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by donretag 12y ago
That's funny you should mention vacation. Like many, I am a tad bit burnt out, but my company will not let any employee take vacation in July to prepare for their annual convention. Not a single employee can take off for 30 days, regar
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by donretag 12y ago
It looks like tilt constantly appends ?s in order to resubmit articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tilt
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by donretag 12y ago
I was surprised when it indicated that my area is supported since I love far away from any metro area. Turns out they now deliver overnight to most of Northern California, just not same day service. I really do not need next day service for
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Red Hat, Joyent, and others break down licensing barriers(infoworld.com)
1 points by donretag 12y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 12y ago
Where are you supposed to put the ads?
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Project Valhalla(mail.openjdk.java.net)
2 points by donretag 12y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 12y ago
Did not know such a thread existed, so please forgive me if I do not have my information available in an orderly, but anonymous fashion. Location: 2 hours away from Silicon Valley Remote: Yes, with the option of working 1 day a week (2 days
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Be careful LinkedIn......(linkedin.com)
1 points by donretag 12y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 12y ago
I'm in there as well.
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by donretag 12y ago
qbox.io is another hosted Elasticsearch solution. I have never used them, but one of their developers is very knowledgeable and active on the mailing list.
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by donretag 12y ago
What is the search radius for jobs? I live two hours away from San Francisco, yet it matched me for a job there. Ummm, no thanks. I understand that there will be no jobs in my area, but recommending something two hours away seems a bit too
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by donretag 12y ago
I might lose all my karma points for posting this but: LeVar Burton was on Star Trek? I guess I am not much of a geek. :)
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by donretag 12y ago
I occasionally play Dragon's Lair when I am at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Thanks to the wonders of inflation and my status of being a wage-earning adult, the frustration of "lasting for about 2 minutes before losing all five lives&
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Sexism plagues major chemistry conference: Boycott emerges amid growing outrage(salon.com)
12 points by donretag 12y ago|27 comments
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What do 220,000,000,000 GPS data points look like?(engineering.strava.com)
2 points by donretag 12y ago|0 comments
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Hitting the brakes on our tech brain drain(gtweekly.com)
1 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
I love being a software developer and I am great at my job. My other coworkers are nowhere near as talented and the lack of peers greatly contributes to my frustration (which makes me unmotivated).
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by donretag 13y ago
At my company, I am both the most unmotivated and most productive employee. Where would that leave me? :)
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by donretag 13y ago
Good for them. It really helps when the entire company embraces a distributed workforce and not just having that "one guy". I live in California, two hours away from the Bay Area, and I still cannot convince employers to hire remo
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by donretag 13y ago
Those are for consulting gigs, not full-time employment.
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by donretag 13y ago
Wish there was a website for remote developers to announce their candidacy.
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by donretag 13y ago
"Dash ... works directly with your AmazonFresh account" Which means it is only available in three locations (SoCal/SF/Seattle).
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by donretag 13y ago
I had someone come in the other day with Netscape Navigator listed as a skill. If you have a separate Skills section, I probably wouldn't list it as a skill, but perhaps in the detailed description of your job. Ex: Created websites usi
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by donretag 13y ago
I received the same email. I am assuming what is happening is that someone downloaded their app and connected it to LinkedIn. LinkedIn has your current job and email, so they used this information to spam you. Do you have Picutive.com as on
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A programmer’s life-changing software for Internet accessibility has potential(montereycountyweekly.com)
1 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
Elasticsearch started using HyperLogLog recently for aggregating data. No April Fools there!
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Where Is IntelliJ IDEA Headed?(blog.jetbrains.com)
7 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
I would prefer an outright request instead of just letting the pull request lie idle. Perhaps you can implement a bug fix before submitting a pull request for a new feature. Start small. It is hard to tell since every open source project is
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Elasticsearch – the definitive guide(elasticsearch.org)
172 points by donretag 13y ago|44 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
"Flying out to interview with a single company is easy - they pay for the flights and hotel and you use them. Interviewing with 7 companies made for a surprisingly stressful round of negotiation before I’d even arrived, as I tried to s

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