irvingprime

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by irvingprime 6y ago
I don't live in a city. Largely because of that, commute times have often been an issue in the past. That's one of the reasons I decided, years ago, to drop the commute and just work from home. Now, not only do I have no commute,
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by irvingprime 6y ago
I wrote a primer on speculative poetry. Made $12 last quarter from sales on Amazon. It's going to my retirement fund. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Y6MM72
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by irvingprime 6y ago
+1
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by irvingprime 6y ago
No. This is a non-starter. A doctor deals with a patient. A developer deals with a small number of abstractions of a bigger system. Forget it. The idea is sort of well meaning but completely divorced from reality.
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by irvingprime 6y ago
Well paid != financially secure enough to never have to work again. Yes, it's too personal a question. Also, your assumptions are overbroad.
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by irvingprime 6y ago
What's it like to be old? My boss is younger than I am and is absolutely sure he knows more about my job than I do, even though I've been doing it since before he was born and he never did it at all. People on TV keep trying to se
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by irvingprime 6y ago
When I interview candidates, I specifically look for signs of having been a big player in a tiny team. People from this kind of background often think of themselves as senior developers because they've had a lot of responsibility. But,
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by irvingprime 7y ago
Now you're nitpicking. Sure, he can educate himself and should. But in the amount of time he has (can't be much) he can learn basically nothing. It's too late for that path to make any sense. As for the other thing, looks lik
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by irvingprime 7y ago
I disagree. Learning the ins and outs of the law and of IP negotiations - a very specialized and cut-throat field - in a few days or maybe weeks is out of the question. If he can't talk to a lawyer, he's going to lose. Period. May
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by irvingprime 8y ago
Merry Christmas and God bless us everyone!
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by irvingprime 8y ago
Location: Western NY Remote: Yes ONLY Willing to Relocate: NO NO NO Technologies: A few. Let's say Ruby on Rails Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/davidvandervort/ Email: drvandervort@gmail.com About me: 19 pat
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by irvingprime 8y ago
I've published a couple conference papers. I found the process to be slow and frustrating. The quality of feedback from reviewers was extremely low. The effort to write a paper in the ultra-dry, tedious style of academia was great with
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by irvingprime 8y ago
Babylon 5? Okay. It's a classic, though mostly I think because so much of the SF competition has been garbage. How do you feel about Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
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by irvingprime 8y ago
I used to be a software lead in a research organization. I have a LOT of opinions on the subject but I'll give you just a few points. - I've seen many cases where researchers refused to share their code because they knew it wasn&#
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by irvingprime 9y ago
High school kids program. Some of them are surprisingly good. High school kids don't practice law. The fields simply don't compare and should not attempt the same standards.
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by irvingprime 10y ago
Once, I saw an ad that HR wrote (with my input) looking for someone I would then train. Judging from the ad HR wrote, I was not qualified for the job. Don't take that stuff too seriously. If you think you can do the job that needs done
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by irvingprime 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or Rochester, NY area, USA IP consulting and technology prototyping and development. I have lead distributed teams to develop and patent tech in fields like data analytics, Bitcoin and health care. 4 conference papers,
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by irvingprime 10y ago
You're not alone. I'm older than you are. Theoretically I'm too old to be employed as a programmer. Yes, I've lost out on a lot of jobs because they asked trivia questions about some language or computer science concept
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by irvingprime 10y ago
Location: Western New York Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript (Jquery, a little angular), linux, mysql, postgresql, R, git, AWS Other knowledge: Application/Web security, Bitco
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by irvingprime 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote My name is Dave Vandervort and I'm a Ruby/Rails team leader. I have 8 years experience at helping devs understand what end users want and need, making wireframes, managing backlogs, reviewing and testing code
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by irvingprime 10y ago
Location: Western NY, USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, R, Mysql, Lots more. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvandervort Email: drvandervort@gmail.com NOTES: M
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by irvingprime 11y ago
Location: Western NY Remote: Yes, Preferred. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Javascript (learning Angular), mysql, mongo, R, Bitcoin ... have dabbled with much more Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com&