john_flintstone

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by john_flintstone 12y ago
Only, that's not how it would be bought. People would buy their porn phone online, just like they buy they porn, and their hookers, and their erotica from Amazon. Nobody (almost) walks into a Walmart to buy porn or hookers - they do so
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
Questions for people with nothing to hide: 1. Have you ever had an abortion? 2. Have you ever cheated on your husband / wife? 3. Are you currently looking for a new job? 4. Have you ever being diagnosed with a mental illness? 5. Are yo
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
>One other thing to take note of is depending on your relationship with the client, it may take a while to get paid... That's a freelancer, not a contractor. Different ball game entirely.
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
Sorry, but I don't agree with that at all. You're propagating the myth that contracters are supposed to be shit hot developers, the 1%, and that's simply not true. While it might be true to a degree in the US, it certainly isn't in the UK.
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
No offense, but you seem to be answering the question as an American worker, not a UK worker. Contracting is VERY different in both countries. If the OP is asking about contracting in the UK, I don't believe your lengthy post has any releva
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
>and not being able to find next gig for a couple of month In London? Sure, you could be laid off anytime, but if you can't land a new contract in two weeks then there's something wrong with you. Contract market in London is buzzing.
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
What would figures for another European city tell us about London? Rates for programmers in Dublin are about 20% higher than London, but that says nothing about the London figures quoted here.
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by john_flintstone 13y ago
Contract wages are considerably higher, especially in London. In some cases, twice as high. If you have a little fire in your belly, and don't mind living with some uncertainty and a lot of change in your life, contracting in London can be
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
Sorry, but no. I've been in discussions recently with a French company whose development team is based in Dublin (Ireland for the geo-illiterate). Most of the tech staff in Dublin were East European, and the company's HR department was in R
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
It's only clearly Bootstrap to people who have heard of Bootstrap. 99.999% of your visitors will never have heard of Bootstrap, will never have heard the word 'framework.'
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
It's not tax avoidance either. It would only be tax avoidance if they moved from one EU country to another one that had a lower corporate tax rate. This is their first European office - it makes perfect sense to choose the location that bri
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
>You can ship all the code you want, but even if it's lots of mediocre code, it's still mediocre. The code might be mediocre, but that doesn't mean that the product is mediocre. Pristine, beautiful code, that forms part of a bad product
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
>There are traits of a good programmer that are immediately evident to any experienced programmer. Replace the word 'programmer' with 'coder' and you might have a point. Whenever I hear the word 'coder', all I can think of is shelf-stac
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
>but people on the train are, for the overwhelming majority, uninteresting or annoying And they're usually the same people every day, if you catch the same train.
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
Who cares? More to the point, who will care? Facebook will fall eventually. In the 10 or 20 years from now that you talk about, Facebook will be a distant memory. Does anyone care about what may or may not have gone on at IBM 30 years ago?
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
My dishwasher was broken for months - never got around to fixing it - and the reality was, it didn't take noticeably longer to clean up after a meal or after a day's meals. Might be different if you have a big family, but from what I rememb
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
You don't have to be 'connected'. I've got a smart phone, and I use it mainly as a phone. The part I love about it is the great big dial pad. Remove all the apps that revolve around 'connecting' you, and you'll be grand.
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
I run blogs on the websites of two businesses I'm associated with. In both cases the intent is not to start a conversation, but to pull in traffic and visitors from Google. Comments are not enabled. I usually base the blog topics on keyword
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
I rarely read comments here anymore, preferring to stick to reading the article linked to - for the same reason that I never venture into the comment section on the Guardian's once great Comment is Free section. The first batch of comments
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
You say that in a light hearted and amusing manner, but if real, honest-to-god libraries, lending books at no cost to anyone, didn't already exist, and someone tried to start one today, they'd never be allowed to get off the ground. Same ap
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
>The vast majority of those who experiment never become addicted. But for those who do, it is very costly, and fatal frequently enough that it is not worth the risk Are you talking about heroin, or alcohol?
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
They said 'type' not 'print.' He could use a manual typewriter.
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
I once tried searching for my friend John Smith on Facebook, and there he was, right at the top. Good thing westerners have such distinctive names.
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
A forum I run in Ireland doesn't have a need for Captchas. The forum is very regional and niche - no genuine foreign visitors - so we blocked every country apart from Ireland and the UK from posting comments. Result - no spam. This wouldn't
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
>This is known as the "Blockbuster Video" model for treating customers for being late. How did that model work out for them? It worked fine until their industry (renting videos and DVDs) dwindled to nothing. Blockbuster's demise had not
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
I stopped using eBay 6 years ago, and for 5 years before that I used it every week, for buying and selling. eBay is fast becoming irrelevant. And I'm not in the US either.
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
Not everyone who programs wants to be a competent programmer, or even a programmer at all. Some people just want to build a contact form for their website, or work out how to pull a list from a database and display it in the sidebar of the
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
Who else is affected by this bug. And by who else, I don't mean this one guy's customers / users. If the answer is no one else, or if no one else has reported it, then it's probably so far down the list as to be inconsequential. Which proba
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
So let him swear at his wife. Or at Apple. Why should we have to read it?
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by john_flintstone 14y ago
That's an extremely naive attitude. It's next to impossible (won't say completely) to start an online community without seeding it first. Forums in particular - you cannot get a forum going without seeding it with made up posts and comments

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