I think people tip for service jobs in which service is a big part of the experience. For example a waiter/waitress for you and 11 friends is someone who can have a big impact on your mood. This is unlike say, a packaged good (for example, an xbox), where the good itself is all that matters. Waitress + Food = Experience, but xbox + nothing else (only other games) = experience. So you pay for the physical good itself.
However this raises the question of car dealers. Your salesperson has a huge impact on your experience. however, you don't (usually) tip them because they make a commission instead for their "service."
In essence I believe people tip for jobs where service/performance is a major part of the deal. Sometimes you tip a freelancer/shop owner as well, and i believe the idea that not tipping the salon owner (haircuts) is erroneous, unless he or she turns it down. The idea is that people in these industries are given less by the employer, because they do work that depends very much on skill (which fluctuates, such a hair-cutter who is unskilled in cutting for, say, spiky hair.) If the establishment just paid these service workers a flat rate, then it might be too much (in which you'd have to pay more, even if you hated the service) or too little (which would just lead to more tipping.)
Tipping in other words is your rating system. You give the reward on terms of how good the service was, and how much the skill is worth, along with what the person can reasonably expect. So pizza delivery might get $2-3, while upscale dining may get a percent instead, depending on how difficult it is to do (how many dishes, how nice, etc.) But not for things that aren't the waiter's fault (bad food, which she should take back if asked, or crying baby a few tables away, unless you asked to be reaseated.)
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
How to "Undecline" or Re-Hire A Programmer After Declining Them on Odesk
If you have sent a provider (say, a programmer) a job offer, perhaps you later withdrew it. But then, you decide you will offer it to them again. Here is how to do that:
- Go to Messages tab
- Find the corresponding emails in your Sent folder (they will start with "Offer: [Job title.]")
- Go to the first message (it was sent by you.)
- Click on the link where it says "view offer."
- It will say how to resend an offer.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
How to fix mvn --version or -v Not Recognized Error in Windows but you have Netbeans 7 or higher
I earlier had a difficult time trying to set up Maven for Java. However, Maven does come bundled with NetBeans's newer versions (as of this writing.) Here's how to fix the error that cmd or cygwin does not recognize Maven.
First check whether your netbeans has Maven available in the first place:
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12579496/maven-in-netbeans-7-1-1 , user 'baba' :
Next, get into your command prompt of choice (for me it's currently cygwin; the default for most is perhaps Windows Start > Run > type "CMD"). Run mvn --version. You should get something like the following:
The things I had to do were make variables, and point them to specific places. Let's start with the"path" variable. You may see it online in other help articles as PATH or something else, %PATH% or so on. For my own purposes, I found it via the following on Windows 8: hit Windows key (on keyboard) and Pause/Break at the same time. This should get you to "System." Then go to "Advanced system settings", which should be on the right hand side in Windows 8. This will take you to the screen "System Properties." From there visit "Environment Variables," which should be near the bottom of the window.
In the new Environment Variables window, you will find two possible variables to make: user variables and System variables. We will only be concerned with System variables for now. So go to the "Path" variable, you will likely need to scroll to find it. There is also PATHEXT, but ignore that. Click to edit "Path." It may be helpful to copy-past the contents into notepad (NOT ms word.) You'll see that Path contained many 'paths' to different areas on the C drive. They are separated by a ";", except at the end when a ";" is not necessary.
Now that you found your "Path" variable, you're ready to make a new directional toward your maven installation that came bundles with Netbeans. You first need to find you Maven bin. For me, it was at C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.4\java\maven\bin. Luckily Win8 does have a great search capacity, so try searching for "maven\bin" exactly. (I bring up search via putting the cursor in the upper right hand corner, then looking for the magnifying glass symbol.) You may find a small little file called "mvn" under results, hover over it to confirm that it is maven\bin. Alternatively, you can use
Netbeans uses an embedded Maven installation.
Open
where you can see the maven binaries. >> again, and just find the location that way.
Once you get that location, copy and paste it into your Path variable mentioned earlier. Remember you can use Notepad or similar to edit it more easily, and separate them with ";", except at the end. Go ahead and save that and hit ok on the System Properties screen as well.
Next, restart you command terminal if it was already open. Just close all instances, then reopen. Perhaps even check the Task Manager to make sure your terminal isn't running. Then, open a new instance. Type mvn --version again. You should get a better message new, saying something similar to
Go back to System Variables and check to see if you have a JAVA_HOME variable. If not, you'll need to make one. Either way, fill it with the location to your Java installation bin. The best option is to point it toward your JDK, not the JRE. The JDK, as far as I know, has both the virtual environment you'll need, but the Java language itself. So it has the best of both things.
To find your JDK, search java.exe, using the same search method as last time. I personally found 79 matching files for the term, but what we want is the java.exe in the JDK folder, NOT the JRE's. In Win8.1 and perhaps others, you can hover over the results to see their full file paths. For me, the JDK path was C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\.
If you absolutely cannot find your JDK folder, perhaps you don't have it; download it from the oracle site.
After locating the JDK path, put it in the JAVA_HOME system variable.
After this, once more make sure you have no terminals open, then open a new one. And after running mvn --version, your run of Maven should be a success!
First check whether your netbeans has Maven available in the first place:
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12579496/maven-in-netbeans-7-1-1 , user 'baba' :
Netbeans uses an embedded Maven installation.If you don't have that, your Netbeans hasn't got Maven. Head over to https://github.com/tamingtext/book and see "Building the source."
OpenTools->Options->Java->Maven
where you can see the maven binaries.
If you open the Maven Home dropdown menu, you are going to see a Bundled one (the embedded), and a list of the other maven binaries (for you -> none).
The binary of the bundled maven install is in:
<netbeans_install>/java/maven/bin/mvn
Next, get into your command prompt of choice (for me it's currently cygwin; the default for most is perhaps Windows Start > Run > type "CMD"). Run mvn --version. You should get something like the following:
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 05:51:28-0800)
Maven home: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.4\java\maven
Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle CorporationIf not, you'll have some things to fix. ETA, 10 mins.
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 8", version: "6.2", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
The things I had to do were make variables, and point them to specific places. Let's start with the"path" variable. You may see it online in other help articles as PATH or something else, %PATH% or so on. For my own purposes, I found it via the following on Windows 8: hit Windows key (on keyboard) and Pause/Break at the same time. This should get you to "System." Then go to "Advanced system settings", which should be on the right hand side in Windows 8. This will take you to the screen "System Properties." From there visit "Environment Variables," which should be near the bottom of the window.
In the new Environment Variables window, you will find two possible variables to make: user variables and System variables. We will only be concerned with System variables for now. So go to the "Path" variable, you will likely need to scroll to find it. There is also PATHEXT, but ignore that. Click to edit "Path." It may be helpful to copy-past the contents into notepad (NOT ms word.) You'll see that Path contained many 'paths' to different areas on the C drive. They are separated by a ";", except at the end when a ";" is not necessary.
Now that you found your "Path" variable, you're ready to make a new directional toward your maven installation that came bundles with Netbeans. You first need to find you Maven bin. For me, it was at C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.4\java\maven\bin. Luckily Win8 does have a great search capacity, so try searching for "maven\bin" exactly. (I bring up search via putting the cursor in the upper right hand corner, then looking for the magnifying glass symbol.) You may find a small little file called "mvn" under results, hover over it to confirm that it is maven\bin. Alternatively, you can use
Netbeans uses an embedded Maven installation.
Open
Tools->Options->Java->Mavenwhere you can see the maven binaries. >> again, and just find the location that way.
Once you get that location, copy and paste it into your Path variable mentioned earlier. Remember you can use Notepad or similar to edit it more easily, and separate them with ";", except at the end. Go ahead and save that and hit ok on the System Properties screen as well.
Next, restart you command terminal if it was already open. Just close all instances, then reopen. Perhaps even check the Task Manager to make sure your terminal isn't running. Then, open a new instance. Type mvn --version again. You should get a better message new, saying something similar to
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 05:51:28-0800)
Maven home: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.4\java\maven
Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporationfrom last time. However, there is a decent chance it will tell you that JAVA HOME is not pointing to the right pathway. So if that's the case with your setup, let's continue.
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 8", version: "6.2", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
Go back to System Variables and check to see if you have a JAVA_HOME variable. If not, you'll need to make one. Either way, fill it with the location to your Java installation bin. The best option is to point it toward your JDK, not the JRE. The JDK, as far as I know, has both the virtual environment you'll need, but the Java language itself. So it has the best of both things.
To find your JDK, search java.exe, using the same search method as last time. I personally found 79 matching files for the term, but what we want is the java.exe in the JDK folder, NOT the JRE's. In Win8.1 and perhaps others, you can hover over the results to see their full file paths. For me, the JDK path was C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\.
If you absolutely cannot find your JDK folder, perhaps you don't have it; download it from the oracle site.
After locating the JDK path, put it in the JAVA_HOME system variable.
After this, once more make sure you have no terminals open, then open a new one. And after running mvn --version, your run of Maven should be a success!
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Lil Hamsters Ready for New Families!
Greetings! We are pleased to announce that our baby hamsters are ready to find new, loving families to live with.
We will be relocating them by January 4th (you may pick them up then or earlier.)
**Please remember you will need to actually bring at least a cage, water system (bottle or bowl) and a wheel for your new hamster. Those three things are your "coupon" for a $3 hamster :)
We will be releasing 1 hamster per cage. You may purchase as many as you'd like, just let us know how many to hold, and what type.
Text us for further inquiries: (661) 513-3792
**Hamsters must be accounted for by end of day on Jan 2. We will confirm you selection the same day. You may specify which type you would like, or just make an appointment. Then you may pick them up on or before January 4th.
Please see the video for colors. We will try our best to determine which are male and which are female. We make no guarantees and you are welcome to take your pick once you see them for yourselves :)
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