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by hkarthik 12y ago
Welcome to enterprise, closed source software. There are two rules you need to know. 1) They will price things as high as they think their customers will pay. 2) Nobody pays sticker price, but you have to go through sales people and trade p
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I believe Amazon uses smaller enclosed team spaces.
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That assumes they can read the client and know the industry terminology well enough to evaluate a candidate's "fitness". In my experience, far too few recruiters can evaluate fit effectively.
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I think you need to expand on your review criteria. Recruiters are incentivized by the companies that hire them for two things: 1) Providing a steady pipeline of candidates for their clients. 2) Maximizing the compensation numbers for candi
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I think it depends on the individual as to whether you're ready for commitment at a young age or not. Some are and many aren't. The issue is that society sort of assumes you are ready for it regardless and there's a lot of so
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A lot of programmers tend to be late bloomers to the dating scene. While some would see this as a negative, I actually see it as a positive. Dating can be a major distraction at a crucial time in a young person's life when they are get
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The next generation of big enterprise application platforms needs to target mobile and IBM is trying to get ahead of the curve. The more interesting part is that Apple is now playing along. In the Steve Jobs' days, they never would hav
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In the limited research that I've done about Bay Area real estate, you're best off selling the Tracy home while prices are high, because the schools in Tracy aren't great. There is likely a minor market correction coming but
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To live in the city, you really need a household income of $300K+. Anyone below that is either going across the Bay Bridge or south into the peninsula. Based on your pricing, you're best off heading to the East Bay and commuting in via
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> Frameworks, and even languages, have nothing to do with modularity and building services. I respectfully disagree with this statement. Many frameworks actively encourage a monolithic architecture through conventions, all to increase pr
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Basecamp and Harvest were both written in Rails. For standing up simple SaaS, Rails is a great choice. However, for a complex SaaS (any SaaS can get here really), you will need to make some sane choices around modularity and building separa
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That's an interesting take. I agree that if programming became more common place (like learning how to use Excel), a number of low skill, high salaried programming jobs would quickly disappear. However, if that were going to happen, I
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It's become fairly common in the startup world to have a few remote programmers, usually due to not being able to find local talent with a specialized skill at a good price. Some big companies are getting into it, largely through acqui
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Things you learn at an agency: 1) How to work with clients and help them launch new ideas. 2) How to work quickly and efficiently to launch quickly, with no real responsibility for long term maintenance. 3) Lots of new technologies, based o
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I work for a Bay Area based company, but I work remotely in Dallas, TX and I can assure you that this problem isn't unique to the Bay Area. It's just that the numbers skew lower. Here in Dallas, many employers scoff at paying more
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> But the reality is that we need a deep bench of competent developers willing to work for substantially less than $100k a year. And there we have it. You want developers to continue to be happy with less than $100K salaries while the co
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I've been considering a Bay Area relocation for many of the same reasons as you. I've been working remotely with great success but the pull of swinging for the fences in the Bay Area continues to tempt me. However I'm still g
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I've been hiring Rails devs for the past year and here are my thoughts on the subject. If you're a classical Rails dev (no frontend experience with Ember, Angular, or Backbone) then you should have significant experience on the ba
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Before you explore Heroku much further, I would recommend doing some cost analysis and see what it would cost you versus hiring some part time or full time DevOps help. Even if you find that it costs you twice as much to hire a DevOps perso
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I find this agency model for hiring to be troubling because it's turning software into a hit-driven industry like Music, Movies, or Video Games. Hire a few rockstars, belt out a hit with hockey stick growth, watch it flame out or lose
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Then find someone to partner with that is interested in the idea (I myself find it interesting as a developer) and bring them on as a partner. Be generous with equity. Don't assume the idea and mockups entitle you to 90% of the equity
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This is probably the most salient point in michaelochurch's reply. You can always get a job after a startup, but whether you will feel happy and satisfied in that job is a much more difficult question.
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I would recommend Leading Snowflakes as a great read for first time engineering managers: http://leadingsnowflakes.com/ And subscribe to the author's weekly email list. Great set of reads and links here: http:/&#
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For every Frozen, there are probably a hundred thousand failed media projects that didn't turn a profit. This is an outlier. And most of the profit ended up in the hands of the creators (Disney), not the distributors (everyone else). D
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Scathing and harsh, but probably pretty accurate. > No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore. That market is quickly and brutally dying. The media market is now so efficient that all profit is completely sucked out of the
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I've been in Texas 10 years, and I don't see this happening until things change at the federal level. Same with gay marriage. Things don't change in Texas until the tanks roll in.
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Blacksmith
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> It seems like these bootcamps, done well and with the right sort of student, would give a massive 'level-up' into the current dev world. For mid-career types where there is a need to minimize time away from a paycheck, a 12-1
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My suggestion would be to get a nanny who comes in and watches the baby while you and your wife both work. By being in the house, it gives you a measure of comfort/security since you are around while giving you the freedom to actually
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by hkarthik 12y ago
It's sort of a Wiki, but Atlassian Confluence is the tool I've been recommended in the past when faced with this problem. We have a limited number of folks in our DevOps group using it and they love it.

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