jcadam

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by jcadam 7y ago
> If suddenly everyone else's IQ jumped 50 points, the society would then change to reflect this new increase in intelligence... Nah, pretty sure you'd see a complete collapse of civilization if that were to happen.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I still pay the annual dues, but I never attend the meetings (too busy. And also, I don't want to). Well, sometimes there's an interesting article in the monthly newsletter... but not often. They do, however, give you a handsome
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by jcadam 7y ago
> ... doing legacy work at a non-tech company will not look very good on your resume to a tech company... This, more or less. Maintenance also tends to be a very low-visibility activity at most companies as well. Promotions go to folk
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by jcadam 7y ago
The GS payscale is not set up to be able to hire and retain highly skilled technical experts. Even if I were to be hired at the GS-15 level, I'd take a pay cut from what I earn as a contractor. I once worked on a contract in a Systems
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Every company should have at least one guy who enjoys maintaining legacy systems and that should be his sole job. That's a career death sentence. I suppose if I was retired and wanted a part-time gig for extra money/amusemen
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by jcadam 7y ago
Early in my career, I got stuck doing a lot of software maintenance on legacy systems (I suspect this permanently stunted my professional growth, but this was during the great recession and I took whatever work I could find). It's a h
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by jcadam 7y ago
The OS X GUI was (and still is) a big step down from OS 9.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Could I put it on a corporate card as an LLC and do my best to make it work? Nobody is going to give a line of credit to a brand new company (LLC or not) without a personal guarantee from the owner. > All that said, I'm almost
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've learned much too late in my career that competent software engineering is completely orthogonal to creating a successful(from a market perspective) software product.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Taiwan was never under the control of the PRC, so... yeah. Don't worry, there'll be a major war to settle the issue sometime this century, I would bet.
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by jcadam 7y ago
It would certainly be advantageous to be a member of the first generation of immortals. Imagine entering an economy as a young twenty something competing against people who've had centuries to build their careers and accumulate wealth
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by jcadam 7y ago
> 500 years? 1000 years? I'm genuinely curious what the average life expectancy would be if we were able to prevent deaths due to "old age" and its concomitant ailments. There are plenty of other ways to get yourself kille
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by jcadam 7y ago
> I assume it is aimed at IT professionals and has a steep learning curve. That's definitely true :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
I imagine you could do much of this with NiFi - https://nifi.apache.org/ , though if your needs are simple, something like this would definitely be much easier to deal with.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I was given a ridiculous PIP once (two weeks after a receiving an outstanding annual review -- politics, eh), and actually completed it successfully (driven by rage, I knew I was going to be let go regardless). Boss acknowledged I completed
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by jcadam 7y ago
Told the last Google recruiter that contacted me "No, I've been through your interview process once years ago, I'm not subjecting myself to that again." I got my current job after a brief phone screen and a one hour in-p
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by jcadam 7y ago
> 4678. Develop transactional Web applications, using Web programming software and knowledge of programming languages, such as hypertext markup language (HTML) and extensible markup language (XML). Where has this list been all my life?
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by jcadam 7y ago
What if you start at a low salary because you live in Mississippi, and later decide you want to move to NYC. Do they automatically give you a raise?
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by jcadam 7y ago
And if you make a higher than average salary in a lower COL area, all of these "remote" companies want to give you a paycut for some reason.
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by jcadam 7y ago
That was back when Apple was primarily a desktop computer manufacturer. In any case, they could place restrictions on licensed clone makers to avoid cannibalizing sales of their more popular products (e.g., no laptops).
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, I remember when PowerMacs could be had at a wide variety of price points. That was nice. If Apple doesn't want to serve the "I need a decently powerful machine but don't want to waste money on what is basically a status
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by jcadam 7y ago
> and that means looking more like Java than Lisp. No. (No (No (No (No (No)))))
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by jcadam 7y ago
I do not use the 'class' keyword in Javascript and I never will. I mean, I don't like using it in Java either, but it isn't really optional there...
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Hiring decisions can use only information that the applicant provided. That would seem to preclude things like criminal background checks, or even calling up universities to verify any educational credentials the applicant listed on th
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by jcadam 7y ago
So I've heard. But you could use that argument to claim that literally anything is on topic.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Ok, so how is this post not off-topic for HN?
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, awesome museum (I visited when I was in Dayton on business a couple years ago), it compares well to Nat'l Air and Space (including Udvar-Hazy in NoVA). I actually enjoyed it more due to it being far less crowded :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
I joined moonlightwork early on. Never have landed a job through it, or any other freelancing site (so I suppose I can't say whether it's any better or worse than the rest). At various points throughout my career, I've fanta
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by jcadam 7y ago
My previous job was absolutely terrible. Toxic office politics, a culture of overtime, micro-management hell, and of course, bad engineering . It got to the point I would arrive in the morning and sit in my car for several minutes becaus
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by jcadam 7y ago
My current job (primarily a Java shop on the backend) is the first where I've been able to introduce a little Clojure after years of having it relegated to being my 'side project' language. Datomic looks neat from a distance,

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