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by jburwell 12y ago
Most companies with different geographic locations adjust their pay scales based on the local cost of living. Consider a company with offices with New York, NY and Charolette, NC (e.g. Bank of America) -- the cost of living in those locati
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by jburwell 12y ago
Grace Hopper was a Rear Admiral (lower half) (1 star) [1] where as Michelle Howard is promoted to Admiral (4 star) [2]. To put in perspective, ADM (now that her ceremony has occurred) Howard will be the No. 2 officer in the entire Navy. It
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First Woman to be Promoted to Four Star Admiral in the US Navy(navytimes.com)
7 points by jburwell 12y ago|3 comments
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by jburwell 12y ago
Without even reading the article, goodness NO! No one group should dominate any decision making process. Diversity of thought process and perspective brings a recognition of nuance which critical to good decision making.
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by jburwell 12y ago
While a cool option, they make it sound offering bare metal compute is new. SoftLayer was built on this model ...
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by jburwell 12y ago
+1. Actors are simply a unit of concurrency and means of communication between those units. Their scope and division of labor, as well as, the associated communication protocols are left to developer. They provide no inherent consistenc
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NASA physicist, artist unveil warp-speed craft design(cnn.com)
2 points by jburwell 12y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 12y ago
At this point, it is attempting the close the barn door after the horses have run half way around the world. Too much many systems have been built up on clogging and SLF4J. "Fixing" it now just add a third wrapper to the mix wou
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by jburwell 12y ago
Completely different concepts. @Nullable expresses an precondition indicating whether or not something can be null. One example of its use is by static analyzers such as Findbugs to find misuse to APIs. In contrast, Optional encapsulates
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by jburwell 12y ago
Which in turn gave rise to the horrors of commons-logging (clogging) attempting to wrap both APIs and magically detect your logging framework with nasty classloader tricks. While slf4j is a very sane and useful wrapper, it shouldn't b
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by jburwell 12y ago
As with HBO, ESPN makes a fortune from the subscription fees paid by cable providers. There are far more people who have cable/satellite than have the ability to stream to their televisions. As such, they get more eyeballs -- allowin
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by jburwell 12y ago
Relatively recently, Unicomp introduced a Mac version ( http://pckeyboard.com/page/product/UW4ZP4A ). Mine predates that option, and while not perfect, the Windows layout works with a Mac. Thankfully, I telecommut
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by jburwell 12y ago
My all time favorite keyboard. In the mid-90s, Unicomp ( http://pckeyboard.com/page/ABUS ) licensed the design from IBM. Today, they sell the Model M with updates such as USB connector, Windows and Mac key layouts, and
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by jburwell 12y ago
weworkremotely.com (run by the 37signals/Basecamp folks) and jobs.joelonsoftware.com (shortcut to Stackoverflow jobs) are two sources of remote job listings. I am sure there are more -- these are just two with which I happen to be fam
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by jburwell 12y ago
I find that feature useful when I am already familiar with a code base. However, when I am spelunking unfamiliar code bases, a good tree browser would make the effort quicker (e.g. speeding conventions directory hierarchies to get to the m
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by jburwell 12y ago
To me, the lack a fast tree browser has been one of the biggest weakness of the Github interface. This plugin solves that problem exceeding well. Github should hire the author, and officially fund his efforts to make it a first class feat
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by jburwell 13y ago
Open sourcing the C# compiler represents a fair amount of effort (code cleansing, IP review, license selection/compliance checking, etc) -- likely more work than could be completed in Nadella's short tenure. Therefore, it is like
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by jburwell 13y ago
Do no evil?
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by jburwell 13y ago
To expand a bit on @blaineri's thoughts, the role of CTO encompasses both internal technical leadership and external technical representation functions. To work, he needs to delegate his internal technical leadership responsibilities
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by jburwell 13y ago
I agree almost completely with this article. However, there needs to be a reasonable timeline established between a candidate and an employee for a decision. Customarily, a job offer expires after two weeks of issuance which seems reasona
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by jburwell 13y ago
If you want to retain staff, you can't reduce their pay. So, if retention is a priority, you are stuck with those salaries. The question becomes what you pay new hires. On one hand, the prevailing salary is much lower, and the compan
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by jburwell 13y ago
You need to have two increases annually. The first is an market/cost of living adjustment that person's salary increases commensurate with prevailing market. To my mind, this adjustment always works in favor of the employee. Th
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TJ3Sat: The first satelittle built by high schoolers is in orbit(tjhsst.edu)
1 points by jburwell 13y ago|0 comments
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by jburwell 13y ago
To my mind, the Snapchat business plan is as follows: 1. Collect lots of ephemeral photos from lots of people 2. ?? 3. Profit!! So you have all of these users and all of these ephemeral photos flowing your severs. Thus far
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by jburwell 13y ago
... I have a bad feeling about this. (Everyone take a drink)
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by jburwell 13y ago
I am sorry, but this article is inane. At the time he cashed out, there were no guarantees regarding the size of the eventual liquidity event. He cashed out a portion of his stake for an assured $340 million which is more than enough to l
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by jburwell 13y ago
If we can build a space station together, why don't we pool our resources with EU to create a larger supercomputer with even greater resolution/accuracy? It seems like a tremendous duplication effort and delay (until 2015) when we could wo
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by jburwell 13y ago
While the author has a point, he is basing it on some improper assumptions. First, a significant attack on the White House, the seat of the Presidency of the United States, the single most powerful political office in the world would not b
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by jburwell 14y ago
For junior programmers, the frameworks and tools are little less import as most organizations assume that you can be mentored on them by more senior staff. They want a solid foundation on which to build that knowledge. To that I end, read
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by jburwell 14y ago
What is the benefit of list comprehensions over the trifecta of map, reduce, and filter?

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