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by imechura 15y ago
I was pretty happy with Quora as a source of knowledge until about a month or so ago. When I was using it, I was getting timely, interesting emails on a weekly basis about startup companies and silicon valley inside information. After recei
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Making the leap from coder to enterprise architect. Any suggestions?
1 points by imechura 15y ago|0 comments
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by imechura 15y ago
Sad, It sounds like most custom IT business solutions. This brings to light something I have been pondering for a while now. Basically, there are two types cultures related to development teams. Culture A, treats the software as their busi
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by imechura 15y ago
I find the article to be in line with my recent rants at work. My background is airline and finance enterprise software where lots of highly skilled of people are paid a high salary to do relatively simple and small coding tasks. (That's wh
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So long twitpic, Twitter to Launch Photo-Sharing Service(pcworld.com)
1 points by imechura 15y ago|0 comments
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by imechura 15y ago
I got an email like this from my domain provider the other day. I was curious if someone might be able to sniff the network for SMTP messages then go request a bunch of password resets from the website. There support staff was not too inter
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by imechura 15y ago
Just stop thinking about it and find another job. I was in a position in 2005 where I was treated like crap by my boss. I found a new one that paid more and treated me better. In the end you are responsible for your career path and work sur
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by imechura 15y ago
I think that when taken in the offered context (working in IT/Dev at a large corporation) that this document could be very valuable for someone just starting out. And yes, unfortunately when attempting to increase salary or position at a la
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Rant HN: Focusing on core competencies or giving away the business
1 points by imechura 15y ago|0 comments
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by imechura 15y ago
Communicate through drafts saved in a shared webmail account that supports https?
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by imechura 15y ago
Yeah, I bought it a while back with something in identity related in mind but other things keep getting in the way of implementing it. Maybe one day..
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by imechura 15y ago
When you are focused on "the idea" you cannot see the forest for the trees. When you are more familiar with the execution and what it takes to go from idea to successful product you realize that the idea is a smaller part of the equation th
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by imechura 15y ago
The two best .com domains that I own at the moment are: cyapix.com nearbuyit.com and not a com but still good userna.me
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Ask HN: Recommended Math Primer for SICP
26 points by imechura 15y ago|12 comments
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by imechura 15y ago
This is probably not what you are going after but consider solving the problem of... What can me, my wife and young kids do for fun this weekend. That is something I would pay money for.
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by imechura 16y ago
when I try to visit your site, my company filters you. This category is filtered: Illegal or Questionable. I wonder what is on your site that makes them think this, it rarely happens.
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by imechura 16y ago
Emailed.
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by imechura 16y ago
You have not really given much information about what steps you have attempted to gain traction. From the outside looking in I would try to polarize the audience around hot topics like gun control and abortion.
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by imechura 16y ago
Not sure but in the USA I think that is called price fixing and may be illegal. I would send him a polite note indicating your company has done it's homework on pricing models and product features and will continue to follow your customer c
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by imechura 16y ago
I did see that blog posting early on, but since I am a chronic NONREVER I did not install the app. BTW, if you guys ever have some questions regarding airline stuff feel free to give me a shout and I'll help however I can and pass your ques
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by imechura 16y ago
A lot depends on your goals and your location. For instance, here in N. Texas you could make 1/3 more money programming Java then a cool language like ruby or python. Also to be a well paid Java developer here you don't need amazing skills
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Ask HN: Need some graphics for my app's home page
2 points by imechura 16y ago|0 comments
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by imechura 16y ago
Alexis, I sling code for availability and reservation systems at an airline in Dallas and was showing off Hipmunk to some industry veteran analysts this morning. Needless to say they where all very impressed with the usability of the site.
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by imechura 16y ago
Hipmunk is an example of great UX for advanced users of airline services.
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by imechura 16y ago
Skip college, you can always go back. For anyone who is thinking of following this advise please do not. If you decide you don't want to go to a university then that may be the correct path of you. But, there is never an easier to to stud
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by imechura 16y ago
Just be careful that you are choosing the right place to train and the correct training partners. In my (bad) experience it is hard to find a BJJ partner who has the same goals as you mentioned above. This I attribute not to the sport but t
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by imechura 16y ago
I am not a professional teacher but I tend to recommend Javascript for learning the first basics of programming. The reasons are as follows. 1) Follows (mostly) C style syntax which transfers well into many other languages (Java, C, C++, C#
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Ask HN: How does one size a market?
5 points by imechura 16y ago|4 comments
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by imechura 16y ago
One way I think we could greatly improve the US Healthcare system is by regulating hospitals to file fares publicly as the airline industry has been doing for over 20 years now. I think it would ad much needed transparency to hospital charg
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Ask HN: Question for the medical Dr(s) here
2 points by imechura 16y ago|0 comments

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