Lol. I had a removals company move our office furniture over the weekend. We made small talk all morning and at the end they finally asked what we do. I said we write software.

.. like antivirus...?

.. sort of, more like company wants to solve a problem with computers and we build it

.. like games..?

.. (giving up) yeah games

I don't have the second one

I like women with real eyebrows. The drawn on ones are really bad.

@OrestH my guess actually is the code in the image is more efficient (discounting the long long and unnecessary comparisons) because there would be one instruction for each case.

A log is probably a few instructions, one more for add, one comparison...

I'll confess I probably would have used sprintf and strlen because I'm lazy and that's the worst option..

I like how there's a staircase of small travesties leading up to the big one. It helps the reader mentally prepare.

That's not what happens

They really don't want you to install chrome

You should have said, "now I have the idea"

Now all you need is a compiler to remove the redundant parts of that code

I guess it's like people who work in theme parks, arcades etc. After a while the fun wears off and you just do your job.

Great idea!

Connect the washing machine input to a pipe that cools the equipment :)

LONGTEXT

And neither person can do grammar

"working from home"

Perfectly smooth for me. IMHO this is a good example of an app that doesn't have to be native.

@Artemix benchmarks I've seen have NodeJS just below C++ for performance. I thought it was a big joke before I saw the benchmarks.

Phalcon is cool - we used to use it a lot. Problem is though, our motivation for using PHP is that it tends to run on whatever hosting the client already has. If we have to install an extension then it negates that.

If you want a framework that keeps out of your way, Phalcon is a good choice.

There was an effort to introduce pure PHP Phalcon framework for this reason (ie choice) but it was abandoned.

Doom. Such a good game and true to the original. But I feel like I need a different game to take the edge off after playing it LOL

Married but the second thing will never happen. Not because I have anything to hide but because she is a tech calamity and I have a good system set up across my stuff.

Also married. And yes, I am 24/7 tech support (also emotional support, which I suck at).

Wife recently lost her work (days of editing a TeX file) after a program crashed. She had no backups and no file sync. She said she doesn't have time to set it up. I asked if she thinks she ought to do it now. Still not worth it. That required a skillful balance of tech and emotional support.

Tarsnap :)

Great backup service and great example of how not to grow your business.

Yes. And the spam.

Gosquared used to be good but the prices were increased drastically because they want to be the next Intercom.

The new Piwik looks good. Not tried it yet.

Developer and business owner here. I also get emails from recruiters but mainly to pretend they have good candidates ;)

I tried to recruit myself (offered to sponsor a hackathon, speak to friendly profs at local uni...) but we had to much work and were getting nowhere finding good people. I spoke to a few recruiters and even though I'd rather do it myself, I've learned to deal with one I can trust.

Recruiters are annoying for everyone but even with a good salary, decent hours, good perks, interesting work etc., I got nowhere on my own and have to grow my business somehow.

I would rather pay the candidate more and cut out the middle man but it doesn't work that way in the real world :/

If be interested to hear the most pleasant way to meet an employer.

Don't have stickers on mine.. it's just easier :)

We have the challenges one.. and I have most of their merchandise.

I kick-started them but have up after all the delays and asked for a refund. Tbh I'm surprised they ever sent any out. Looks cool though.

Together we can do the work of one

Magento "developers" go in the same bucket in my experience. Monkeys on typewriters.

Miiiiiiiiiiiiimm

There are so many factors to arrive at a rate. Where you're based, qualifications, experience, existing clients who can vouch for you.....

It also depends on the work and the client. Are you going to be paid upfront? Payment fees?

Or clients generally have an idea of what they're willing to pay and don't care about cost as long as it's less than that number. When I started out, and it was just me, I felt I was competing with freelancer.com types and that the best way to earn a living was to keep the rate low.

A big Google microphone for my house? Yes please!