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Cool logic... the money you have in your savings account that you haven't touched for two years should be given to charity. Thank you for your donation.

Elaboration time... I did this in the UK, similar likely applies in the states.

I used to be an 'independent contractor'. I work for companies doing ecommerce / Java / Consulting work. I work a fixed term contract and leave when the project is complete.

I set up a limited liability company with me as the director and the only employee. When I get a contract (work), the client hires my company rather than hiring me directly. Depending on your specific tax laws, you pay a lot less tax using this kind of setup i.e. you pay yourself a low salary and the rest in (low tax) dividends.

This is the standard way most IT contractors operate.

"Using ZFS as a replacement of Git for is probably not a good idea"

That's from the article... You know... that thing you didn't read?

I don't know what the correct term is for the kind of title here but it's not supposed to be literal.

EDIT: title is tongue in cheek.. maybe even linkbait but in a clever way rather than a negative way.

All the keypads I've used in stores have been physically removable and I always cover. I'm guessing the key pad was also tampered with.

I have never put this card in an ATM. It must have been skimmed from a swipe machine in a restaurant.

I still don't know how they got my pin. I can't imagine anyone looking at my pin in a restaurant. It seems like such a hard and non-scalable way to do this kind of thing.

Good timing. Someone skimmed by credit card and took $1600 AUD out of two cash machines in $800 batches.

I've never used this card in an ATM so it must be from a store that swiped my card.

Here's my questions though, how did the fraudster know my pin number to be able to use the cloned credit card in an ATM?

What does 'fix deployed' mean? How do you actually update pacemaker software? Are you going to wait for 100% of the deployed pacemakers are fixed? What is an acceptable fix rate before you release the exploit?

I work with a very well known Java and Spring based ecommerce platform. I find that people new to the platform, regardless of Java and Spring experience, take a while to produce really good design and code.

You might know the frameworks and languages but sometimes you need experience in the specific platform.

I work in consultancy so I rarely have time to up skill someone into the platform.

Is my platform brown?

My point still stands. How do you know that I didn't hire you because I hate gays but I tell everyone I didn't hire you because of that one Java question you got wrong. It's very very hard to prove and can be expensive to take to take to court.

People like you with your rosy view of the world make it hard for people with real problems to get by.

You can't regulate this. How do you know why I didn't really hire you?

No really, The IRS will use something like Red Hat and the Red Hat Corporation will be providing a level of guarantee which the IRS can fall back on should they need to.

If they just pull patches from the community themselves, when something goes wrong they will have to take the blame themselves and people will think they are foolish being so reckless. As a techie, this option may seem feasible to you but then again you're just some random guy on HN who probably thinks node.js is the be all and end all of IT. I doubt you've got the intelligence (cleary) or the experience (very cleary) to understand how the IT industry works at a human, risk management and legal level.

Something tells me you did not understand the above comment... He's saying the IRS could shift responsibility based on the fact they paid the worlds biggest software vendor 11mil... Switching to Linux puts the responsibility back in the IRS's court...

I'm not surprised at the junk replies to this.

Java has many many more jobs than there are good developers. The three buzz word frameworks will stick you in smaller projects that will ultimately pay less. Don't get sucked into the hype.

If you want to see big projects where you will be able to accelerate your career, I would definitely be looking towards the enterprise and consultancy space.

Most people on here will push you towards the over-saturated market of JavaScript (insert framework of the week here). Personally, I would get to grips with something with a less hispter vibe that is oversaturated with devs taking low pay.

Learn Java, learn the Spring framework, learn Tomcat. These enterprise standard java based technologies will set you up for a solid and well paid career.

This doesn't necessarily mean food.

It also doesn't apply 100% of the time. Does anything?

It's easy to get sucked in for someone people. I moved to the other side of the world recently. These FB owned services allow communication and sharing between my friend, family and wife's family very easy. It makes us all feel less distant.

I understand the downsides though.

Putting Java in your JSP and using a StringBuilder to create HTML.. Oh dear.

Ironically, one of the subsequent chapters is on clean / quality code in the platform....

If it's an asian male we'll get people like you noticing it's an asian male... if we make it a black women we'll get people noticing it's a black women.

It honestly doesn't matter. I've personally never seen anyone in IT of east asian descent anyway.

Get over yourself.

What on earth are you talking about?

The old design did not work across a set of devices. The new design works across a greater number of these device.

Please suggest an alternative.

note: device could mean anything from phone to small netbook.

10 hour work days! Jeez, I have a life outside of the office. If you're going to offer a 4 day work week, stop making me miss my daughters bedtime (or evening surfing time) for the privilege.