itgoon

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by itgoon 8y ago
I wouldn't stop doing development work, especially if you enjoy it. Doing the other roles is a way to learn about some business. By doing them you'll have a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes, and will intera
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by itgoon 8y ago
Learn about business. Ultimately, the job of a developer is to write code which achieves a business goal. If you have a better understanding of those goals, and can anticipate them, you become more valuable to the people writing the checks.
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by itgoon 8y ago
Hundreds, thousands even. They don't show up on HN, they aren't doing anything glamorous or cutting edge. Just small to mid-size businesses building and selling products that people use. If you haven't found any, it's be
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by itgoon 8y ago
I used Enthought before switching to Anaconda. I don't remember exactly what got me to try it, but I found the experience a lot better. Maybe the Windows support? I'm not sure. It's been a couple of years. I hadn't even
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by itgoon 8y ago
I'm paid exactly the same as everyone else. No more, no less.
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by itgoon 8y ago
This. Check out my username, this is what I do, and I've been doing it for far longer than a decade. The mid-range jobs have always been vanishing. Many times, I'm the guy automating them out of existence. It's always replace
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by itgoon 8y ago
I agree, the protocol looks pretty neat. I wonder what the hold up is on Linux support. I love me some FreeBSD, but Linux is better supported. The note-taking app seems more like a proof of concept than any kind of category-killer, though.
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by itgoon 8y ago
I've had a lot of success with having Github projects to answer that question. "Look for yourself" is a great comeback. It doesn't even have to be original, or particularly useful. Just something that shows that you unde
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by itgoon 8y ago
Hm. Yea, the content for the main page is requested and loaded, but none of the supporting content (CSS, images, etc.) is requested. Copying the URL into another tab loaded the whole thing. I don't really have time to dig into it furth
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by itgoon 8y ago
Pretty safe bet, since that's what the article says. - QGIS, for quick sandboxing and ad hoc visualization - PostGIS, for the actual parcel/zone computations - ogr2ogr, for inserting Shapefile data into PostGIS
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by itgoon 8y ago
I agree with their assertion that hourly employees "prefer the predictability and immediacy of cash to RSUs." $15/hr still isn't much. $30K year. Sure, it would be nice to get a fat payday down the road. People living on
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by itgoon 8y ago
I will upvote just about any project that uses the phrase "you don’t even have to build the compiler anymore." I just started getting into FPGAa and Verilog, so I appreciate these kinds of writeups. Thank you.
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by itgoon 8y ago
Yea, I saw a few in there that I didn't think required anything special. Maybe it's a hangover from the last recession when employers could be choosy like that. A lot of the others fell along the same category. No, you don't
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by itgoon 8y ago
I tend to agree. He's been fantastic at getting the impossible to happen, but he's not as good at just running things. There was a bit in time when he offered to help Flint, MI with their water. It turns out they don't need t
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by itgoon 8y ago
This is a complete mis-match for my use case. I have cats.
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by itgoon 8y ago
It doesn't say "well planned".
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by itgoon 8y ago
People posting alternative solutions probably haven't watched a dog run through a forest. One of my favorite parts of camping is taking a short hike, while the dogs take a long run all around me (BC and a Britney). Dogs will run throug
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by itgoon 8y ago
I've been through a few of these, and I disagree with everyone else. It's a game. At least, it's a lot healthier to think of it as a game. Life is full of ups and downs, some of them economic. Yes, this is just another one. D
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by itgoon 8y ago
Here's one that may have been mentioned, but wow, there are a lot of comments. Founders: get over yourselves. I understand that you have to have a lot of faith in yourself to do what you're doing. At the very least, try to have so
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by itgoon 8y ago
I like this. I'd be more open to lower compensation if it meant that I would have opportunities to open my own shop.
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by itgoon 8y ago
It isn't being asked to brew coffee, though, so it's a mis-use of the spec.
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by itgoon 9y ago
You've to appeal to their spreadsheets. Generally, lower costs. If Oracle is well-established, it's going to be tough. It isn't just the cost of Oracle and doing business with them, it's the cost of all the work associat
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by itgoon 9y ago
Oh. I was going with "Dirty Rotten Imbecile", from my youthful punk days. I can think of some cases where it would still fit. You seem okay, though ;)
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by itgoon 9y ago
Ah yes, the old "I have a great idea, and if you do all the work, I'll be rich!" pitch. Hm. Yea. How about you just pay me?
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by itgoon 9y ago
The intent seems to be "how to get a job in this area", not a comprehensive map of everything out there. It's pretty messy, as it is.
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by itgoon 9y ago
> because reading was not a common accomplishment This isn't true, not even in his lifetime. In 1870, the illiteracy rate among whites was 11%. It dropped even lower after that. 89% seems pretty "common" to me. Blacks were
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by itgoon 9y ago
Another "me too!" for MobaXterm. Sessions in tabs, easy file transfer, built-in and automatic X forwarding. I like PuTTY, and have used it a lot, but MobaXterm has been great.
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by itgoon 9y ago
Exactly. I've worked for a couple of charities at a discount, because I was working with people who wanted to help others, and it showed. Nobody was raking in the big bucks. If I was offered a position somewhere that actively took &quo
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by itgoon 9y ago
If it is important to you to be able to mock your employees, and you wouldn't run your business without being able to be a jerk like that, then you might want to pay that extra money. Good business? No, but not all businesspeople are g
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by itgoon 9y ago
I've been seeing enough interest in Elixir to justify learning it. It's still in the "Nice to have" section of the job listings, but it's popping up more. FWIW, I'm enjoying my Elixir experience. I was producti

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