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by matt_s 11y ago
Another point for large companies is essentially vendor lock-in. If you had Oracle 8 way back in the day (90's), then the upgrade and pay maintenance path is much easier than even the thought of switching to a different system. Think
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by matt_s 11y ago
Create your own base box that might have a typical stack you always use. Treat this like your gold image and you can use it for trying out new technologies without installing on your host machine as well as a different VM for every project
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by matt_s 12y ago
I have been through that crossroads, I moved into a PM role and was told I was a good PM but I didn't like it because I wasn't building anything. I was a master of PowerPoint, Excel and burn-down charts. Through some re-orgs I m
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by matt_s 12y ago
You state for web services that spit out JSON that Golang is better. Typically the JSON is a representation of data from a database (relational or otherwise) - how do you envision Golang doing this (spitting out JSON) well? From a cursory
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by matt_s 12y ago
No you won't need a degree to get started in software development. However, for computer science don't think of the degree as just a piece of paper some employers look at, there are some key courses that help build a foundational
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by matt_s 12y ago
If the goal is to illustrate how the model works and implications to application design then maybe supply a pre-built application that they will continue to evolve over the course. In that case - you pick the framework as the prof. If the c
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by matt_s 12y ago
Working at BigCo doing work with our internal enterprise data centers that are spread globally a few concerns would come up. - How secure are the AWS offerings in comparison to a company's internal offerings? - How cost effective is it
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by matt_s 12y ago
I think part of the hesitancy of body cams is how do you solve the problem of hours of useless video of them sitting in a car, etc.? Is it worth it for a municipality to have a body cam going when they hand out a speeding ticket? Or any of
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by matt_s 12y ago
Learn the basics: HTML, CSS and client-side JavaScript without any frameworks, libraries or code generators. Then do the same for the server-side, learn the basics of HTTP GET, POST (and others) with a language, no frameworks or libraries.
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by matt_s 12y ago
I used to use 25 hours out of 40 in burndown calculations, so 5 hours a day. This was then used against task lists that had estimates in hours of 1,4,8,16 increments. If something needed a re-estimate after work began that was taken into c
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by matt_s 12y ago
I think the main thing missing in the discussion is organization or team size. Given that the author is a CompSci researcher for the past 40 years he may not be in touch with the reality of how organizations are structured and the impact o
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by matt_s 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand the outrage of personal data that retailers have outside of actual credit card details. They know someone at address 123 Street or email address johndoe@email.com bought batteries or a phone or a tv? Okay an
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by matt_s 12y ago
Can you provide more detail? Like is it the technology being used? The way the technology is being used? Internal jargon about the business? The business process itself? Maybe your co-workers are over complicating the solutions to things
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by matt_s 12y ago
I also run Vagrant VM's for various things on Windows 7. The key for speed isn't the OS, 8GB RAM and a SSD for your main drive is awesome. The PC I built last fall is super fast, the little Windows start up screen doesn't f
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by matt_s 12y ago
This concept of hating tools is sort of silly. Would you ever hear a plumber say they hate that wrench? Nope. You might hear them state that an install job with pex is easier than copper or pvc, and it requires different tools. Like othe
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by matt_s 12y ago
Having worked on an applicant testing and tracking system in the past, it was a decent business case to operate because a single company has a job type with 100's of openings and high attrition so it helped screen people. In that case
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by matt_s 12y ago
Seems like an adverticle for their own product. That withstanding, it is a culture problem before it is a cost problem. Very large companies have a culture of meetings for everything, down to pre-meeting meetings and "talking about th
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by matt_s 12y ago
I'm with you, I've played some tablet games that have in-app purchases but don't purchase. The game gets to a plateau pretty quick to the point where it is boring and uninteresting. SimCity for instance is free on iOS but h
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by matt_s 12y ago
This sounds sort of unrealistic but here's a shot at an idea for yourself: - A SaaS that markets to restaurants or hourly jobs where there is an abundance of aspiring actors - App will allow owner/manager of restaurant to schedule
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by matt_s 12y ago
Familiar shoes I've walked in. Build something more than the typical blog or book inventory site you see referenced in tutorials. If you can't think of something to build, then think of one of your corporate Java apps and build t
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by matt_s 12y ago
We often joke that with the turnover rate we are essentially a University for people offshore to learn from when they are doing IT. It takes so much hand-holding and rote instruction to get things done, once they learn and are proficient t
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by matt_s 12y ago
Even though some of patio11's post seems like opinion, he is correct on all points. Regarding item 3, another perspective is that a lot of the outsourcing/off-shoring happens because it is something that is not a core competency o
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by matt_s 12y ago
Build a custom box for Vagrant. I did this and now can spin up a CentOS 7 image with Apache, MySQL (Mariadb), RVM (ruby version manager) and a bunch of utilities (wget, curl, git, etc.) in a matter of minutes. I wrote up a how-to on my bl
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by matt_s 12y ago
Knowing that pretty much all software is buggy and Nest and Wink are pretty new to market, do you want to depend on them with your life? In the northeast US this weekend we will be having a high temperature of zero degrees Fahrenheit in som
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by matt_s 12y ago
It should have been written as: "a point of comparison is that all US businesses aren't older than 239 years." And then something about what US businesses are older than 100. They weren't really comparing anything.
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by matt_s 12y ago
They might be bored. They might be in over their heads and see two co-workers knocking stuff out and not want to appear like they don't know what they are doing. Do you have regular one on ones with them to shoot the breeze about what
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by matt_s 12y ago
I will have to check them out and possibly emotionally prepare myself since living through seeing this in a large company is hilarious and sad at the same time.
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by matt_s 12y ago
Your article can be reinforced by the Ribbon Farm analysis of "The Office" [1]. What you have stated about over-performance seems to line up nicely with the "clueless" in that hierarchy. To quote from Ribbon Farm articl
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by matt_s 12y ago
Data collected from devices and it is large, but not big. Around 40-60TB and very repetitive data. Find some open set of data that interests you and just do something to get familiar with the tools. I think most data sets could be handled
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by matt_s 12y ago
The thing that gets me with OS X vs Linux or Windows is that the muscle memory in my hands works well with Windows and Linux shortcuts and window management. I have a MBP circa 2010 and love the hardware but the OS is meh. I really love ho

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