keithwarren

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by keithwarren 12y ago
Dont win, (or don't compete); just contribute. Be an asset. Remember, most people in jobs will be threatened by a strong and assertive leader - they want someone they can control and extract value from, not someone who might take their
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I have been lucky, in 15 years I have been without work for probably a grand total of less than 6 months and the longest period was probably only 3 weeks. Often times it is not a complete lack of work but more a situation where one project
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by keithwarren 12y ago
At one point, just before I jumped full solo I ran the dev shop of a web design firm. I had 13 guys working for me. I was not happy. I am a creator at heart, I get joy out of making things. When you try to grow a company you are trading tec
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by keithwarren 12y ago
It took me several years, when I was part time (my first two years) I think I was billing about 40. When I jumped to full time I went to 75 and over a year or two slid it up to 85. I got a call about 10 years ago for a weekend gig doing som
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Lots of networking events are focused on sales or marketing, they attract lots of people looking for work or looking to switch jobs. Often times they are not advertised as 'networking events' specifically, but if the primary point
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by keithwarren 12y ago
User group meetings, startup weekend, hack-a-thons, give camps etc. Things focused on technology and technology solutions, not events that attract sales people or people looking to hop jobs.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I have been on my own for 15 years. I bill around 150/hr give or take 20% depending on the situation. Most of the work is Microsoft stack web related but mobile apps and api building has been steadily increasing for a several years now
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I expect a publication like Wired to be able to distinguish between writing code and writing a 'computer program'. If this is the bar then I wrote my first 'program' when I was in 3rd grade in the 80s doing LOGO. Don&#x2
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I don't think patting people on the back is useful but if you really want to help him build something awesome, be specific. Your buttons are ugly because they are too small, the text is hard to read and the back button is actually slig
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by keithwarren 12y ago
This is a little tone deaf and lacking deeper thought. Surface level stuff like x color buttons are ugly is not really helpful. Telling a guy who has been focused on this for months he should spend more time dogfooding - again, not helpful.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I went to Startup School in SV this year and must have met 3 dozen startups but the only one I kept thinking about was this one. Scott is brilliant and is thinking about this space in a refreshing way. I am actually a bit blown away TrueJob
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by keithwarren 12y ago
This video http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2014/3-615; start at 39 minutes. Mark Russinovich explains their update rollout procedure (or at least part of it). Willing to bet the rollout infrastructure d
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I hope to read more in the post-mortem RCA but I am curious what their flighting missed, is flighting so limited that is does not see the cross region scale or something? I also had the feeling from watching Mark Russinovich discuss previou
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Over 80% of the Fortune 500 run on Azure. 20% of Azure VMs are Linux. You are not well informed.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
anecdotal but I have not had such issues, but being fair I have mostly not had to deal with non-english scenarios. It is one thing to say 'SQL Server takes some effort to import CSV files with X scenarios'; but to say it does not
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by keithwarren 12y ago
In all honesty it would take hours to write a proper rebuttal. There are many factual errors but there are also many errors that are mostly incorrect. CSV import/export is one of the first things he calls out and he never mentions BCP
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I know numerous guys on the SQL Server team and it actually causes me a bit of anger when I read a clueless statement like that, for the author I feel sorry for his ignorance; the anger comes from the fact that lots of clueless people will
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by keithwarren 12y ago
see rest of comments, it is not taking long for people to point out the flaws in the OP
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by keithwarren 12y ago
As someone who has worked with PG, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL and others for almost two decades - I can promise you the author is misinformed about more than just enterprise politics.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
QFA "MS SQL Server can neither import nor export CSV"
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by keithwarren 12y ago
There is so much here, it is so verbose...so religious. There is the appearance of facts, but mostly it is bias by omission. Take for example the CSV complaints..."MS SQL Server can neither import nor export CSV. Most people don't
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Crazy, that will never happen :)
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by keithwarren 12y ago
The email invites/sorry come out late evening on October 28th. They have said in the past if you have a deadline with another accelerator to email them directly with details.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
There should be trace numbers associated with the wiring of the money - start with getting that number from the company and then give it to your bank. The good news is stuff like this doesn't get lost in some 'check is in the mail
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by keithwarren 12y ago
There was also a BBQ held Friday night at YC offices that some attendees were invited to and others not. This ended up being confusing because not all of us knew if we should go, do something else or what. More transparency would have helpe
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I have been to other startup focused events, though normally on a smaller scale and not in SV. I never felt like any of the people I met were trying to sell me their idea - it was far more collaborative among the people I spoke with. We sha
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I got the chance to attend this year and what struck me as most interesting about the weekend was not the day of speakers but the people I met. I meet lots of people who talk about startups but almost everyone I met was deeply serious and
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Depends on the nature of the reader, but for some people I have hired who were gifted coders (right out of the gate knew how to approach problems) I would often give it to them on their first day and they ate it right up.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I had been a professional programmer for 10+ years when I read it and it was full of those moments of clarity where disparate things I 'knew' came together and made much more sense.

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