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by hackula1 13y ago
I always find it interesting how a company that takes off and IPOs outside SV seems to gain almost no attention even when they have profits that would dwarf most of the hot startups. I work down the street from a startup that IPO'd a c
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by hackula1 13y ago
As someone who grew up in Milwaukee and moved to Charleston, I agree 100%. One of my largest clients is in Milwaukee now and I can say definitively that I have lost all tolerance for that bitter cold. And to all you Canadians living north o
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by hackula1 13y ago
Give me the TLDR. Being Friday 9pm on the east coast, do I need to go home right now and upgrade my production servers?
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by hackula1 13y ago
I can see it from my window as I type this over the Charleston Harbor :)
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by hackula1 13y ago
If 37signals were to release basecamp, this would be a better comparison. At that point, I would probably call 37signals an opensource company, even if they ran a SASS model.
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by hackula1 13y ago
17.5k/yr for the lowest package was what I was quoted a couple weeks ago. It was actually not a terrible deal compared to most of the alternatives as far as value goes... but the starter package is way larger than you would need for mo
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by hackula1 13y ago
I am sure it is partly due to the fact that this is way cheaper than google maps or esri for heavy commercial use.
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by hackula1 13y ago
They most certainly do. I got a quote from Google for commercial maps use a few weeks ago. 17.5k/yr an up. Mapbox seems like a good alternative for serious web mapping. Google Maps is still pretty week in B2B type mapping though. Es
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by hackula1 13y ago
> Students who are financially disadvantaged get help, both from the universities and the government. I hate to add any more cynicism to this, but student aid is often higher ed's version of price segmentation. Out of state people p
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by hackula1 13y ago
I would be a libertarian if we went to 100% inheritance tax and put every cent to education. Let the true competition begin.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I read mostly because I find it enjoyable. I would consider a voracious desire to read and soak up knowledge a core tenant to being a hacker. Sure, we all need to get our hands dirty by doing things, but working in technology requires a n
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by hackula1 13y ago
Well that's intuitive...
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by hackula1 13y ago
Wow, I was going to choose a quote as a prime example of this guy's utter horrible nature, but I got to the end and could not decide which was most terrible. Here's one anyway: "I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the
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by hackula1 13y ago
Get new friends and/or coworkers. Seriously, reasonable people do not expect an immediate response.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Oversaw the transition to .Net. He really does seem to care about developers (I say this as a Linux dev who still misses intellisense).
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by hackula1 13y ago
A "scripting language" is a programming language. "Scripting" is a completely useless description, and is usually used to stoke a flamewar.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Wow, Larry Ellison predicts mobile web at 47:00.
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by hackula1 13y ago
All of them. The companies have people that are ostensibly part of the same system. These are the guys I have seen recommend a Silverlight app... in 2013.
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by hackula1 13y ago
> What happened for us is we tried to adopt it, but it was just so unworkably at odds with our current process, it got mostly ignored. My issue with this criticism of kanban and many other agile practices is that it pretty much boils dow
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by hackula1 13y ago
Yeah this strikes me as the usual "language X sucks, because dynamic languages suck".
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by hackula1 13y ago
Libertarians have no problem with someone dealing drugs, in general.
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by hackula1 13y ago
I keep a 6 month emergency fund as well. Not only does it cushion me from something like a layoff, it also gives me the freedom to resign, should I run into something unreasonable or unethical. As a rule, I try to prevent myself from being
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by hackula1 13y ago
> 2. Everyone will value their own time now much more, so you will automatically get paid for what you achieve, not for the hours you worked. While a Star Trek Earth style system sounds awesome and utopian, I cannot help but thinking mos
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by hackula1 13y ago
I try to aim for being productive at work and hedonistic at home. "Work hard, play hard" is the traditional phrasing.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Ok, but Salesforce was also the fastest company to ever reach a billion dollars. They are definitely an outlier.
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by hackula1 13y ago
Cash flow can be a problem in small to mid-size companies.
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by hackula1 13y ago
> There seems to be a certain aspect of the night owl that is present in many programmers This seems likely and could be attributed to the fact that we receive above average artificial light from staring at screens too late into the even
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by hackula1 13y ago
Just a piece of advice for a fellow coder/architect: Try out some meditation of some sort after you get off work, and before you crack open the beer. I have noticed a huge improvement in my ability to relax at night after starting this
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by hackula1 13y ago
0,0 is where coordinate conversion fails end up. As a GIS developer, when something is not showing up on a map, I always zoom over to W Africa to see if it is showing up there.
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by hackula1 13y ago
SC2 at least uses ~half the keys on the keyboard. Anyone above the absolute bottom rung (bronze) is going to use these extensively.

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