You have to learn to just put in your 8 hours and go home. If you're working more than 40 hours you will not be any more productive than if you worked just 40. If anyone give you slack for not staying late I'd tell them to review your code.
The "2 days" battery life makes me reconsider. The Moto 360v2 can get nearly the same (not in ambient mode), but it has a better screen that you can even see in the dark... The only reason I would want to get a pebble vs the moto is that it has a longer battery life (a week or so?), but this thing gets only slightly better battery life, yet costs nearly the same, eh, to me it's just not worth it.
creating an invoice, why is it I have to manually calculate the rate, if I give you the hourly rate and the number of hours? And why does the popup message say 'please make sure the last field contains a number'? Why can't it say "hey, you didn't enter a total"? The 'internal invoice number' on the settings page seems to max out at 2 digits. On the demo account, it's a 3 digit number, but you can't see the third digit because it's overlain by the huge up/down arrows.
Where are the discounts? Where are the terms on the invoice? Say I want to have a 2/10 net 30. That's a 2% discount if paid within 10 days, 30 days before overdue - I don't see any way to define my terms.
Since we've opted for a flexible item table structure (not every business out there requires the "item", "description", "item price", "total" structure) the table columns can pretty much anything, so the application currently have no way determining what to multiply with what.
Not sure about the number of digits in the totals, but obviously this should be unlimited. On our own installation we're in the for digits, so there should not be an issue with this.
Discounts are located in the Financials tab. It's a simple invoicing app, so there's no way to specify a discount based on when the invoice is paid (nor are we likely to implement something like this).
I'm curious, do you know of any existing invoicing software that handles discounts that way? I'm sure it exists, but I've never seen discounts that are tied to the date paid...
Two are quickbooks and freshbooks. You really should study accounting if you've never seen discounts tied to the date paid. Cash flow is important to every business, and a lot of businesses do give discounts for quick payment.
Agree completely. I just asking about the software end. I've used freshbooks a lot and I've never seen that option. Just checked again, and it doesn't appear to be there. There are discounts, but it's a discount that is applied immediately, at the time of invoicing, rather than being applied IF certain conditions are met.
I've been following him since I took the 'isidewith' quiz. I hadn't even heard of him before, but he's 96% compatible with my stances.
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone instead of voting for a certain candidate, voted on the issues, and the candidate who voted most like the population would win... and their votes would be made public.
Did this guy try to scam you in some way ? Did he ask for money publicly from someone ? I ask this because to me there is a weird dissonance between what this "inventor" says and how people react. He basically said that he discovered a way to generate excess heat (there were some public demo but whatever, I was not present) and he does not want to divulge how but he will try to mass produce it. And the reactions to this: "he's a scammer, he has no patent therefore he's a scammer, oh he has a patent ? still scammer. patents prove nothing" and so on. I have no horses in this race but shouldn't we call someone a scammer AFTER he tried to scam or scammed someone and not BEFORE ? And BTW why so much passion around LENR, E-CATs, "cold fusion" and so little relaxed "I believe it when I see it" ?
I simply cannot compete on price with those living in India and Pakistan. Sorry, I can't do programming for $8 an hour. All these sites are packed full of people who will do the job for less than you. I honestly think the only way to get some decent gigs is by going to a site that is US only or Europe only.
It's possible you can't compete, but you shouldn't just assume it. Based on my admittedly limited experience hiring people on these freelancing platforms, the majority of contractors are terrible. Even ones with 5-star average ratings can be completely incompetent.
Thus, for one recent project, I could have chosen from a dozen C++ programmers, all highly rated, charging around $10/hour, but I went straight for the guy charging $60/hour. He did the job perfectly in 7 hours. My hunch, based on past experience, is the alternative would have been days and days of sorting through disappointing results from 3 or 4 different $10/hour jokers before finally giving up.
I would be very interested in a platform that somehow performed real quality control and only accepted people charging a minimum of $50/hour, so that I was virtually guaranteed to only deal with competent professionals who would reliably deliver.
No, not like that. Thanks for telling me about gun.io, because I hadn't heard of them, but they seem like basically just a slightly hipper version of a contract programming agency, and there are many of those. I don't want to deal with a concierge and sort through resumes (to reiterate, I can already get that exact service from dozens of established agencies) and I don't want to hire people for weeks/months to be "part of the team" -- which seems to be what gun.io is geared towards. I could be misunderstanding what they do, of course.
For my purposes, I like the elance/Freelancer model, where I can post a job and quickly hire someone to do 2 hours or 20 hours of specific work. I've just been very disappointed with the quality of work I've gotten every single time I've used these services (with one exception, noted above).
Yeah, you're misunderstanding what they do. It's like elance, but without the race to the bottom on pricing. You can do everything from very small jobs up to hiring them directly into your company.
Gun helps you find somebody that fits your requirements, which I think is a step up from elance and the like. They even kick freelancers out of the system if they scam customers or produce poor quality work.
I'm not surprised you're disappointed with the quality of work from elance and similar. Anyone and their dog can offer services through that platform, and the reality is that the people doing the hiring often don't know what they actually want and they don't know how to evaluate the quality of what they're given (on a technical level), so it's pretty easy for a bad developer to get a 5 star rating.
It was also changed to only look for 4-byte or more minimum matches. "Better compression" is claimed, but I don't see any benchmarks to indicate the size of compressed files before and after.
I gave it up about 5 years ago. I say that, not to say that "I never drink" but I don't get drunk. Last night I had maybe 4oz of some wine after dinner, after not having drank any alcohol for about two months. It's not a regular part of my life anymore, it's very rare, and I don't drink to get drunk. So I don't have a problem with it.
What I dislike are the ads for alcohol. Nearly all of them start with the premise that you can't be cool unless you drink alcohol, or that because you drink you'll have lots of hot women nearby. Aside from the ads, its 'oh we have a lawyer show, lets make sure we have scene of them drinking scotch after a rough case' or a family show 'oh the dad came home lets show him going to his fridge and grabbing a beer' or a cop show 'he just shot someone, lets do a bar scene where he gets smashed'.
From what I understand, they never implemented any of the algorithms, because their existing one was good enough, and the premise has changed. It used to be, you'd make suggestions so people could get DVDs sent to them, and you'd know they would enjoy it. Now with streaming, the cost to send something you don't like is cheap. So the recommendation engine just has to come up with something you'd try to watch and perhaps enjoy. If you start watching something, it's not your taste, you switch streams. So there's not a lot to gain from improving recommendations 10% unless they were pretty low quality ratings to begin with.
I think the cost of postage/fulfillment/bandwidth should be a secondary concern to how many users can Netflix attract by providing content they actually enjoy. A bad recommendation for streaming or DVD both waste n minutes of viewing time. A bad DVD recommendation additionally wastes 2-6 days of waiting on USPS.
They already have the recommendation engine built and they need every differentiation they can get to compete with the crowd of streaming providers.
I completely agree. Real hype is generated when Netflix consistently nails recommendation. Content is still king, but curation of that content is the engine that drives the whole thing
I agree about your "real hype" statement. There is always the potential for a provider to build business value by nailing recommendation, especially when it comes to lesser known content. Most viewers have heard of big-budget films they plan to watch, or they'll watch any movie with <insert actor>. However, if someone created a system that did this well enough for users to trust it with unknown content, it would go a long way toward meaningful differentiation.
Right now, I don't know of anyone who has limited spare time who would risk trying something unknown just because it shows up in their Netflix recommendations. If Netflix got those right frequently, people would rely on it more and probably enjoy it more. A 10% increase in accuracy has a decent chance to push beyond the invisible "good enough to trust" threshold and create an experience other streaming services just don't have.
A lot of Netflix's success comes from finding great, unknown movies and allowing you to discover them. They're great for Netflix because they're cheap for them and provide high value.
When Netflix users only decide what movies to watch based only on the titles they recognize from marketing campaigns, their disappointment with Netflix's selection will be higher.
Their optimal strategy is to have a recommendation engine that routes users to good, but unknown movies that they know people end up enjoying if they just take the dive to start watching them.
> So the recommendation engine just has to come up with something you'd try to watch and perhaps enjoy.
Heck, if it did that I'd be happy. I don't even know why I still have my Netflix subscription. The selection is basically as good (bad) as Hulu and Crackle, the price is higher and the recommendations are laughable (right now they're pushing: Velvet, a TV series about a Spanish fashion house; Sense 8, the latest lameness from the Wachowski brothers; Elsa & Fred, aimed at old people, a Robert Pattinson vehicle, Orange is the New Black, The Butler and piles of other stuff I would never watch if you tied me to a chair).
Frankly, I don't believe they have a recommendation engine anymore: I think they just suggest whatever is cheapest for them to play.
There was a parsimonious model that got to 8% improvement. We know this as it was posted publicly by "Simon Funk" [0] after he decided to give up halfway through the competition.
This simple but more accurate model would have been a useful foundation for Netflix to build its own internal models on, and highlight the flaws in the assumption of the Cinermark algo.
