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And why is that? Do you not agree that time is our most valuable asset?

I'm fine with tests, but only if companies pay a standard fee (say, $100) for a dev's time. If a company doesn't respect your time during the interview process, it probably won't w…

I'm definitely for prison reform, and for mitigating wealth inequality. However, the fact that our prisons are overcrowded and we have a lot of poor people in our country does not …

Nothing was stolen, but if the person keeps doing it and is caught, that's just more evidence against them. Things like this often play out over a long period of time. I'd rather w…

That's an nearly impossible metric to pin down. You'd have to ask criminals who would have done something in specific instances whether the cameras dissuaded them from doing it. Go…

Our cameras have helped us identify the person who broke into our car a few weeks ago. That is not theater.

It's part of my overall security solution. I also have an alarm system among other things. After being the victim of a $30k heist, I learned not to rely on just 1 method of detecti…

It's interesting how the article accuses Ring and Amazon of selling via fear, but that's also exactly what the article itself is selling. I live in Albuquerque. We have Ring camera…

No, but throwing around political accusations as epithets in a non-political discussion might.

You’re assuming the owners did everything according to contract and above-board. Maybe they didn’t. Ever considered that? Even if they did, perhaps they just got lucky and were abl…

Sure, every team wants to win. But what utility does that observation have? What’s the alternative? To me, what’s important is what happens when a given team has power.

False equivalency. Look more closely at the kinds of things being done by both parties and you will see a major effort to concentrate wealth, destroy government, and institute a mo…

I recommend you get your news from somewhere other than Breitbart and Fox News.

"The response is pure politics" "That political hack of a mayor". I see exactly one person making a humanitarian disaster political, and I'm replying to him. You act as if a mayor …

Reynolds and Reynolds in Houston.

The problem with comments is that they are too often lies. As the code changes, the comments may not necessarily be updated, and in my experience, they often aren't. Automated docu…

One person's middleware bloat is another's power tool.

Kudos to this guy. I'm in my early 30s. My wife and I sold our house almost 2 years ago, bought an RV, and we've been traveling debt-free ever since. Feels good, man. But it's not …

When I lived in Austin in 2006-2008, the traffic was atrocious, and it's only gotten worse in most areas. That city has a particularly profound infrastructure expansion problem, an…

Life-long Texan here, and I couldn't disagree more. I grew up in the rural pandhandle area and lived in Amarillo, Austin and Houston. Now, I'm living on the road in an RV, driving …

Perhaps the link title should more accurately describe the post content, then. It's up to the author and link submitter to clearly communicate.

My experience after building almost a dozen single page apps using JS frameworks and sometimes just jQuery has been the complete opposite. With jQuery, things are easy to get going…