Pinbenterjamin

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by Pinbenterjamin 6y ago
Best advice I can give, as a manager, is self-discipline. It's a core tenant of what divides my good workers, from my standard workers. Sure, learning Java, or C#, or Python is nice. But what really makes an effective worker to me is s
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Ask HN: Enterprise Devs, what are your company provided PC system specs?
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
I'm going to try and be optimistic about this; 10b in research and development? I can't imagine that it's going to be for 'weapons' only right? Some of this has to go into the future of humankind. I would imagine th
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
It is nice to have tools that don't require 30 seconds to boot up, just so you can view some xml (Looking at you visual studio). But the recommendation of vi or emacs...just why? I scratch my head when people recommend 30 year old tech
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
You definitely should. I remember when I started doing serious side projects, how invaluable having a document was. It should be living though. Start with something small, describe goals, and outlook. Put a feature checklist on it. As you w
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
It's all in what you want as a reader. For some, it's comparing 'holding a physical book and turning the pages' to the more active, not taking readers. I don't think the leaders in the ebook industry really understo
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
There are impossibly diverse options for learning today. Ideally, you'll want to find which methodology (or -ies ideally) works best for you, and continue to branch from there. The idea of 'how do you learn' extends above ans
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
Process Automation / Business Rule Optimization is a nearly untouched field for large, existing software driven companies. For goal N, where N is an amalgam of small processes, what can we do to isolate, automate, and optimize the proc
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
Kind of unrelated, but I recently tested out a scenario for the Dotnet Environment that worked really well; I created a 'Random' service that lives for the length of the execution of the application. This service has an instance o
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
That's the general direction I'd like to take. When we capture the inputs for the scrapers, I'd like to persist everything. Mouse jiggles, delays, idle time. I think it would definitely help advance the software.
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
We have an enormous legal team that communicates constantly with end points to ensure they are aware of our scraping. And as I said in another comment, we store no results other than what is already available to anyone else using the web. W
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
According to the NDA with my company I can't reveal anything about the architecture beyond the fact that it is hosted locally on a homebuilt distributed system that randomly chooses from a pool of 120 residential IPs. We do have human
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
Well, when that option is available, as in the case of something like SAMBA WEB MVR, we absolutely opt for that instead, and pay our dues.
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
I still don't agree. The whole reason this business exists is to remove the cost from all the industries that need to run background checks. I think the extent and reason for the checks aren't apparent. So I'll give a few exa
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
I don't have a perspective on the ethics of easier background checks. We run employment checks, the ultimate decision of whether to hire falls to the customer ALWAYS. I've seen plenty of former criminals get hired. It's a wor
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
There are a number of ways we do this. First, the process of automating a source is not as simple as 'grab data, send to person that creates the case'. We have many many layers of precaution and validation both by humans and other
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
I don't empathize with your viewpoint because, whether it's a web scraper, or a person, the work is exactly the same. There's no additional volume, or extra steps. We just emulate a worker. We measure the value in FTEs, and w
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous volume of different sites (or sources as we call them). We rece
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by Pinbenterjamin 7y ago
Understandable, as IBM has always targeted the enterprise solutions market. Having control over (I think still?) the most popular enterprise linux installation is a nice add to their business. It opens greater flexibility for their servers,
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Hey Ben! (Also) Ben here. I work in New Jersey, as an Enterprise App Full-stack dev with 0 college experience. I started as a developer 4 years ago @15/hr, and I recently breached the 6 figure mark. I've told my coworkers that I h
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
The important bit here is that, they will remain individual applications, with a unified underlying architecture. It is a smart move, internally, to leverage a single framework for dealing with similar services. Less training, and greater l
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
I somewhat agree with this short article, with the exception of the 'Prestige' portion. "Certainly there is some level of prestige that comes with having a degree. This comes from the level of communication required to simply
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Not sure if this is the correct use of 'Glass Ceiling'. Anyway, have you tried fundraising sites like GoFundMe, or Kickstarter? Have you shown your project on various social media sites, like Github/Reddit/HN? Have you t
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Very bizarre... Just reviewing some of the categories and runners up; Application & Data Tool of the Year Javascript was pitted against frameworks made in Javascript? It was also judged against HTML5? Against Java? Against MSQL? All of
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Solid self-awareness here by the team at Streetmix. It's touched upon in the sentence; "Discord, unlike Slack, is not as well-known in the corporate world. Although marketed to gamers as a voice chat alternative, its core service
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Google, and S.C. as a whole are really the 'Grandchildren' to the 'Grandpa' American Political system. Changing the status quo in that environment is like steering a barge through honey. They're so resistant to chan
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
Exploring the use cases for 'AI' nowadays is more popular than defining it, I would like to see more dialog around discussing what constitutes 'Artificial Intelligence'. As with most of us in this field, I hate the often
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
I believe there's a really interesting parallel between Facebook and TPB. TPB did everything in it's power to push the stance that, 'We run the site, what users use our site for is not our responsibility'. Whereas Facebo
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with your points. Responsible, experienced engineers should teach newcomers that experiencing self-doubt is part of the process in maturing. I had the fortune to work under a mentor in my original position in this com
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by Pinbenterjamin 8y ago
In our field, unknowns and chaos are unavoidable. This profession offers a lot to be cynical about. Establishing clear lines of communication and trust is hard work. As hard as development. People are unpredictable and diverse. It's li

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