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It's what you don't want to wake up next to after a night of drinking.

Damn, couldn't they do something about her cheeks?

Drink booze. But not too much. Sort of like college, but with limits.

I would rather click zero times and just read the damn thing.

If you don't like ads, block them. I like well formatted text that doesn't require user intervention every time I go to a new page. That's sort of the entire fucking POINT of web design.

Chances are during that time your income went up too, and you were no longer someone who really gave a shit about a $20 difference on a piece of gear and were willing instead to pay that $20 or whatever it was to an outfit like newegg to make sure their excellent service continued.

Someone who makes a handsome living through salary but was laid off could very well turn into an entrepreneur through no direct desire of their own.

Give me a fucking break, this is the kind of shit that led to the first dot com bubble.

You either sell or develop in a startup, if you're doing neither or these, you're useless. Pick one and do it.

This is one thing that I have never liked about my fellow programmers/developers.

They sit around and speculate and arrogantly pontificate to no end when all that's really needed is a direct question to a person who can provide a direct answer.

Just ask the fucking doctor if he really believes in homeopathy, and if he does, switch providers.

> that seems unfair

LOL welcome to life, buddy.

Have cash or the ability to get it. That's what all those other activities you mentioned really mean.

My honest advice to you is go to college and do drugs and drink booze and have sex, 3 things you've probably never done before in your life. College is an excellent place to do all those things for the first time. The corner of Geary and Polk is not.

Get that shit (into and) out of your system before you move to SF or you'll never make it out alive. Trust me on this one.

SF is a fucking dangerous place if you go there without your adventure meter properly calibrated.

That's not necessarily the catch of TI, the Marina also suffers from that unfortunate side effect during earthquakes. The real catch is that nobody knows how toxic the soil is.

I upvoted you because this is a straight up reality check.

It's a trap.

What/who the fuck is Harris? Get out of the South.

-Someone on the West Coast.

You're one of those name-dropping douchebags who likes to go out of his way to post in a thread where he can drop a bunch of names like he's an important person.

> I'm not ok with eating ramen.

Real ramen is really good. Like the kind you order in a restaurant.

When the fuck did "killer" replace "competitor" in the English language?

Quite honestly I think that guy is a grade A loser.

> IT decisions made by upper management of a large company are almost always terrible.

Yeah, that's called power. They have it, so they make the decisions with the money. If you want to make the decisions, figure out a way to get into power.

That's Reality with a capital R, folks.

Do you really need a poll for this? Just like every other tech site it's a bunch of 18-35 year old dudes sitting around clicking reload every 20 minutes.

Does anyone know of a site on the net where AmEx customers have come together to complain or at least contribute anecdotes so we can get an overall feel of how many customers this is really affecting?

If venture capitalists are getting their purchases denied, this concerns me as a small business owner because I depend on my amex card more than anything else to make purchases for my business and having my buyer protection and ability to make large purchases disappear would be pretty devastating. Buying goods like computers and furniture from multiple vendors with cash out of my bank account is an awful idea that should make anyone uneasy, business owner or not.

And if AmEx is actively shutting their largest and most high-profile accounts down, I'm not sure how easy it would be to get a new "unlimited" line of credit in this environment, with AmEx or any other company.

$3k isn't going to last you very long in San Francisco.

Yeah, they should have just called it "marketing", but I can understand why they didn't, because their audience hates words that non-technical people like to use.

> I feel my way around it. I'll use my editor/debugger/REPL to jump me from place to place to build up a non-visual structure of the program in my head.

This is interesting because I am a "visual" developer and have never really used a gdb-style debugger at all in nearly 10 years of professional dev experience.

I prefer isolating problematic code programmatically and refactoring my mental picture of the architecture/data structures until I can mentally visualize what's going wrong in my math/logic. This has given me grief with hairy pointer code where running something like 'printf' actually changes stuff in memory that you're trying to look at, but I really just don't understand how anyone can use a debugger to step through things one line at a time when that's essentially what I'm doing in my head when I look at code.

Then again I've never worked on anything as complex as, say, an OS kernel, so what do I know.

I think having two incredibly popular cult-like blogs probably had much more to do with it than the "9 building blocks" or whatever that every other site on the internet now has.

This is so stupid.

> wonder how 'hacker safe' their system really is

It's not. Not more than anyone else, anyway. 37signals and Fog Creek are masters of marketing and mind control. There are free tools, or at least superior commercial tools, that do everything their stuff does.

> It is like IRC where you can get msgs by SMS/IM/email/etc

So in other words it's not like IRC at all.

Why is everything written by a Ruby programmer so damn long-winded?