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by matt_s 12y ago
There is site called Ruby Toolbox[1] and I find that helpful for doing the initial research for a library and if its active, useful to me, and how popular. An initial Google search indicates there is a site like this for JavaScript, but che
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Ask the Lead some questions about that architecture. For example, is there a deeper reason or rationale for different middleware on user mgmt and logging vs. academics? Is it possible they will need to scale the academics side, but not the
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Interesting perspective on it. The comparison seems valid to me since it will take probably 3-6 months to really know if you ended up with a lemon of an employee. That is if the manager can tell the difference. Obviously excluding a bad hir
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by matt_s 12y ago
What are pressing technology or startup related questions we should be asking Presidential, House and Senate candidates to assess if they are worthy of our votes? Topics: - H1B Visa's - more?, less? - Sole Proprietorship tax advantages
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35 minutes on dry roads, one way. If it is snow and ice time then that could be double. Yesterday it was -9F when I left for work but the roads were dry so it was all good. I can and do work remote at least 1 day a week or more. I love the
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by matt_s 12y ago
With free iOS options it is hard to have a compelling reason to purchase something which is basically a novelty use case. Although, I do have a Sharkk keyboard for my iPad and using SSH with that is pretty slick. I have yet to link dropbox
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Ease of authoring could affect your posting frequency and dedication to the blog. I recently was in the same dilemma when looking to start a technical blog and looked at Jekyll, Octopress and Ghost. I avoided WordPress because I don't
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This is the reason for me as well. The dead end part for me is that the company doesn't value hands-on technical people and has outsourced most of that. There aren't a lot of jobs in the area either. My wife and I have discussed
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I was a Senior level Java developer and I would suggest Rails. It has the object oriented-ness you are familiar with from Java and a rich set of libraries (gems) as well as a lot of documentation online (railscasts). SaaS is essentially a
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Licensing would be the number one reason. Also, I think the devotion to OSX and Apple hardware amongst startups and web programmers is sort of like a survivor bias. You don't hear anything from web programmers and general software de
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Here's one for you: I used to do web/software development then moved into various roles like Architect, Tech PM, and now manage a team of engineers scaling web/db infrastructure and some DevOps stuff. I work at BigCorp and d
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Completely correct on all points. When I was a programmer, I would sit and stew about the decisions management made. I was deluded into thinking "I would do this different". Moving into management and realizing that it is a tot
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Looks like about 15% of their employees, although 10% will be former Nokia folks. This has to be part of a multi-year effort to reformat the company. I would expect that there are going to be soft costs that have multi-year impacts. Peopl
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by matt_s 12y ago
When I read the article it struck me that it is nearly the opposite of how people use the quote today. It appears the quote's context was about the liberty of government (Ben Franklin as a legislator in 1750's Pennsylvania colony
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by matt_s 12y ago
This sounds like it is right in the middle of not really a PM tool and not really a CRM tool. You want to track and forecast work and don't have varying tasks per item. Maybe Basecamp? I have never used it but it sounds like it could
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by matt_s 13y ago
This sounds very similar to the stories of micro-isv's that came about by doing a solo business and learning the business side of tech. Inspiring
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by matt_s 13y ago
We have part of a system at work that was written in Java and it is horrible because the team that built it has a bad case of NIH. They ended up implementing a very poorly designed file system based database. Now that part of the system h
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by matt_s 13y ago
If there are key critical systems, you want to have some documented plans down to checklists of things to do if there is some sort of emergency. I work in BigCo and having redundancy is nearly mandatory for all of our critical stuff. That
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by matt_s 13y ago
Or a dumb smart phone. If your phone plan has expired, unlock the device from the carrier and move to a pre-paid carrier. Yes it will cost more per text, call and MB used but it will give you convenience of smart phone with a $10 or $20 m
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by matt_s 13y ago
You can literally email the PDF or other formats to a unique address for you and your Kindle after you set up the account. http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email
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by matt_s 13y ago
If you have a background with a Computer Science degree, it makes it easier. One of the later courses in the program I had was assembly programming. Everyone said this was the class that weeded out people. I found it easy because there w
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by matt_s 13y ago
We're planning a family vaca to California for the first time this summer and planning on Muir park. Also if you end up renting a car you may want to check out Yosemite (3-4 hr drive). That is on our list.
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by matt_s 13y ago
I looked at Angular a while ago in comparison to Knockout. Angular strikes me as one of those frameworks that requires you to get to a certain mental state in order for you to use it. Maybe it just requires an extensive project being built
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by matt_s 13y ago
If you've worked in a US Corporate IT shop, then it is very likely that this is the case. One way large corporations structure the work is deliverables based. That means the company is paying the vendor to deliver design docs, code,
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by matt_s 13y ago
Building a flight system for a rocket ship is probably not something you're going to find as a job on elance or craigslist.
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by matt_s 14y ago
I'm also curious where Java lands as far as running JRuby on a JVM performance wise. Granted you would need people familiar with running JVM's, which may not be the case with folks that are Rubyists. But it's not like there aren't many ch
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by matt_s 15y ago
I think your question is too broad. Do you think you could have a top 1% programmer that does HTML, CSS, JavaScript? Think about this: you hire ten top 1% programmers but two of them have horrible interpersonal skills and they continually
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3x5 index cards and a pen
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I work at an extremely large company - over 100k people across the globe. When companies get this big, it feels like everything takes forever to get done. I was just talking with a coworker how at a small company the RetiredOnTheJob peopl
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Definitely a good place to raise a family. A couple of the top public schools in the country are here in the suburbs. There are a lot of Fortune 5000 (so to speak) companies around, some were sold off from the Fortune 500 in town, others h

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