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Does the driver typically not get paid when a chargeback occurs?

Your site's readability would be greatly improved if you darkened the text color. #444 or darker is good enough for a white background.

There are tradeoffs to both. Server-side will always have a seat at the table. Ex - populating a simple key-value select statement will always perform better using server-side.

I agree with you, what did the author think was going to come out of a Startup/hacking weekend? You are basically giving away your talents at those events. One has to manage expectations better, and also avoid the Billys of the world.

Work force disruption is an unfortunate side effect of technological disruption. If your solution is NOT to embrace change because you don't want to see disruption take place then that's not a long-term solution.

Edit: I'd like to expand on this with a (not so) hypothetical. Autonomous cars are already here. How long until we have automated taxis? Let's just say 10 years. Would you make them illegal to keep the taxi workforce in place?

There is disruption in virtually every workforce because of the Information Era. Our work force will have to adapt.

It doesn't require a Facebook account. I use Spotify and I never sign in with my Facebook account for anything.

edit: I live in the U.S.

Every top-level comment so far has started about by saying that this is exciting and awesome. The rest of the comments are full of accolades. That is drinking kool-aid. And it's okay to do that. Now let's get back to our hacker roots and start tinkering to see if this carries any weight. Everything is a trade off in technology - so what are we gaining by using this? And what's the cost? Is there a clear benefit?

Broke his ribs? My wife, a critical care cardiac nurse, tells me that if you're doing it right then it is very likely that you will break ribs when giving CPR.

I go along with magic tricks because I want to fulfill the illusion, not break it. It's the polite thing to do.

I can't get behind the article's idea that Angular is built by people who are non-front-enders for non-front-enders. It's a bold statement that hasn't been supported.

I'm an avid user of Angular and as far as performance goes: you have to be aware of the hefty digest cycle.

We should all be well aware of the downsides of Angular. Just like any technology, there are upsides and there are downsides. When used right, Angular is a powerful tool and the downsides can usually be mitigated.

If I had to help support this article then I would restate the problem statement: the field of web development has exploded and the barriers to entry are nil. Frameworks now have to be built in such a way that they can hold up to the abuse and misuse by less experienced devs.

My theory is that gender inequality (less women than men, or vice versa) will cause the minority gender to have less of a say.

It seems supported by the article's last example:

"Professor Burris and his colleagues studied a credit union where women made up 74 percent of supervisors and 84 percent of front-line employees. Sure enough, when women spoke up there, they were more likely to be heard THAN men."

You are poorly assuming that 50% of books are written by men.

I disagree with this post. Churn is the byproduct of evolution. Libraries will slowly die and fade away but we learn with each misstep. Sure, there is a lot of redundancy in the work but each different library/framework/plugin/shim is a mutation. The good ones pass down traits to future libraries.

Survival of the fittest. Churn is just necessary. The front end world is a huge ecosystem which is constantly evolving.

I believe they switch out daily.

Exactly, you described it more to the point and I was simplifying it down quite a bit. Success doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Guys and gals. If you don't do any exercise or do very little then this comment is for you.

Forget about all this crap out there about how to get results with the least amount of work. Instead, just go do something active that you ENJOY and can repeat. Health is about a LIFESTYLE change that you can persist.

We can go on and on about how they were lucky and it would all be true. The fact that they were born where and when they were, the connections that fell in to place, etc. are all opportunities they were afforded. But you still can't have the success that Warren Buffet and Bill Gates had without also being incredibly talented and hard working. You could then go on to say that they were born with higher than normal ability (another form of luck). However, it all just sounds so cyclical. So I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes which I think boils it down very simply:

“Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity" -Lucius Seneca (Roman Stoic Philosopher)

I learned Python on this site. Started from the beginning until I had to start skipping a few.

And cashing out your 401k while holding a Top Secret clearance sounds like a major red flag. If he did cash it out, I wonder if he stuck around to pay the tax penalties for doing so?

I showed this to my wife and she didn't get it right away. I explained it to her then she said 'Does this mean I need to go?' because we were gchat'ing and I was working at the time (aka waiting for Eclipse to respond). I regrettably told her that we need to wrap it up.

No it's not clear but it was helpful. There is an implication that a simple imgur link could be a mirror of the comic image. But then you would have to know that the content of the article was a comic image.

I enjoyed your comment so I don't want you to think I'm being rude but I think there is a difference between trying a drug (maybe more than once) versus becoming addicted to it and needing to quit.

My best (and personal) example is that I would smoke a cigarettes with friends back in college whenever we were out and drinking. It provided a good additional buzz and it was somewhat social. I'd even buy my own pack so I could have one if my other smoking buddies weren't around (also when I was out drinking). I averaged 2-4 cigarettes per week and I'd even go weeks without smoking as well. It was sporadic and I didn't enjoy cigarettes any other time. When I saw people smoking during the daytime I would actually be kind of disgusted at the thought of smoking. So I guess my point is... was I addicted? I don't think I was. Was there ever a line that I would say that I "quit smoking"? Eventually I did stop my "casual" routine. Even now, I think I would still smoke a cigarette if I was put back into similar situations.

I think it's completely reasonable to have tried a drug many times and not be considered addicted. On the contrary, many of those same college friends I smoked with I would consider to be addicted. It wasn't a limited activity. It was an anytime and anywhere activity.

I'm not sure I see this as anything more as a co-branding strategy.

Apples and oranges. Amazon - a customer pays them money - 30% net margin Pandora - ad-based revenue

No, you are thinking of TCP. This is an article about HTTP. (in terms of bandwidth, HTTP ⊆ TCP)

I draw the line on what a real error - 4xx doesn't seem to fit the bill. If you want information then a 2xx code and/or a JSON body would be ideal (for me).

I think this is the crux of the debate is where do you draw the line?

I disagree. Use the clearer set of instructions. Do not leave confusing instructions in place just because the target demographic can decipher them while others are left in confusion.

Women - did you know that on golf courses the attendant who serves you beer is commonly referred to as a beer girl? Did you know that it describes the attendant perfectly because she is in fact a girl who is serving beer.

What if, the attendants at the hackathon were in fact an all lady staff?

Extrovery & Introverts compliment each other extremely well. Imagine if Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak where both introverts.... or if they were both extroverts. That tandem would have never played out as well.

I see jQuery misused every day, I'm pretty sure I was one of those terrible people a couple years ago. Since then I hardly use jQuery anymore except for delegate() and that's only because I haven't explored other libraries to replace it.

jQuery, if used responsibly, is still a good library.

Unfortunately, you are correct that the culture around it stinks. jQuery is the tool of choice for bad developers to write bad code.