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Do you suspect that lead to be distributed in a way that would confound the results? In the absence of a theory, I'd expect lead to be fairly evenly distributed amongst cities in that particular way.

SEEKING WORK

Location: New York City Remote: ok

I build web and mobile applications for startups and established businesses in NYC. I've mostly focused on Rails and JS development for the past couple of years, but have a wide and deep technology background garnered from about 20 years of programming experience. I pride myself on delivering working software quickly and continuously, and helping clients make well-informed planning decisions by providing timely and open feedback.

Within the past year, a few things I've done are: - For a major film production company, reimplemented a Python Flask HR application in Rails. - For a boutique strategy consulting firm, developed a Rails and Javascript strategy mapping tool. - For an online education startup, developed a React-based chat system.

I have a small number of trusted partners (designers, developers, project managers), so I am able to take on projects of a variety of sizes.

I have a web site up at http://www.customary.nyc/ (I recently started a rebrand, so it's rather bare) and can be reached at paul@customary.nyc

The WaPo-owned slate.com has been doing frequent renaming of articles for a while now. I suspect they've been a testbed for Bandito or a similar system. One very frustrating side-effect is that I am often drawn to click on the same article multiple times. That's because it shows markedly different headlines for the same article, sometimes even on the same page simultaneously.

Case in point, as of right now, slate shows a headline: "What Bernie Sanders' Victory Means"

and lower on the page: "It's Official: Bernie Sanders Just Won New Hampshire"

both of which link to the same article, which sports the quotidian title "Bernie Sanders Wins New Hampshire".

The two front-page headlines are not just tweaked variants of each other, they sound like substantially different articles, one a reporting-the-news article and the other an analysis piece.

This is super-frustrating to me, because I keep feeling like the site is wasting my time and attention. It's starting to drive me away from slate overall. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens to the WaPo.

What's great is that the soylent-oculus-isolation pods could be reused for other purposes, such as

  * Mental institutions
  * Homeless shelters
  * Public schools

No more need to deal with the risks of humans interacting with other humans in meatspace. Awesome.

What I'd appreciate would be if Google would start penalizing them in their search results, because they really degrade the experience. Literally 30 seconds ago I did a generic google search ("small business loans consulting" in particular) and the second hit looked interesting...oops, it was a Forbes link, hit back.

It sounds to me like you may see your role as something like "being the best engineer on the team, and making the rest of the team as good as me" and that your approach is to keep learning engineering methods and then "educate them."

Might I suggest that what your role now is not to be the best engineer, but to act as their manager, primarily. Put down the engineering books and pick up some management ones (e.g. "Behind Closed Doors" or "Manage It!", both from Prag Prog), because you are likely the one failing to learn or improve in ways appropriate to your job.

The ROI would be (10,598 - 115, 698) / 115,698 = ~-90%

A simple todo list system that I love, and that is built on the idea of structured procrastination, is Mark Forster's "Final Version Perfected" system. It is described here: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2015/5/21/the-final-...

It's on the state to establish that it was evidence. In this case, they did some computer forensics.

Did you notice the "or"? Just delete it if you feel that way.

The issue here is not that the destruction is evidence for involvement; that was established otherwise. The issue here is that individuals knowingly destroyed evidence with the intent to obstruct investigations.

I did a little googling, and destroying the porn would actually be the right thing to do and so shouldn't get you in trouble. According to "18 U.S. Code § 2252A - Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography", an affirmative defense is not having much and either deleting it promptly or reporting it:

  (d) Affirmative Defense.— It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of
      violating subsection (a)(5) that the defendant—
    (1) possessed less than three images of child pornography;
    and
    (2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person, 
       other than a law enforcement agency, to access any image or copy thereof—
        (A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such image;
        or
        (B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency
            and afforded that agency access to each such image.

(source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A)

This sounds like another "banal-sounding activity that everyone does is suddenly illegal!" misunderstanding. The charge is that someone destroyed potential evidence on their computer with the intent of preventing that evidence from being found by an investigation that they believed was likely. In the non-digital realm, this is like shredding business records when you suspect you're being investigated. Shredding isn't illegal, but attempting to obstruct an investigation is, and (IMHO) rightfully so.

Which is to say: deleting your browser history as part of an effort to thwart a criminal investigation could land you in prison.

At least in the US, I think satisfying the 'purposes' requirement for non-profit status would be difficult. Just providing a free service isn't enough. Here's the IRS brief description:

"The exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals.

source: http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organi...

UPDATE: I confused non-profit and charitable organizations. Disregard.

That's why I refuse to sell my Beanie Babies.

Definitely the examples, not the phrase.

Good catch. Its interesting that the gender-neutrality comes only in the "Sex" and "Relationships" sections, and that the only female "I am <famous person>" comes in "Sex" for "I am Madonna."

Actually, I was an undergraduate in 1993 (when this was first written) and I can assure you that there did exist women who did geeky stuff, were in STEM fields, etc. In fact, I did research for a professor then who was precisely such a woman. I don't want to overstate this, but little things like these add up to a perception that things were a way that wasn't really the case.

Check out the "Appearance" section http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html#appearance for a big helping of "only males can be geeks" assumption-making.

One of my favorite articles on this topic is http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-youre-sabotaging-your-own...

The money quote to me is near the end of page 2:

'And I'm starting to think that the world really is divided between those who have a clear idea of what it means to want something -- including the total cost and sacrifices it will take to get it -- and those who are just content to leave it as an airy "wouldn't it be nice" fantasy. The former group hones in on what they want and goes zooming after it like a shark. The latter looks at them, shakes their head and says, "How do they do it?" As if they have a cheat code, or a secret technique.'

Galway Kinnell

I've read a number of books on debugging, it's something of an interest of mine. The best general-purpose debugging book I've read is the cumbersomely named

Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems by David J. Agans

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw...

What I really like about it is that it gives a number of high-level approaches to solving debugging problems and is written very accessibly.

"But does demand for software projects actually fall off a cliff between the 20k and 100k price point?"

Having worked in software consulting for a long while, my sense is that generally 50K clients are going to have all the hoops to jump through of the 100K+ clients, but without the margins required to make them profitable, accounting for the sales time.

The OP addresses this as one of the three options:

The final option is to share resources such as a tax calculating library between the services. This can be useful, but it won't always work in a polyglot environment and introduces coupling which may mean that services have to be released in parallel to maintain the implicit interface between them. This coupling essentially mitigates a lot of the benefits of Microservices approaches.

Its not just a Britishism. Its identified in the master's thesis linked to in the article [1] as a form of "turning the table" which "seem[s] to place the onus of ending the conversation on the conversational partner." (pg 63)

[1] http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=405...

A friend of mine wrote bane, which does similar stuff in Ruby: https://github.com/danielwellman/bane/

Here's the announcement on the reddit official blog: http://www.redditblog.com/2014/11/coming-home.html

The last time I tried it (which was a while ago), there was voice support, but looking at it now it seems to only have SMS.

It sounds to me like you are telling yourself a story: "I severely dislike working" that quite possibly is covering for other issues.

Such as: "I am not naturally good at everything, and this is contrary to my self image" or "I am not really interested in my chosen field, but feel like I need to stick with it" or maybe "I am depressed."

I'd suggest talking to people who know you, if you know people who can be honest with you and who you trust. Or maybe even try something like http://www.7cupsoftea.com/ which provides neutral people to listen to your problems.

There's a lot of room for innovation in this space. Some friends (well, clients) of mine have a startup (Unlockable, https://www.unlockable.com/) that embeds advertising-based games into other games. The level of interactivity is way more than a bot could handle.