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by matt_s 11y ago
Did you find it hard to find a job there before relocating? Assuming that was the path you took. If so any pointers? I've heard northerners and transplants are sometimes not welcome.
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by matt_s 11y ago
Hire a DBA and stick with relational DB. We had (previous group, still running) a 40-50TB Oracle db that collected much more data daily. I would think you shouldn't be writing to a txt file, then doing imports into a DB. That's
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by matt_s 11y ago
If you read Parkinsons Law you will discover the Law Of Multiplication of Subordinates. This is the little known law compared to the one about work filling the time, etc. He shows that between 1914 and 1928 the number of ships in the Royal
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by matt_s 11y ago
Just an observation that most of your advantages (4/5) are for the developers and their process of doing work. Choosing an architecture based on your ease of working seems fine, until you need to engineer that architecture to be fault-
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by matt_s 11y ago
You aren't an older engineer. If you don't want to maintain poorly written legacy code, then you're in the wrong business. Learn Java server-side/web apps, learn D3.js and apply it to some public data set or whatever yo
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by matt_s 11y ago
The question is, what part of that $650k per month is profit? If it is revenue and no profit is there, then that is unsustainable without VC funding, right? It's simple math. If there is some model where they need X customers and fun
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by matt_s 11y ago
I think you mean when the VC bubble bursts, again. Tech jobs have been around for forty or so years. That is jobs building software to solve business problems in a profitable way. Would some of these small companies (aka startups) survive
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by matt_s 11y ago
Either way, go with prepaid if you are in the US. Those "plans" the big carriers have are insanely costly. Over 10 years you are going to spend roughly $6,000 to $8,000 per cell phone. If you go iPhone, they have iMessage for te
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by matt_s 11y ago
Insourcing is what is happening at some large global Fortune 500 companies. Essentially this is doing away with H-1B visas and establishing your own IT center offshore or rather on a different shore than your HQ. Massive money savings by
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by matt_s 11y ago
It should be aligned to whatever functions they are stopping doing. I think the message indicated they were focusing on high impact areas (whatever that might mean). The opposite of that is low impact areas would likely lose staff, right?
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by matt_s 11y ago
How about RFID chips (or something like that) in all firearms? And long range scanners that can detect said RFID-like chips. Make it embedded in a crucial part of the firing system (firing pin or something) so that if that part is removed
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by matt_s 11y ago
I think that is the point tmaly was making, there isn't a data source anyone can use to actually verify or assess the 293 because of HIPAA laws.
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by matt_s 11y ago
System interactions tend to be where there are mis-communications or bugs in API and cause issues during development. Especially if you are building on another companies service. That isn't it though, there are the non-functional aspe
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by matt_s 11y ago
There are defined Architect roles when you work at large companies where the division of labor requires more specific roles. Like others have said, the focus should be on the bigger picture of the overall system(s) and how they inter-relate
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by matt_s 11y ago
An angle on this that may work is to just introduce the new tech on something not very important but still useful. A decent argument can be that plain old technology upgrades at some point are going to be gigantic herculean efforts if the s
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by matt_s 11y ago
What is a native JavaScript app? Isn't that still a web app running in a browser? I don't know of any client/server types of solutions with JavaScript as the client by itself.
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by matt_s 11y ago
Everything still reduces to the lowest common denominator, HTTP. How often does that change, like every 5-10 years? Front end or back end still need to communicate over HTTP and display in browsers. Your end users don't care what fra
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by matt_s 11y ago
I have been looking at web frameworks on JVM's a little bit lately for work (yeah doing coding again). My most recent experience has been doing some hobby projects with Ruby and Rails framework. I like how that works for simple CRUD a
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by matt_s 11y ago
I'm wondering if hobby style weapons like bb or paintball guns would take down the drone. If that would work, then are there any laws against you shooting a bb/paintball gun in your backyard? Similarly, if someone is flying a k
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by matt_s 11y ago
Since others have indicated C/C++, you should check out handmadehero.org - it will give you a taste of C/C++ programming for a game. I started watching the beginning youtube videos and haven't been able to keep up because of
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by matt_s 11y ago
I wonder if any of the real estate owners have considered applying for a dual-zone - residential and commerical. Then rehab the building into part offices for smaller businesses and apartments of some kind. If you get enough of these clust
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by matt_s 11y ago
It was working fine, not from a techie/developer point of view, but from the 60 year old aunt with a cat that likes to play her slot machine program a few weeks before a trip to Las Vegas. When that 60 year old aunt walks into Best Buy
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by matt_s 11y ago
I think that is the point of the article above. Is it good enough? What killer feature of an operating system is missing that would take it to another level? And for said killer feature, how will that help normal humans?
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by matt_s 11y ago
Given that you are asking a site populated with computer programming types, I would assume you may be interested in computer programming. Programming on touch enabled or tablet sized devices is going to be difficult. If you want to leverag
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by matt_s 11y ago
I don't disagree at all, but the AMA format is really a one and done for a single person. For example, there are some hilarious responses from Jose Canseco (US baseball player from 90's) - if he comes out with a new book or somet
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by matt_s 11y ago
I would venture a guess too that the AMA platform may start having sponsored content or there was some element in the shake up regarding that and people not wanting to take money for AMA's. When you see celebs and other note worthy fol
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by matt_s 11y ago
AJAX and the ability to manipulate the DOM has been around for about a decade or so, AJAX came out of Microsoft I believe. Putting bits of AJAX into a web app doesn't make it SPA. Lets say you have a CRUD web application that is tax f
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by matt_s 11y ago
Given that the vast majority of end users are not techie - what value does SPA add to an end user of a web application?
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by matt_s 11y ago
Not sure if there are books specific on that. I picked it up as part of Six Sigma training. The concept is you list all the possible failure modes in one column, then score the severity (1-10, 10 most severe), occurrence probability (1-10,
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by matt_s 11y ago
The management role is different and in most large companies is higher valued and more highly paid because they bear the brunt of whatever happens, good or bad, from their team. Depending on the level of management and the systems involved

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