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I agree with you 100%. Tipping is by far my biggest pet peeve followed by hidden surcharges, specialty taxes, and regular sales taxes that are all added on after I've emotionally committed to the advertised price.

What's more is that now almost any place that prepares food has a tip line or a tip jar. Kid behind the counter just scooped some icecream on a cone? "Tip please." Hand me a cup of coffee? "Add whatever amount you want to the already hyper-inflated price of that joe you got there. I poured it, remember?"

The worst offender that I've run into is a sandwich shop called Jersey Mikes. I absolutely love their food but they recently rolled out a new system that has me so annoyed that I will never go back. As part of the payment process you are now required to either select from a predetermined set of tip percentages or explicitly opt-out.

The thing is, I actually feel for the guy preparing my sandwich or the girl that writes down my order and hands it off. I know that unless they are a waiter in a swanky, up-scale restaurant or a bartender pretty much anywhere then they are probably not making a ton of money.

Yet customers are made to feel as though they have some moral or social obligation to bring them up to a livable wage. In reality what is happening is the restaurants & bars are passing on their wages directly on to us. We are expected to pay a tax so that they don't have to pay them enough to survive on.

Ah, this after I laid awake in bed (or so I believe) until 5, decided to get up and get to work. I'm cursing myself with insomnia by cycling in and out of 24, 48, and, in rare cases, 72 hour cycles. Yet I seem to work best with at least some degree of exhaustion.

I generally hit peak efficiency between 20 and 32 hours. Beyond that, I'll have bursts of productivity with the remaining time filled by mindless distractions. Those bursts last anywhere from thirty minutes to several hours but their frequency drops as the day(s) go on.

If I'm well rested I feel a lot better in general but I'm so easily distracted that my productivity drops like a rock.

Having written this,I suspect I'm on a perpetual downward spiral where my sleep patterns fuel an unhealthy lifestyle which I then remedy by subtracting sleep...

This was posted on reddit awhile ago but taken down and reposted several times.

This bio really made me go "wtf?":

Loraine was born in London. She was an ordinary, hardworking family person, with nothing to worry about beyond paying the rent at the end of the month or keeping the fridge full. Until in 2009 she came to Barcelona on holiday. Soon after she arrived her passport was stolen from her and she had a series of problems with the British embassy. Somebody had made illegal use of her passport. So Loraine found herself in a strange place, unable to get home. She didn’t know anyone there and her circumstances meant she couldn’t ask for help from England, either. She had to sell all her possessions and, in time, learn to speak Spanish. “Living in the street is a wonderful adventure,” she says. In the street she discovered a new city, a new country and a new culture. “There are lots of people who prefer to sleep under the stars.” She also made lots of friends who helped her in a completely unfamiliar world.

I'm not suggesting the company is involved but that story is incredibly suspect. They also seem to somewhat glamorize the "street life" in some of their bios.

Somewhat interesting that this occurs weeks after the tariff increase on subsidized Chinese solar panels. I wonder how closely those two events are aligned beyond mere coincidence.

Sherlocked:

To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update.

It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.

Lucky you. A lot of us were left with massive paperweights after 10.9.2 dropped: https://www.google.com/search?q=osx+10.9.2+monitor+site:disc...

I was still under warranty & nothing changed between that visit and the last. What does it matter how long I waited?

I had started to use a monitor and got a macbook air for when I needed to go mobile just so I didn't have to spend a day dealing with it. Over time I just forgot about it and if 10.9.2 hadn't been released preventing me from using my display, I probably would have kept going.

Sure, I spent a lot of money creating a temporary solution that I used for too long but that doesn't negate the facts:

1. It was a warranty issue, I was still under warranty (or a day out, but they explicitly told me that was fine)

2. Due to a mistake on their end, I wasn't able to get the repairs done when planned and was promised that I could bring it back whenever

3. Their reasoning for denying the warranty claim was due to light damage to the case. That damage occurred well over a year before the flickering started and there were notes backing that up.

"Uninspired rails port" is a far cry from accurate. I've worked with both rails and asp.net mvc. I started with rails in the 1.x days but also had clients that used .net. I despised web forms for a variety of reasons so I jumped on the mvc bandwagon as soon as the fist community preview was released.

Hack, Connery, Hanselman, & Guthrie openly acknowledge that rails was a source of inspiration in their book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470384611?ie=UTF8&tag=scob... but so was Spring, among others. Above all, I think the .net mvc framework was trying to capture the fasted-paced, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants essence of the rails way more than anything else. In doing so, they unearthed a lot of awesome concepts previously unknown to most .net developers like domain-driven design, tdd/bdd, dependency injection, scaffolding; old hats to Java and ruby guys.

The mvc .net team did an amazing job of breaking stride with the asp.net mentality of letting the framework do as much as possible. Yet .net was still very much confined by it's own structure, forcing the mvc framework to remain rigid. They opted for configuration over convention which, in my opinion, was by far the biggest differentiator in rails to the mvc frameworks that preceded it.

Yep, I understand the motive behind the requirement. There's a lot of good that can come out of it; students are forced to learn the "steps" or "mechanics," teachers can see where things went south and give partial credit or offer assistance, and finally it is a great way to circumvent cheating.

I totally get it and it makes total sense except for when it doesn't. The problem with our education system is that it's fundamentally flawed. It is designed to work best with the typical student being taught from a skill set chosen for optimal widget-making. People learn/think differently and yet we cater more and more to the mantra of pump-and-dump where children with the ability to retain the most frivolous information wins.

It took until my junior year as a comp-sci student for me to figure out what I personally needed to learn the material. I absolutely had to understand the big picture before I could ever attempt to solve the problems. If I didn't and I relied entirely on memorization then I was destined to fail.

In order for me to understand the big picture, I had to ask questions, sometimes a lot of them. Abstract questions would annoy some professors and certainly other students. Engineering classes, like most college classes, are full of people brought up in a system where the slide-show-after-slide-show of formulas, facts, or bullet points was all they needed. My questions were irrelevant and an interruption to their note taking.

Upon seeing the list of commands, I immediately thought "this is great! I could alias betty to b and then maybe a few more aliases here and there. I could take "betty next song" and make it 'b n s'!"

and then went "oooooh, so that's how this all started."

"You have to show your work Chance" was the sentence that drove me to despise school. As a 6th grade visual spatial student in a "gifted" algebra class, I could see the answer as if I were reading english but struggled to show my work.

I read/write slow and I have an incredibly hard time memorizing anything so I rebelled. Even after I got my act together, got my GED, and went to college I suffered through the various levels of Calculus because it was the same tune all over again. Classes like Linear Algebra were a lot harder for me to "see" but it was still faster & easier for me to take the time to visualize it.

[Millenials] take [their parents] on job interviews for support

No wonder my generation can't get a damn job.

Yelling at clouds is the best, especially if you have a cane handy.

"At age 1, Kristoffer got past the toddler lock screen on a cell phone by holding down the home key."

Not to be "that guy" or anything but I suspect it is pretty normal for a child to hold down a button.

First, what kind of lousy lock wouldn't safeguard against, what was likely either the only or one of a few buttons, being held down?

Second, sounds like proud father has made at least a few false connections. He is a geeky equivalent of a creationist museum tourist.

Came here to say the same. +1 to oh my zsh

Now that was an incredibly useful answer to my question. Thank you so very much.

Depends on a few factors:

- Type of employment. Is it a contract or "perm" position? Contract positions are expected to hop. It's part of the game.

- Timing. Are you in the middle of something? Can someone else easily pick it? Bailing in the middle of a big migration will leave a nasty taste in managers' mouths.

- Rank. Are you a CTO or a developer? The higher up you are, the longer you're expected to stay.

Changing jobs is something that you should do, in my opinion. Here's why:

- Versatility. You'll be exposed to new challenges/solutions, practices, and possibly languages.

- Network. If you do it properly, you'll establish a lot of new contacts in the industry

- Exposure. The same job at different companies may have different responsibilities and roles. You'll get a chance to build new skills or determine weaknesses.

- Pay. If you're hopping for the right reasons and doing it right, it is hands down the best way to get a pay boost. Once you're "in" a bigger company, they'll put you on a standardized raise ladder. Sure, you can get promoted but those will often have calculations involved that reduce your elevation. With hopping, you can set expectations (I need X% more to jump).

Problems with job hopping:

- Bridges. You'll burn them.

- Fatigue. It's a lot more time and emotionally consuming than you'll realize to look for work. Interviews are exhausting (and intentionally so).

- Loyalty. You won't have any.

- Rank. It's hard to climb a ladder when you're jumping off of them.

Some of these remind me of sites I was building in the 90s. I love how design flows in circles

Could this be government bots setup to intercept traffic?

Brilliant

Clickable: http://demo.forage.at

>> You said the deals aren't real. I guess I was confused, I thought this was automatically aggregating all the deals from other services.

Ah, I see. I just meant the deals are fake, as in please don't show up at the restaurants and ask for a $5 burrito because "you saw it on forage"

>> If you are having to go talk to restaurants and secure deals themselves, this idea won't scale. Just being up front.

Neither. Restaurants & bars manage their own promotions.

>> No, the design is obviously done by a non-designer. That's okay to start off with.

Ouch. Outside of the logo and the specific pages (deal, restaurant) I actually thought the design was decent. I'm horrible at branding so I hired a designer but he came up with something horrible. I'm just using the current logo as a placeholder.

>> Marketing 1 feature > Adding more features

It really depends on the features, product, and audience. Social networking integration would go leaps and bounds above blogging.

>>I highly recommend the book "Start Small Stay Small" by Rob Walling, it is a great business book for micropreneurs. Also Rob has a great podcast "Startups for the Rest of Us" that I think you would like.

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks again.

Did you visit demo.forage.at or just forage.at? If you didn't go to the demo, it would explain the non-functionality.

First off, thanks for taking the time to give me feedback. Responses below.

>>It's not an MVP, it's just a mockup really.

How so? It's fully functional. I added a setting to disable all filtering (location, timing, tags) because I didn't want to have to schedule a ton of deals to match unforeseeable criteria.

>> Cut the amount of copy, the site is WAY too wordy. Read some blog posts about copywriting

Heh, I'm certainly not a writer. Thank you for the feedback on it, I'll try and trim it back.

>> - it doesn't need more features yet. Make the features you are showing work

What's not working? Did you run into something specific? If you're talking about filtering, I covered that above.

>> and then clean up the design on them

A large part of the design challenge is lack of content. As features are added, the content will fill out, allowing me to fill out the design. I also couldn't spend a horrible amount of time on the design itself. I'd love to hear feedback on what you didn't like specifically though if you have time.

>> Start a blog and a podcast, interviewing exciting restauranteurs. Use content to build the Forage brand

Agreed to an extent. At this stage I'm going to devote my days to door-to-door pitches to get restaurants on board while my nights will be spent developing features based on feedback from restaurateurs. I'm not funded so I have to cram as much as I can in. I realize the value of a blog though, well to an extent.

>> keep rockin

Thanks again :)

http://i.imgur.com/YmNjN.png - best I've gotten from them recently.

I'm generally a pretty big fan of remote work. I think it reduces overhead, can increase productivity for the right person/teams, and ultimately frees up time for the employee which they return in kind to their employer.

Congress is not an industry I would trust to be away from video monitoring, however lame it may very well be.

Here is 2013 House Calendar: http://i.imgur.com/oxkekO2.png The dark days, 126 in total, are when they are supposed to be working. Catch CSPAN on a lame bill and see how many of them show up. Now imagine what it would be like if those pesky cameras weren't there and/or an aid could dial in.

Thanks for the book recommendation. I went to buy it off of Amazon and got a reminder of just how screwed up the book publishing market is screwed up. The electronic version is almost $3.00 (22%) more than the paperback.

>> I certainly support research, but isn't there a sequester looming

Looming? No. It has already taken affect.

>> I would be happier if Obama took steps to raise taxes.

Do tell, what steps would you have him take? The Republicans have sworn to not raise taxes at all. They control the house and have unleashed a record smashing set of filibusters (and no, not the Rand Paul style) in the senate. Thanks to gerrymandering, they can (and must) hold stedfast to ideologues. There's also the corporate interests to look after.

>> At the place I work we lost an employee due to grant shortages.

Classic. You want taxes to be raised so your employment can be safeguarded. Meanwhile the grants, and jobs in turn, are a waste of time and energy.

Woah, the hackernews effect is quite impressive. The github project more than doubled in stars (now at 280) over the past 6 hours since posting this.

Thanks, I appreciate the heads up. I prefer the Vundle style approach personally but options are always great :)