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by modoc 14y ago
True but AFAIK no other countries are spending their tax money providing food aid to the USA? I agree our own poverty situation is awful, but honestly that's another reason to not be spending tax money the US International Food Aid Program.
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by modoc 14y ago
Depends on your pool. Small companies need to be absolutely brutal about only hiring the best people, with the best skills, and the best fit for the company. I went to a local university career fair looking for two different junior level
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by modoc 14y ago
Better lenses are fixed aperture though, so I don't think it's unreasonable to replicate that here. My 24-70 is 2.8 across the board.
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by modoc 14y ago
$100,000+ is almost never a rounding error, no matter how big your org is.
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by modoc 14y ago
I disagree. People who are paying $5/month have a much lower threshold before they leave than an enterprise paying $20,000/month. Also larger more expensive services tend to end up with more business integration and the cost of moving to
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by modoc 14y ago
creator of 10MinuteMail here I know many services, including mine, do have anti-abuse features (rate limiting address allocation, other pattern detection and blocking mechanism), however you can't always tell a legitimate user from an abu
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by modoc 15y ago
No joke. I know some LEO are very well trained, but I've shot alongside Boston PD and Seattle based Air Marshals and I was shocked at how bad of shots both groups were. And this is on the shooting range, without adrenaline/fear, etc... T
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by modoc 15y ago
I like JBoss Seam 2. It's worked out well for several sites.
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by modoc 15y ago
Why? Having money doesn't mean you should buy other companies, especially if you're DropBox and are kicking ass in your niche and not trying to branch out in a million directions. I've seen SO many acquisitions go wrong for both parties.
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by modoc 15y ago
10MinuteMail.com is another option. (biased creator here)
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by modoc 15y ago
They're cutting some of the fat off, but they just dropped 1 billion dollars on the ATG product and are pushing it pretty hard and Oracle doesn't have anything that's a real competitor in the space. It'll get renamed as Siebel Commerce or
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by modoc 15y ago
The problem is that if you spend 6-12 months training people you've got WAY more costs to recoup than a normal contracting firm so you'd have to take a higher percentage off the top. The rates would be higher for the niche so the take home
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by modoc 15y ago
Plus it's pretty easy to saturate a 1 Gbit NIC with even a pretty close to OOTB Apache setup. You might burn 5-10% more CPU than if you were using nginx, but it's not that big a deal in 99% of the use cases.
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by modoc 15y ago
Until Oracle bought ATG it was basically impossible. But Oracle has made ATG available for download, including documentation, to anyone, without needed a million dollar support agreement. You can't run a production site for free obviously
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by modoc 15y ago
ATG Commerce (now Oracle ATG Commerce) is the niche I was speaking about, but the above list is 100% true as well. Lots and lots of opportunities.
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by modoc 15y ago
In this particular case I'm not talking about grabbing random people, I'm talking about people who are very skilled in a similar tech stack (which has a much higher supply/demand ratio, and getting them up to speed with the very similar but
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by modoc 15y ago
There are many niche skill sets out there where the demand far exceeds the currently supply, and as such hourly rates from $100/hour (lower level) to $200+/hour (architect level) are quite common and you really can pick your job/location/wo
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by modoc 15y ago
So say 50 elements. With a 50ms difference that's 2.5 seconds of total time. Most browsers will do 2-4 simultaneous connections, so let's say 4, that's still over 1/2 second faster page load. Now put that end user in Europe or Africa, an
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by modoc 15y ago
Related question: I started playing with mod_pagespeed when it first came out, however at the time it was very buggy and broke RichFaces based apps, PHP Gallery, and a few WordPress plugins that sites I host run, so I had to ditch it. Tha
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by modoc 15y ago
A good CDN provides "close" (network latency wise) servers so if there are 30 assets to be loaded, most are done over a 10 ms hop, not a 60 ms hop. Get a complex page with 100+ assets, or try to serve it to another continent and the differ
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by modoc 15y ago
Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...
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by modoc 15y ago
It depends greatly on your company.
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by modoc 15y ago
Indeed. Sorry, my offer was intended to the folks who are actually making the offer, who have the steaming server:)
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by modoc 15y ago
I'm happy to mirror if anyone actually has the files.... I have tons of bw on a ton of big servers. devon@sparkred.com
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by modoc 15y ago
The obvious other choice is to hire a designer or a design firm as needed (or depending on what you need, buy a design template to get you going).
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by modoc 15y ago
And would BREAK things if you run Tomcat/JBoss/Glassfish/etc... Seriously the idea of running a package update that would erase key requirements to running my production J2EE apps is totally insane. I guess I'll stick with RHEL. For all
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by modoc 15y ago
I really like what you've done here, and have actually just found several groups/meetups I'd like to check out. I agree with jqueryin on most of his/her points, especially point 6. Opening up with: "Here's a couple groups right nearby!" wo
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by modoc 15y ago
Sparkred FULLTIME JBoss Expert/Admin in Boston, MA Spark::red, a managed hosting company for large scale eCommerce sites, is seeking a JBoss expert to join our team. We're looking for a JBoss admin or experienced developer with at least 5
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by modoc 15y ago
http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/101311cc
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by modoc 15y ago
FWIW: Remote DB was ~50ms away. Large scale eCommerce applications tend to be DB heavy-ish. Have a complex catalog structure with a few million SKUs, add in a few tens of millions each of users, orders, coupons, and push thousands of ord

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