johnward

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by johnward 12y ago
I haven't used elastic search but I've used lucene/solr. It's similar to a technology our startup created which was acquired by IBM and is now part of the Watson portfolio. I think our indexing engine was faster. I know
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by johnward 12y ago
I agree. It's missing a learning experience here.
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by johnward 12y ago
I thought developers moved on to adderall and modifinal?
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by johnward 12y ago
It got to the point when I was playing that everyone was using $1200 guns and at that point my $200 marker isn't really much fun anymore. I think the increase in tech and cost of markers cause a lot of people to be turned off.
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by johnward 12y ago
I'm 28 and I totally did this on my TI-83.
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by johnward 12y ago
I wasn't trying to say it's irrational. I realize why companies would be afraid of putting proprietary data into someone else's hands. I still think the idea that it's going to be stolen or leaked from a cloud provide is
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by johnward 12y ago
Yeah when I said "cloud" I really meant SaaS. You can certainly deploy a self hosted app to a "cloud" PaaS and get a greater ability to control your data than SaaS while still getting many of the other benefits a SaaS se
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by johnward 12y ago
If i see Out of Office in the title I just delete it.
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by johnward 12y ago
I don't know. I work for an enterprise company and we're coming around to the idea of putting things in the cloud. I actually think the people running cloud hosted software are more of an expert in the software and devops than the
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by johnward 12y ago
I know a lot of PHP projects that do this use IONcube loader and mcrypt. So you get the source but it's encrypted.
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by johnward 12y ago
I agree with the JS critique. I actually thought something was wrong when it didn't load. I'm not sure the loading time is worth it for those pop-in effects as they aren't really necessary. Also I'm 28 with pretty good v
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by johnward 12y ago
Also as for the business model you've mentioned. I've seen this done in competitive spaces like affiliate marketing. If you don't know most affiliates are super paranoid about thier data as leaking info about a campaign can l
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by johnward 12y ago
I skipped over the free part too. Makes sense to be free and self hosted but this would also be cool as a "deploy to heroku" (or whatever cloud PaaS provider officially supports php). I still wonder if the creator has plans to mon
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by johnward 12y ago
Is "self hosted" considered a positive or negative these days? It seems like there is a small niche that still wants control over their data but everyone else seems ok with the cloud.
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by johnward 12y ago
Figure out who your audience is. The easiest is to pick someone like you or who wants to be like you. Are you a rubydev? You can probably solve problems for aspiring ruby devs, etc. Consultants can solve common consulting problems, (brennan
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by johnward 12y ago
When I had a nexus 4 I used the QI charging all the time. It's not really a must have feature but it certainly is nice to you be able to throw my phone down with out having to plug in wires.
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by johnward 12y ago
California seems to be the state that has the most employee favorable employment laws. Other states should following things like the CA stance on non-competes.
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by johnward 12y ago
I was in a similar position working support for a large international shipping company. I would work my 40 hours (day/afternoon/midnight) and then be required to take calls off hours. For example if I worked 6pm to 6am I would be
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by johnward 12y ago
The physical toll is there for many in this career but it's damage from a lack of physicality vs the damage from being over physical such as construction. Almost all of my family are pipefitters and I often envy them for doing somethin
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by johnward 12y ago
You are free to go find another position that also will not pay you for overtime.
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by johnward 12y ago
Healthcare is a high demand field, especially nursing. They seem to be able to negotiate shorter work weeks like working 3 10 hour days and being paid for 40 hours, etc. It's somewhat physically and mentally demanding. Software is in h
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by johnward 12y ago
Yes. Companies tend to abuse this in some cases and in other cases it's more lenient. Currently I will work overtime, without pay, if I project requires it. I will also take a few hours to go to a doctor appointment during the day. So
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by johnward 12y ago
There is some debate about what exactly an exempt position is too. Companies seem to abuse what they consider to be an exempt position to the point that eventually employees fight back. I believe this happened a few years ago a RIM or AT&am
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by johnward 12y ago
Imagine if you could only fill up your current vehicle at certain gas stations. If EVs don't come to a standard charger they will be severely hindering that market. There are a ton of obstacles why not put one more out there for arbitr
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by johnward 12y ago
We had some front-end dev positions listed but they may have been filled. There could be something here if you are interested: https://ibm.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/search/14564610 Even though we are IBM our
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by johnward 12y ago
If I read this right this is assuming that all current gasoline usage is converted into electrical usage. It's not like that would happen over night though, or possibly ever. Also, can PV help at night when a majority of charging shoul
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by johnward 12y ago
My assumption is that most of the charging for electric vehicles (aside from stopping at a supercharger) will go on at night which is off peak for our grid now. At least for the short term future. I don't know that solar will help in t
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by johnward 12y ago
I once had a friend take a low paying dev job just because he needed it. He wouldn't qualify for insurance for 3 months and had recently adopted kids. Then another offer came by that paid more and started insurance day one. The employe
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by johnward 12y ago
Loyalty from a corporate perspective means things like pensions, health care, not laying off 20k people every fall, etc. Like the days that you could work for GE your entire life and actually retire. There was a mutual loyalty. The company
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by johnward 12y ago
It's not that I want to avoid medication I just want whatever can help. I am talking about when you see your general practitioner and they prescribe you the usual antidepressants. A psychiatrist can prescribe much more powerful drugs a

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