mtbcoder

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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Context is everything. If this were featured in a US publication, the innuendo would certainly be strong.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I do quite a bit of running, some lifting and I've never personally experienced this with either. However, I also do a lot of mountain biking and experience this during and after each ride. As best I can describe it, it really becomes
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
You are still dependent on XML-RPC, which has its own overhead issues, and PHP/Wordpress though.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I don't think this is what the OP is advocating since a major caveat with the Wordpress API plugin is that you are still tightly coupled to PHP and Wordpress. This is simply due to the poorly designed database schema and how Wordpress
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Interesting that the author cites crowdfunding, philanthropy and subsidization as a means to fund news organizations, but fails to mention the great work done by NPR, PBS Newshour, Frontline, Bill Moyers, Charlie Rose, et al. Instead, the a
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Perhaps the threat of having their license pulled, thereby nullifying potential future employment might have caused them to think twice about wilfully cheating emissions controls?
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> With PHP we just FTP from our local repository to the live server and it's up and running with almost no setup. Technically you can do that with Python as well depending on your setup. Although you may need an extra step such as &
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Possibly, but that doesn't seem like it would produce very reliable data though.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic.
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
I don't think the criticism is against the concept of MOOCs but rather the over-exaggerated claims being made regarding proficiency achieved from the cursory information provided in a given program and career opportunities available af
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
In other words, "offshore all jobs except the ones that we need to keep our lucrative government contracts."
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Can someone who works on web development for a major publisher please try and explain why such sites take so long to load? Well, the same problems that beset big enterprise are also found in "big publishing" which is even mor
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
This sounds like a big enterprise company taking the next evolutionary step. Soon the tactics will be labelled as "best practices", talks and conferences will be given, the mentality accepted and the rest of the herd will continue
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> The only part of the presentation layer that WordPress needs to concern itself with is the admin interface. If only this were the case. WP's underlying processes and database structure are so unbelievably stunted and entirely cou
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Wouldn't they then just simply split off the technology arm into it's own entity, incorporate it, re-brand it and continue on as usual?
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Software, of course, has no such professional body, and exists in a twilight world of chancers and incompetents. Why should the software industry get away with knowingly producing crap and charging a fortune for it? This is not really
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> We are at a time in history where unprecedented amounts of money are sloshing around at the top and it isn't 'trickling down' much via ordinary routes like wages. Not sure I would say 'unprecedented' as this ha
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Also, recognize that while the pay may be higher, if you're in the US you also are on the hook for 8% payroll tax that your employer would normally pay on your behalf. You are on the hook for more than just that. Federal, state an
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> Isn't there people with experience on working on short-term contracts and still living well-off? This is just my opinion and I can only speak from a US perspective, but yes and no. The ones who are able to do this have already got
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
"Americans overestimate social class mobility" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115...
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Doesn't really seem that elaborate if this is correct: https://twitter.com/stackshareio/status/578629809242312704
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
By extension, would Lumen (Laravel's micro framework sibling) also now have LTS releases?
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Regarding Python, Django does LTS releases.
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> tests/samples Technical tests are a double-edged sword. For candidates with little to no prior work experience (fresh out of uni for example), it makes sense. Unless serious question marks arose during the prior interviews, I find
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Two suggestions I would have: 1) Expand your services offerings beyond "Wordpress consulting", even if it means putting your company on the back-burner for a bit to acquire more lucrative skill sets. "Wordpress consultants&qu
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> The problem is that consulting will take a lot more time out of your life than even a regular job. I think this is a key bullet point people often forget when they idealize the whole notion of becoming a freelancer/consultant. Ess
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
> It's not the kind of place where people feel forced into working in a silly way. After reading your post, I'm having a hard time seeing how this is the case. Perhaps people are not directly forced into doing weekend "hac
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Based on the data points used, doesn't this just simply favor startups that are more adept at SEO/SEM and social media?
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> With Facebook, the intrusion of privacy happens completely out in the open and you can work with that. I'm not following. Once I hand over my data I have no real control over how they end up using it behind the scenes. Furthermore
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> The bicameral mind sounds a lot like an early type of consciousness. I think Jaynes' timelines are off, but it is possible that our consciousness worked differently back in the day. I agree, I see no reason that consciousness woul

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