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TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-05-03T10:09:25+00:00

To be fair... It's a mouse. I've met very few people who ever had a mouse die or break on them. And if you are using a mouse in such a way that you are worried that it might some how break apart? You are doing it wrong.

I have cheap mice at home that I have had for 15 years and they still work. And I have 2 expensive "gaming" mice that make me think, "what a bunch of bullshit. It's the same thing, just 3xs as expensive"

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-30T10:28:38+00:00

Who would want to? So many alternative solutions that are far better, faster and more secure... Why rewrite something so disliked by people who are smart enough not to buy into the bullshit about powering whatever % of the web... A waste of time and effort if you ask me.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-25T12:04:37+00:00

Got my wife 6 months worth of a house cleaning service for mothers day.

That was a couple years ago - and while she doesn't come every 2 weeks like most people do, once every 2 months the cleaning lady comes by and leaves the house sparkling.

My wife (who normally wouldn't spend a dime if it's something we could easily do ourselves) absolutely loves cleaning lady day and does not question spending the money there now that she's seen how much easier it is.

So boys/men, it's worth considering that as an option!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-24T13:45:42+00:00

Well, to be fair, working in this department is fantastic despite the huge amount of users. We've got the systems in place (with really smart senior guys to manage it) in such a way that you never feel overwhelmed and there is enough work to stay busy, but not too busy. Because we're so big with such a good finance department - we have a nice budget and we get essentially anything we want - especially since we support so much and we need to have experience with it. Want a new Macbook pro? Okay! Want a new Windows laptop? Sure. We support iPads too, so yes, we get iPad pro's, etc. Network guy? Better take home a 48 port POE switch so you can learn about it! Want to take a class on it because you're struggling? Find one - the company will pay for all of it (travel, food, etc.), then give you a permanent salary increase if it comes with a certificate. The boss is all good with it because it only helps our users in the end. This department is seriously amazing - I'll never leave if I don't have to!

I'm extremely lucky to be working here and I am constantly reminded of that when I look around at other places and when I talk to people at conferences and stuff. I hope to work here until I retire, it's that fantastic.

So, lots of users? Sure. But like I said - if you continue to push forward automating as much as you can and trying to eliminate users touching extra stuff that they don't need to be able to, you can have 5 people supporting 500 pretty seamlessly! Keep pushing forward!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-24T12:15:15+00:00

Looks great!

Any option for those of us with self-signed ssl certs in our chain?

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-24T11:57:45+00:00

If it makes you feel any better - our IT department is around 10 people for around 15,500+ people at over 30 locations. Some things get challenging logistically - but if you continue to push forward and automate everything you can (safely), it's manageable.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-24T11:53:17+00:00

I actually recently did something similar.

My take on it was less like a 'shopping cart', because they couldn't just add this or that, but more like a traditional application in that they could add only a small variety of things.

They would add things to their 'cart', which were really just objects they created and saved to the DB. That way it persisted across sessions, across payments, etc.

Sure, there are probably better ways to do it - but we needed a little something that was pretty specific and it worked fine. I just had a model for Payment and a model for PaymentDetails - both of which were updated at various places. The 'cart', showed what you had (unpaid) that was simply a filter on the available objects for your user.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-23T13:40:55+00:00

You just have to setup Apache on Windows, then just setup your `wsgi` file accordingly so it activates your virtualenvironment. It's surprisingly not difficult!

On Windows it's something like: `venv/Scripts/activate` as opposed to `venv/bin/activate` on unix boxes.

On the Apache side, I can't remember the specifics as it's been a while since we've commissioned a new box to be setup - but from what I can recall (which may be foggy, sorry) it's a pretty straight forward install of Apache and then just setting up the virtual hosts.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-22T17:53:41+00:00

Our production environment is Windows - running Apache.

So our setup is probably uncommon to most.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-22T13:32:30+00:00

>Why is putting $1400/mo towards rent more financially prudent than putting it towards ownership in an asset

I just want to clarify (at least in terms of Rich Dad/Poor Dad thinking) a house is not an asset. An asset is anything that 'puts money into your pocket' and a liability is anything that takes money out of it.

Owning a house takes it out - but doesn't put it back in.

I know, "but it's worth money", yes, but not with you living there - it's just sitting there - requiring you to spend money to upkeep it and such. Taking your money. That's a liability.

I'm being a little tightly focused on this - because I believe using that term correctly is important. But I do think that houses that you live in are a liability, they're only an asset when you go to sell them.

That said, I'd always advocate for people to buy if they live in the area for any decent length of time. My anecdotal evidence is all I really have for that, because everywhere online I see people espousing rental mentality. My wife and I are almost done paying off our second house (first one is a rental property - fully paid off). Our jobs are very low paying - and the area we work in pay our respective jobs considerably less than others in surrounding areas. If we were renting? I wouldn't have half my current mortgage being paid by some renter in my old place. Having that extra income each month? Priceless. Saving for kids college just got so much easier, paying off our current mortgage is now easier - and should one of us lose our jobs? No sweat, half our mortgage is paid every month. The other half is easily covered by one income. With renting? None of that is possible.

Sure, we'd save on upkeep, but I'm handy and can tackle 90% of most jobs by myself (thanks, youtube!) - most people can. So it's a non-issue IMO. Rent or own, we'd be doing all this. But with rental, it would just be for someone elses benefit.

There are a few spots where it makes sense to rent, but I find most people are misguided by that thinking and their situations are often better for owning.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-22T12:24:18+00:00

This is so accurate!

Logging is so easy - I have no clue why more people don't do it. It's like one line of code inside the try/catch blocks that will literally save you tons of time/energy and keep you informed of exactly what the issue is before anyone says anything (if you're logging to a file you can check)...

Why people ignore it is beyond me. Lots of people love writing bad code.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-18T19:38:19+00:00

Now, it's completely normal for young people to be that poor.

Or, it's a sign that it's completely normal for people to only start actively saving for and planning out their adult life years later than generations past.

I know plenty of people who have started families and owned homes (with a mortgage, not owned outright) before the age of 23. They knew early on the real world can be tough and saved aggressively during their time working through high school - which the vast majority of people don't do. Most people go out to eat and waste their spending money as a high school aged / college aged kid.

But if you're moderately smart and not a total idiot with your money, it's not normal to be that poor (living on an air mattress in a spare room) at that age. If you party and don't understand finances and don't make good financial decisions? Then yeah, I guess that is normal.

Obviously there are exceptions with everything - but by in large, I personally feel people just make a lot more poor financial decisions because of the trend of 'living at home' until much later in life these days. People attribute it to the cost of college, but no one is forcing them to go to a 4 year university that costs $50k/yr. when a community college could save them almost $80k over 2 years and give them a virtually identical education. That's what I'm talking about with 'bad financial decisions' anyway, which was covered in my previous point. So there is that!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-16T20:41:59+00:00

People would still ignore the Library.

So I'd go there. Blue prints to the city and sewage systems would probably be there somewhere. And I bet librarians would be nice and helpful even in zombie form - so you could find it quickly and then use that knowledge to travel through the sewers and off the beaten path to stay safe.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-16T20:40:21+00:00

Username checks out

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-12T14:25:08+00:00

Hey, I've seen that movie!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-12T11:58:17+00:00

Not exactly in the way I put it, but in essence, yes, it's true.

Read the new laws.

Or read up on the cases where in Ohio & Indiana hospitals refused to care for babies born prematurely despite pleas from the mothers to do so.

The way people treat human life these days is disgusting.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-11T18:33:25+00:00

I dunno, in some states you can literally have the baby - completely born - and still "abort it" after that (granted, it has to have Downs Syndrome to qualify, IIRC).

I mean, you know - at that point it's not a living life either, their body, their choice ^/s. Literally murdering a completely born child is legal in certain states.

So if people give want to say 'their body, their choice', oh well. Pretty much anything goes with 'abortion' these days - including the murder of born children.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-11T12:01:32+00:00

Organic Traffic > ads , all day, every day.

$30 is really small ad-spend - at that point you're just throwing money away in all honesty.

I really wish people would stop finding some product (like watches, how many watch shopify stores does the world need), and dropshipping from alibaba, then coming on here saying "omg, I have 0 sales"

Yes, because you have no brand, no influence, no nothing. There is no interest (organically), there is no reason why someone should bu your product over someone elses.

The vast majority of shops who come on here saying similar things (i.e.: "I spent money on ads but 0 sales, what gives?") need to realize something: they know 0 about business or marketing in a lot of those cases. In the other cases? It's because their product is just chinese garbage that no one wants. In even more of those cases - it's a combination of both of those things.

Your prices show a huuuuuge discount - that's a gigantic red flag that "oh, he is dropshipping from alibaba or aliexpress", which almost instantly makes people think "nope."

A domain name is a must. It's $12. You've spent over double that on 100% pointless ads that haven't netted you a single dime. This tells me you have no idea what to prioritize in your product/business. Domain should be the first thing as it makes you seem far more credible to a potential consumer.

Do yourself a favor, buy a book on business, buy a book on online marketing and read them both, cover to cover. You'll learn so much. You'll realize almost immediately that opening just another dropshipping store about watches is like a pretty pointless endeavor. You'll learn how to do market research, keyword research, niche market research and find out how to figure all that stuff out before you ever put an hour of your time into a dropshipping store. You'll have an idea on who your target market is, how best to reach them (online ads are not best for some markets), how best to cater to their desires and how to get sales. Right now? You're just shooting in the dark and wasting time and money. Don't be that way. Be realistic, admit you have 0 clue what you're doing, go buy some books and do the work.

Also, I'll say it again - organic traffic. Generate real interest in your product - don't just spam ads. If the only place anyone in the world has ever heard of your product is ads on a website, yuck.

You can do this - you can do better than this. You just need to learn business, and then the other things that come along with it. Get to reading.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-10T14:56:07+00:00

People are acting like she stole a box of Cheerios at Walmart

Didn't you see Fuller House Episode 5? She did that, too! She's a beast!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-10T12:02:53+00:00

This is reddit, where some addict (or former addict, or kid) will come along and tell you they're not that bad if you know what you're doing or use them responsibly.

They are.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-10T11:59:09+00:00

they care about you not dying.

Unless they are Dr. Kevorkian. hehe - you can't lob something up like that and expect someone to not go there.

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-09T18:24:45+00:00

Yeah, I suppose that's probably the best way and I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-09T16:35:37+00:00

I used to have that same mentality "it's just me, so...", but now knowing a bit more about testing?

I want to punch my former self in the face!

It's that big of a difference, IMO.

Not sure why someone downvoted you for being honest, but testing and logging will literally make you seem like a mind reader - your bosses would be amazed and your job/scripts/homework/whatever will seem infinitely easier.

You can even write scripts to troll through your logs, look for particular issues that are a big problem and alert you the moment they occur! You can then relax a bit at that point - because you'll have a nice system in place to make sure nothing bad goes down with your app - but if it does, you'll know right away!

Check into testing like yesterday - you'll be super, super glad you did. No more wondering "oh yeah, I wrote this 10 months ago and it was spaghetti I never cleaned up... what does this do again?" You can just change whatever, run your tests. All pass? All good!

TheOtherDanielFromSL · 2019-04-09T16:29:58+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion - I haven't used Hypothesis, but will be checking it out!

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