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I see; that sucks. I hope you get some answers and some financial/medical relief in the future.

I don't know if this can help you or not, but Mark Cuban's Cost plus Drug Company has 3 different glaucoma drop generics available that may be cheaper than how you're getting it today?

https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/categories/glaucoma/

I currently work 28 hours per week. This is the second time this has happened in my career. Both times the path was "be an FTE for a while at 40hr/wk, produce, wait for something bad to be suggested, quit, take contractor offer for same pay at reduced hours."

I don't imagine this works for companies with employees numbering over ~250 or so, so I've been very lucky.

You can hear about the experience of a POW, but it won't ever be the same as being a POW. Not trying to equate the two, just showing how telling/imagining aren't quite the same as experiencing.

Hey, thanks a ton. I'm only on the second video, and it already blows my mind how the man is even more the character than the character.

The project went several months over the proposed "schedule", which was inevitable, and I had told them as much.

The team was not asked to pull any overtime to complete it in the proposed time frame.

I took a 6 month sabbatical and then was asked to contract for them remotely as a developer (instead of manager) which I did for several years after that.

So, wins all around, I suppose.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you here (nor have I ever been military in any remote respect), but there are some overlapping truths in that page, e.g. "Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities", under "Develop", points 1, 3, & 4.

I've resigned over unrealistic expectations from leadership about deadlines, and what was to be asked of my team to complete said deadlines. I would do it again. I'm sure I've had many many many failings as a manager, but I will not death-march any team under me with zero chance of success. There are several others in the GP's post. You are correct, they don't all apply and many may be harmful in a corporate environment, but that's why you get paid to separate the wheat from the chaff, right? :)

>> Oh, and curse you Americans for your ludicrous booze prices. A bottle of Lagavulin 16 here is $75.

I'll readily admit the heavier cost is easier to swallow given our petrol and electricity prices.

edit: petrol instead of gas

It seems like there's way more on the low side than the high side, at least looking at Table 1 (below) from this PDF from the GAO:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/670153.pdf

Edit: below, the table contents

               Households age 55-64 with        Households age 55-64
               no retirement savings            with retirement savings


  Percent of house-        41%                        59%
  holds age 55-64

  Median net worth        $21,000                   $337,000

  Median non-retirement    $1,000                    $25,000
  financial resources

  Median income           $26,000                    $86,000

  Home ownership rates     56%                        87%  

  Percent who own a home   22%                        27%
  that is paid off

  Percent with a           32%                        45%
  defined benefit plan

> If he lives another 60 years that is a bit more than $1.25M

Over $7 million if he can get 5% annually.

CGP Grey has a video that discusses the automation issue, including the "Why is it different this time?" question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

- Hill Climbing - Local Maximum - Gradient Descent

I don't pretend to have any sort of expertise in these sorts of discussions, so I thought I would throw out some easily wikipedia'd terms that seem to back your thoughts regarding convergence vs. exponentiation.

Yes, if all goods widely increased in cost (or at least, most). If it's only the goods that people buy in anticipation of (e.g.) a catastrophe, or goods that rely on those aforementioned goods to be manufactured and/or delivered, then the above comment is correct.

That's very likely to happen, unfortunately...

I did run across this link, which might explain why when you asked your initial question I was thinking "no way", but after reading the recent agreements was like "maybe so" (I worked in payments for a number of years, and always heard that cash discounts/surcharges for credit card use were disallowed).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/business/mastercard-and-vi...

So apparently there was a suit about that very problem which was settled in 2012. It looks like you would be able to, but if you're charging multiple thousands on the regular, it would probably be worth it for you to pay a lawyer to make sure you're in the clear. HTH.

It's complicated and depends on things like where you're charging and whether or not it's a "fee" for using the card vs. offering a cash discount (how these are not essentially equivalent is beyond me):

Sections 1.5.4.2 & 5.6

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/15-April-2...

Section 5.11.2

https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/...

IANAL, etc.

Excellent, thank you!

>> [0] and there are many people who think ORMs are a terrible idea

Do you have any links perchance? Because I can't shake the feeling that I'm a pariah among the developer community for thinking this way.

>> I see this in politics a lot.

So much so, it's even called that. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism

>> I don't feel safe expressing my opinions publicly for this very reason.

I'll admit, I'm having a hard time not bringing up the concept of SJW "safe zones" in regards to this statement.

#Apophasis

As someone who leans heavily Democrat, I disagree. There are many Trump "supporters" who just extremely dislike/disagree with Clinton. That doesn't mean they back "all he stands for" much as I don't personally back the separate email server, HRC's coziness with Wall Street, etc.

We have a two party system. Support doesn't indicate 100% alignment.

That's true, I stand corrected.

He placed HTML inside a COM (comment) segment of the JPEG, which is perfectly legal. The ending of his HTML is "<!--" which starts an HTML comment, telling the browser to ignore all the data which follows (the image data). Since browsers are liberal in what they accept, they ignore the first 20ish bytes of the JPEG header, see the starting HTML tag, render the page, and ignore the fact that the comment never closes.

http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/The_Metadata_in_JPE...

Just watched all of that, thanks for posting. As an old (young?) Ren & Stimpy fan, I had no idea of the backstory. Also, even though Howard Stern's dad weighed in, I'm not sure who I side with. I can honestly see both sides to the argument and that's... unsettling.

Bonus Godwin's Law reference for those that didn't want to watch, it's about 45 seconds from this start: https://youtu.be/PheypE68BKc?t=30m32s

Any chance you can give a rough number on the costs you were quoted? The linked pages don't mention it at all, as far as I can see.

Don't listen to the other comments. Your job is to teach the concepts. Implementation details are a separate concept to be learned on the job. You're teaching crafts(wo)men, not Unsullied.

I remember my first job not knowing the difference between #includes with brackets versus quotes, and where the IDE was searching for them. I was so pissed that my CS program didn't prepare me adequately for my first job. But the truth is this was one of thousands of "figure that shit out for yourself" that they glossed over in favor of "don't write n^n algorithms" and "cartesian products will be the death of you"; I'm currently taking over a code base where simple requests from an ORM are issuing thousands of queries.

So, please continue to teach SQL. As for browser coding, I learned all that on the job too, and it has no place in an academic setting. It's entirely dependent on feature needs, your target market, accessibility concerns, etc. To say that some new graduate should have all the skills necessary to navigate that minefield is madness.

I wonder how many people bitching about Chrome/Firefox/IE are ARIA compliant.

>> Probably also a seizure of all patents.

I had been following this thread with a certain amount of blasé, but the thought of seizing a patent portfolio and releasing it into the public domain makes me raise an eyebrow or three.

>> That's probably the least offending name that ever resulted from an internet poll.

Indeed. e.g. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/dub-the-dew

>> Are the advances in the ACH system going to do away with fees that include a percentage component?

Didn't Stripe just debut ACH that had (admittedly an initial percentage based) pricing capped at $5? They have a $10,000 limit per payment, so maybe you that's not high enough for what you're talking about, but it does seem like things will move that way.

I will say, the higher the dollar amount, it seems like there is an increasing fraud/risk component that while not costing any more money to send/receive, needs to be considered and paid for by someone.

That's my mistake, I was assuming just federal income tax, thanks for the correction.

>>As for fair share, 1/3 is not enough?

1/3 would probably be enough, but they're paying ~1/5.