This is my anecdotal experience with a company that built a software product. The majority of engineers were men. The product owners (those that had final say) were not engineers but business majors. They had more influence as to the product result than the engineering team did. Just because engineering isn't 50/50 doesn't mean that women are not adding to technology development.

That's still a good amount of time to be useful for things like island hopping.

I agree. When I started off I did two things wrong that ended costing me a lot of experience. I didn't start off simple enough, and I didn't seek help when I really needed it. You need experience planning your program and going large at all will make planning difficult. If you do a larger project break it out into smaller projects, proof of concept each feature separately. When you feel you have a grasp on the pieces then try to put it together. You will find things you thought were simple take a long time.

I thought when I was at the apple store it was higher. Guess I was wrong. Thanks pointing out. $100 for a $10 - $20 battery is still crazy expensive. The idea remains. Replacing the battery replacement cost is 20% of the device. This makes for a strong motivator to buy the latest and greatest. Going elsewhere isn't for the average consumer. They don't want to think about it or take risk and a non-apple repair facility.

There is, it's why you have to pay a $150 service charge to replace the battery. The planned obsolescence is the lifespan of the battery. Which should be around 2 - 3 years.

Yes. The same one, and at the end they said they got threatened to be sued for using the wrong year in a classified ad. It was like they were trying to hit every american stereotype.

That episode, and the the episode where they were trying to buy a car for like $500 in Florida are the episodes that made me stop watching. After watching those two I couldn't trust anything they said anymore and ruined ruined the experience. It was like Bear Grylls getting caught in a hotel on a shoot.

They need to compare it to how often drivers use their phone in their car. I know the first thing I do on my commute is make calls. I'm not very social but it wouldn't take much for me to be using the phone 25% of the time while I'm driving.

Also, you must have spent no time using C. In C you know exactly what you're working with. It's a simple model where you're working closer to physical memory. PHP likes to "magic" everything. The only thing C like about it is how you call functions, and even with that, you had to add headers to get any functionality, so you still knew where things were coming from. With PHP you have a vast library of functions on the global scope.

Yes, your correct. PHP is the only language anyone written anything worth while in and programmers that think about what they write before they write it are worthless. Thanks for your insight. BTW, I'm sure Zuck and gang cursed PHP and its authors a million times while writing code.

Php (Personal Home Pages) is already something it was never intended to be. It's the "hey thats a nice feature, let me add a crappy implementation of it" language. If you mean "turn PHP into something never inteded to be" as turning it into something not absolutely horrible to work with then OK. Anything they do is going to be better than PHP. You would have to try really hard to make it worse.

Just wooshed and modded you down. Fixing with a comment.

I keep many, many tabs open all the time in osx and windows and have no issues. Are you sure you don't have a problematic plugin.

On ubuntu, on my home machine, I find firefox unusable even after much tweaking.

I also notice that chrome handles bad javascript much better than firefox. Other than that I think firefox is a fine browser.

I'm sure most of the security exploits have to do plugins. Its a common trade off, lock it down and make it more secure or open it up and make it potentially more usable.

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80-100k sallery
I think you're low on everything else
plus probably 30k on workmans comp (state mandated insurance)
plus employee tax if cities have to pay that