11/27 - Mixed-up Monday!

This one goes out to all the old houses.

 

You sound like my husband lol. When we were looking he wanted to buy some old ass house that was in The Outsiders. I was like hell no, who wants to buy a house just to spend the next 20 years constantly fixing things in it.

 

The DIY/cheap ass part of myself is like "I'll just do it myself!" the the rational part of me is like "Buuuut I really don't want cancer.."

I second the yay! I love the general structure of the house (kind of colonial style I think), although it definitely had it's quirks. Like the fact that the closets in my room and my daughter's room connected (built a divider in there real quickly), and the fact that the air conditioner doesn't run to the up stairs at all (which we are getting taken care of with our tax return), but otherwise it's been really nice to be able to buy a 2 story, 3 bedroom house for $70k. I don't think we could've gotten anywhere near something this nice if it were newer, because a lot of people have hangups about old houses. This house feels sturdier than most i've ever been in lol.

 

YOU HAD A CHANCE TO BUY A HOUSE THAT WAS IN THE OUTSIDERS?!

 

Title: Effectiveness of the Crowd at Analyzing Qualitative Data(~ 20 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: Darrel Skousen [A2HG3DS7UI388D] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 5.00] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: 0.00] [Fair: 5.00] [Reviews: 1] [ToS: 0] TO 2: Not Available Description: You will be provided with sample interview transcripts, given descriptions of topics and themes, and will be asked to do two main things: 1) take a brief quiz testing your ability to recognize the themes found within different transcripts; and 2) read through a brief transcript to demonstrate your ability to identify themes. We expect your participation to take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Time: 50 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $2.00 Qualifications: Exc: [1783089-65506] has not been granted; Location is one of: US;

 

Today's Projected Earnings: $128.14 + Bonuses: $2.78 = $130.92 (Exported from Mturk Suite v1.25.8)

⁣	HITs	Value
Viewed	1778	$173.22
Submitted	1405	$128.14
Approved	1405	$128.14
Returned	352	$29.14
Bonuses	N/A	$2.78

 

4 hours of work with a 60 minute timer LET'S GOOOOOO

 

Yes, it was 64,000 and it looked like a turd. All the outlets needed replacing, all the flooring needed work, it needed painting inside and out... ummm nope no thanks.

 

Hey guys I just talked to a requester and she is trying to recruit more people for her study. Anticipant Studies is the name of the requester (or it may be David DeVault ) and it is a easy 7-10 minutes of talking about the last hotel you stayed at for $4.

 

Oh oops. I forgot I signed up for this last week.

 

I should probably also explain I live in one of the cities it was filmed in and the drive in from the movie is still open... although it burned down once and they rebuilt it.

 

Title: Study on decisions(~ 6 minutes) | PANDA Worker: Preview | Accept | Requester Requester: J Berman [AXLI3O9CDOKL3] (Contact) TO 1: [Pay: 4.26] [Fast: 4.63] [Comm: 4.00] [Fair: 4.88] [Reviews: 46] [ToS: 0] TO 2: [Rate: $4.29/hr] [Pen: -- days] [Res: -- of 0] [Rec: 100% of 1] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Description: This is a 6 minute research study. Participation will entail reading a scenario and making several decisions. Time: 60 minutes HITs Available: 1 Reward: $0.40 Qualifications: Exc: [2088983-65489] has not been granted; Total approved HITs is not less than 50; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95; Location is one of: US;

 

This is their second account. I really hope that they don't make a third lol

 

You should've done it for Johnny, man!

 

I had such a good college experience related to my major studies even though I went to a craphole university. We had a small, motivated group, a mix of young and old professors, and major corporate funding (yay, Chevron!) which kept the technology updated.

 

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

You've received a bonus from David DeVault for work related to 3D42WVSDH8EATLOJHVS5YPVWBEZFYO.
The value of your bonus is: $4.00 USD

The Requester included this note:
Hotel Interview

Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk!

Sincerely,
Amazon Mechanical Turk
https://www.mturk.com

This just came in ..she was VERY quick to pay. I told her to join Turker hub to help her out. It is a phone call but a easy one.

 

Yes and by then I'll sell it to someone else to fix up and retire to an island somewhere in another country.

 

Building functions with 11 arguments also falls under "I bet you learned to code by memorizing StackOverflow snippets" territory.

You have to memorize what all of them are, and what order they're in.



Just put them in a single popoverParameters object so that you don't have to remember or reference the order.

So at the top you'd have:

PHP:

function buildVIEWPopover(popoverParameters) {

... and later on, you'd have:

PHP:

`<h3>TurkerView Ratings (${popoverParameters.reviewCount})</h3>`

... which would also in turn give more context when you call it and provide an opportunity to make the code more self-documenting for people like me who have to dig through and fix the bugs.

The general consensus is that most functions should have their settings split up like this after they have more than 2-3 parameters, unless the function is called frequently and repeatedly (punishing you for allocating objects all the time).