okaramian

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by okaramian 16y ago
The problem is that when you're hiding salaries you can't really evaluate the market. Really by hiding that information you're giving the salary giver most of the power and those shopping around for a higher salary need to do a lot more wo
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by okaramian 16y ago
That video made the cold war look like a hot war.
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by okaramian 16y ago
You could set up a gitosis server if you have access to your own server of some sort and don't mind administering it. I have a linux VM on my main computer that is accessible to the outside world with gitosis on there and it's pretty great
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by okaramian 16y ago
Political clients, especially with regards to smaller/local elections are notoriously cheap.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Definitely agree with this post. I've been interviewing for the last couple months and one of the better/more fair interviews I've had involved a nice back and forth (mostly the types of questions posed in the article, including a lot of s
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by okaramian 16y ago
Unit testing is more about documenting the expected behavior of software, not necessarily to test every possible contingency. If you want to write dirty code on an initial run, and refactor later unit tests will help out a whole lot.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Yeah, I definitely learned way more about Ruby when I used it to automate a set of tasks (like my build/push process) and writing something minor like a twitter bot or a text parser. Using Rails on a larger project is good as far as learnin
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by okaramian 16y ago
The tight ties between the public/private sectors worked so well for finance. I can't wait to see what havoc will be wreaked by similar practices being spread to the tech sector.
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by okaramian 16y ago
In hindsight, maybe. You only know it's a bubble when it bursts and the markets come back to earth. Outside of that it's rational to invest in something that's growing.
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by okaramian 16y ago
It's not really a result of anyone being fooled. It's rational economic behavior to get in on a bubble which is why bubbles get bigger. The people that get screwed are the ones that dont get out at the right time.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Definitely agree. There are lots of large problems and lots of behind the times applications being used by businesses. There is a lot of room to improve efficiency and cut down on costs. I have a couple ideas for B2B type systems, my real
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by okaramian 16y ago
I can definitely understand how he doesn't like jerk hackers. These aren't mutually exclusive though. I know plenty of people that learn something cool (or are working on something cool) and want to show it off (these people are great). A
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by okaramian 16y ago
Or that people are still running on an OS that came out a decade ago. My company is B2B and we stopped supporting IE6 at all around the time I started working here. We just suggest clients either upgrade or deal with it.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Similarly the prosthetic mind controlled arm took 100 million dollars to develop: http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/11/coming-soon-the-100-mi... Meg Whitman could have either had a sweet robotic arm or a super computer for the cost of a
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by okaramian 16y ago
We're missing the one thing that makes a bubble a real serious bubble which is "Well, let's invest in this because there is literally no way to lose!" This was the mark of the housing bubble (otherwise my parents wouldnt have told me to buy
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by okaramian 16y ago
They're currently going from not making smartphones... to making smartphones and actually trying to compete in the current market. It's better than nothing.
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by okaramian 16y ago
We're well on our way from turning war from a matter of human costs into a matter of monetary cost. Whether this is a good or bad thing only time will tell.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I have the ability to lose people a lot of money, that's kind of stressful.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Depends on the laws and regulations. A lot of things don't operate in black and white good and bad.
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by okaramian 16y ago
What exactly do you mean by "force"?
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by okaramian 16y ago
I like the strategy of using other YC companies as alpha customers. If any of the companies on the platform get traction it looks pretty good for DotCloud as well.
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by okaramian 16y ago
The ability for a generalist to perform is going to kind of depend on their role on a team. As a note I consider myself to be a generalist in the web application world (I have a pretty good handle on every stage of the stack, some parts mo
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by okaramian 16y ago
I don't like the argument that if you don't practice this particular piece at home, then you're not a passionate developer for some particular platform. Good devs are good devs, and it's difficult to parse time out to learn each individual
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by okaramian 16y ago
Yeah, the part where he wants to form some kind of Randian society in space and this part: "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough f
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by okaramian 16y ago
Yeah, I don't really see the complaint here. Netflix is pretty transparent about how things work on some level, so if you're let go at some point you should be prepared for the possibility. I mean, company culture is never really the probl
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by okaramian 16y ago
Sounds like your passion is your family :) Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I think with myself it has to do with how invested someone is in a project. If they're really into it they'll have some kind of prototype put together and it shows they invested serious time in the project. I don't really like putting tog
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by okaramian 16y ago
Fundamentally it would require a shift in what a lot of the citizenry feels the prison system is. The prison system is currently not a system for rehabilitation, it's a system of punishment. It would be a breath of fresh air if we actually
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by okaramian 16y ago
There is also the 2 years of opportunity cost of building out that infrastructure, in which case the acquired company will probably be ahead technically, acquired by another competitor, and/or have acquired an even larger customer base.
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by okaramian 16y ago
How does someone start to get into the contractor side of things? Are you generally working connections initially? Or are you going via a headhunter/craigslist for contract only gigs?

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