sector777

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   by sector777 5y ago

   MSPs (managed service provider, basically outsourced IT) are a great source of leads, and they often have customers in widely different sectors. They seem to get a constant trickle of software development work. Maybe one out of ten of the
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   by sector777 5y ago

   I've worked as a software developer for smaller non-software companies (manufacturing more recently). I make half of what FAANG pays (still well compensated though) and I used to feel bad about it. But recently I've started to
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   by sector777 6y ago

   I'm probably similar in age to you and am so sorry to hear what you are going through. Last year, my single mother's health transitioned from self-sufficient, but secretly hiding chronic problems, to completely unable to care for
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   by sector777 9y ago

   Is this fixable in the next generation in hardware, or is this a permanent tax on performance going forward? What I mean is (using a hypothetical): Suppose there's a flaw in the arithmetic unit (e.g. integer division). There's a m
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   by sector777 9y ago

   Log file break/fix did not result in termination. But I probably wouldn't have remembered the former if it weren't for the latter.
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   by sector777 9y ago

   I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).