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by moocow01 14y ago
A lot of this article has points I agree with but feels swarmy and misdirected. The take-away seems to be "forget about getting educated, pick up a few O'reilly books, make a website, make sure your friends are doing the same". Yeah a lot o
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by moocow01 14y ago
I wouldn't bet on Facebook/Twitter/Social - its honestly a very hard business to be in for a megacorp. Slippery customers, monetization destroys product quality - there are lots of statements people like to make such as "but what if FB jus
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by moocow01 14y ago
I sort of agree but I think the danger with your exercise as it pertains to this article is that it takes into account everything - not just tech. My washing machine is way better, car runs longer, better medications, etc. I think in terms
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by moocow01 14y ago
There is no replacement - only temporary highs. You can get away with caffeine, drugs, etc in the short term but in the long term there will be some form of a consequence. My advice would be to practice better time management rather than le
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by moocow01 14y ago
Programming is honestly a very tricky sector of work to understand how to make progress in the practice of it from here on out. You have essentially an almost infinite number of ways to get to an endpoint with very few real constraints... t
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by moocow01 14y ago
I overwhelmingly agree and think an additional problem is that a large portion of "technology companies" are not really technology companies. Most are actually consuming and applying technology - not developing new technology in any major
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by moocow01 14y ago
Seek out opportunities in other industries/segments of computing. The reason a lot of work is CRUD work is because most web applications and business applications are just data/information management systems targeted toward a certain use.
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US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles(ritholtz.com)
50 points by moocow01 14y ago|72 comments
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by moocow01 14y ago
I'm doubtful of the 3D printing revolution that everyone is expecting or is claiming is occurring. Guns are an interesting example. Printing a 3D gun is somewhat viable but a 3D printer is not a dispenser where you can just press a button
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by moocow01 14y ago
Personally I'd probably leave. I think there is a point where its healthy to try to change the system but it sounds like you are fighting a current that is too strong to encourage the way you want to work. I believe you when you say your e
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by moocow01 14y ago
The thing that Ive found is that once you get into the upper-tier range (I define this as 125-150k and on average seems to include people with 5 to 10 years experience) it gets harder than before. My first 5 years on average I had great rai
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'Boomerang' Workers Find Grass at Startups Not Always Greener(online.wsj.com)
1 points by moocow01 14y ago|0 comments
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by moocow01 14y ago
Its anecdotal and Im sure getting older influences my opinion. Im also one of these people who thinks Facebook creates a lot of weak ties in replacement of fewer stronger ties between people. No idea if Im wrong or right but despite the ma
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by moocow01 14y ago
I'd guess it has to do with a few things that are not at all related to the recession... 1) Globalization - the lessons learned and processes formed from globalization have in a sense come back to be applied domestically. Increasingly domi
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by moocow01 14y ago
This doesn't address the practical real-world problem... Most developers are under at least moderate pressure to deliver and usually their priority is this... 1) Make thing appear to work 2) Make thing actually work 3) Clean up code to pass
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by moocow01 14y ago
I stopped at "you can edit the editor's source code in HTML/JS/CSS" For me personally, I want the best native editor I can find that makes doing my job easier/simpler - I don't want an editor that I can tinker around with its source code a
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by moocow01 14y ago
You should not ask for a number of stock options - you should ask for a percentage of the company. In other words the number of stock options you get means nothing unless you put it in the context of total stock options. Its like saying yo
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by moocow01 14y ago
Use Flash or render your content as images. Neither of them are 100% locked down but its going to give anyone writing a scraper a run for their money. Outside of preventing scraping, both of these ideas are likely to be seen as stupid.
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by moocow01 14y ago
1) Tell your manager first in private. Talk only positively. Despite being there for such a long time this is something managers deal with on a frequent basis and expect. (Do not tell your coworkers anything until everything is official)
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by moocow01 14y ago
The education industry today is 100% a business and institutions are run more or less like corporations (this wasn't so true many years ago and is a horrible model for education for general society). It is their incentive to continue perpe
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by moocow01 14y ago
But that last portion "(net of interest and other costs)" is my argument. Interest, property taxes, capital gains taxes, real estate agent fees are all apart of the cost of owning and selling the asset and it usually adds up to quite a bit
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by moocow01 14y ago
Leverage by its definition is scary. As you said increased risk/reward... $X,XXX,XXX - 50% chance of 1.2x, 50% chance of 0.8x - not so scary $X,XXX,XXX - 1% chance of 50x, 99% chance of $0 - scary Its only not scary if you have an infinite
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by moocow01 14y ago
Agree - I wanted to point out the problem with the seemingly rosy situation of using leverage to "get ahead." There are many people that think they are being financially smart by buying as much a house as the bank will give them with the a
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by moocow01 14y ago
I made the same argument lower in the thread but with omission of an instant price bump the instant you get the home or buying purely with cash, the idea of getting a very expensive home with the strategy of banking the difference in apprec
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by moocow01 14y ago
"If my house in the bay area goes up 30% i sell that and relocate to illinois you can bet i will cover the short and come out ahead since home prices in illinois lag ca by a good 150-200k" You need to factor in interest paid on your bay are
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by moocow01 14y ago
Quitting your job is the easy part. Legitimately replacing it is the hard part. There are some nice thoughts here but I'd like to know what the plan is to survive. Its certainly possible to make it but I feel like this is glorifying a sit
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by moocow01 14y ago
This is the most comprehensive (and correct IMHO) answer Ive ever read... http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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by moocow01 14y ago
I wouldnt worry too much about it but if you still are, pay for an hour or two with a Lawyer. The cases where you DO NEED to talk to a Lawyer or your employer are if your current projects compete with your employers. Sometimes this is obv
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by moocow01 14y ago
Where do you live?... if in California they put it in contracts all the time but its void unless extremely blatant meaning you literally are stealing code or leveraging your employment to compete directly against your employer. I used to ha
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Everybody Knows...(ritholtz.com)
1 points by moocow01 14y ago|0 comments

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