john_lewin

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by john_lewin 17y ago
Good question. As a server programming language its newish, and all the growing pains (bugs, security holes, standardizations of processes, training documentation) have yet to be realized. Meanwhile mature languages are pushing the envelo
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by john_lewin 17y ago
I can tell you what I know from experience having had the luxury of working on teams with some Damn good people (from PowerSet, Google, Microsoft, OneRiot), and a few less than good people. You recruit good people. YOu find them at the to
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by john_lewin 17y ago
They appear to have a solid team, but this is bad idea that keeps being re-tried and re-failed again and again. It occasionally works in University Recruiting, but otherwise companies eventually realize that top, highly skilled people have
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by john_lewin 17y ago
Its quite different to have an upaid internship for a reporter compared to a web programmer. A reporter is essentially useless until he/she has spent a fair amount of time learning the trade from the senior journalists. Building contacts,
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by john_lewin 17y ago
I've paid for {getabstract} before, and use it somewhat frequently now that my company pays for it. Its long been my view that a good business book is about 5-10 pages of solid insight with another 10 of market research validating it -- an
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by john_lewin 17y ago
ojbyrne, you raise a great point. But still, and perhaps naively, I find myself bothered by this recession in particular. In previous recessions the backbone of America -- our immigration policy, culture of competition, education and infr
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by john_lewin 17y ago
Bit of a catch-22 with harnessing the underemployed. The longer the economy maintains large numbers of underemployed, the less consumption in non-essential goods and services, and the less people buying whatever it is you sell, leading t