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by RNeff 8y ago
Look at the data at Paysa.com The attraction of startups is that your .01% of the company will turn into big money. Maybe. Look at the jobs listed at angle.co (AngelList) Consider if you want to make, say, $20K more and be bored, or work a
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by RNeff 8y ago
There was a dual screen ebook reader called Kno, that came out in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kno It had dual 14.1 inch touch screens. I recall it was priced at $2,000. The Amazon Fire 10 inch is frequently on
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by RNeff 9y ago
Try the Hacker Dojo, was in MV, now in Santa Clara. https://hackerdojo.com/
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by RNeff 9y ago
There is an entire website based company based on this topic. https://www.theknot.com/
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by RNeff 9y ago
SpaceWar running on a restored PDP-1 is demoed on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 2:30 and 3:15 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. While you are there, you also see the demos of the restored IBM 1401 (punched card computing f
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by RNeff 9y ago
There is: IEEE Computer Society Professional Software Engineering Master Certification. https://www.computer.org/web/education/software-engineering-... Actually, there are a bunch of testing / certificates h
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by RNeff 9y ago
Overall productivity will drop by 50% or more. Everyone will start wearing headphones. Recruiting will suffer. The better programmers will leave. Short answer: death spiral.
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by RNeff 9y ago
Whatever you reward, you get more of. Not what you say you want.
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by RNeff 9y ago
The first object oriented language was Simula 1 and 67. Smalltalk was a modern (for 1970's) new implantation of the OO concepts. Smalltalk (-80, described in the books) was a great language and programming environment for one smart, ex
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by RNeff 9y ago
Try Zillow.com It has search options for rent, lot size, bedrooms, etc. The results show on a map, so you can filter by area. Commute time is not something that can be computed. I hypothesize that properties with two acres would mostly be
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by RNeff 9y ago
Most big companies have specific recruiting for new college hires,f calling them something like NCG or emerging talent. Typically company recruiters will visit university campuses during the school year and interview students. Intel: http
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by RNeff 9y ago
At the top of Hacker News is a jobs tab, for YC funded companies. One the first business day of the month, Hacker News has a "Who is hiring" thread. Just search for the city names. Indeed.com, Simplyhired.com, Monster.com, Linked
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by RNeff 9y ago
Just assume that the tech giants will copy you, and figure out how to execute better than they can. Google created Google+ to compete with Facebook, look how that turned out.Google has tried several times to build a great smart phone. Don&#
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by RNeff 9y ago
I have purchased four houses and sold three. All of the realtors I worked with earned their money, big time. The price of a house is an emotional number, not a scientific number. Zillow computes semi-random numbers. Buying: The realtor kno
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by RNeff 9y ago
Watch out for the endless arguments between programmers on emotional topics like: what is the best programming language, operating system, database, framework, UI toolkit, vi versus emacs, spaces versus tabs, trivia in style guides, etc. A
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by RNeff 10y ago
In my first college adventure, I learned Fortran, Algol-60, Simula,PL/I, APL, BCPL, and five assembly languages (MIX, IBM 1620, PDP-11, IBM 360,Burroughs 5500). We used Knuth AoCP volume I. My first job was programming a proprietary mi
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by RNeff 10y ago
You can learn COBOL. It will be like swallowing a barbed cube shaped pill. That is not the hard part. Many of the bank systems are 20, 30, 40 years old and are swamped with technical debt. They have been modified, extended, updated, moved t
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by RNeff 10y ago
Older peoples' eyesight is not as good as younger people. We need bifocals, trifocals, reading glasses, etc. Font and color choices that work for young eyes may not work with older eyes. Using larger fonts in the browser may help, but
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by RNeff 10y ago
monster.com is still in operation. Also: Hacker News has jobs at YC companies LinkedIn.com Glassdoor.com indeed.com simplyhired.com anglelist.com
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by RNeff 10y ago
This is a ten year old book, but describes a lot of the early UI work. Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge. It is an anthology of early papers with commentary. Any of Donald Norman's books would provide an expanded view of UI des
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by RNeff 10y ago
Subject line should include: job title, city or state, salary range / equity range. In the body include: business area, is IT crucial or support, programming language(s) used, tech stack, private office or open plan, free snacks and &#
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by RNeff 10y ago
Understand the book "Mythical Man Month".
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by RNeff 11y ago
Doug Engelbart's 1968 mother of all demos http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html Remember that most programmers were using punched cards into the mid 1970's; Doug's work was impossible
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by RNeff 11y ago
I used to buy books at Computer Literacy ages ago, I probably still have one of their T-shirts in a box. Borders Books had a good selection of serious computer books in the stores in Silicon Valley. I would buy books there when I had a coup
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by RNeff 11y ago
Take paper and pen to meetings. Write down the key words for things that you don't understand. After the meeting, go over the list with your boss or the project architect. He or she may explain the items, or point you to documentation
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by RNeff 11y ago
The ACM and IEEE assembled a joint recommendation on the CS curriculum in 2013. The long pdf: https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf University Computer Science teaches a substantial background for a ca
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Hotel pricing algorithms gouge fire evacuees(pressdemocrat.com)
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by RNeff 11y ago
There are MOOCs on Machine Learning and AI at both coursera.org and edx.org. Stanford CS224N, Natural Language Processing, will be on the web, not a MOOC. http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/
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The Road to 5G, Matt Grob, CTO, Qualcomm (Hot Chips 27)(youtube.com)
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Convolutional Neural Networks: Yann LeCun, Facebook (Hot Chips 27)(youtube.com)
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