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You have to learn to just put in your 8 hours and go home. If you're working more than 40 hours you will not be any more productive than if you worked just 40. If anyone give you slack for not staying late I'd tell them to review your code.

The "2 days" battery life makes me reconsider. The Moto 360v2 can get nearly the same (not in ambient mode), but it has a better screen that you can even see in the dark... The only reason I would want to get a pebble vs the moto is that it has a longer battery life (a week or so?), but this thing gets only slightly better battery life, yet costs nearly the same, eh, to me it's just not worth it.

Two are quickbooks and freshbooks. You really should study accounting if you've never seen discounts tied to the date paid. Cash flow is important to every business, and a lot of businesses do give discounts for quick payment.

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/the-best-invoice-payment-term...

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/...

Being able to define your payment terms is important.

creating an invoice, why is it I have to manually calculate the rate, if I give you the hourly rate and the number of hours? And why does the popup message say 'please make sure the last field contains a number'? Why can't it say "hey, you didn't enter a total"? The 'internal invoice number' on the settings page seems to max out at 2 digits. On the demo account, it's a 3 digit number, but you can't see the third digit because it's overlain by the huge up/down arrows.

Where are the discounts? Where are the terms on the invoice? Say I want to have a 2/10 net 30. That's a 2% discount if paid within 10 days, 30 days before overdue - I don't see any way to define my terms.

Has anyone there even studied accounting?

I've been following him since I took the 'isidewith' quiz. I hadn't even heard of him before, but he's 96% compatible with my stances.

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone instead of voting for a certain candidate, voted on the issues, and the candidate who voted most like the population would win... and their votes would be made public.

Italians selling hot water is nothing new. And this guy of all people you should be wary of. He's got his own Wikipedia page.

I simply cannot compete on price with those living in India and Pakistan. Sorry, I can't do programming for $8 an hour. All these sites are packed full of people who will do the job for less than you. I honestly think the only way to get some decent gigs is by going to a site that is US only or Europe only.

It was also changed to only look for 4-byte or more minimum matches. "Better compression" is claimed, but I don't see any benchmarks to indicate the size of compressed files before and after.

I believe it constitutes a problem when your drinking affects your social, economic, or work life negatively.

I gave it up about 5 years ago. I say that, not to say that "I never drink" but I don't get drunk. Last night I had maybe 4oz of some wine after dinner, after not having drank any alcohol for about two months. It's not a regular part of my life anymore, it's very rare, and I don't drink to get drunk. So I don't have a problem with it.

What I dislike are the ads for alcohol. Nearly all of them start with the premise that you can't be cool unless you drink alcohol, or that because you drink you'll have lots of hot women nearby. Aside from the ads, its 'oh we have a lawyer show, lets make sure we have scene of them drinking scotch after a rough case' or a family show 'oh the dad came home lets show him going to his fridge and grabbing a beer' or a cop show 'he just shot someone, lets do a bar scene where he gets smashed'.

From what I understand, they never implemented any of the algorithms, because their existing one was good enough, and the premise has changed. It used to be, you'd make suggestions so people could get DVDs sent to them, and you'd know they would enjoy it. Now with streaming, the cost to send something you don't like is cheap. So the recommendation engine just has to come up with something you'd try to watch and perhaps enjoy. If you start watching something, it's not your taste, you switch streams. So there's not a lot to gain from improving recommendations 10% unless they were pretty low quality ratings to begin with.

I like mine, but it's one that has the least text...

http://www.joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/?215934307460273100...

Most likely because an engineer designs it, or it's designed by committee. Let's see, how can we sell this same microwave that cost us $30 to make, for twice the money? Oh let's add "features" such as a 'popcorn button' that makes popcorn, or a 'defrost tbone steak' that perfectly defrosts...

etc etc, That said, the inverter technology in the panasonics are worth paying for... not to mention that they do have tactile buttons and a knob... http://www.cnet.com/pictures/panasonics-nn-sd997s-microwave-...

Yeah, imagine my surprise when I saw that google was working on those hand gestures radar things and then my disappointment when i realized that I can't do any of those gestures because of peripheral neuropathy. My thumb on my right hand has limited mobility, so hopefully it will be able to pick up my half-assed attempts to mimic the movements or i'll be screwed.

Considering that they don't have a job, and thus have more free time to contribute shouldn't make them look bad. I have a job, I do my job, I go home. Occasionally (like on my birthday) I donate some of my spare time to projects that I care about, and you'll see contributions for a while then I get back to regular stuff which isn't open source. If that looks bad to a potential employer then that's not the kind of employer that I want.

Yeah, usually on or around my birthday I'll donate some of my personal time to improving open source projects, I certainly don't want that looking bad for me just because I try to help.

1. Don't try to boil the ocean. You can't change the whole world at once, you can only affect your sphere of influence. You first need to expand your sphere of influence.

2. The easiest way to do that is money. (ex: Bill Gates, Elon Musk) Barring that, you need to write an awesome book, or have something published (Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein), or get elected (Barack Obama). Chances are, those will lead to increased wealth also.

3. Use that to introduce the change you want in the world.

The thing is, the most difficult part is expanding that sphere. You're one person of 7 billion. That's not even a one in a million chance of impacting the world. The odds are against you. That said, you can make a change in your community, maybe even your city. The key is, you have to start right where you are and impact what you can.

If Albert Einstein had asked 'should I become a patent clerk if I want to make an actual impact on the world?' people would have flat out said NO. The thing is, it did give him steady income and time to think, and thinking is what he did best.

Now of course you can shortcut those steps by being a martyr for whatever cause you want (Nathan Hale, Mahatma Gandhi), but then if you have to ask, you're already doing it wrong.

Mine too. I search for dog, and two photos have a dog in them, 4 photos have a cat, and 1 has no cats or dogs, just a baby.

He doesn't even need the bookmarks, a 'history sorted by access date' would work just fine. IE 11 has the history explorer bar which you can choose 'today' and 'view by order visited today'.

In any case, he could use Sleipnir 6. It's got your hundreds of tabs open market cornered.

http://www.fenrir-inc.com/us/sleipnir/

It's not even in the top 50 according to TIOBE.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

It depends on how many updates a second. One update a second is about 10µA, with a higher frequency costing more.

Well, if you are designing such a system, you'd want to make sure that you hook into the close page function and give an alert saying 'If you close this page, the file will not finish saving' or something of the sort. Also, you'd probably want to design it such that the 'file save' operation is one of the first things you do rather than the last.

1. They aren't being brought down. 2. People who feel 'stuck' in their job because it pays better than minimum wage can switch jobs a lot easier now. Because of that, you'd probably see wages rise, since it takes time for those skills to develop after people leave.

Yeah, I like to extend this out and make it generic like this:

If you don't test it, how do you know?

For example, one person told me he can't understand antivirus software and why people buy it, because he never got a virus. I asked him "how do you know you didn't get a virus?". He just looked at me, not saying a word. I hope my point got across though. If you aren't checking, you don't know. Same could be said about hacking these days. You secure your system, that's good, but if you don't have something to detect hackers, you are the same as the guy without antivirus and the guy without tested backups. You just have no idea whether or not you are protected.

It is low because that's a preorder price. They need the money so they can order in bulk from the factory.

In any case, I don't believe that's the entire cost of the unit, I think that's just 'put x dollars down to be put on the preorder list' and you just might have to pay the full amount later.

Well, I'd ask for a portfolio, and if you do have some programmer friends that do have the experience, I'd ask them if they can sit in an interview with you. If a portfolio is not possible, I'd ask for some technologies that they've worked with, and try to find a project which uses those technologies. I'd ask for a work sample using whatever they are comfortable with, such as the 'TodoMVC' implementation, something small that can be finished in 4 hours that shows their skill. This isn't like you are hiring just a programmer, this is going to be one of the first programmers you hire, the one likely to set the standards. Yes, he may not respect your programming skill, but that's to be expected, programmers are prideful of their work. However they can be respectful of you while giving you the rundown of why what you wrote was wrong. You want to hire someone who is better than you at programming. At the same time you don't want someone who is an ass, that should be pretty easy to figure out.

Reminds me kind of like Triangle Boy from 2001. That was a CIA funded project. I wouldn't doubt that they could be up to their old tricks again.

This is really nothing here, McCain doesn't have an HTTPS page either, and I suspect most senators wouldn't have a secure site. It's really a public website... so, no big deal.

And that's the thing about these, you try some, find out what works for you. I don't see anything ethically wrong with taking a brain booster if it improves your performance at work. If you can do that instead of burning out and you really love your job, why not?

Ah, but it's not IIS, this is something less than IIS called HTTP.sys which is used by SSRS in sql 2008 or 2012. It's also used by some other windows services, so chances are you wouldn't even know you are running http.sys unless your software specifically mentioned it.