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For a dev shop, anything that brings in more than (more or less) $20k /year.

Otherwise also fundraising (as someone else said).

Though for both of these, if the business is cash-strapped, the results would have to be pretty much assured.

Phabricator.

Snarky answer does not take mobile devices into account.

Unfortunately, I'm coming to realize what you say is true. Now that I think about it, there is NO issue that negatively affects my work/life balance more than having Slack installed on my phone.

I defintiely feel it. On my computer, I can just quit the Slack app and that's it. But on my cell phone, unless I put the whole phone on "do not disturb", I cannot escape Slack.

The "disbale notifications on the specific channels" does not work for me, because I do not actually want to do so. I just want to not get notifications during off hours (or at meetings, family stuff, etc), and I not want to configure it (or set myself away) for every team I'm logged in (right now, that's 10 teams).

Slack needs a global "mute" button. Slack feels designed as if it's a complete surprise to the Slack devs that people might join more than one team. There is nothing about Slack that's global, other than being able to log into multiple teams on one instance of the application.

I've been waiting for a global mute button since forever, but these guys just keep assuming we're all part of only one Slack team.

All that's needed is for Google to make it factor in search ranking and you can bet that we'll all be finally reading up on ipv6 and how to make it work well on our servers, and testing the hell out of it :-)

The difference is that "mongo" does not have a universally-known meaning. Cockroaches and known throughout the world, and are disgusting throughout the world.

Agreed. It's a very stupid name. It's memorable for all the wrong reasons: It detracts from the product, and takes attention away from the product to the product name that elicits a visceral disgust in a lot of people. The conversation then is about why the product is called that instead of the product's merits.

OMG, you got the username right.

Talk about getting a stomachache from stuff other people eat. But, whatever :-)

Gotta love it when people ask for magical solutions.

The only way to change the password on 200 accounts is to change the password on 200 accounts.

BTW people don't get pissed. It was a joke comment, trying to be an inconsiderate smart ass.

Key word was "upset".

Vote with your wallet, that's fine. My point is that it's stupid to place your emotional state on something you do not control.

There's a right reason to be upset about something one does not control?

The buyout is not good or bad, it just is. Don't get upset people, you couldn't prevent it before and you cannot undo it now.

Everyone in EU already speaks English :-)

Not trying to be an ass by saying that, but if you go to Europe claiming to be Canadian :-) and speaking English, you will not have a hard time pretty much anywhere, at least in Western EU.

Me too. I would absolutely love to do this...

(The reason is that I'm tired of the political crap going on here, it would be refreshing to see different political crap :-). Plus I absolutely love Europe. Would like to live there till I'm sick of it)

Ah good to know. I actually did the UC transfer thing, when I did it those guarantees for he UC system did not exist.

To be fair, in the USA, it depends on the industry that you are going into. If you are planning on joining the startup world, the attitude ranges from indifference to the degree to downright hostiliy (do your best to hide that you have an MBA, for example!). Startups tend to evaluate you on effective skills that you know how to apply, degree or no degree.

In pretty much all other fields, including non-startup tech jobs, degrees do matter a ton more.

Do your research.

There is no such thing as a "transfer degree". You either transfer or you do not.

Get an associates, the paper looks good, it's an ego boost, and it will make your family proud of you. After you get your bachelor's, the associate's will not matter for anything.

A community college is a great way to get into a far better school than you could have anyway, I'm living proof. This is because your GPA resets when you start junior college, and a 3.0 GPA on a junior college will get you into a much better school than a 3.7 would have in high school.

Just get in there, and don't screw up your grades. If you are not going to get a high grade in the class, drop it and then re-take it. It's a weasel thing to do, but it's better than getting a shitty grade in your record.

It's no big deal the situation you are in. Just work at it intelligently. You will actually save a ton of money than if you had gone to a 4-year college for all 4 (or 5 or 6) years from the beginning.

One thing: Different countries view college degrees differently. In some, if you do not have a college degree, you will not even get considered for the job, no matter what you've done.

It might affect work visas as well (some countries give a lot of weight to a college degree when assigning a priority to your application).

Of course, to get stuff done you do not need a degree and examples abound about people who "made it" without a college degree. Granted, they learned everything on their own, so if you have a low motivation to learn stuff that's important in your field but boring to you (for example, algorithms and data structures), you might want to get through the degree just to force you to learn stuff.

For me, I'm in the US, where college degrees matter relatively little, specially in tech. Still, I can say without a doubt my CS degree has opened many doors for me, even a couple decades after having gotten it. Also I have had to fight far less to get good salary offers. Once people know I have a CS degree, we move onto the advanced stuff instead of them trying to see if I'm an idiot or not.

That's my $0.02, your mileage may vary.

It's not a nitpick. But whatever, it's not my app store that's affected.

Don't confuse missing the point of the article with not caring about the rest of the article.

I had a chuckle too about "malicious". A DDoS attack is a DDoS attack. It's like hearing about a "malicious stabbing."

But whatever, there are DDoS attacks every day on someone.

lol trying to pull rank on HN on a Friday afternoon... too aggressive.

But how many of the 1-star reviewers actually understand that?

This is a rehash of the aftermath of pretty much any new UI design. People dislike change itself far more than they dislike the actual change.

Agreed. To me this is a story of lack of professional common sense. When this guy spoke, he spoke as someone with (implied) inside knowledge of both his employer and his industry.

He should have either stressed he did not have inside knowledge and this was his personal opinion, or he should have said nothing. The problem with the first option is that he did have inside knowledge.

Put another way, if he had said something that had affected stock price, he would probably face criminal charges.

That's reason enough to shut the heck up, bite his lip, and let the internet be wrong. All of us with inside knowledge about our employers (specially if our employer is a public company) do that routinely.

I see it this way: The agent's more than earned his 15% if he gets me a higher paying gig than I could get myself (higher than 15% increase, that is). The benefit I get from not dealing with the stuff they claim to take care of is more than worth it. Unless you love doing your own billing.

I'd go for it if I was a freelancer.

The recruiter does not work for the talent, the recruiter works for the company.

I would just state it as it is: "There's all these accusations floating around and no one is talking or offering up solid proof of anything (or police reports, for that matter). We just want you to know we are not avoiding the issue"

That would be better than some rambling prose that says nothing.

In other words: "I was told to write this story, but I have no hard data on anything. Here's what the rumor mill is saying. We take stories like this seriously."

What a non-statement. Not sure why it was published. Maybe because it's Friday and the author wanted to leave?

This strikes me as a very dumb question. For all the answers to this, simply look at the credit card industry and consumer motivation to spend money they do not have.

People want stuff they cannot afford, so they spend money they do not have, it costs them dearly. That's how the system works; not that I advocate it.

It takes considerable effort to get out of the cycle, especially for people in consumerist USA.

The way I look at it is: If they ask me for my social security number, then I am getting a loan, and so I do not go through with the transaction. For my prepaid phone I spent $250 for the phone, and I pay $19 monthly. No SSN required. For a phone plan, I would spend $0 (or whatever for a higher-end phone), sign a contract, provide my SSN, and pay monthly over at least 2 years.