dacracot

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by dacracot 9y ago
Not necessarily... If I said MS-Word, would you decide to go out and create a word processor, probably not since the market is pretty much a done deal.
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by dacracot 9y ago
I've 34 years of experience in software engineering. Since about 1986, I have been either hired as the team lead or eventually been appointed the team lead at each of the six employers that I have worked for. Due to circumstances beyon
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by dacracot 9y ago
34 years of experience... I am reasonably happy with my compensation and work/life balance. I am not reasonably happy with what I do 40 hours a week, primarily because I do not control the high level objectives, nor the resources to m
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by dacracot 9y ago
Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory. Everyone has an office with a door.
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by dacracot 9y ago
I think the different perspectives on this would line up with the personality testing from C. Jung. ( http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp )
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by dacracot 9y ago
That's fear too. Fear of looking bad to your peer groups.
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by dacracot 9y ago
I agree. The article puts "extrinsic factors (like the chance to earn a big bonus) or intrinsic factors (like personal fulfillment)" as the primary factors. The "third" motivation, and I'd say likely the most commo
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by dacracot 9y ago
The grass is always greener syndrome is very real. The reverse interview process is very hard to parse. It usually takes several months to know where you will be in the bell curve of work environment between "living hell" and &q
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by dacracot 9y ago
Profession: Software Engineer [05:00] alarm / wake up [05:05] eat breakfast with coffee, read personal email [05:30] bathe and dress [06:10] kiss my snoozing wife goodbye and out the door [06:45+/-15] park and walk to office [07:0
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by dacracot 10y ago
I'm going to make an assertion that will like make some of you angry. Let me start with this... Life is a bell curve. Everything you observe from weather to color to taste to whatever, measured multiple times across a large sample te
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by dacracot 10y ago
You have described my problem exactly. It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. I've been tested and other than tinnitus, I'm told my hearing is normal. This could be awesome.
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by dacracot 10y ago
I didn't need science to know this is true.
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by dacracot 11y ago
Easier said than done, but I believe you need to be in charge. This can take many forms, but I lean toward self employment creating a product the customers use as a black box. Let me elaborate on the points of that last statement... "
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by dacracot 11y ago
I'm 33 year veteran of programming. I'm more or less 7 years from retirement. I've worked as a civil servant, at two startups, a large corporation, and for a three letter government agency. I made a decision early in my ca
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by dacracot 11y ago
Zillow meets Indeed.
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by dacracot 15y ago
XSLT and PL/SQL
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Opinions on distribution of software via virtual appliance.(programmers.stackexchange.com)
2 points by dacracot 16y ago|0 comments
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by dacracot 16y ago
PL/SQL
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by dacracot 16y ago
XSLT
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by dacracot 17y ago
Less is more.
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Tox (Tomcat, Oracle, & XML)(tox.sourceforge.net)
1 points by dacracot 17y ago|0 comments
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Feedback please on tox.(tox.sourceforge.net)
1 points by dacracot 17y ago|0 comments