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" On your CA's environment (hopefully elsewhere): openssl x509 -CA cacert.pem -CAkey cakey.pem -CAcreateserial \ -days 730 -req -in vpn.csr -out vpn-cert.pem " What does the author mean by 'hopefully elsewhere?' It
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We must be living in different worlds then. I've seen many people leave programming to get a job in program management because those jobs a) are not easily outsourced and b) get healthy pay increases each year.
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So put your business guy hat on, who only cares about the bottom line. You could train her for 2 months or so and she might work out, or you could do a temp hire from an outsourcing company. Which is less risk, easier and gets results soo
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Money matters. I'm almost certain you know of people working in other (non programming) fields that were good programmers and if offered a 250K salary they would go back to programming, but they won't for a 120K salary. Employ
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"I prefer virtualenv based setups for development" I'm a casual python user and I find virtualenv to be very helpful.
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lol Are you a lawyer?
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It's still 'Day One' at Amazon.
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I don't know what you are talking about. If there is a shortage in housing, prices go up; if there is an oversupply, prices go down. Credit affects what people can afford and plays a factor, but the basic rules of economics are very
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Sigh... Could you please add the salary that you are looking for? I'm going to guess it's too low.
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Maybe the real lazy person is you and the way you interview. What does writing mergesort on a whiteboard have to do with writing Web software in 2013?
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I'd be curious what a fellow hacker on the other side of the world thinks about the current situation.
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IBM RS/6000
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He has a DBA mindsight in a FullStack world. There are many projects now that only require one or two FullStack engineers. Not one dba, one QA, two developers, one deployment/operations, one requirements analyst, etc. In this new Fu
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Log file analysis is a big deal. This one company (Splunk) alone is worth 5 billion dollars: http://www.google.com/finance?q=splunk&ei=VwsdUqi2L5qglwON4g...
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thanks
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I can't see the most watched or forked (in the hundreds), grouped by language anymore? Just the top 25? I'm not a fan of the change.
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It's used mostly by outsourcing companies: Rank H1B Visa Sponsor Number of LCA * Average Salary 1 Infosys Limited 15,810 $75,062 2 Wipro 7,178 $76,920 3 Tata Consultancy Services 6,732 $64,350 4 IBM 6,190 $82,630 http://
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You can learn some of the concepts of SICP and better understand JavaScript with Fogus's book Functional Javascript: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do I can't recommend this book enough. I
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>>What's interesting is why he attempted PR reconciliation at a relatively niche conference. He was recruiting. Don't let the tattoos and black shirts worn by the crowd fool you, many work and/or consult for the govern
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Did you find a use for it at your job? One of the challenges is to make something that is new and useful to other people.
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We're talking about supply and demand. Wall Street understands that if the demand for talent is higher than the supply then the solution is to pay more, not whine about it.
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The finance companies pay considerably more than Silicon Valley companies thus don't have the same problem with filling positions as SV does. Do you disagree with that? Search 'finance companies lobby h1b visa'. Nothing Then
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>>Realistically, most of these low skill jobs will not exist in 20 years. True. Amazon is already rolling out robots at select fulfillment centers. But it still stinks that in 2013 so many people don't feel like they are in cont
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I didn't see that. thanks
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Also, FastMail doesn't appear to have 2 factor authentication.
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I think you got it wrong. The exchanges may be a first step in separating healthcare from employers. If I can buy into an exchange there is less risk for me. The risk is spread throughout the exchange. As a want-a-be entrepreneur I think
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Why not code it in Clojure or Lisp?
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In the age of nuclear weapons doing nothing is not acceptable.
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How would you identify and disrupt terrorist cells in America that were talking with known terrorists overseas? I'm not trying to defend the government, but genuinely ask, 'How would you do it?'
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To me, a Full Stack developer takes responsibility for the full stack. When a problem arises, she doesn't say: * It's a database problem. Call the dbas. * It's a network problem. Call the network folks. * It's an app server problem. Call
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