We're not talking semantics. You are trying to re-define "Paying your dues". If you are learning and gaining experience, you're not "paying your dues", you're getting valuable work experience.

"Paying your dues" is pointless suffering. If you have to "pay your dues" to advance in your career, you have a crappy manager.

The lottery method only works if you really really believe that you're gonna win. You aren't trying hard enough, so you are failing. Over lunch, I won 5$ from a scratch card. My luck is starting to turn around. I already re-invested that 5$ into more scratch cards, but didn't win anything. Tomorrow I'm gonna try again…

DLC is great if it's done right. Skin packs and "Cheater" DLC are a great way to improve revenue flow and they don't generally hurt anyone (except for cheaters who are cheating themselves out of a challenge). Whiners gonna whine about overpriced cosmetic DLC, but as long as it doesn't affect gameplay who gives a damn…

It's not technically a strike. If it was a strike then it would face a lot more BS. It was a slowdown or a "Paid Strike". Management didn't want to pay for people to slack off on purpose, so they eliminated overtime, meaning that an 8 hour day and a 5 hour work week is all that they get (previously, there were guys…

It's easy. I have a post-it note with my master password taped to my monitor. Ever since I got a password manager, I've had a lot more space on my monitor bezel to store important information like passwords.

My favorite programmer test is to write the worst fizzbuzz you can and explain why it is dumb.

Metacritic is just an aggregation of review sites. The score is a TL;DR for the review. Metacritic takes these TL;DRs out of context and averages them. The scores are mostly arbitrary and every site uses a different scale. They try to normalize them by converting them to a 100 point scale, but if one site's 2/5 is…

I stock a lot of flour in my pantry, cake, AP, whole wheat, and bread. I really enjoy using cake flour for pancakes, waffles, and just about anything that you want to make light and fluffy without any toothiness to it. (My wife loves cake making and I was a fool for not believing that cake flour makes great cakes)

My parents used to own an old mail car. Right hand drive, 2 speed powerglide and a chevrolet inline 4. I think it was an early 70s. We sold it eventually and I think the buyer bought it to get the powerglide.

I agree, but as I said, it's better to err on the side of over-sharing than under-sharing. The secretive culture of income caused a lot of misfortune for a great many people. People still try to convince us that our income is a secret number that you can't tell the guy in the cube next to you and he could be paid more…

The cornstarch doesn't bind the water to the proteins... Cornstarch is a thickener, when added to liquid and heated to around 190f, it turns into a gel. The starch gel is holding the water, making the texture of the eggs creamier. I'd be tempted to call this method an egg gravy. It's just concealing the fact that you…

I'm not exactly sure how a spatchcocked chicken would cook faster than quarters. It would definitely require less effort to prepare as there are fewer pieces to move around, but the overall time required to cook shouldn't be less.

I think that the biggest issue that people face with making scrambled eggs is that they use too much heat. When your scrambled eggs get watery, it is because the proteins are squeezed so tight that they push the water out.

In a world where you need to pick the lesser of two evils, I would definitely pick over-sharing about finances than under-sharing. The tight lipped culture of earning privacy did a lot of harm to many people's potential income. It's impossible to know that you are being underpaid if nobody tells you.

Spatchcocking a bird is my very favorite way to prepare them. Since we switched to a spatchcocked turkey for thanksgiving, we've halved the time the bird is in the oven and we've had much better results.

I've considered other possibilities, but it's a Cuisinart Belgian Waffle Stick Maker http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-Stai…, so It makes Belgian waffle sticks, which isn't ideal for most waffle maker hacks.

We only got one wedding gift... it was a waffle iron. We use it about twice a year.

Uh, this article doesn't explain why the rPi crashes... Yah, it explains how light can induce a current in an IC, but that doesn't really answer the question. A better explanation is that when you flash the camera, the SMPS (Switched mode power supply) chip cuts power to the 3.3 volt rail for long enough (a few…

So, uh... what about the people who can properly digest milk? Can we keep drinking the stuff?