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Weird, I just installed it (via homebrew) and it's working for me

I have my own personal recordings up there (although they're also on bandcamp and I still have them backed up). I know of a lot of people who use it to host their music. It's not just podcasts and remixes.

I got 11 of 15, but I can only write competently in maybe 4 of them (JS, Java, Python, PHP).

We have a TON of mosquitos in the late spring through late autumn seasons. Those asian tiger mosquitos. They bite all day long. You can't go out and expect to avoid them unless you're doused in Off, and even then it's no guarantee.

Last year my daughter got bit so badly that both of her legs looked like she had a huge rash. It was just a string of mosquito bites combined with a sensitivity to them that exaggerated an already rough problem.

All that said, I'm not sure I'm pro-extermination. We have a lot of bats that come around and eat the mosquitos around dusk. I'm sure they'd find other things to eat, but I like seeing them skim the pool for a drink and then eat a few dozen skeeters while they dart around. I also don't like people playing god with this type of stuff. The butterfly effect is real, and if we exterminate them all, we won't know what the effect is until it's already too late. Realistically, the earth adapts to whatever we do to it. Long after we're gone, there will be tons of interesting life forms. That still doesn't make me any less uneasy about it.

I don't know.

This is one person's experience and viewpoint. I've worked remote for the majority of the last 6 years and haven't run into anything like this.

Why would you treat working from home any differently than working from the office? I wouldn't work until 8pm in the office, so why would I do it at home?

The special scheduling of personal appointments doesn't make sense to me. If you were in the office, you'd tell people "I'll be away from 1-2 today" and that's it. I do the same thing when I'm working from home.

Maybe I'm weird because I'm not big on socially hanging with my coworkers, but the face time doesn't bother me at all. We do a lot of video calls, I see them plenty.

My work is not my life. I've never had trouble separating work and home life. Working from a room in my house has never changed that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some yard work to do on my lunch break.

I know people who commit CONSTANTLY. They may not push for a while, so they can end up with a small pull request that has 100+ commits. It has nothing to do with how hard someone works, and more to do with how often they commit.

I don't care about the community aspect of it, but I worked at a corporation that did care about those graphs when they're completely meaningless. When your bonus depends on how many commits you make, why not commit once per line?

What's more dangerous, someone saying (potentially tasteless) jokes, or people censoring everything they can deem offensive?

Other people said he seemed agitated and nervous when their dogs were walking about by him. I imagine if a dog just charged at you and was barking/howling while its owner was staring at someone's ass, you'd be on edge for a bit as well.

I've been using Mithril for about a year for multiple single-page apps and it's great. I'd definitely recommend it.

This article should just say "do what works for you and keep it to yourself." Why does everyone need to evangelize every single decision?

I'm in a situation now where I was one of the first five (#5, to be precise) employees at a startup. I told them what I needed to get as a salary, and I didn't cut it down for the sake of hoping to cash out later. I got less stock than I could've, but that money (if it ever exists), is more of a bonus to me than anything.

I can't afford to go out on a limb for a startup or to hope for some big pay day. I'm a single earner in a family of five and I can't just make my kids stop eating and growing because I want to get some stock options.

I would suggest anyone thinking of working at a startup keeps their regular salary in mind as what you need/want, and think of stock as a bonus later that probably will NOT ever come.

Stock is a nice carrot to dangle if you're a stingy employer (or one who refuses to pay folks' worth), but it shouldn't be considered as part of your compensation if you're a lowly employee like myself.

I never went to SV or the Bay Area for work, instead opting for NYC since I lived nearby anyway (nearby being within 3 hours). It's a similar issue, though. Housing is way too much. Taxes are horrendous. You make a good salary, but the cost to live there is rough, especially if you have a family.

I still work for a NYC-based company, I just work remotely from Richmond, VA. I like it better this way. I may not always work for a NYC co, but I will stay here. I bought a house last year that would be well into the millions in NYC's commutable suburbs. My kids go to just as good of a school as they did in NJ. There is no traffic to speak of.

If you have a dream of being in one of those cities, one of those scenes, then by all means, go for it. It's just not for me (and from what I can see, a lot of other folks on here).

What _is_ quality, then? I've never heard an objective definition regarding software.

You can't really define what quality software is, though. You could have a patched together backend that "just works" and has a great UI that customers love, but how is that "quality" software? The software end of it is clunky and patched.

On the other hand, you can have completely documented, easy to read, well thought-out code that has a terrible UI that no one will bother using. I guess you can say the software is "quality," but it doesn't matter.

Then again, maybe "quality" software to you is software that works, like the first example. In that case, it doesn't matter how well documented it is. It works. It's self-readable at least to those who wrote it. Maybe the team will never grow beyond that, so who cares? Or by the time it does, it will be rewritten anyway for other reasons.

The point, I think, the author is trying to make is that quality means so many things it means nothing. It's a useless term because it has no objective meaning. We can argue about what you think quality is and what I think it is, but it's likely going to be different for any two people.

I just ordered a few things from Jet.com and it was split into 3 shipments. A shipment of 1 item came within 2 days. A shipment of 3 items is on its way somewhere (although the tracking number gives no real details). The final shipment of 1 item is still 'processing' 4 business days later. It was supposed to be 2-5 day shipping, but I don't see the third item getting to me by tomorrow. We'll see, I guess.

I know a lot of people who set their taskbar to the side (specifically the left side). I like it on top myself, but I rarely use the start menu for clicking about. I just use WIN+S and start typing to search for stuff.

Again, this is not startup/bubble-specific. There are unqualified people all over the place.

Who cares? If you're not part of the scene there, why does it matter to you? If those people weren't in "silly" startups, they'd probably end up in silly corporate roles. Or even worse, they'd be unemployed and be another strain on the current system.

There are a lot of ideas you may find silly but others find interesting enough to spend their working hours to make a success. If you only focus on finances, tons of them will fail. If you look at the experience they'll have doing it, I'm sure some of them will find it was a success.

I've worked at a couple startups and I've worked at some big corporations. There are bad coders everywhere. There are bad ideas everywhere. There are also a lot of jealous people who apparently get bent out of shape because people who are not the best engineer ever are making more money than them and getting to take time off arbitrarily.

Instead of focusing on how much you think their startup is stupid, or how they shouldn't get time off because they're not as good as you (based on who knows what), why not just focus on what you have, what you do, and what you like? Stop living against them and live for yourself.

What does any of that have to do with 'dotcom stuff' or bubbles? People apply to jobs they're unqualified for in every field all the time.

I recently moved from Windows Phone to Android because of the Windows 10 Mobile OS. It was pushed to my phone for some reason and it completely broke wifi calling. Aside from that, the OS itself is now clunky and I think even calling it "half-baked" is being extremely generous.

It's unfortunate, because I thought WP8 was awesome. Definitely my favorite experience of any mobile OS.

I don't think that's accurate (or fair, really). Jquery was one in a list of dozens of libraries that did similar things at that time, but ajax/interactivity had been part of the web mindset for years before jquery existed. Jquery just won the library war.

I own a Nokia Lumia Icon (Verizon) and a Microsoft Lumia 640 (T-Mobile). The Icon was bought on a plan and was $199 subsidized. The 640 was bought off-contract for $99. I believe the Icon was selling for around $700 off-contract. I've used both extensively now (the Icon was my old daily phone, the 640 is my new one). The 640 is lacking in the camera. That's it. Every other experience on the phone? Identical. I don't miss the Icon at all, and I think that really says something.

Why would a phone 6-7x the price be roughly equivalent in experience? Why should it be? The 640 isn't subsidized by anything. $99 is the just the price of it. It's an amazing device, FAR better than an equivalent android.

People complain about Windows Phone not having "flagship" devices, but realistically, it doesn't need them. The cheap phones are great.

I've tried expensive android phones, iphone, as well. None of them stand up to the experience on WP for me. If Microsoft keeps making $100 phones like this, I'll never pay more than that for a phone.

There's a ton of fear-mongering going on in these comments. It's depressing.

I worked at two places where people had resumegasms over "brand name" schools. Neither of them hired anyone who was ever any better than completely average (and yes, I include myself).

I don't really care where anyone went to school. It doesn't mean anything. Really, going to school at all doesn't mean much. I need to see what you've done outside of that to make any meaningful evaluation. It doesn't matter if it's a huge project. You can give me a couple 10-line things that do something useful and I'll still get to see how you name things, format code, use built-in libraries, etc. Then we can chit chat about project management and how much you love or hate it.

It sounds like you might've come from the exact opposite place, where you were never teased or taught not to take yourself seriously. My family bonds over constantly harassing each other. No one takes it seriously and we're all better adjusted for it. I've definitely had friends who can't take a joke AT ALL and have ended up being neurotic and no fun to be around.

I'm using Mithril because of how easy it is to look over the source. I didn't want to have another framework with a huge learning curve (even for senior devs) like Angular. It's well documented, and you can read the entire Mithril source and understand what it's doing within a few hours. That means I don't have to bother training people on it. I can give any new people the API and a link to the source and they should be able to contribute within days.

Pop music from 1959 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVg

Pop music is stupid because it's catchy. It's always been that way, always will be.

I initially thought the guy was going to talk about being mistaken for an Arab, but I can see the black angle, too.

Oh, yeah, I didn't mean WP would take over. I do think WP will take a bigger chunk of the market and will be around for the long haul, though.

By cyclical, I meant the "cool" factor of companies. I'm sure many people here remember when Apple was a total joke after being awesome. Microsoft is coming out of their "joke" phase, IMO.

I loooooooove my Windows Phone. Seriously. Everyone stares at me as if I'm some sort of mutant when I tell them that I am a developer and I still love WP, but it's true. I have used iOS, BB, Android, but none of them compare to WP to me. I like the mix of customizability with solid, expected behaviors. The MS apps are phenomenal (also the Nokia apps), and all the major services have some sort of app, most official by now.

IMO, Microsoft's "uncool" image is the only thing holding it back. Like everything else, it's cyclical. They'll be back on top, and I think Windows 10 is going to start getting people back on board.