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by mtbcoder 11y ago
True, but by doing apt-get install php you won't be up and running either. My point was really to clarify that you don't need a full blown framework to run basic Python scripts for web programming purposes and also to state that t
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Laravel (or any other PHP framework) also requires an "up-front install", but you don't need a framework like Django to "slap" together a Python program for web purposes either. What you need is an understanding of
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Regarding information overload, it seems that this is on track to get much worse before it gets better (if it ever does get better). Subsequently, I think we are building up to a large scale consumer backlash or implosion against "hype
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
Working face-to-face is wonderful, however, the rigid need to have "bodies in chairs" 8+ hours a day seems quite antiquated. It's simply a gross inefficiency when you consider that realistically an office worker is able to pr
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by mtbcoder 11y ago
The title of the article is a bit unfortunate. The context is about "information overload" from over-consumption and not that the act of reading is itself harmful.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
That would presume we are all collectively interested in reducing complexity and work. Too often these complexities exist to benefit a small minority at the expense of the majority. For example: http://techcrunch.com/2013&#x
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
Is it not the job of the contracting companies to find and retain the talent though? One major issue that I see with many of these government contracting companies is that they exist only to support the US government. They have no other cli
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
> "Most of what is presented is not news, it's politically slanted propaganda" This was starting to be discussed on HN the other day, but unfortunately didn't seem to get much traction. https://news.ycombin
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
I very much agree with the Buddhist thought process that compassion, empathy are pivotal to well-being. I was a bit disappointed that these were absent from the list. In my opinion they are foundational in regards to points 4 through 7.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
> I'm sure they could trim the fat Indeed, the article mentions they were paying for office space in both Manhattan and San Francisco.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
Not scientific, but I find I have less eye strain with dark themes.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
> If 1 reporter writes "Top 6 reasons why kittens are cute - number 5 will SHOCK YOU", the potential audience is millions. You can scale your content as needed, and readers / writer is potentially unlimited. Even in this s
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
I don't mean to be snarky, but is there something terribly interesting going on here? The only bit that seemed somewhat interesting was the "AI page curation" tool, but they hardly touched on that other than to mention that i
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
"No matter what kind of task you're trying to solve, there are a dozen plugins for it, some free, some commercial, some a hybrid of the two (sometimes annoyingly spammy about it)." This is a double-edged sword that can get yo
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
"I attributed it mostly to WordPress being WordPress though." One of the unfortunate issues with Wordpress is their continued support for outdated PHP versions. Wordpress is compatible with as far back as PHP 5.2.4, which was rele
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
> " And now these things have gotten so easy that the value of knowing how to do them is basically zero." Have they gotten easier...or have you, yourself, gained more experience and knowledge that you understand things better n
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
"I'm sure there were plenty of skateboarding companies that tried to stick with the old style and simply went out of business." All of skateboarding came to the brink of collapse in the late 80s and early 90s. No company was
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
In the past, Twitter did provide RSS feeds of your status updates.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
Wouldn't RSS fit this role?
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
I think much of the hatred towards PHP fundamentally comes down to the fact that it broke down a lot of barriers to entry in the web development world which allowed for anyone with a basic text editor to patch together CRUD apps. This led t
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
> Think about the problem as this: A worker sets up a website offering services. A potential customer is looking for a local purveyor of that service to hire. How does the customer find the website? If there are 25 local workers willing
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
You mean the Web?
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
I agree, but I'm not questioning whether or not the service sector is growing. The rise of the freelancer/contractor in any given industry seems to have grown exponentially just in the last decade alone. If we assume this to be th
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
I'm not following how the "service sector" is any kind of answer to the problems and issues we are facing with regards to automation and labour.
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
Contract programming parallels much of what he says about contract teaching, with the added difficulty of having to track down and find projects to work on. "Learn to code in order to generate side income" isn't as simple as
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
This was also my experience. Years 1 and 2 covered general programming concepts like data structures and algorithms. Years 3 and 4 transitioned into lower level topics like compiler design, some embedded work, lots of math. However, as most
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
DHTML? I haven't heard that term used in a while. I think can translate that job posting as such: "In order to save costs, we've trimmed all developer positions except one. You will be the sole developer responsible for every
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
True, but then really no one could be considered a "full stack" developer. Personally, I consider "full stack" to be just a blanket statement to mean people who have no problems wearing different hats and can figure thin
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
Unfortunately, government purchasing isn't that simple. It's really much more complex and rewards those who know the system. A convoluted RFP would need to be issued and some vendor listed in a GSA database would wind up with the
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by mtbcoder 12y ago
In the US, especially in the Midwest, former farm fields are quickly flipped and filled with stick-built homes in mere months. Seems pretty "mass-produced" to me.

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