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by devmonk 16y ago
I worked for a company that essentially was based on it, and know of another that via "scraping" and related automation makes its living as well. Both have been alive and well for years and have grown quite a bit. The trick is that you work
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Best way to determine a career?
2 points by devmonk 16y ago|1 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Mobile apps also killed his post.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Still funny but seriously needs to be revised. For example: Haskell (off to the side unattached to anything because it is its own little world), Groovy (just above Java), Scala (above Perl), Obj-C (diagonally above C), Erlang (*-Ruby develo
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by devmonk 16y ago
Written by Al Gore, then?
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Ask HN: Books that changed your life?
24 points by devmonk 16y ago|53 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Some other thoughts... will be higher level adoption of dynamic languages and higher abstraction with continued increase in client-side code via javascript with continued development of JQuery/JQuery UI, HTML 5 gets more fully adopted but f
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by devmonk 16y ago
I think it will be the other way around. Major changes are afoot in the world, and these will have profound effect on every part of our lives, not just the "web". Severe problems with the economy will cripple some large internet-based busin
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm not sure how to "think lean" when I have no inspiration on what to do. I know going back to university wouldn't be lean, so I've crossed that off the list. I know I can't head into something that requires too much initial experience, so
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by devmonk 16y ago
Thanks. I already have been doing that. Have taken vacation, and I spend as much time with the family as possible. I have also been trying to exercise more frequently, etc. In fact, a big part of the reason that I took the job I have now wa
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by devmonk 16y ago
Totally agree. I want to get away from it, and it would be basically like starting completely from scratch without almost any relevant experience. It's a big step, and without having specific inspiration in what to do next, I continue to bu
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by devmonk 16y ago
Thanks! I apologize that it's so general. That's part of the problem. I agree that I need to focus on something else, and focus of solving a niche need. Unfortunately after a long career in development, I really am not enthusiastic about mo
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Want to give up development and start a company.
7 points by devmonk 16y ago|8 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Time to switch careers I suppose, or become a manager. Hopefully not a bad manager, but there are more bad or average managers than good/outstanding ones.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Best of luck. Sounds like it might be good if you focused on a specific need that needs to be met rather than just a general SaaS app. One thing you could do is to focus on something that could easily be forthcoming, like a market downturn,
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by devmonk 16y ago
Buuuuut iiiiittttsss sssoooooooo ssssllloooooooowwww. Seriously- we have root on box, but thought we'd be smart by doing OS X and just use VMWare Fusion for Win and Linux emu. VMWare is awesome to have available, but they would have easily
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by devmonk 16y ago
I've worked for a company a few years ago that during one period had a small (3-4 person) true UX team for a large development crew (had something like 160 java devs all in same building). They produced the wireframes based on client servic
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by devmonk 16y ago
No.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Join the crowd. I used to work with a guy that said he'd rather be a groundskeeper and mow grass. I totally sympathized with him then, and somewhat felt the same way. But at this point am so burnt out and bored with development that I am se