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To add a bit of insight: most Payment-Service-Providers actually pay big retailers to be listed on their site, as it improves trustworthiness and brand awareness. So the Amazon deal might not be as favorable to Stripe as it might sound.

What percentage of that is phone and computer related? If you were unable to visit particular sites (maybe during particular timeslots), how much would that solve the problem? What other things could solve the problem without changing your actual habit?

Really good advice. I tried blocking some sites but whenever my 'bad side' comes up again, I always find a way to get around the block and visit the site anyway. Any recommendations on blocking a site indefinitely?

San Francisco seems like a terrible place to open up anything to do with bicycles. Everyone will just ride down the hill, park the bike, and get an uber later. Some poor asshole will have to take them all back up.

At least PowerShell is taking over as the default. Should have been changed back in Windows 7. Copy & paste with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is what made me switch to PowerShell.

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Interesting, how did you turn out? And how did you turn out different from other people (with a mentor)?

I am excited to dive into FP, however, there doesn't seem to be a 'good' language yet. I noticed that oCaml is running up but that's still a bit too much 'scientific' as you might say. eg it doesn't really come close to anything web/app related. If I'm wrong, please tell me! I'd love to do FP.

How should one go about 'training' that? Is it experience, or are there books etc? I'd love to dive into that.

I've dealt with the same problem as you have. In high school, I picked up programming and before I knew it, I was programming almost all of the time. It's great to be able to have an idea and build it instantly.

However, life is not just programming. When I was in my senior year of high school, I got multiple job offers from tech firms in my country to come work for them. This monday however, I'm starting a university course cs at UVA (university of Amsterdam). This is not because I love programming less than studying (the opposite, actually). It is because I'm playing a long-term game instead of a short one. In colleges, there is so much knowledge right under your nose, and you get to work with people equally smart. Starting this monday, I'll be on the frontier of technology.

From there, I can learn, experiment, socialize, and everything else that I couldn't do while I was building custom CMS systems or optimizing a SQL database for some lame company.

Your working life can last more than 50 years, so be wise about choosing your fundamentals.

Yeah, thanks for clearing that up for me. Obviously, you can't rank 'programmers' on a linear scale, but you can rank programmers that are suitable for your type of work on a linear scale. Also, all of the best programmers have something in common: they're all very intelligent people.

Question #1 is somewhat out of the scope of this question tho, but I'm really interested in seeing thoughts on question #2.

I vote for quality as well as agreement. If a comment makes sense and is explained well, but I don't agree with it, I'm still very eager to vote it up.

I also doesn't make sense to comment along the same lines of another commenter. If my opinion is already expressed in the comments, an upvote makes way more sense imo.

Thanks for giving me a heads up. I've indeed only looked trough the syntax and as far as I can tell it's pretty similar to javascript/python/coffeescript. I know all of these, so I thought Swift would be easy once I understand the rest of iOS dev. Could you elaborate a bit more on why it's a whole different thing?

Yes that's exactly my problem and I can't find good resources that focus on that aspect of iOS development. The actual syntax of Swift looks fine and really easy to develop, so I guess that won't be a big issue for me.

Tl;dr http://www.fastask.it/is-it-better-to-buy

You arn't explaining much of the actual benefits of the product, but for what you do describe: Bitcoin can also solve all of these problems. Why bother using checks when it's obsolete in 5-10 years?

Thanks. I'm only seventeen years old, so yeah I was thinking about starting at the bottom. The question I'm asking tho is: what should I look for in my future employer? He/she will be much like a mentor to me and I think the right choice will make a ton of difference down the road.

Thanks; that's true and in my opinion only logical; my experience isn't going more than five years back. Why do you feel like it's a matter of languages wheter to be able to be exeptional? I feel like I'm an exeptional learner and I can prove that with the projects I've worked on, but I really stand out in my passion and willingness to become one of the best in more than only programming, but (as already mentioned) the entire stack.

Lol. Thanks for the reference, but I think that you haven't understood my question by only the slightest bit. I expressed my ability to learn quickly and found myself (this is actually validated by real word examples) to be able to work on software projects with the skills I dug up in the past 5 years. I am looking for a place (not a university) where I can learn software devlopment in a quick matter and with a more hand-on experience. I apprieciate that you try to tell me that you think I'm overrating myself, but I'd like it if you had some ground to do so.

You may argue that, but it is undoubtly a good methaphor to describe my question. Won't you agree?

Thanks for your answer :)

I think you've misunderstood a couple of things. Or more spefically: I haven't been clear enough on a couple of things.

I know I can think on a PhD level, because I - was smarter in some eareas than my teacher in cs (who had a PhD in cs) - I've worked with people who mastered cs and during that time I felt like I was thinking on the same level as they were. - I could try to do an IQ test but most (smart)people notice whitin a matter of minutes if the person in front of them is equally smart.

The thing you're missing tho, is the following: I'm Mike Ross before he meets Harvey; I can pass the LSAT of cs but can't be a competitive programmer yet.

If i <em>was</em>, I would apply as an engineer at Google and learn these things in my 20% time.

The Harvey I'm looking for must be able to teach me ao things how to be a good one, and at the same time challange me to bring on new clients etc etc.

One should measure success by the numbers but by the impact.

In my opinion, and that of a whole lot of other people, The Day We Fight Back didn't have the effect a lot of us hoped for. It is up for debate whether this means it 'failed' but it certainly didn't 'succeed'.

Why is it important to you to work in Europe per se? A lot of big companies like LinkedIn, FB, Google, etc. have offices all over the world and when you apply for a job at an American employer you could later ask to go abroad.

Do you have any reference on that? And do you know one of those multi-million dollar mining companies?

Dribbble isn't about showing off (well, not just). The people there can help you, and the least thing you want to do is find yourself working too much hours on a design.

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This man is a hero. He stood up for America and now it's time for all of us to stand up for him. Nothing more to say.

I don't think you can do more than just doing what you do. You can aware customers on the front-end that they arn't supposed to save any data on your system they are afraid of sharing. I can understand this is difficult from an ethical perspective but I think that as long as you arn't actually stealing data or participating in systems like PRISM you should just be fine.

That looks very cool! Could you share some intel with me about gross margins and how you calculated the prices for postalcand.co.uk? Foundcamera is awesome too :D I'll check for a lost camera tomorrow in Amsterdam, you might just want to add the feature of sharing your lost camera but maybe I overlooked it (says already enough) and a reward program would probably finish it up. Good luck!

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