brianbarker

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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Income? yes. Profit? I'm pretty sure, but I'm not that invested in caring.
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Be cool, stay in school. I've seen some great devs make it without a degree. However, they have to work twice as hard to be considered equal. As others have noted, they never picked up some math or algorithmic concepts. It hurts in
3. 153.▲
   by brianbarker 13y ago

   "It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating."
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   There's a much larger problem this article ignores. Now is NOT a great time to enter the electronic health records and data industry. That industry has been flooded with ideas and products for the last decade from large and small gro
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Wait, I thought SnapChat doesn't save any images. Wasn't that the whole marketing ploy? How would you have files to even hand over? Seems their DB should be virtually empty.
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Asia is not stuck on XP because it's more or less secure. Asia is stuck on XP simply because of piracy (which kind of seems to argue it's less secure, but anyway). Most people over there are running pirated XP. I worked at a com
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Go, MongoDB, AngularJS. Go for being modern, fast and fun. MongoDB or similar for its scalability and being quite good for modern applications. Plus I'm just tired of SQL DBs. AngularJS for a rich client experience, plus I look at RES
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   Perhaps the start of something cool, but blasting it as a great way to leak something and using Snowden as an example on your main page could make you a target for the NSA pretty fast. Think LavaBit, etc.
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   by brianbarker 13y ago

   I laughed when I saw this: //returns Today's date in the format YYYY-MM-DD function getTodaysDate() { var todaysDate = new Date(); return todaysDate; } Then I kept scrolling and felt that recurring sense I have
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    by brianbarker 13y ago

    Sounds like the oft-repeated cry of the C-based language dev in regards to a lack of exceptions in Go. The blog and comments here have summed this debate up nicely: http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/
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    by brianbarker 13y ago

    Haha, IE11 won't install on Windows 8. It requires Win7 only it says...
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    by brianbarker 13y ago

    I'm just going to leave this here. I worked at a FX broker as a software engineer. When nerds first read about this stuff we all have the same knee-jerk reaction: "I write code. I'm smart. I could build a robot trader and