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by caw 14y ago
For some people, a slight amount of boredom or free time will sometimes lead to new ideas that previously weren't thought of. There's a lot of problems that can be solved with the thinking "It would be really cool if..." This of course depe
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by caw 14y ago
They are completely standard in corporations. Once you have hundreds or thousands of employees, NDAs are the way you work, because you just have too many trade secrets to risk. For individuals with ideas? I agree, they're non-standard.
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by caw 14y ago
Can you elaborate more on the expiration? The only NDAs I've seen don't apply after the data/process/methodology/trade secret is made public. They don't have something like 1 year after termination. For many companies, this information will
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by caw 14y ago
- Personal projects, if any (NOT CLASS PROJECTS) When I was going through resume workshops at the end of college, they recommended putting class projects, so long as they're actually worth a damn. CS 101 fish tank in java? No. Senior desig
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by caw 14y ago
I agree. The polycoms with secondary microphones pick up those guys in the background you care about. Being entrenched in the corporate culture, if you tried to sell my department on a brand new "speakerphone" that required the use of my ce
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by caw 14y ago
My pager agreement is response in under 30 minutes (whether it's log-on or escalation calls), within 1 hour physically of work, and sober. There's no cellular modem, and you have to use the corp laptop to access the VPN to access your machi
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by caw 14y ago
If you've got a Microsoft stack at your business, the Microsoft BI system is actually pretty good. I've seen some fantastic graphs come out of it. My only problem is data resolution, and that it's high touch to create the dashboards.
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by caw 14y ago
Regarding the post, was it this one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214767
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by caw 14y ago
Since I started writing Perl I absolutely started adding more comments. I make sure that I add a comment with sample input for my regexes, particularly if they're complex. The Regex comments make all the difference, because I can easily che
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by caw 14y ago
It depends. A crap Linux cert will be crap. There are some good ones though, like RHCE. You can be Linux admin for years and still not pass without heavy studying. That's because there's a lab component to it. Is it worth it? Maybe, if you'
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by caw 14y ago
With 10,000 servers I think one of the things you could do is refresh old hardware. New hardware is vastly more efficient than older hardware. If there's some place where you can accelerate the refresh, you could find yourself condensing se
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by caw 14y ago
HN-centric example: Patio11's appointmentreminder.org
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by caw 14y ago
The older Intel cubes allow the desks to be affixed in the standing position. The newer style cubes have sit/stand desks.
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by caw 14y ago
I've had experience with whiteboard wallpaper before (I don't know about the paint). After a while, it starts to look like crap because it's just not as clean as when you started. Sort of like real whiteboards, but permanently affixed to yo
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by caw 14y ago
I made a site that sounds somewhat like what you're looking for, though it's entirely inert: http://instantfounder.com/ . I didn't bother launching, it was more so just to make something, and I thought at the end that it wasn't very useful
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by caw 14y ago
This post got downvoted, but there are some interesting points. I also read the part about "my friends got in without me" and was like "Oh snap, that's awkward." Reading a post on the Internet, you don't know what happened in the mean time.
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by caw 14y ago
I'm one of those people without a microwave. Instead, I have a toaster oven. For warming up leftovers, the toaster oven or stove does just fine, and most of the time it turns out better than the microwave, as it doesn't get mushy. This is t
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by caw 14y ago
I understand that, but some of these startup posts have a list of 7-10 technologies. Surely there's some that are essential and others on the "nice to have" list? You want a Django person who knows JQuery, but if they have Rackspace experie
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by caw 14y ago
I went to an elementary school in the U.S. where you were not grouped by age. It was a pilot program, and I can't find a reference to the program being in place almost 20 years later. The program at the school had 1 large building, which wa
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by caw 14y ago
One way to do this is to show someone 3 ideas, that are slightly different. Draw a XYZ coordinate set, and plot your ideas on those continuums, where each X, Y, and Z are benefits you think it has. How automatic vs manual is it, how heavy v
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by caw 14y ago
End user simple usually means more complex for hotels. It's already been said most of their IT is outsourced. It could be possible to set up more of the enterprise configuration, where each user has their own password onto the WiFi. However
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by caw 14y ago
At work I have a Leap. It's pretty good (lots of knobs to adjust), but at home I use the Herman Miller Embody. Personally I feel it's more comfortable than the Leap, but chairs are very subjective. You may like it because the seat "pan" isn
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by caw 14y ago
I moved to Austin about a year ago from Atlanta. 1) Yes, one weather is absolutely true. It's apparently fantastic if you own a convertible or motorcycle. Yes, you have to drink water, but I've never found it that big of a deal. It's possib
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by caw 14y ago
* I don't understand at all how to create a "Myx". I tried clicking on an image, and nothing happened. I thought maybe JS was broken, so I tried Firefox, and still no luck. * On your homepage, your link that says "Nut Allergy? Please see ou
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by caw 14y ago
My first internship (not CS) paid around $14 an hour, with full benefits. My IT internship paid from $15.xx/hr and no benefits, with a standard raise every semester you worked. I know the software interns got paid the same $15.xx starting o
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by caw 14y ago
>Do Linux server admins actually... change anything related to the Linux kernel? Yes. The Linux admins where I work have looked at TCP buffer settings, memory overcommit settings, and some other kernel level configurations. Last week, I
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by caw 14y ago
> I've interviewed a guy from IBM before. He insisted on commenting everything and having getters and setters for all of his fields. A co-worker of mine used to work for IBM. He said he commented everything. However, he wrote them in Sp
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by caw 14y ago
I think the commonality is that all 3 professions would get paid for updates the clients requested, but mistakes made by the professional would have to get covered. Updates: Additional photography sittings, design modifications, bug fixes.
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by caw 14y ago
There's a number of specialist paths you can take. I think the most profitable ones right now are *Nix administration, and cloud administration, whether that's public or private clouds. I think the cloud administration might mesh nicely wit
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by caw 14y ago
I had a similar idea in my video game design glass.(We ultimately went with something else). You can get rid of the wall deaths and instead make them elastic collisions. You turn either left or right when you hit the wall, and that crutch w

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