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by kohanz 11y ago
Mark Cuban's low ratings for SnapChat and other messaging apps likely stems from or lead to his investment in Cyber Dust [0]. [0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/maseenaziegler/2014/04/08/mark-c...
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by kohanz 11y ago
I'm guessing recorded music and film/TV.
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by kohanz 11y ago
for which the big IT service providers are either too expensive, too slow or just don't have the right skills at hand If you know what your BigCo competition charges, can you simply reduce the delta between their price and yours, at
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by kohanz 11y ago
Maintenance jobs pay poorly I would call this an inaccurate generalization. It all comes down to supply and demand. What and who needs maintaining? How many people out there are capable of maintaining it? Price is set from these variables
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by kohanz 11y ago
Anyone else surprised that 3 to 5 cups a day is considered "moderate"? I thought it would be 1 to 3 or so.
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by kohanz 11y ago
You're getting closer to a business case, but if you're confident in your assessment, you need to put it plainly, in terms that management can digest quickly. The bottom-line is money, and in engineering, time = money. So here&#x2
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by kohanz 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or based in SW Ontario, Canada LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told,
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This came as a shock to me today as I went to GrooveShark to get some coding done (love listening to film scores while I'm in the zone). I always assumed the site was legit (musicians were getting paid a la other streaming sites) becau
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by kohanz 12y ago
You're clearly picturing a different target market than the OP is.
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by kohanz 12y ago
Be-friend someone who works for the city? I'm dead serious. I mean, you could solve this challenging technical problem only to have the schedule changed from underneath you without any notice.
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by kohanz 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or based in SW Ontario, Canada LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told,
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by kohanz 12y ago
... and how well does a society function if everyone gets to decide for themselves what rules they follow?
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by kohanz 12y ago
Last I checked, "rock stars" didn't have the attributes you look for in a good engineer.
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by kohanz 12y ago
Thanks! The play-by-play is scraped from si.com into a SQL schema and the badges and stats are compiled from there. It's all done with a background worker (Resque).
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by kohanz 12y ago
OP and author here to add some context. This is a side-project that was motivated by learning. As a software engineer in the medical device space by day, this project was an opportunity to develop a web app (first time doing this solo), lea
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Show HN: Recapp'd – Improving NBA boxscores(recappd.com)
3 points by kohanz 12y ago|3 comments
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by kohanz 12y ago
I'm a fan of CMake for C++ as well, but have also worked on projects that included C++, C++/CLI, and C# and unfortunately CMake support for .NET projects is close to non-existent (there is some, but it's woefully inadequate).
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by kohanz 12y ago
What percentage of people actually use recruiters? I'm genuinely curious. I imagine it varies greatly by geographic location. Personally, although I have interacted with recruiters, I never found work through them nor did I ever feel t
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by kohanz 12y ago
A lot of the problems you describe sound exactly what I've encountered when dealing with DICOM, the "standard" for medical imaging data.
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I can't imagine this being a positive attribute (and yes, I've been in the hiring position before). It paints the applicant in quite a negative light.
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by kohanz 12y ago
> Good news! It's not a hole in your knowledge. It was useful a long while ago Umm, are you implying these operations aren't used present-day by developers?!
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by kohanz 12y ago
Was thinking the same thing about SimAnt. So many wonderful hours absorbed in my world ants.
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by kohanz 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or based in SW Ontario, Canada LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told,
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by kohanz 12y ago
I semi-recently posted a Show HN that attracted very little attention, received no upvotes or comments, and yet I don't think the system is broken. The volume of Show HN's is just so high now, thus "standing out" is more
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by kohanz 12y ago
My car would be an analogy for this. We used to live in a sketchy neighborhood and one night our car got keyed by some kids. I was pretty upset and up-in-arms about it for a while. Fixing it would be expensive (insurance covers it, but stil
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by kohanz 12y ago
They both have 10 years of development experience, but the one with the CS degree has 4 (give or take) years of additional experience in another setting (as an undergrad). It's not the same kind of experience, but it gives you a bit mo
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Ask HN: How to open up side-project to potential partners
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by kohanz 12y ago
Not only is the stack narrowing, but most people who use the label "full-stack" have fixed the definition of that stack (the set of front-end and back-end components that they have experience with). So the complete definition woul
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by kohanz 12y ago
I don't think the bank analogy holds. My bank funds are insured up to $100K (by the Canadian government) and I don't keep more than that with any one bank. Money is replaceable. Family photos are not.
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by kohanz 12y ago
I wasn't suggesting that what I've chosen to do is the way to go or that it is accessible to most people. I want to know how the tech-savvy audience of HN feels about this issue.

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