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by kohanz 13y ago
And it's back! 2:24pm EST here in Ontario, Canada.
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by kohanz 13y ago
What I love about freelancing is how unpredictable it is. Clients can (and will) call you whenever they want. You’ll be forced to realize that you underestimated a project and you are personally eating the cost. One day you’ll have 1 proje
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by kohanz 13y ago
For some those issues (mental health, substance abuse) are the causes of their homelessness (e.g. financial struggles), but for others, they are a symptom. Reduce the amount of people falling through the cracks, reduce mental health and sub
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The Startup Yahoo Just Bought Turned My Phone Into The Device I've Always Wanted(businessinsider.com)
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by kohanz 13y ago
Reminds me of Canyonero [0] [0] http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Canyonero
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If the companies didn't want you to do this, then they wouldn't let you do this. Why would a company want you to do that?! The only reason some allow it is that it's very difficult to have a policy that allows honest custom
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by kohanz 13y ago
Bravo! This resonates with me on a couple of levels. While I'm still active in software development, I haven't done web development in 10+ years. I'm currently working on a side-project which is also teaching me "the wor
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by kohanz 13y ago
Good point. This also very much depends on the manager-employee relationship between the two people in the 1-on-1.
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by kohanz 13y ago
OP, do you have a family (e.g. significant other, kids)? The post reads a bit preachy. When I read this, I think: the only type of person who would recommend this lifestyle is an early 20-something male who doesn't have much else going
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by kohanz 13y ago
I definitely love sports and am currently working on a side-project in that area. However, it is not an in-game experience. Hoping to do a Show HN soon to share it. My feeling is that the "in-game" experience will be tough to crac
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by kohanz 13y ago
Those reasons are so vague, though. Alright, so "people aren't happy", how should I go about fixing that as an employer? Step 1: find out what they are unhappy about. Hence the exit interview. IMHO, this information should be
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by kohanz 13y ago
Just a thought, but how will the NSA change for the better if we discourage "good" people from joining the organization. Doesn't that just reinforce it to become even more of what we dislike about it? Perhaps positive change
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by kohanz 13y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. There are any number of apps out there than can provide me with beautiful graphs and visualizations once they have the data they need, but I don't use any of them. Why? Because: 1) The ones that collect the data a
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by kohanz 13y ago
The introduction has a reasonable premise, but I thought Business Case No. 1 doesn't do much to further the point. In fact, it reinforces the academic/industry divide that is belabored in the intro. Ask people who are working on
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by kohanz 13y ago
The writing is strange and sounds very biased. The repeated reference to a kind young man , for example.
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by kohanz 13y ago
No, you are not. In fact, this excellent column [1] states this viewpoint (and some reasons behind the problem) better than I ever could. [1] www.thebaffler.com/past/all_linkedin_with_nowhere_to_go
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by kohanz 13y ago
Very impressive. Thank you for your response and overall transparency!
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by kohanz 13y ago
Are those revenue numbers before or after Apple takes their cut? Either way, it's very impressive, but at one point the $1M is listed as "sales" and another it is labelled "profit".
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by kohanz 13y ago
While I love the idea of Dokku (and Flynn), I would warn those who have little to no dev-ops experience that this is not quite (yet) the silver bullet that it sometimes is marketed as. I am a long-time non-web developer who has been doing a
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by kohanz 13y ago
Which of the above factors did Nelson Mandela possess?
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I'm not sure if your reply was directed at me, but I specifically used the term "alright" because it is barely and subjectively positive. I share many of these worries, but also realize that these things tend to have a moment
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To me it is likely a fear of the unknown. Warning: generalizations ahead Current parents were raised in an environment where TV and computer screens occupied a small fraction of the time they do of current children. They played outside mo
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by kohanz 13y ago
Thanks for such a well thought-out response. To be clear, I'm most comfortable working in the .NET framework (~5 years experience), but while I can see where you're coming from, I still disagree with the overall perspective. The
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by kohanz 13y ago
I spent too much time with .NET I don't want to learn ruby! It always pains me to hear such cries from someone who claims to be a software developer/engineer. I've used .NET (among several other) technologies for some years
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Looking through a list of Mandela's quotes [1], there is an uncanny parallel between his viewpoint and those of an entrepreneur. RIP Nelson. “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that
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by kohanz 13y ago
GPUs are good at parallel processing, so any task that is highly parallelizable can see massive performance improvements through a GPU implementation. In my field, for example, medical image processing, GPU's are often used on highly c
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by kohanz 13y ago
June 21, 2002 I'm guessing "2012" was a typo for "2002".
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by kohanz 13y ago
Congratulations on launching your side-project! No matter how far this goes, consider me inspired already.
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This is really tough because, as someone who has sat on both sides of the table, the good organizations will be honest and the bad ones will either omit or massage their answers to remain attractive-looking. That's not to say that your
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by kohanz 13y ago
I will have more autonomy, using more exciting tech, solving bigger problems, working with movers & shakers, and generally more of a challenge. Do you know or expect this to be true of the startup offering you the job or is this more

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