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by dj_axl 11y ago
> you won't see that money for 8-10 years Amen. Not such a good notion to trade salary for options, when that extra salary could have been invested all that time. $10k in 2005 is equivalent to $17k in 2015, $21k if you consider divi
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by dj_axl 11y ago
On Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials warns when a hosts file change is detected. Fortunately it's a simple click to decline any further action. Related, I've witnessed AdBlock Plus spontaneously removed from Firefox, I assume
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by dj_axl 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles, CA - Onsite or Remote 14+ years experience as enterprise software engineer/architect including scalable n-tier web applications serving millions of users. Keywords: C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DBA, AS
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> Look at Salesforce, Workday, Amazon, etc. They are all negative or razor thin. Oracle and SAP are used to 85% gross margin on software. Workday has a profit margin of 62% versus Oracle's profit margin of 82%. It's less but it
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> How do I go about valuing myself in the market without wasting a ton of time? It takes a ton of time, but interview people. Seriously, you would not believe what the applicant pool is like, even after resume filtering and phone screeni
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> Twitter is headed the way of MySpace Possibly. Once Instagram's number of users (150 million) hits Twitter's number of users (232 million) it won't be looking so good for Twitter, if Instagram continues to grow. Maybe Tw
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> Most of the people who are making 100-200k would make at the very least double that if they were in the private sector. The base salary would double. However they'd be left without a pension, and other benefits though I think the
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by dj_axl 13y ago
You have to pay for the one electron. Since it's the only electron, the cost is infinite. This results in a buffer overflow. Your utility bill is an overflowed unsigned short, divided by 100. This is why the maximum utility bill you wi
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> So if they say there are no qualified engineers then that's the end of discussion. Actually my company (which hires tons of foreign developers) does have applicants rejected. They then hire some lawyers to help reword the applicat
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by dj_axl 13y ago
They've already raised $44 million, and probably have a near $1 billion valuation. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/17/how-king-com-crushed-...
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by dj_axl 13y ago
> Why does everyone seem to hate Eclipse? Echoing what others have said, you will notice if you've tried other IDE's. Since my main IDE is Visual Studio, I notice the lag / slowness / clunkiness immediately. YMMV. Maybe on a newer blazi
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> The cynic in me just doesn't get over the value handed over by competitors to the sponsors I would think you don't have to hand over your algorithm, if you forego the prize money. Another way of looking at it... as alluded to by other
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> Did you want a skilled programmer, or someone who memorized their Foobar Enterprise Framework cheat sheet? Because you're only interviewing for one of those. People who ask common/simple insert language/framework here interview ques
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by dj_axl 14y ago
Small (<10 people) companies that I've worked for will sometimes quote an hourly rate, however they quote different hourly rates for different types of work, or different roles. An individual may (or may not) be able to do the same thin
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> is this even legal? At least this is a stock, not a commodity like ahem oil.
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> Has anyone ever had any success getting a good part-time job or downsizing your position at a company? Once, at a contract gig, I was offered to work "flexible hours" which meant 16-32 hours a week. That was after putting in 12 months
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> Personally I'm in love with R's data.frame. It allows very concise, robust and elegant manipulation and subsetting of a data set. The performance is terrible though. For data of more than ~10,000 observations SQL is much better perfor
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by dj_axl 14y ago
More explanation here: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2012/09/new-zero-day-ie-exploit-...
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by dj_axl 14y ago
"The only stalwarts here appear to be Backbone (other than its default routing feature, it works on IE6) and Knockout (which for now at least insists on total IE6 support)." IE6 support is a must-have for me (corporate clients).
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you can afford a second desktop/laptop/tablet/smartphone that is de
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by dj_axl 14y ago
'Over-architected' and 'over-optimized' are the terms I prefer. Whatever term(s) is(are) used, criticism should emphasize 'non-pragmatically-built', instead of emphasizing 'startups don't need any design, engineering, or optimization, whats
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by dj_axl 14y ago
"Lehman Brothers is hardly going out of business." - 2008
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> For $300, you're typically not getting as well thought out a design as you would for $10,000. You're likely to get a temporary logo that lasts you 6-12 months until you need a real logo. On the other end of the pricing extreme, Vancou
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> I'm confused over the significance of the P/E ratio. Ratios have to be considered in context of expected future growth and expected future profit margin (revenue grows a little but profit grows a lot). Even considering that, some rati
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> Non-competes might prevent this, but I was under the impression that they're not terribly enforceable in California. It is enforceable (in California) when the employee holds "significant" equity and the company the employee is leav
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> Facebook also owns your social graph Any email provider also has your social graph. The only problem with email is that it is seen as "old" compared to the "new" of Facebook and Twitter. Something else will come along and be the new "
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by dj_axl 14y ago
> You are fortunate not to have any pre-existing conditions THIS. Although in many states there is a high risk pool that you can sign up for, when insurers deny you. I know someone who's done this in California and while there was a 6-9
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> What's to stop Facebook from going after this exact same space? (snip) [To be fair, they don't currently have all the stored credit card info that Apple does. So that's a big hurdle to starting up.] Google (Android) is probably more l
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> is there a big difference in salary afterwards? Yes, if you're good and that's what you want to do. I know someone who knows someone who went to UC Irvine (not one of the top 10) and got a $40,000 signing bonus, which on average wipes
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by dj_axl 15y ago
> The problem is the driver situation. 100% agree. Anecdotal data point, installing on a new Gigabyte motherboard, Fedora 16 was the distro that worked for me. The other distros were CentOS and Ubuntu. So the issue in my case wasn't eve

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