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by devs1010 15y ago
SOMA near AT&T.. I guess I'd say its a 'conservative' company (been around for decade + ), probably not a real 'cutting edge' job, def not a startup
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San Francisco, is 85k even worth considering for java dev?
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by devs1010 15y ago
I'm not sure exactly what sort of answer you are expecting. Unless the data you want is in a standardized format (such as a standardized XML schema), any effort to extract data would require writing custom parsers for each set of data that
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by devs1010 15y ago
my point was that there is a maintenance stage that extends well beyond the 'finish line' of a dev cycle especially for a web app
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by devs1010 15y ago
This brings up nightmares from when I worked remotely for a startup (they had no in-person office, by the way) and the boss was obsessed with WebEx, I had issues with it working on Ubuntu, also, so I would have to boot up a VM each time to
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by devs1010 15y ago
awesome, well I plan on searching for companies that advertise jobs this way, seems like a great way then to get their attention
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by devs1010 15y ago
Is the purpose mainly just to prevent spam / completely unqualified candidates? Its rather trivial to do the post for anyone with dev experience so I can't imagine its much use to actually gauge their skills
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by devs1010 15y ago
Maybe at the time but I'm sure they have cost thousands of dollars in dev hours later on that evened it out
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by devs1010 15y ago
Its the right to freedom of speech, not the right to bribe politicians
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by devs1010 15y ago
hmmm, yeah I have noticed weird behavior a few times, however I run a Java Spring app on there and most of the time it works, its pretty much me that is using it though, I would think that Ruby does use more memory than Java though.
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by devs1010 15y ago
Except there is no finish line. I currently work on an application that is 10 years old, where's the finish line? Its not done in PHP, anyways it has parts that were done very sloppily and "against the grain" and the organization is still p
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by devs1010 15y ago
Couldn't agree more
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by devs1010 15y ago
Would GitHub be a place to look for this? Not sure if they have search by location for users but if they do it could be a good way to find other dev's in your area
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by devs1010 15y ago
I agree, I love EC2 personally, their mini server plan(or whatever its called) is great for keeping a production version of a project running while its still in an initial phase (very low user base) and then you can scale easily without hav
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by devs1010 15y ago
This is all too true. I have seen exactly this go on where there is a young(ish) PM and at least one developer who is much older. The older dev really should be the one leading the project but they don't have any interest in managing as the
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by devs1010 15y ago
From what this sounds like, its not their age its their skillset, they have a skillset that has become more and more obsolete and haven't adapted. At my current job there are guys well over 35 who used to work in jobs like what they are des
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by devs1010 15y ago
Just to clarify, Heroku and App Engine are essentially just a new breed of hosts, these applications aren't exactly created with Heroku or App Engine, they are using other frameworks that can be used on any host (or at least a lot of other
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by devs1010 15y ago
I agree it can be a positive. Actually, before I really even knew much programming I built an online paintball ecommerce store (using a CMS system that I just customized with my HTML knowledge, etc), I had some business experience that I us
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by devs1010 15y ago
Figure out a way to buy her out or whatever needs to be done to get her out of the picture, how can someone take a year off as a startup founder? That doesn't make sense.
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by devs1010 15y ago
Yes, they are software companies where its their core product.. basically IMO they had some horrible, broken processes but at least they did rely on engineering for estimates of time.
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by devs1010 15y ago
"Do you also get angry when oil companies hire lobbyists to wine-and-dine politicians until they give favorable exploration rights on federal lands to those companies? " Yes, this does anger me, what is your point? I think a lot of people a
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by devs1010 15y ago
At that level its a bit more of a personal issue but I think it would be wrong to have an agreement in place, sure you can ask and its likely that you would not poach each other's workers because it would damage your own relationship, howev
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by devs1010 15y ago
You deserve to be sued if you try to make agreements like this. Its part of the game, if you can't take it then get out, you don't own people and a big part of why people can make so much money and do well here is because of a system like t
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by devs1010 15y ago
If you can, get him to say that in writing (email will do), find a good lawyer and sue him, the more scum that do this that are exposed (at any level) the better off employees are in this industry as a whole.
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by devs1010 15y ago
I couldn't agree more.. software developers in general (and presumably those in other related fields) tend to mostly be autodidacts. Sure, you learn from other employees and from what the company has in place already but usually they are ad
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by devs1010 15y ago
Yes, exactly, one issue that I've seen, at least in the Java world, is the original web application they have is so out of date and obsolete (but its still making money) that you literally have to bend over backwards to not mess things up w
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by devs1010 15y ago
I'm not sure about ES3, its just my own experience but I've worked for some companies with rather broken processes and they would still involve the engineering team in giving estimates, sure there is pressure to give a lower estimate but I
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by devs1010 15y ago
Yes, it should be, but in reality the UI usually seems to see the least attention for optimization of this sort, for one, because I think it tends to have people working on it who aren't necessarily true programmers, they are more of desig
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by devs1010 15y ago
I don't know what kind of work you are doing but $25 is low even if it was a full-time gig, for doing just small tasks its absurdly low, I think you're right to drop them, that they would even expect you to be available for tasks less than
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by devs1010 15y ago
Well, its not the "best" in terms of academics but I have found Thomas Edison State College to be the best in terms of catering to transfer students who are in similar situations to you as they are rather liberal in accepting transfer credi

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