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I think you mean "sold by Amazon"? Third parties can take advantage of prime shipping, and people have been scammed via that method as well.

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When someone says "a couple thousand" you think of 200k as a lower bound?

Yeah, I got the same vibe. Don't forget coming up with a world-changing solar energy breakthrough that nobody responds to simply because he doesn't have credentials. I mean, it's certainly possible. But what is the _likely_ scenario here?

One of the awesome things about Blue Apron is that they make their recipes available on their site: http://www.blueapron.com/cookbook/

I've never signed up for their $$$ervice but I've tried a couple of their recipes. Sure, a few of them have hard-to-find ingredients or a spice blend that they don't share details on, but the rest are very possible to source yourself.

I wonder what the judicial system would look like if people were completely truthful and forthcoming. It seems like 90% of a lawyer's job revolves around dishonesty. That's got to be a frustrating career.

I'm sorry that happened to you. I think thoughtful feedback is so important (for any job!) but it never seems to happen. If you're doing well, you might get a generic pat on the back. If you go off the rails you don't hear about it until it's practically too late, if at all. It's one of those things where if everything's going OK, it's like your team doesn't even exist, but if something goes wrong suddenly upper management knows all your names.

The most frustrating thing about the slippage is that you couldn't really point to anything as the reason it happened. It wasn't just "poor management" or "poor effort" or "changing specs". I still can't satisfactorily answer WHY. Actually I wonder if the whole team wasn't burned out before we even started.

I haven't figured out what direction I want to go this time. If I want to be more contractor-ish I might go for mobile again, but if I'm honest with myself I prefer working on web apps. Just getting tired of the recruiters and company culture that seem inextricably connected with working on them.

I am currently on an indefinite hiatus/sabbatical/vacation after quitting my job at the beginning of June. I had been working on a project I didn't enjoy for a year and a half, culminating in the most horrible failed iterations I've ever been a part of: a new feature we started last November -- that should have taken maybe two months -- didn't get finalized until May. I've never been so discouraged and burned out on programming in my life.

I knew I'd need time to "heal" after that experience. It took a month and a half but I'm finally starting to feel interested in coding again. I'm really glad I took that time (and that I was lucky enough to have the means and an understanding SO).

One company I worked had 9-hour workdays, and then every other Friday we had off. It was pretty nice, but it was also before kids came into the picture. Now a 6-hour workday sounds amazing.

Bingo. Here's an example from a room with a centered bay window: http://images.younghouselove.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/02/Ap... So you have to go back with a measuring tape and amend all the measurements anyway, because it's so inaccurate.

Full article reviewing MagicPlan and RoomScan: http://www.younghouselove.com/2014/03/apps-and-zerts/

Good luck! You seem to have a lot of ambition so I bet you have a good shot at making it work. Maybe you can take orders for $5k apps while you're making the $1k apps!

Well, it may not be a dinosaur in terms of age, but it certainly is in terms of its featureset. Given IE's track record, the fact that it was the latest version 20 months ago doesn't mean it was a GOOD version 20 months ago.

That's my point -- if you haven't upgraded by now, you might not be able to. Period. Which is not to say I think they should fully support IE9. I'm just saying that (maybe misguidedly) I expect Trello users to be a little smarter than the average bear.

If you're desperate for new features, you might not care if the CSS is a little wonky.

What does this mean for Mt. Gox users? I know it would be for next year's return and we're not even sure how much has been lost yet since they are apparently still "finding" wallets.

That makes sense. I'm sure you know this already, but make sure you have a lock-tight contract for exactly what you're going to deliver. There's no room for scope creep in a $1k app!

Understood, but it's money that's already been spent. I just wanted to point out he'd also need some other form of income to support himself while he makes the apps, even if it's only $250 a month.

I like the general idea, but (to me) the investment seems way too low. $1000 for a full-fledged game, and you plan to make 8 of them? In what time frame? It also seems like this class is for people completely new to Obj-C and the like. I have to wonder how realistic it is to expect to be pumping out that quantity of games the moment you finish a two-month course.

Let's say (hugely optimistically) you work your butt off and complete all 8 games within a year. You just used a whole year to make $8000 that you've already spent.

Again, I like the idea, but I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all price that will be fair to either party. I hope you've explored the legal ramifications of this setup. If you can't make the games in a reasonable time frame, are you going to be on the hook for all this money?

He kind of skips over this, but the way he says you don't even get served the "collection of files" until your browser is determined makes me think they're using the request header.

So maybe that 8.48% decrease is just people starting to spoof.

I feel like if you're savvy enough to be using Trello and yet still on IE9, there might be a reason you haven't upgraded.

I haven't found that there's much overhead at all. And there are a LOT of benefits... for instance, you can use a much leaner framework on the services side, since all you really "need" is routing. The services can (should?) run on separate boxes, so you can divvy up labor vertically. You can also version the API so that when you want to make changes, you don't have to upgrade your web app all at once.

I have a feeling you don't know what Brendan Eich invented...

Well... yeah. Remember FairPlay? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay

This code is not "quite clean." The only thing it has going for it is mostly decent naming. This is some of the most tightly coupled code I've seen written this _century_. This is the kind of code that gives PHP a bad rap.

That's awful. I would expect more from Amazon. I guess they've decided that, in absence of looking at your actual work, they have to find other metrics by which to measure your performance -- like how many minutes per day your butt is in your seat. What a faulty metric. I'm sorry you wasted your time there, but just know that they'll get the programmers they deserve, and 95% of the places out there will appreciate the qualities you describe.

What is strange about the Chinese situation is that top women are not chosen _despite an oversupply of men_. You can't make the same argument about there being an oversupply of positions for PhDs. The article itself says there are "limited academic positions," and who would expect a company to hire a PhD when an MBA would suffice? What PhD would feel satisfied with a job an MBA could handle?

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Upworthy is the worst. "Murder is bad! # Agree # Disagree" And where do they post the results of all these hard-hitting surveys they do?

Yes, the DTW big revolving door is much more natural. I didn't even understand the purpose of the "coffins" at first glance, I thought they were some kind of body scanner due to their cylindrical glass design.

As for over-engineering: the SLC airport just uses a down escalator as the exit.

You would think that the "A-team" would have already been on such a high-profile and time-sensitive project from the beginning, but who knows.

No matter how you feel about Obamacare I think it's had an effect I certainly never would have predicted: At this point it's become kind of an indictment of the software industry, whether deserved or undeserved. It seems like every news story ends up insinuating that devs are incompetent.