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by dpweb 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm older than average. I can't help feeling nostalgic for the good old days before our thing went mainstream. Price of success I suppose, but now we have proclamations like "The world belongs to people who code.
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by dpweb 11y ago
Here's a minimal framework for NodeJS. https://github.com/digplan/rex I have read some good things about other langs, but I'll usually use Node.
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Excellent minimal app monitoring(run-node.com)
1 points by dpweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by dpweb 11y ago
And engineering is an “up or out” profession: you either move up the ladder or face unemployment Had to stop reading at this. Completely wrong. It's a move up or stay a programmer for 40 years career. You decide which appeals more to
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Tropical Rain(gentlerainforest.com)
4 points by dpweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by dpweb 11y ago
Interviews only exist as a tactic in the goal to bring on valuable people. While it's surely important to bring on good people - and not bring on bad - this just seems to be one of those nebulous skills like 'leadership'. E
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by dpweb 11y ago
I'm no apologist for someone who works for our government and publicly releases secrets that may damage the nation's security - and I've been fooled before - but I was quite moved by the HBO documentary - both in describing h
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How to answer the dreaded “How much is your current salary?”
13 points by dpweb 11y ago|12 comments
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by dpweb 11y ago
Of course, China. How is it they are incompetent to protect the data, yet competent enough to know immediately who did it.
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by dpweb 11y ago
The 85k H1B figure is misleading. Disney doesn't employ these people, they outsource to HCL. HCL hires Indian workers. Who's to say they need H1Bs for these people at all. Also, for every Indian tech team lead in the US, they
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by dpweb 11y ago
You knowing may be somewhat helpful so you know what you may ask for if you walk, but my concern raising it in the ask to your employer - makes you look a little worse, not better. First of all, you're not bestowing any wisdom to your
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by dpweb 11y ago
I would leave out the 'industry averages' argument - my reaction as a manager is 'so what' - if I think you suck and you can make more somewhere else, go ahead. Your mindset as the employee is, I'm bringing more val
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by dpweb 11y ago
Reminds me of that recent article that the best way to identify a narcissist is to just ask them (true narcissists will readily admit it). That line in Patton (probably my favorite movie) where he says "Hell, I know I'm a prima d
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Let's make a real time Twitter data feed(run-node.com)
1 points by dpweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by dpweb 11y ago
Partially true, but ignores the fact the economy and one's rewards from it, is a game. Your success is largely based on your talent in playing, and some will inevitably do better than others. But, that game also has rules that bias t
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by dpweb 11y ago
"Many people in the equal-pay debate argue that inferior negotiating skills are at the root of the gender pay gap." Has not been my experience in pay matters and how is this different than the idea that women are not well suited t
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by dpweb 11y ago
Need to sell my chrome extension, 130k users.
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by dpweb 12y ago
Definately agree that walking can make a huge difference. I felt, better results than ADD meds. Of course YMMV but I was shocked the difference a 45-60 min. walk outside every day made. I would add - eat less food. It's very easy
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by dpweb 12y ago
Some thoughts about dailys as we've started to embrace some scrum elements over the last few years. I've found they are more valuable on some projects than others because of the number of people on the project, how sharp they are,
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by dpweb 12y ago
You can grab published Google Sheets in JSON using, https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/{{doc_id}}/od6/pu... example, https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1btWWclsR
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by dpweb 12y ago
How do we know people inside China are responsible?
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by dpweb 12y ago
Kids today probably don't realize, but for its purpose, VB pre dot net 2001 was really really good. Especially compared to the c plus plus alternative available at the time, atl, and so forth. I know the criticisms of basic as a lang
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by dpweb 12y ago
It's not about making it "look good". Completely subjective. The app needs the capbility to switch out the CSS. For instance, we resell/implement a popular cloud app - just our company - we do dozens of large impleme
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by dpweb 12y ago
This was the best article, not just regarding academia, but describing the issue of privilege and its destructive effect on the "american dream" - that I think I have seen since the 2009 crash. We have a controversy about wealth i
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by dpweb 12y ago
Software development (please, not "coding").. It's a skill like other skills. It's not magic. Being able to practice medicine or law is a skill. Being able to architect a building is a skill. Being able to effective
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by dpweb 12y ago
At the risk of being an unpopular opinion, advertising has been a huge boon in the growth of the Internet. I dislike the ad crazy "news" sites that bombard you and destroy the entire user-experience, but I would equate a not-too-i
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by dpweb 12y ago
Can't help but wonder how Jobs or Woz would have reacted to that when they were young? I get the feeling they would call the company "assholes", of course there wasn't quite the celebrity culture of tech and money back t
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by dpweb 12y ago
Don't borrow money.
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by dpweb 12y ago
At work, we are constantly hounded by non-technical business people for estimates. They want to time/cost box you. To them - you're an expense, and an expensive one. My analogy would be someone asking how long it will take me to
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by dpweb 12y ago
Simplicity should be a primary goal in the methods used to protect systems. Just because the methods to protect are easy, doesn't mean its easy to crack. For instance, a decent size password and lockout and you're set as far as

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