okaramian

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by okaramian 16y ago
I am indeed referring to classic ASP, when the poster said taking a step back I assumed he meant classic ASP over ASP.NET.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I've been doing development with Rails on personal projects and while Netbeans isn't Visual Studio, it's still a pretty solid development tool. I also dig how the local Rails environment shows you every call that's being made, plenty of sol
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by okaramian 16y ago
My company is currently getting folded into a dev shop with... sub par developers/management that follows pretty much every paragraph you've written (except the F# thing, but I have similar newer code that would weird managers out to some d
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by okaramian 16y ago
There is also the issue of Facebook chat being rolled out in 2008, which I'm assuming Node.js didn't exist by. Node.js would need to provide a significant gain in order to justify refactoring that system.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I think it depends. My teacher for the AP class was a former student/MIT graduate and was starting his own business. This was as exception from the norm, but it's possible! Maybe having teachers that teach single classes on a volunteer ba
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by okaramian 16y ago
Definitely good points. Regarding education at the high school and middle school level, I never had required programming courses, but we did have a Pascal course in middle school, and in high school we were offered (and I took) C++ computer
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by okaramian 16y ago
I think there is also an alignment problem between what the purpose of higher education is supposed to be and what employers are expecting from entry level employees. College is not job training, it is a place where you learn how to learn s
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by okaramian 16y ago
I don't know. I think the key is just knowing how to prioritize. Sometimes it makes sense to go deep, especially if the problem is causing a lot of expense. Other times it's important to work on other problems. Right now we're refactorin
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by okaramian 16y ago
It's interesting, I definitely see myself thinking the same thing (which may lead to myself undervaluing my skills because "any old dummy!" can learn this stuff). There are days where I've joked where I'm a "glorified typist" :) I think in
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by okaramian 16y ago
I've been working in C#/.NET for a while and I've started using Ruby recently for a couple of different projects at home. It's messing with my head because I'm starting to kind of hate the rigidity I'm forced to work with when I'm deciding
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by okaramian 16y ago
That statement does not only relate to manufacturing. You're putting words in the poster's mouth.
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by okaramian 16y ago
If the people making the laws rig the game, you're not going to stand a chance of winning if you follow the rules.
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by okaramian 16y ago
There is a difference between turning down an individual for financial reasons and turning down an organization due to political pressure (whose money they were completely okay with taking before the hammer fell down). I'm not saying it isn
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by okaramian 16y ago
The comparison to the previous tech bubble isn't fair though. A lot of these companies are actually profitable and the capital cost is far lower than it was a decade ago. That is not to say that things aren't overvalued. But bubble behavi
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by okaramian 16y ago
It is to every established power's advantage to make leaking government information seem dangerous and wrong because states in general do bad things and would prefer to not be held accountable for their actions. Yeah, good and bad things ge
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by okaramian 16y ago
I would say that leaks like: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-detainee-ab... http://harpers.org/archive/2010/11/hbc-90007831 http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007836 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/12/01/john-pe
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by okaramian 16y ago
Or somewhere in between, but what really matters is who ends up making money in the transaction. If there are more Pointcasts than Facebooks that would infer that it would be statistically more probable for this company to be overvalued tha
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by okaramian 16y ago
There are far more Pointcasts than there are Facebooks.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I think I'm kind of introverted but I can still interact with human beings. A good programmer should be able to communicate with other human beings, and a presentation (which in this case I believe is "Tell me about a project you've worked
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by okaramian 16y ago
Back in the old days companies would hire smart/capable people and train them up. This mentality works well when you don't expect your workers to leave in under 5 years. I don't really know if this is a good or bad thing, but given the str
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by okaramian 16y ago
Love the idea, I feel like Noam Chomsky would dig this. It might be good to have kind of a short outline or guide on how this would be used, kind of like Joel Spolsky's guide on Mercurial: http://hginit.com/
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by okaramian 16y ago
That's fine, can we take back whatever government subsidies they've received as a result of this potential outcome?
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by okaramian 16y ago
The problem is that keeping pot illegal at this juncture, is a joke. Maybe 25% of the population has smoked weed, and yet these people for the most part aren't facing any penalties. If you are going to have laws, you need a force that is a
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by okaramian 16y ago
I think this is kind of important for any development role (not just at a startup). It's definitely good/important to be "the guy everyone goes to" in any organization.
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by okaramian 16y ago
Exactly, legacy code isn't going anywhere. If you keep your eyes open you'll see plenty of Classic ASP around. It's a lot of investment to refactor an application from one language to another, and it's a waste of time from a business pers
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by okaramian 16y ago
And why are CEOs getting paid way more than everyone else if they have zero responsibility? Seems like an absolutely sweet gig if you can get paid and shirk any responsibility for a company's failure.
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by okaramian 16y ago
I don't have the link, but this really depends on the company and how they handle the layoffs. Like if you have a round of layoffs, but you have employees with faith in the management and the product, you're going to have remaining employee
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by okaramian 16y ago
Why the downvote?
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by okaramian 16y ago
Are either of these individuals particularly skilled on the marketing/monetization side? If so I would take the one that can handle that side better.
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by okaramian 16y ago
The problem here is that if you really want to work in a company like that and you're young, you probably still are going to try to move out West (at least this is what I did). It's possible there is somewhat of a brain drain occurring due

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