mtbcoder

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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Content management is very much a domain specific problem which generic CMSs like Wordpress and Drupal solve poorly. For example, have a look under the hood at Wordpress's database schema and you will find that it is ill-equipped for a
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I'm assuming OP means data not related to the blog. In other words, if one chooses to run Wordpress, isolate it and its database on to a separate container, away from anything mission critical.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
Happens to the best of us! Also, it's very difficult to keep entropy at bay in something that requires so much abstract thought and effort as programming, especially with how broad software's reach has gotten.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> The framers never intended for individuals to give up their rights just because they form corporations. A person never lost their individual right to freedom of speech if they formed or became a member of a corporation.
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> This works. Very well. Perhaps it does to some extent (especially if your competition is low), but eventually the pool installer from the article figured out that the real money was in selling others on the idea that "inbound ma
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
> but that's what psychology is really for... for enforcing, disciplining and punishing people that don't conform to the economic or social norms... This is quite fallacious. You are essentially describing fundamental peer&#x2F
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by mtbcoder 10y ago
I'm not sure how that addresses OP's comment, others at the opposite end of the political spectrum also share these views.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Why stop there though? Why not open up shop near a university town with a low cost of living? Steady supply of interns, new hires, R&D partnerships, etc. Culture in a university town, while not on par with a major city, is generally qui
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I will further expand on this and say that I would take a well documented/commented code base written in an unsexy language any day over one cowboy-coded in whatever the languague/framework-du-jour happens to be.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
In theory, Google should be penalizing these sites left and right, however, since many of them appear to slip through the cracks, this would indicate that the problem is much more difficult to solve than it seems.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
What people seem to not value are the channels that produce information. Information has become ubiquitous, ephemeral and most often freely available through any other arbitrary channel. For pay walls to work, it's an all-or-nothing sy
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
That's assuming one has the ability to sock away enough savings to ease the burden of any long-term unemployment. The reality though is that millions of US citizens do not even have this option, even knowing full well that they need to
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I'm not suggesting that progress has not occurred or that many of us are not better off, but to definitely say that we've swiftly solved or obliterated mass poverty, malnutrition, etc is ridiculous and callous to say the least. Ag
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Malnutrition, abysmal living standards, etc certainly have not been "swiftly solved" or obliterated. These are battles we are still facing today, even in Western societies.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> from tonights Republican debate and their stance on Apple, I'm pretty sure its safe to say they also support the NSA surveillance initiatives. Anything justified as "protection from terrorists" will be supported by the g
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I'm late to the conversation here, but I think the real elephant in the room is the short shelf life of the average independent contractor/freelancer/consultant. Unfortunately, and all too often on this site, the meme of the
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
A similar thing happened in DC. Defense contractor bubble rapidly expanded in the '00s, housing prices shot up drastically.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I think a balance of being in the office and working from home is key. I am much more productive at home as well, but eventually that becomes a tedium in its own right. It's hard to beat face-to-face collaboration with your colleagues.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Sweden has a 6-hour workday, because studies have shown that is optimal. Yes, the future of work should be to reduce work hours. Working from home is beside the point if it means working more hours (which seems to be the case).
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I don't think it's a trait of just large communities. Cynicism, negativity runs deep on just about any forum, comment sections and social media site connected to the Internet. The anonymity that the Web provides seems to reflect a
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
This is a complete over-simplification of the news media. White-washing everything as propaganda is juvenile. The Huffington Post (a private entity) is a news aggregation service that also produces some op-ed pieces. It editorializes news t
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Traditional media take the side that fits their story. NPR takes the side of the unempowered, even when they might be on the wrong side, other outlets have their own agendas and follow through with that. This isn't true and I thin
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
This isn't a counter-point to the themes in the article at all. While starting a business from a legal and paperwork standpoint is quite easy, maintaining a business is still incredibly difficult and is not even remotely fathomable for
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> I really want to see what Netflix can do with the news cycle. I don't see this as a good fit for Netflix as I'm not quite sure what they would bring to the news cycle table that isn't already being done. Commercial free
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> and the pay is unmatched. Agreed, the cost of living is high in DC and these contractors are the only game in town who are going pay a person big bucks to create poorly written HTML. On a less sarcastic note, an average developer worki
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
The IRS in the US also has regulations regarding single employer contractors/consultants. A company cannot turn its employees into independent contractors to skip out on things such as payroll taxes.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I may be wrong, but I would assume most teams/individuals who made the decision to implement HHVM did so to use Hack and all of its features.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I often get the feeling that proponents of the gig economy underestimate just how transient their "in-demand skills" really are. A person's in-demand skills can only take them so far before someone else comes along with equal
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
As you progress as a programmer you develop a keen sense on when to tune out things. For instance, using your list, knowing SQL thoroughly is far more valuable than whatever the "in thing" in NoSQL is these days. Furthermore, know
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Anyways, I think React will be short lived, because anyone who really wants to hop on the FRP bandwagon... I don't think most front end developers even care. React will stick around because it's backed by Facebook and if Face

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