JoelPM

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by JoelPM 17y ago
It sounds more like you want to learn a web framework than a new language. Picking a framework depends on what your goals are - do you want to develop REST based services, write rich-internet-applications, or do more traditional web-apps? C
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by JoelPM 17y ago
A year ago it wasn't extremely accurate. When I left there was a project underway to significantly improve it, but I'm not sure if that happened.
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by JoelPM 17y ago
I don't believe in "magic" or "destiny" - that's not what I'm referring to here. I'm also not talking about knowing you're "great" for another person. I'm talking about knowing you're _committed_ to another person. When you know you're _com
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Uptown is right on the money. It's like marriage - people say that you'll know when you know. If you're not sure if you know, then you don't know.
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by JoelPM 17y ago
I like the Zen of Python myself, but the first thought that crossed my mind was that the Python example could use xrange and save the generation of a temporary list. So there are at least two ways of doing it in Python, both of which look v
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by JoelPM 17y ago
I hope you're able to find a tech co-founder. In the event that you don't but you're willing to take a more long-term approach to finding one, here's what I'd recommend: Join an existing startup in LA - they are out there, just harder to fi
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by JoelPM 17y ago
All but one of my jobs I've gotten without any connections. Out of college I worked for IBM. Initial contact was at an engineering job expo. I had interviews on campus and then on site. After that I submitted my resume to Xanga.com on a whi
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by JoelPM 17y ago
I used to believe that you could pick any two of the following three items: 1) A job you like and are good at 2) A body you like and take care of 3) A marriage & family you invest in and enjoy I've found that you can have all three, but
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Here are the questions I would ask: Are they actively turning down funding or have they just decided not to seek it? If the former, who have they turned down? How much angel capital do they have? What's their burn rate and runway? Have any
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Coming from a Java background into a startup that was built using PHP, it's been my experience that PHP is difficult to scale. This is for two reasons: 1) PHP isn't long-lived. Every time a request comes in Apache launches the PHP processor
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Azure. https://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx I haven't looked at it in depth so I don't know how it compares to the offerings listed above. My guess is that it's closer to AppEngine - you write to the MS stack and deploy on their i
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Google Reader has also helped me manage the amount of time spent reading news. I click on "All Items" and then start scrolling through. If there are longer items that seem interesting I star them so I can come back. Shorter items I skim and
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by JoelPM 17y ago
I should have been more clear about what I was responding to - this commend by rdr: "does that imply that certain people are held to a higher standard due to where they went to college? that seems unfair both to those people (who have unrea
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Is it really unfair to hold someone to a higher standard because they went to a 'good' school? I think part of the way we estimate future performance is by examining past performance, and performing well at a name-brand school should indica
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by JoelPM 17y ago
1) Fluid. The ability to launch work GMail in one window, personal GMail in another window, and Lala.com in a third window and have them all running in separate processes that can't bring each other down has been a great help. 2) Eclipse. I
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Assuming this is for CS or some other type of engineering, see if you can find out who recruits at both schools (who shows up at job fairs, who sponsors engineering expo, etc). When I worked at Xanga we visited UMich to recruit but we didn'
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by JoelPM 17y ago
Vi or Emacs?
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by JoelPM 18y ago
I agree. Getting an offer from another company will provide some perspective (as well as an alternative should you decide against the current one). Also, can you get more info on what "entry-level" means at the company? At IBM (my first job
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by JoelPM 18y ago
The ability to start up an Extra-Large EC2 instance running OSX and connect to it using NoMachine. Combine it with a simple client that runs locally and rsyncs pictures/music/etc from a local HD with an EBS mounted to the EC2 instance. (I w