danielvinson

Glassdoor is as much an advertising/marketing site as it is anything else. It isn't that anonymous and I've seen a lot of evidence that companies can bury/delete bad reviews.

Yea, this is the difference of 5+ years of the community developing. I'm sure the community has matured well, and it sounds much less toxic than it used to be. That doesn't change the fact that many people were exposed to the previous views.

I'm not closely familiar with the current PUA/Red Pill community, just the one of 5+ years ago when I was a bit involved with it, back when it was just a few forums and guys trying to learn from the few people who were successful. The attitude back then, which may be well disguised these days, was incredibly sociopathic - that females only belonged in men's lives from their pleasure, that you would only succeed when you stopped respecting them, and that happiness was achieved by blatantly disregarding whatever was stopping you. This is why negging was so popular as a learning technique - it taught men that there is little downside to just being as asshole to women.

The community certainly helped (and helps) a lot of men who suffer from confidence issues, but it also did/does so in a very flawed way, and threw everyone else (namely, all women) under the bus.

There is a distinct difference in the attitudes of indifference, anarchy, and non-conformity in the MGTOW described in the article vs. the aggression, control, and exaggerated masculinity in PUA community.

Ah, I didn't see that button. Looks like it doesn't show up unless you hover over the code which I didn't do. The author really should have mentioned that.

I really don't like this.

If you are creating tabs with pure CSS, the only real reason to do so is for educational purposes, especially considering this is an article about code and not just code.

Then the author decides to use SCSS and some very non-standard flexbox grid layout library... so that nobody can learn from this? Nobody who is just learning CSS will understand SCSS syntax, and nobody wants to learn a new library just to understand an article about CSS.

A quick google search results in multiple well cited articles discussing it.

> If you don't have enough calories the body will switch to starvation mode

This is a myth which has been proved to be absolutely false. You are simply wrong if you are basing any conclusions at all of of this.

> I'm curious if we are even talking about the same thing. When/where I grew up, the school had no say in how much or where a student worked as long as it wasn't during the school day, nor did a company have to do any extra paperwork if their employee was a student.

This might be state-dependent, but also might be county-dependent. I've even had multiple high-school interns in CA where we had to follow VERY strict guidelines and fill out a lot of paperwork. When I worked as a high school student in WA I was limited to 4 hrs per shift on any weekday and a max of 2 weekdays worked per week.

> Even if you're getting calories from your coffee it doesn't impact your weight loss because you're still eating less calories than your body needs to maintain the weight.

This is completely dependent on other factors. Weight loss is dependent on a hell of a lot of things in tandem. It is mathematically strictly better to say, drink only black coffee or sugar-free energy drinks in the morning. Caffeine is an appetite suppressant. The difference is that most people don't have the personal willpower to stick to the fasting without a few calories to help them along.

Weight loss in general is precisely mathematical in pacing and it will absolutely make you lose weight faster if you consume less calories.

This is a high school student, not a college intern. I did a similar thing when I was in high school - during the school year there were incredibly tight restrictions on any job I could have, including limited hours per week, review and oversight by the school, and lots of extra paperwork for the company. Generally it is just easier for both parties to exclude the pay to get around these requirements.

This matches my experiences well. Many of the people I know who are devs in the Bay Area that don't work at Google/FB aren't making more than $80k. The companies pull in grads who couldn't quite make the top companies who don't realize that they will never get a raise or promotion, and many of these people stay for 5-6 years before they realize how hard they are getting screwed.

These companies would NEVER hire an older, experienced developer because they know they wouldn't be able to retain them.

Its worth noting that I work on a dev team where the average age is about 40 (I am 27). We have multiple members of the team nearing retirement. Having the older guys around makes my job much easier and gives me resources that I wouldn't have otherwise. We are able to keep these guys around because we work on interesting projects, don't work more than 40 hours a week, and have a great manager.

OCZ was for the most part bought by Toshiba.

I'm not sure how public this is, but there were many more Barefoot controllers made and tested and a number of the later-generation OCZ drives were based on a much newer Barefoot-based controller.

I don't understand what that study has anything to do with this. Their conclusion was that fruit and vegetable consumption reduces risk of death and does not mention anything about the why the fruits and vegetables reduce risk OR that said benefits are not reproducible through other nutritional systems.

I order pretty much all of the obscure food/ingredients I use from Amazon - looks like Tahini Paste is widely available there. I'm not sure how much notice PlateJoy gives you to shop before you make the recipe, but it has to be less than Amazon's shipping?

The grind honestly ends at about level 20 right now. Once you get a few good attackers, you will always be able to take any gym you want.

The problem now is that holding gyms is impossible. I can never have more than 1 because the time it takes to drive to the nearest gym and capture it is less than the time it takes for somebody else to retake a gym.

This isn't an easy to answer question - I'd answer differently depending on if you want cameras from home vs. business purposes and differently if you want local vs. cloud storage.

Most IP cameras use a standard defined by ONVIF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF) for all communications. Everything between the camera itself and the local storage/cloud is pretty open and documented.

While you do have a point, I don't think there is a single first-world country where it is legal. That means that everyone in power, everywhere, agrees on this at least to some degree, meaning that it probably won't change any time soon.

> I see many good engineers getting pushed into management roles to advance their careers.

A lot of people whom I see in this category are people who fall more under the "engineer" banner than the "developer" banner - they tend to look for hard problems to solve, and are still happy solving logistical and financial problems.

Eh, its a yomi thing. At level 1 you want to run a node because the police will ignore you. It doesn't become a bad play until the police are on level 2.

Maybe this is a bit rant-y, but "Paid Fairly" is incredibly relative. Every time I've been asked about doing some sort of paid coding assignment in my free time, I've asked to be paid at my hourly consulting rate, which many people do regularly, which is $60/hr. This is really not that much for a consulting developer.

Every time this has come up, the company would not pay that rate, and offered something more like $20/hr.

It is just insane to me that if you are interviewing me for a position which makes $105,000 a year and cannot offer even close to equivalent compensation for the interview.

How do you plan on enforcing the no-NSFW policy? That seems close to impossible pre-monetization unless you spent most of that year training a neural network.

"More than 90 percent of the entrepreneurs came from middle-class or upper-lower-class backgrounds"

I'd like to offer a potential explanation of this: Middle and upper-lower-class individuals have the most to gain by doing things on their own.

* An upper-lower-class or middle class child will not have the same burdens and problems as a lower-class individual as describes in this post. They likely have just enough of a support system to be able to make it on their own.

* An upper-lower-class or middle class child will NOT be able to get into a great college with scholarships. They will likely choose a safer route, like a cheaper state school. This makes them less desirable to employers, so the "safe" route doesn't exist.

This is unfortunately very outdated. (07/08/09)

I would wager that a lot has changed in the last 7 years.

It would be reasonable to consider that there are many use cases where this is truly a useful product.

I participate in competitive events (video games and card games) where I generally only have 10-15 minute gaps to leave throughout a 15 hour day in a foreign city. I would happily spend $20 to have somebody find the best available food which can be delivered to me and order that food. I wouldn't ever want to pay for an assistant, since I only would need this service 2-3 times per month.

And that is the exact market for Magic+ - people who would happily pay for a personal assistant at that rate, but don't have enough work to benefit from hiring a real assistant. I've spoken to friends seriously about hiring an assistant which would split their time to help 8-10 of us, with us equally splitting their salary. This is a more elegant solution to that.

I'm curious what worked for you, and if you have any similar data for other sites? Explaining cultural differences between dating sites/apps is something that I've tried to do multiple times, but I've never had any data to support my hypothesis.

This was a big thing in Counter Strike 1.6 due to it giving you in-game advantages. For example, all leagues eventually started requiring you to use 32-bit graphics because people were using 16-bit graphics to be able to see through smoke grenades. If you ran the bare minimum settings, you would be able to minimize the distractions and increase the contrast between players and the level, letting you focus on winning.

The main reason pros will use lower settings for CS:S or CS:GO is because it is incredibly important that the game runs perfectly smoothly so that it reacts consistently to their input. Since everyone is on 144hz monitors now, that means they will need to stay above 144fps at all times.

Now, most CS pros who are sponsored will have good hardware and can do this on 1920x1080, but the problem is that at LAN tournaments in foreign countries, it is much less common that hardware which can do this is available. So the pro players will purposely use something like 1024x768 because they know 100% that the computer they will be given at any tournament will handle that, and changing something like resolution would take a few days to get used to and they won't get that chance.

There is a small chance that a case drops for you which is worth $5-$40 depending on which map you are watching that contains "Souvenir" items for the event signed by the players.

You only get drops if your Steam account that owns the game is linked to a twitch account that is watching, and is IP restricted (you won't get more drops unless you watch from different IPs at the same time). View botting exists, but it requires a lot of time/money to do, and the Twitch viewership numbers are actually more accurate than you would think.