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There are plenty of successful applications with bad UIs. Also, business logic is encapsulated in code - if that's borked, no amount of UI will save it.

If you are in the US, make sure you are up to speed on any county/local regulations and tax laws about running a business. Even as a freelancer and depending on your area, you may …

An S-Corp will increase your risk of audit. Don't go it alone, make sure you and your accountant are dotting all i's and crossing all t's.

Yup, the local markets often only cater to the entry-level, casual users. That's where their profit margins are. If you need something niche/higher-end your only options are to go …

Eh, they do compete. Service and prices are solid and often better than competitors. There's zero need to be doling out lawsuits.

Agreed, attacking degree programs is a red herring. Also, what kind of society would we be if the only subjects available to pursue were a select list of STEM programs?

It's not true, it's just a trite, condescending right-wing talking point repeated ad nauseum all over the Web whenever a discussion of minimum wage pops up.

> Mod_php was always faster at executing scripts. There is less overhead as you don't have to communicate like you have to with fpm. The "overhead" of communicating via CGI to a PH…

Sounds like applying a Wikipedia-esque model to social media? I like it.

> I would never discourage anyone from self-employment I would, especially if they are in their prime earning years and are trying to become independent contractors. Software engin…

> But proven bank deposits over multiple years also counts. That's just one factor. Banks are looking to minimize risk and from the perspective of banks, self-employment increases …

> the one way street that capitalism established. > It has nothing to do with capitalism > But if we moved towards actual, functional capitalism What you are making is the classic …

> high price communities where everything works, surrounded by large swaths of shanty towns where nothing works. This isn't something that's only attributable to CA. Economically d…

Wholesale data collection has become normalized in the US. For-profits, non-profits, it doesn't matter the industry, everyone is obsessed with capturing as much data as possible an…

I think the lede is buried here, since it doesn't sound like any of them regretted their decision of seeking more meaningful work. The take-away seems to be that it may not happen …

MVC has been around since the 70s and is one of the most formative design patterns. Hardly obsolete.

I mean, the underlying code base is still PHP (granted the code base is awful) but there's a lot of Java spaghetti code out there too you know.

> PHP is horrible as a language Eh, that's not really the case anymore either. It's made many improvements over the years. Not that I'm saying it's some wonderful language, but you…

It's corporate click-bait from Dollar Shave Club. Not sure why this is on the front page of HN. Sign of the times I suppose?

> MTB is still very tempting but the falls are more frequent. Falls aren't any more frequent riding XC than on a road bike. I'm about to turn 40 and I much prefer the flow of good …

> Vodka is a terrible spirit in most respects. It's a terrible spirit in all respects. A good whisky is the choice of the discerning drinker. Vodka is the Budweiser of spirits. Bes…

I thought it was salient and not at all preachy. I came to similar conclusions several years ago. The lack of social safety nets in the US is a heavy burden in the long run for ind…

Is it low though? You read all the time that your average American barely has any money set aside for retirement or that they often need to leverage credit cards for emergencies. E…

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