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by bpyne 18y ago
It's just a matter of finding something you love to do and it won't feel like a chore. In college, I was in a 1 credit small jazz combo that met every Friday from 3-4. After the instructor left at 4, we'd whip out songs we wrote and would s
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by bpyne 18y ago
About 15 years ago I was curious about the number of programmers I met who were also musicians. I wish I could remember fully the article I read at the time but IBM had a formal recruiting strategy for musicians sometime around the 50's-60'
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by bpyne 18y ago
I think it is or will be soon enough. The internet made communication between geographically disparate developers so much easier. It's become mature enough that there are sites now where curious developers can congregate and exchange ideas.
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by bpyne 18y ago
I work for a university in the US now. We get 2 weeks of vacation time, 5 days of personal time (sick + ???), and the university shuts down for almost 2 weeks at the end of each year. On the whole, it's far better than most employers I've h
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by bpyne 18y ago
Even in jest I would never want to make a comparison between the Draize Eye Test and a new software system built on a relatively new language.
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by bpyne 18y ago
Yes, absolutely! I spent nearly 4 years working in a hospital on the EMR systems. Seeing your software in use when a patient is coding in the CCU is both humbling and exciting - the patient lived. It motivates you to tighten the UI and insu
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by bpyne 18y ago
Quite true that market research is critical. However, the choice of potential markets to research is even more critical. One of the points I read frequently about successful startups is that the founders set out to solve some problem that t
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by bpyne 18y ago
That shows some remarkable insight. Yes, the job is what it is; the company is what it is. You aren't a match. The question is what are you going to do now? Having a family I don't have the luxury of picking up and doing something else on a
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by bpyne 18y ago
If I could have added more points, I would have. I'm trying to work my way out of a life of feeling dread every Sunday evening. Several solutions that look right for me: 1. start my own business 2. get back into a small company, possibly a
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by bpyne 18y ago
Could he mean that banks should protect themselves by developing a better metric for offering credit? It seems like banks have stopped doing their homework and have relied, to their own detriment, on third parties to determine credit worthi
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by bpyne 18y ago
The interactive boards for team collaboration seems interesting but I've read about it before. The full SDLC modeling tool is worth looking at. I hope it's not another attempt at splitting software developers into separate camps of designer
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by bpyne 18y ago
I appreciate it as a possibility. However, according to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm , there are 1.4B (rounded down) users of the internet. The distribution across cultures is fair. With all of the scientific research, polit
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by bpyne 18y ago
The only threat to the site is people not submitting enough quality pieces. The low quality submissions and comments are easy enough to read around.
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by bpyne 18y ago
Thanks for the link. I read the one on Germany as well. It seems more like a combination of employer and employee payment with the governments being involved as a single payer system - in the case of Germany.
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by bpyne 18y ago
One detail I don't remember seeing in the Op-Ed piece was health care differences between countries. In the countries our auto companies compete against, I believe all of them have health care at the national level. Right there, you have a
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by bpyne 18y ago
I'm not trying to be a wise guy but can you define "real" data?
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by bpyne 18y ago
The idea of solving problems by breaking down solution steps and running them in parallel is exciting. However, identifying areas where the solution to a problem can be parallelized is the largest problem. As critical is analyzing whether o