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by kohanz 12y ago
Fair point, but it only takes 1 failure for a catastrophe. I suppose my question would be: is cloud-storage alone enough?
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by kohanz 12y ago
Ignoring (without downplaying) the referral limit mistake, I don't actually detect any "snark" in the response from the CSR.
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by kohanz 12y ago
Really appreciate your candid reply. That's a shame. In the end I imagine people regret forsaking relationships for material gains, but greed is a powerful force. Have you participated in startups since then? Did you take any extra pre
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by kohanz 12y ago
Although I haven't implemented it yet, the full plan would be to store the external drive off-site. Granted, that's a much larger inconvenience. Of course cloud storage provides more convenient redundancy, but would it be complete
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by kohanz 12y ago
I'm wondering how alone (or not) I am in being uncomfortable with cloud storage for my (mostly family) photos. It would be the most convenient solution in terms of storage and redundancy, but the idea of them possibly being compromised
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by kohanz 12y ago
Great, insightful reply from somebody who's been there. As someone who has not been there and has zero experience in this, I'm left wondering whether you had more leverage to ask for "X,Y, and Z" before the deal closed.
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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
Any time I find myself thinking something remotely close to that, I realize that I won the lottery of growing up in and being able to call North America (or more broadly, Westernized civilization) home. I certainly have more control over my
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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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by kohanz 12y ago
I'm a software engineer who has spent most of my career working for medical device companies. My advice may not be a good short-term fix and it's just one of many paths, but it's based on my experience. Be a doctor. A good on
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by kohanz 12y ago
Moving across the ocean with a wife and young child to work for a company under golden handcuffs hardly sounds like an appealing "exit". The OP already mentioned he is not desperate for $ after his first successful startup.
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by kohanz 12y ago
Of course there will be some variance based on the person reporting in terms of the lifestyle they are used to and whether they have dependents to support.
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by kohanz 12y ago
I think the downside of no PhD is that you're much more likely to hit a glass ceiling. I would agree in the context of staying within the R&D field. However, I know more than a few people who used the extra years not spent doing
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by kohanz 12y ago
Where I am (Canada), at least, doctors and lawyers will end up at their final positions with much more certainty than someone seeking a faculty position and they'll pay their debt off a lot faster.
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by kohanz 12y ago
I only did a Master's and avoided the academic route (wasn't interested). My lab peers at the time were 5 PhD students. Of that group at a good Canadian University, 3 are still post-docs (4-6 years after graduation), 1 has a decen
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by kohanz 12y ago
Bexfield’s insurance company, Presbyterian Health Plan, declined to cover the hefty cost of $198,000 for the stem cell transplant. He was forced to cash in his savings and turn to family in order to help pay for the treatment. Only months
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by kohanz 12y ago
So you would tell a candidate rejected in this stage that the team chose someone else? More or less detail than that?
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by kohanz 12y ago
I can see how you would do this for a technical shortcoming, but sometimes the choice of one candidate over another comes based on a personality judgement and who would fit better with the current team. How do you explain those types of dec
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by kohanz 12y ago
Perfect opportunity to take up patio11 on his "standing invitation" I like meeting people in Tokyo. As of August 1st 2014, I live close to Nakameguro Station in central Tokyo. We’ll have to see if this is sustainable, given that
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by kohanz 12y ago
To be honest, the majority of interviews I've had for software jobs were non-technical. Once I reached a certain level of experience, talking about past work seemed to be enough for people to validate that I knew what I was talking abo
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by kohanz 12y ago
How would you expect to achieve any of the things on your list prior to sharing the code with others, so that people can collaborate? You're basically implying that none of the good stuff happens after the code goes public.
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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
That's why it is recommended to thoroughly research and understand your market value in the location and field that you are negotiating. Talk to other developers in the area, research online, etc. - finding out reasonable salary expect
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by kohanz 12y ago
This is something that as a Canadian, I often take for granted, but I completely agree that if I didn't have universal healthcare, I may well have never left the 9-5.
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by kohanz 12y ago
I've recently made a transition from full-time work to sparse, part-time freelancing, which I deem successful, but may not be by others' criteria. The parameters of my freelancing are undoubtedly much different from yours, but per
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by kohanz 12y ago
There exists no practical, reliable method to identify the "great" programmers from the rest (other than by employing them or working with them over a significant amount of time). Many of them interview poorly. If you could actual
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by kohanz 12y ago
My point is that there is no gender bias as shown by women doing the same thing And this was shown definitively in your hypothetical tech world where the gender split is 50/50?
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by kohanz 12y ago
If the tech field were evenly split 50/50, do you think women wouldn't comment on the attractiveness of guys? Maybe, but how would that make a person's (of either gender) physical attractiveness (which is completely subject
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by kohanz 12y ago
This kind of comment has no place and is irrelevant, IMHO. Even though the statement may be well-meaning, it's completely gender biased. How many times in an article about a male entrepreneur, or computer scientist, or other interestin

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