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Otherwise, it's a completely different story.

As a developer I've used Toptal in the past and honestly, they're doing a great job. I'm based in central europe where average salary can be as low as $22,000/y. Toptal allows you to 3x-5x that easily by working 40h/week, 100% remote.

It's literally transformed hundreds of lives within my city.

There are tons of long term projects (6-12+ months), and I've never had problems finding a new project (front-end, js). Once I start looking, I expect to be working the next week.

For some, it's a great long term solution. For others who are more ambitious, it's a great stepping stone into the $70-100+/h market.

They do take a pretty big cut, but the developer is still left with tons of cash.

I dropped it after a while, because I started receiving fat offers directly from other clients, but I'd still recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a well developed client network.

Perhaps money is still a better motivator than gender equal society.

"For example, women are often found to be more agreeable than men (Feingold, 1994; Costa et al., 2001). This means that women, on average, are more nurturing, tender-minded, and altruistic more often and to a greater extent than men."

For example, is the fact that men tend to negotiate more a social construct, or is it based in biology?

Should society tax men for their behavior and redistribute the wealth to women?

I'm not arguing for any side by the way. Not sure what to think of this myself.

Some points of discussion are (unrelated to article):

1. If women were 25% cheaper than men while being as competent, wouldn't white/male capitalists trip over themselves to only hire women to increase their profits?

2. Women are less likely to negotiate salary and assert themselves, as women in general are more agreeable than men. Is this behavior based in biology or is it social construct?

3. Women tend to choose lower paying jobs, such as teacher, caregiver etc. In general women tend to care about people, while men care about things (STEM). Again: biology or social construct?

For example in Sweden, which is doing it's best to increase gender equality, sex differences between men and women maximized http://jamda.ub.gu.se/bitstream/1/833/1/scb_eng_2014.pdf

So perhaps occupation differences are healthy and natural. Of course, in Sweden engineers don't earn 300% more than teachers, so it's not a huge problem like in the USA.

The logical solution would be to increase pay in women dominated professions. But this kind of thing spits in the face of capitalism.

It's a tough problem to solve, and I still have no idea how to go about solving it.

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Individual rates start at triple digits per year.

It was on the homepage for around 24 hours I think. We had ~500,000 unique sessions during the first month after the launch. Hacker News played a big part in that.

We stopped actively working on the project, but it's still being used by more than 100,000 people every month.

I wrote a little case study about the whole thing here - http://codetree.co/case-studies/movieo

It's like saying "Using lodash is bad because then you don't learn real javascript and you rely on another big library to do the job for you".

Becoming an expert DOM manipulator in vanilla javascript won't make you a good developer. DOM manipulation is incredibly trivial but involves a lot of grunt work, and jQuery is just a utility lib that makes the grunt work easier. Just like lodash, moment.js or any other lib.

I think people are just super salty because jQuery is popular, everyone uses it, which means that a lot of bad developers use it, and bad developers produce spaghetti code - which means that jQuery is bad? lol.

You know there's a lot of morons who eat pizza, does that mean that ordering pizza once in a while makes you a moron?

Writing good or bad code has nothing to do with jQuery, lodash, React, or any other library.

If you're a shit programmer you will write shit code. If you're a good programmer you won't.

If you're rendering server side, you're going to use imperative DOM manipulation library - jQuery is a good choice.

If you're rendering client side, you don't need jQuery, you're going to use a rendering library.

I don't get why people have problems with grasping such simple concepts.

/rant

Suck it New Zealand people.

In all seriousness this kind of thing should be discussed more openly. I'm afraid that political correctness leads to nothing more than repressed bigotry. Better than open bigotry but less better than actually trying to solve the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

That's what I thought!

edit: It's a (bad) joke.

It's kind of sad that it isn't.

Well said.

This leads to hilarious codebases where people dispatch actions in order to update input values or navigation dropdown open/closed states etc. Trivial apps that could be built over a weekend end up taking weeks to finish.

It's a sad reality but most people (including developers) take everything they read at face value and don't devote enough time to critical thinking. We should try to combat this.

I'm not saying it's your fault (it's not, you're great), but perhaps you should put a bit more effort into stating how what you're propagating is just one way of writing code and shouldn't be used in all situations (especially simple apps). I've actually seen you do that in a couple of places in the past few months and that's great.

I do feel a bit bad about sitting in my chair criticising while you're contributing with all this awesome stuff but you know... with great power comes great responsibility :-)

Racist.

/s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNbWGaaxWM

I've been using iPhones since 2009.

> By the same logic that a wound heals when you stop poking the scab.

Except that our governments see themselves as providing first aid to an infected wound. Infected wounds only get worse without treatment.

> If there's any lesson from the past 15 years, it is this: state engineering does not work. Period.

Their intention was (probably) good, execution on the other hand was less then stellar.

> You cannot control it. You don't "allow" anything. You cannot stop anything. The forces are beyond your control.

1940's France would beg to disagree. The Allies in WW2 clearly stopped the Axis powers and controlled their aggression.

> Americans and Europeans have to step out of the colonial mindset of trying to control the world.

Agreed.

Exatcly. It's important to clarify these things because so many inexperienced developers get lost in the maze of js tooling for no apparent reason.

Learning how to use these tools takes time which could be spent on learning how to program properly. And in some cases JS tooling isn't necessary at all, even in more complex projects. For example if you end up working in environments such as rails where most of these things are done automatically.

I've also noticed how people seem to look down on GUI tools such as https://incident57.com/codekit/. I think it's a great solution for beginners and people who don't need complex custom tooling.