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by snorkel 13y ago
The only hard part is knowing what you want to do with your life and how to make a living from it. Being top of the class certainly doesn't hurt your chances at success, if anything it instills dedication and discipline necessary to ac
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Data science? Is that we're calling DBA work nowadays?
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A good project manager has to be technical enough to understand the the details, ask the right questions, and make informed decisions, but also important to be able communicate cleary with business stakeholders in a language that non-techni
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Considering how hard it is for bi-pedal bots to maintain balance, you could just kick it over and walk away.
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Doors, stairs, and ladders.
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I've managed many developers and I only ever once had to fire one, and it wasn't fast process at all because you first need to prove that they have violated a specific and clearly documented standard by which the whole team is hel
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by snorkel 13y ago
I don't think commoditizing the cloud, in the sense of attempting to make all cloud providers ferature-for-feature compatible, is the right goal either. Sure, ideally we'd like if it possible to easily migrate our entire stack fro
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The world was ready for Webvan back then, it was taking off, but the fatal flaw was their legendary dot-com overspending did them in. The Webvan implosion was so big that it left a lasting stigma around that entire business model that made
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Good point, but even when the client is a company you're usually only interfacing with one or two people, either of whom can be high maintenance. Bottom line is customers suck. You're either a people person who enjoys the challeng
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Couldn't get funding for what? I didn't see any mention of what he was trying to fund.
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You are 900% correct. Having worked directly in the feed reader space, and trying to make money at it, and I can testify that the segment of online audience who even know what a feed is are a small club of tech news junkies and assorted won
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Good point. I imagine the spinal cross connecting step would have to be preceded by some careful electrical probing and labeling of which spinal pathways are connected to which nerve endings.
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That's what's so baffling about it: our solar system is Hotel California.
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Fashion products are very overpriced compared to their quality, but in fashion you're intentionally overpaying for the bragging right of having too much disposable income. What's remarkable about wine is you're paying extra n
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No, because it hasn't impacted the lives of any Joe Sixpacks in bad way so far therefore Joe Sixpack is OK with it. But the looming risk for Joe Sixpack is a mysterious string all of the sudden being rejected from jobs, loans, schools,
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It is insightful for software engineers because we feel like we're building things when in fact we're just providing a service which will likely be gone and forgotten 10 years from now. That's why I find it's important t
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... unless your Steve Jobs, in which case you get to stand on top of the mountain and tell everyone else how to build it.
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We think of lists of every phone call ever as lot of big data but consider that your web browser produces many more requests per browsing session than the total number of phone calls, texts, and tweets you produced all day.
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Agree. Code peppered with null checks is not aesthetically pleasing, but on the other hand spending hours trying to figure out your CRM system is silently failing to update customer records is downright maddening. Defensive programming is n
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Kudos to her. Whatever makes science interesting, go for it. Maybe combine this with a gross-out reality show concept called "Eating the Earth" where competing geologists dare each other to eat that.
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If you work at a company that enforces 360 peer reviews you'll get to find out what everyone thinks of you whether you want to or not.
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fyi, the default view is blurry because of how the camera is focused. To sharpen the view in camera settings increase the focal length of the lens. Awesome demo, btw.
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I figured as since most people don't type in Title Case.
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Whoever buys one of these promise us you will pose an Obi Wan doll behind it flipping off the tractor beam switch.
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This is the Redwood Wedding.
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Any small/medium business should SaaS out as many traditional IT functions as possible. But still you will always need someone technical to connect the dots between all of the different services you rely on.
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So many mind-blowing revelations in that TAL episode: * The original filer of the patent featured in the story was not the inventor of the idea but rather a partner in a failed startup around the idea, which was never realized, he then late
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... but exec share dumping is not unusual and happens like clockwork at most companies despite market conditions. Typically execs sell off their shares on a preset schedule, they sell as much as they can as soon as they can because of the b
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Depends on whether the outsourced team includes a project manager or not. The project manager costs more but is also responsible for translating general requirements into actionable specs, and keeping the dev team on track. If you're not pa
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O is how you choose to work on something, like how you choose to wash the dishes. n is how many dishes you have to wash. Which is faster? Washing, then drying, then putting away each dish one after the other, or washing all of the dishes, t

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