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by matt_s 10y ago
Regarding micro-payments, isn't this really a consumer problem that can't be solved easily? What 60 year old romance novel reading knitting enthusiast will take the time to understand micropayments? They would just say "pass
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by matt_s 10y ago
The ROI of maintaining and enhancing is probably under-represented in the freelance space. It may make more financial sense for freelancers to bid on greenfield projects but I wonder, aloud here, if there is some business model for a netwo
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by matt_s 10y ago
One thing comes to mind is the personally identifiable information (PII) that is in the passport/ID. Usually it will have ID numbers but also name, address, etc. Look at what the EU is requiring for this - it used to be called Safe Ha
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by matt_s 10y ago
Stephen King has a good book on writing. Read a lot of novels that are bestsellers and some that are complete crap.
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by matt_s 10y ago
I think there is severe bias in their results simply because of the content in stack overflow and the people that visit. For example, the data on a lot of developers only having 1-3 years of programming experience. That would naturally fol
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by matt_s 10y ago
I see a lot of comments about game suggestions on things you may have missed out on. I think there is another common thread lurking of giving up gaming at some point, not consciously either, it just happens less and less. I felt this and t
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by matt_s 10y ago
Productivity is about producing something. You can read up on "all the latest" all you want but until you actually produce something with it, consider it just entertainment reading. You may start to notice that technologies don&#
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by matt_s 10y ago
They didn't really call out what a fix would be, but maybe the legislation of the visas could require sponsorship by host company for green card and a timeframe for them to get that as well as an expedited route to attaining green card
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by matt_s 10y ago
An idea to help with this would be to call your senator/congressperson and ask that mental health and drug rehab be added to affordable care act. I'm not sure if that type of coverage is there but if they can get it added to the
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by matt_s 10y ago
You're really only going to see large publicly traded companies reporting that way, and by that measure all those numbers are small in comparison to the size of those companies. Sucks for people getting the boot but I wouldn't th
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by matt_s 10y ago
I think there is a higher chance of data theft because it is outsourced to a different country and to a different company. There is less risk and/or maybe more mental space to rationalize the theft of data. Maybe their company treats
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by matt_s 10y ago
Simple: build a calculator. They are adults and should know basic math so they have a comfort zone and would know if the computer did it right. Introduce loops (add a string of integers like "1 2 5 8"), functions to run those (ad
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by matt_s 10y ago
Start with Math. He attended university and was working on a Bachelors so I assume he has a base of some math knowledge. Computers are really just calculators and computing engines. Have him start doing basic programs to do basic math. N
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by matt_s 10y ago
I just don't see the point of Twitter, what would be the point of a replacement? Honestly, how has the sharing of 140 char thoughts changed the world? If the point is to amass followers, then you are using it for marketing a product o
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by matt_s 10y ago
Really what they need to change are the accounting loopholes. When I was working at a large employer most of the offshored work was under 'services contracts' where the legal wordings were such that it looks like services are bei
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by matt_s 10y ago
Yeah that'll get you. My builds tend to be years apart so it's more of a replace everything scenario. It is fun to look at the new tech coming out and day-dream of pimp-my-pc scenarios. I still think daily work doesn't impr
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by matt_s 10y ago
I suspect your main motivator is to want to build a PC. Chances are that the extra computational power or cores won't actually make your work faster for day to day use. Building a PC is fun and you will be able to do piece-meal upgrad
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by matt_s 10y ago
I used to use Eclipse for Java development years ago. Then I found Sublime Text and haven't looked back. If you just want a lightweight editor that does code highlighting and has an assortment of plugins that are optional then try Su
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by matt_s 10y ago
The dot com bust was when huge valuations and VC funding was going to companies that had little business plan or even little notion of how to make money. So good advice would be to stay away from those types of companies, regardless of boo
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by matt_s 10y ago
Do stuff on your own, go to meet ups on what you're interested in. RHEL is the same as CentOS, download that and download Vagrant. Install CentOS onto a VM, if you don't know something, google it. Go to tech events and meet peop
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by matt_s 10y ago
You might find games that don't have a monetization method built-in may be more immersive, depends on the content obviously. I would venture to guess that most mobile games can't be very immersive. It would be hard to quantify im
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by matt_s 10y ago
Here's a perspective from having progressed into management from technical roles, managing engineers and now back to doing engineering. My employees used to call me 'meeting attender' since that was what they saw me do day-to
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by matt_s 10y ago
They are probably going to make more from the Mario iOS game coming out in 2 weeks. That requires zero ramp up of production and a couple of TV ads could make it the new "thing" everyone plays. The target demographic with money t
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by matt_s 10y ago
Good points. Getting metrics that cover underemployed and apathy would be difficult. Where I was going was that it appears looking backwards to want to bring jobs back that were outsourced for mostly cheaper labor. If US companies could d
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by matt_s 10y ago
Does the US really have a problem with unemployment? Nationally it is at its lowest since like 2000 - around 5% now. Yes averages are not good to use, there are areas where it might be 0.5% and some where it is 10%. Bringing back things w
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by matt_s 10y ago
That group was featured on ABC news coverage last night in the US. They predicted Clinton would win 70% to 20% early in the evening. I didn't read what they said about their process but they were completely off too.
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by matt_s 10y ago
There may be other competitors to HP that re-brand Samsung devices as their own under a technology sharing agreement. Multi-function printers are essentially commoditized now so not sure how "innovation" will happen when one comp
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by matt_s 10y ago
I applied a few months ago to a position at Spreedly and welcomed the code sample process. It is only one part of their hiring process, like the article mentioned. I loved getting feedback on the results too, it turned out someone had a b
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by matt_s 11y ago
This sounds like a culture that prioritizes work-life balance, independence, and self-motivated employees. You're not aiming to measure butts-in-chairs time but delivery of working software as far as performance is concerned. Focus on
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by matt_s 11y ago
Sounds like shiny's (OP) argument is that Intuit lobby's to keep tax code complicated and he doesn't want to fund them. Yet as you explain many of these complicated parts about filing taxes, when handled by a competent accou

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