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Which Developers Earn More: Corporate vs. Freelance
I was wondering Which Developers Earn More: Corporate or Freelance.

I was surprised by stats that I finally got.

‼️Only 32% of all full-time freelancers earn more than they got at a company.

And the highest hourly rate is for Javascript developers. ‼️

It's about $68 per hour. It's pretty cool, I think.

However, this rate is just for American freelancers.

What do you think about the study?

https://periodix.net/blog/which-developers-earn-more-corporate-vs-freelance/
That's a very naive view, for three reasons.

Firstly "quarterly profits" are not necessarily synonymous with "shareholder value" over the long term - although the entire financial industry operates on the basis that they are.

In reality it's perfectly possible to produce stellar quarterly returns while driving a solid, productive company into the ground and denying investors future returns.

Secondly, shareholders are proxied by senior management. Senior management has its own goals, which include status management as well as profit.

Profit is only a partial proxy for status, which is why senior management in some companies likes to play some standard management games like "reorg" and "rebrand" that do nothing at all for returns, except possibly waste them, but make managers feel like they're critically important wielders of corporate power.

The third reason is that if you concentrate enough wealth among shareholders, the rest of your economy - the part that does most of the consuming, as well as most of the actual work - atrophies and eventually implodes under a pile of debt and consequent violent social dislocation.

This is not a good thing. But it seems to be a lesson that generations of shareholders need to keep relearning.
Reminds me of:

* Drinking coffee 3 times a day is good for heart.

* Smoking cigarette can help in weight loss.

* Eating caveman's diet in modern era will help in healthy life.

Who is sponsoring these research? Makers of these products?
> Assistants help with this paperwork, which is different for every state and requires hours of reading and making phone calls to decipher.

Regardless of this, this still sounds like a market inefficiency. I have not read the book (but I certainly will now), but I'm going to guess the author's response would be that while the assistant's job is necessary for the engineer to remain productive, it is still a bullshit job. What's needed instead is an automated service that handles this for the engineer at far less of a cost or less bullshit paperwork from government.
you better report this now or else you’ll go to jail, right?
Not siding one way or the other, that will definitely limit the amount of expertise that comes with a Congressman/Congresswoman.

Think about it, it takes at least six months for us to learn our jobs, they have to learn about hundreds of things ongoing in the government before they can make informed decisions. You then even rely more on lobbyists (or "experts") who at least generally know what they are talking about.

Point being, I think this issue is a hell of a lot more complex than it seems.
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1. People resenting being sat near the door/doorbell, as they take the brunt of the interruptions.

2. Important deliveries being sent back to the parcel depot because the door wasn't answered

3. Parcels sometimes going missing, with the parcel company claiming they were delivered but no employees knowing where they are (with the resulting recriminations)

4. Guests being let in without the sign-in procedure being followed

5. Job applicants showing up saying they're here for an interview with 'Dave' and the person who lets them in not knowing who that is, where they sit, or how to contact them.

These things are done much better at organisations where it's someone's job to do them.
Yep, people don't realize that Grarber is just a refresh of the fashionable nonsense trend, particularly in economics.

From the article:

""Those two British and Dutch polls were the only ones I knew when I wrote the book. Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched. It depends very much on what questions you ask people. In any case, I think that more detailed work is needed. '"

The part I highlighted in Italic seals the deal: the guy is either blissfully ignorant, or wildly dishonest.
Related:

What's the smallest piece of data that qualifies?

Can a 16x16 image be illegal?

What about a 64x64 image?

What's the situation like if you have two chunks of data (perhaps at two separate locations on the blockchain) and only if you XOR them you get the illegal image?
Good catch.

I have been part of digital outreach campaigns in my company where we bring many micro-influencers on board before the launch.

So, I think maybe he also would have asked few hundred people to join by mass mailing them.
Ones that are properly designed for "direct drive" do not.
If you live in a warm climate, the heat that light bulbs put out can be significant. Your AC needs to then remove that heat.
> it actually schedules a state update to be performed later when React feels like it.

I thought it updates the state and the re-render is what is included in a scheduled function?

> it's best practice to provide an updated function rather than a plain object

I'm guessing you mean for a global store with shared state? Local components aren't singletons.
So let them get bought off instead? I refuse to believe that the only two options are widespread graft or poor ignorant lawmakers who have no other way of obtaining information.
We don't know how much companies spend in secret through dark money, individual contributions, holding companies, bribes, etc., so that $3.7B is likely very low.
I also have been disappointed with LED "bulbs". They get too damn hot in recessed fixtures but NOT because of the LED's. It's all because of the shitty power converter embedded deep inside the bulb getting too hot and failing. The industry has necessarily had to retrofit to where incandescent bulbs are supposed to go.

I think that we'll start to see improvements in this area as people move away from "screw-in bulb" as the form factor and towards using external power converters delivering power to to LED fixtures that are just LED's and their heatsink + mounts.
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I'll continue browsing for free, without viewing ads. If content becomes unavailable, there's just about nothing on the web that I can't live without. Twitter, Facebook, etc etc. The world would be a better place, IMO, if they disappeared anyway. The web we have was chosen for us by technocrats.
I will probably try out "Kite" soon.
This reads like SCP but with NASA and sometimes more scary.
> Simply existing as a Nazi or white supremacist is a call for violence, and silencing them is justified self defense.

It's very easy to make the same argument for Muslims. Yes, there are millions of peaceful Muslims in the U.S., but their religion dictates that they need to conquer and subjugate infidels. There's 1400 years of history to back that up. It is absolutely arguable that just existing as a Muslim is a call for violence.

Should we ban them as well?

What about "Antifa", who exist entirely to wreak violence on people they disagree with, and even do it with impunity. If we should ban Nazis and white supremacists, we need to ban Antifa as well.

I'm just trying to apply your principles consistently.
It seems to be fairly new. The bibliography includes lots of papers published last year.
I tried using a NSM2 as a WiFi bridge but it was unreliable. It would constantly drop the connection and take forever to reconnect or require restarting. Have you had similar issues?
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> That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.

Do you have a citation for this? Because term limits would mean that elected officials need to plan for what to do after they hit their limit. That could make them even more beholden to corporate lobbyists, who have the resources to offer termed-out lawmakers jobs or other benefits after they leave office.
This disingenuous rage bait doesn’t belong here.

Carryover is a pretty basic aspect of corporate taxes, and it makes sense. Previous years' financial performance (losses, debt) can carry over into the current year.
I don’t think anyone making such policies thinks that those things alone will save the planet. It’s about a mentality into the daily choices we make that makes the difference.

That said, leds that are 13-15 watts instead of 60 watts does make a big dent into saving electricity at the country scale.
You can follow instructions, and if someone is saying something and you act in a way that is modified by what they've said, then you are, in a very real sense, following what they've said. More, act A can occur before act B, so B is said to follow A.

So when someone tells lies, and you act on the (false) information therein, then I think it's reasonable to say that you are following the lies.
Or we could elect people who can't be bought by lobbyists because they have principles. I was taught in poli-sci classes that the single biggest issue wasn't so much the principles of law makers as it was their capabilities and their staff. Most law-makers are incapable of doing the (sometimes overwhelming amount of) work, and rely on hiring professionals to work as a team to review law and then tell the law-makers how to vote. If none of them are savvy about lobbyists, they can easily be fooled by groups that come to them to push an agenda. We need smart congresspeople who can do the work and also can hire a competent and principled staff.
Here is a clickable link for this: https://periodix.net/blog/which-developers-earn-more-corpora...
One take of mine is that Master's relationship with woody was codependent/narcissistic. It's very sad that she ended this way. It seems to me like the dark side of the internet is a breeding ground for narcissists and abusers of all sorts. Sad story..
This is why data regulation will never work. GDPR and Copyrights included. Nothing can be done about it, short of banning blockchains.
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- Context-aware IDEs with significantly more powerful versions of today's intellisense tools.

- Compilers with even more powerful implicit behavior- forget automatically creating Get() and Set(), we'll be creating entire inheritance structures with one function definition.
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He obviously means "capacity to do good" as in capacity to keep a high-tech society running, and continue making technological improvements. He cares both about the cream of the crop for the next generation of cancer drugs (or computers), and the solid middle for being able to run modern accounting, retail supply chains, large-scale farming.

Obviously "doing good" often means other things too, like calling your mom, and volunteering at a soup kitchen. Morally good. I think it's pretty clear from context that this isn't what he's talking about.
Because both basic income and robocars and going to Mars are either directly or indirectly targeting to increase the profits of tech company X.

This combined with the lobbying power that the said company X has, takes away any incentive someone might have to do something.

Limiting the lobbying should probably be the first step.
It’s the end of VC as we know it
And then sell that data to your insurance company.
High IQ is only a predictor of high test-solving abilities.

Absolutely not. IQ correlates well with a number of desirable characteristics, for individuals as well as groups.

education, role models, etc

These things don't matter nearly as much as people like to think.

roll of a dice

A dice that appears to be consistently biased in favour of those with high test-solving abilities?
A consumption tax would all of a suddenly increase prices by a large margin for the poorest among us.
I have read at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob... about someone who won a lawsuit against big company because of these robocalls. I think people can try to bring this matter to a lawyer, as long as the callers are coming from legit businesses.
Maybe most companies can get the results that they want with small, strategic lobbying. It could be both effective and efficient, from an economic standpoint. Why else would organizations like ALEC exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
Assuming you don't have massive fraud issues, it wouldn't change anything.

When the product has a low price and many customers, then if the product works for most people. Things are fine :)

A Bluetooth headset that works with your phone works for most people.
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There's a simple joy in trading out some dying halogen bulbs for so much brighter LED bulbs which use the same power. It's absolutely optimizing in the wrong place, but it's super satisfying.
In principle, yes. However, actual guns were legal to own the entire time. People rarely use airsoft guns in robberies, in practice.
AWS has lots of tools which have made me feel like a super developer. For example, using Lambdas and S3 to build massively parallel processing systems in just a few days.
Unicorn farts. Unicorn farts will make people willingly give up what they own in order to watch it be squandered and wasted.
The difference is that wired pods falling out is no big deal. You simply grab it by the wire and put it back in.

However, if an Airpod falls out even once, they may be lost irretrievably.

I suspect normal Apple earphones fall out occasionally for most people. (I can’t wear first party apple earphones at all. They never seem to stay in my ear, so airpods are a complete no for me).
I wish there was more selection available of that kind of thing— when I last looked a year or so ago there was basically just one option at Home Depot, and it had the aesthetics of something you'd put in the laundry room.

Worse than that, though, it was unusable with a dimmer switch; the whole thing visibly flickered every few seconds. I felt bad returning it because I really wanted it to work out, but the quality just wasn't there.
> The relative cost of lighting on the monthly electricity bill is tiny so those savings are pretty small. Getting a more efficient fridge, washing machine, TV or (in our profession) computer typically has a much bigger effect on electricity expenses. And that is assuming your heating and cooking is done with gas.

The switch from using tiny space heaters for light to using LEDs that consume a tenth of the power was a huge savings. It only takes a few 100w bulbs to equal or exceed the energy consumption of a modest desktop computer.
At 10c/kWh, you only need about 700-1000 hours to pay back a $5 80W-equivalent LED bulb, so financially speaking something lasting only 7500 hours isn't that big a deal. It's more important in terms of house design, for instance there are a lot of fittings with inbuilt, unchangeable bulbs which are being used, if they last 20 years that might be justifiable, but if they last 2-5 years it's going to be an enormous hassle.
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What you're willing to pay to get something and you actually pay to get something are 2 completely different things. You will pay as little as you can to get to the result but you may be willing to pay a lot more.

It's also a matter of perception. Keeping the lobbying sums low(ish) also helps keep a lower profile. You don't want to draw too much attention to the fact that you're paying to get something done your way.

Plus, how much can you reasonably spend? In the end you're still trying to influence the same (relatively few) people, spending a considerable percentage of that "$19 trillion economy" is hard to make look legitimate.
Right. It costs money to make content into a business. Content itself costs nothing and is worth nothing. It's attention that has value (to advertisers). But advertising and tracking lower the value of the content that they're attached to, to just about nil.
Just normal quotes in this instance. I’m specifically discussing the phrase “governing itself”.
I read a book about personality types (Myer's Briggs) and wanted to learn more, which led me to Carl Jung as a teenager. This opened up the whole world of classical books to me and I somehow ended up mixed up with the ancient Greeks (Aristotle, Plato, Euclid, some stoics, some skeptics) on a daily basis for over a decade after that. I didn't agree with much of it, but it turned my world upside down and gave me some amazing thinking tools.

Then Nietzsche did the same years later - he truly can't be appreciated until you've spent 5-10 years reading philosophy searching for 'truth' and being frustrated.

Finally, engineering school really twisted things again and made me confront the difficulty of maintaining fundamental skepticism in the face of reliable scientific law (or even the occasional deterministic program).

Its been quite the trip
Very far-off digits of π (assuming π is even a normal number) are not easily accessed or enumerated. In fact, you'd probably need more information to encode the index and length of your sequence than you would to just write the data out. In contrast, a block chain is easily downloaded and traversed, indices are small, and most importantly, there is a very, very obvious intent to distribute illegal content. I don't think that these situations are comparable.
This is precisely Bill Gates attitude, he called it "cute"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/05/05/bill...
I have a little BT dongle thing that plugs into the aux port. It works fine for listening to music, but taking calls is still bad. My trucks BT is comical to take calls on. Seconds delay...
The “profit” Netflix is reporting on the one hand is an entirely different number than the taxable net income that Netflix reports to the IRS.

Take a look at Netflix’s free cash flow for a better understanding of what a SaaS-type business experiencing hyper-growth looks like.

Their customer acquisition cost in this case is spending on content. That content will be consumed (and hence “paid for”) by subscribers primarily over the next 1-3 years.

So as they ramp up their subscriber count, and likewise ramp up their production spending, they are constantly outspending “Year 0” (today) to create content which will earn back that money, and then some, over the next 1-3 years.

Netflix is able to report financial metrics which show “Net Income” I think (and I haven’t dug into their statements to confirm this) because they spread/amortize the cost of licensing the content over the timeframes they expect it to be used.

Whereas for tax purposes, the money they are spending on content can be deducted fully in the year it is spent against income for that year.

As long as Netflix grows the amount they spend on content each year, they will have negative free cash flow and pay little to no taxes.

If they grow their subscribe base at 20-30% YoY it means they can spend 20-30% more on content this year than they would typically be able to spend based on their current subscription revenue. E.g. if they spend 60% of revenue on content, and content is consumed over 3 years, they can spend closer to 80% of this year’s subscription revenue on content, and in theory over the next 3 years they earn it back. By doing this, as far as the IRS is concerned their cash flow and net income is truly negative.

Eventually a company will flatten out its growth curve and the weight of servicing all that debt will require spending on content to fall below the subscriber revenue, and in the long run cash flow must be positive for a company to survive.

Keep in mind income taxes are just one for of tax revenue that is generated by a company like Netflix. There is a tremendous amount of tax revenue generated overall by Netflix, everything from taxes on the internet connectivity people are buying to use Netflix, to sales taxes and employment taxes.
Companies lobby to create favourable laws. They are as much to blame.
This is a poor way to track who is selling your contact details. It's trivial to strip + aliases from a list.
Exactly, that's what I've meant with "conversion of the conservative mindset towards liberalism". Liberal groups have high capabilities of converting conservative people towards them while conservative groups have high capabilities of reproducing.

I don't worry about liberals for that reason: the more conservatives, the larger the pool of people they can convert to their ways. Liberalism originated in a world that was far more conservative than the conservatives we have today, and they still managed to get where we are now. I'm definitely not worried.
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The LED drivers suffer heat degradation due to poor heatsinks.
No it isn't, because murder is always wrong. Killing in self-defense is not murder. Killing Nazis was a matter of self-defense. Murdering them would not be.
I did this as well and was very disappointed/frustrated when bulbs started dying only a year later. Usually they would start flickering more and more frequently until it was really annoying to be in a room with flickering light and I would remove it.

GE even had a warranty so I shipped them back on principle (shipping was nearly the cost of the bulbs themselves) and GE never responded with replacement bulbs. What a crock.
We could also elect people with integrity, as unlikely as that seems in our current environment.

My point is that hard problems rarely have simple solutions, as much as populist politicians might like to pretend otherwise. “Ban lobbyists” is a great soundbite but would introduce all sorts of negative consequences (like driving them underground and introducing more potential for corruption).
No Agenda. I was looking for something different after starting to get burned out from Tech news stuff a few years back. I enjoy the deconstruction of media coverage and events that they do especially when its stuff that the media isn't covering because they are too busy with "Trump did/said today" sensationalism that has taken over the media as of late.
Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images
Continued increase in network speeds.
Following links from the article:

https://blog.moneybutton.com/2019/01/26/how-we-added-support...

https://www.yours.org/content/the-unfuckening-of-op_return-b...

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> The relative cost of lighting on the monthly electricity bill is tiny so those savings are pretty small.

Only because of the successes up to this point. Marginal gains in LED efficiency aren't going to do much, but the shift from incandescent to LED has had a big impact.
Education in history can also be politicized to a large extent. Florida passed a law that defined teaching history to be solely about certain facts without interpretation or analysis.

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/pers...
Every so often, I come back to the "I should have DC power on demand in my house!" until I'm reminded that DC power loss over a distance can hurt bad, even 48VDC telecom power.

Perhaps USB-C PD might help? USB power adapters are compact and PD offers standard, useful high power DC. If the adapters become ubiquitous, you could see "USB-C lightbulbs".
$3.7 billion a year is a lot. There aren't that many politicians to bribe.