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Even worse, they have to pay taxes in every state they play in because they're working in that state. It's called the jock tax. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_tax

I suspect it's a bit like the security field. Some are useful and bring value. Some are hired so when something goes wrong there's a person to blame and a head to axe.

I think it depends entirely on the leadership team and company culture. I work for a company with unlimited PTO and it works well. They encourage people to take it and managers kee…

This is both funny and depressing.

Is it possible she's doing it for her own sake? It might be that dressing up like that makes her feel better about herself. She might feel more confident and sexy when dressed up. …

One issue with immutable data stores for businesses is compliance with things like GDPR. You need some mechanism for scrubbing data and its version history effectively making it no…

For anyone interested in learning more I recommend the 99% Invisible episode on it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/

Yup, being poor is expensive.

There was a pretty interesting TED talk on this subject that includes how they used indoor plants to help clear up the air at an office building in India. https://www.ted.com/talks…

Yes, they just won't run. Many sunny places don't have plows and such to handle snow. If it happens to snow, the entire place grinds to a halt. Even if the cars can handle the bad …

99% Invisible did a good episode about the Green Book. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-green-book/

The company I worked at did a 2 week long hackathon. Another developer and I built a Ruby gem that creates service objects which integrate nicely into the Rail ecosystem. It was a …

Using j and k to scroll is really nice. One of my favorite things is that you can use marks. I'll mark where I am while reading, scroll back to check something, and then jump back …

If you have the time, go to local meetups. They can help you build a solid network and often have information about employers looking to hire. My last two jobs came from networking…

For those not familiar with rr: http://rr-project.org/

...on Windows.

If it's this importing why not propose it: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Ruby has a place for this sort of thing and they'll answer you.

It's a video game for her. She doesn't look at the photos in the morning, she just responds to keep the chain going. It's like grinding. She has a score, tries to improve it, get t…