decent rate I mentioned.
My best time in the last couple of years was when I took a $300/month internship at a small startup on Bali, with housing included. Office hours between 11 AM and 4 PM, swimming pool at the back of the office, and the office basically consisted of two large tables under a giant gazebo, with two fibers coming in.
I actually had to cry when I got on the plane back to Europe, but my SO was pregnant and did not (still does not) want to move.