synnik

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by synnik 15y ago
This is one of those issues in which I clearly see generational differences. I am pushing 40, and my opinions are at odds with most of the commenters. In your personal language, your choice to curse or not is none of my business. But in the
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by synnik 15y ago
...says the student to the 20 year veteran who lived this path. If all you care about is startup work, yes this is bad advice. If you want a solid career in technology, this is a viable path. You don't have to agree, and I don't expect anyo
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by synnik 15y ago
Get a helpdesk job at a company with an internal helpdesk. (NOT a call center). Those jobs truly are entry level, and will hire people without experience. Once you are there, start building tools on the side to help your department. If you
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by synnik 15y ago
No, I respectfully but vehemently disagree. To-Do apps are a dime a dozen. No matter how much better any given app may be than another, there is very little reason to pay for a solution to the problem of to-do lists. There are just too many
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by synnik 15y ago
I love corporate, boring, "soul-crushing" work. Why? Because I can sit down, whip out a basic CRUD form with a small approval cycle in a day. It saves a company 100K over the year, I am loved by the customers, and because it is so simple, i
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by synnik 15y ago
Multiple Redundancy IS reliability. As long as everything stays running from the customer/business perspective, you are reliable. When you start to define reliability as a specific layer of your infrastructure, you are setting yourself up f
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by synnik 15y ago
Agreed - the app itself looks fine, but it is trying to enter a very crowded market that has no real barrier to entry. And also no real killer features. So I worry whether or not there is an actual underlying business model that can sustain
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by synnik 15y ago
This article really comes off as a prima donna developer, who may understand how infrastructure works, but not why strategic decisions are made. Security is the primary driver for VPNs, and a significant driver for IT-controlled devices. Ma
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by synnik 15y ago
I'm very turned off by the violent imagery on the first 2 slides. I find it extremely unprofessional and it makes me have no interest in the content, and think very poorly of the people who put this together. Obviously, I'm just one person
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by synnik 15y ago
It is not quite that simple. In most jobs, you will learn confidential and proprietary information. Posting about your interview shows that you care more about publicly sharing your internal knowledge of a company than you do about providin
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by synnik 15y ago
Even more so, I would not even interview Jason for our company after seeing this. It isn't like anything was said that is negative... it is just that the hiring process (or anything HR-related) is private. Posting it online shows a lack of
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by synnik 15y ago
Maybe it is because I have been stuck working with .NET environments so much, but they seem to be focusing on stuff that is too complicated. The basic FizzBuzz test is about the right level of complexity. It weeds out those people who canno
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by synnik 15y ago
Whether or not this is good or bad depends on how experienced you are -- On a platform I have been using for years, in which I have expertise... this would be a tragedy. But, as an example, I just picked up rails 2 weeks ago, and have writt
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by synnik 15y ago
As someone who works for a Nigerian boss, I get very tired of this kind of racism. I see it frequently. I see people refuse to do business with us because of his origin. I also see people try aggressively to scam us because of his origin, a
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by synnik 15y ago
So... you can get up to 50 points for the fastest code, and 20 points for the smallest code. And you only lose up to 20 points for code that doesn't work. I think I just detected a wonderful loophole in this scoring method.
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by synnik 15y ago
oh, its a podcast! I couldn't tell at first. The front page is just images and captions, with no immediately visible info on what I am looking at. As the top center image is shoes, I thought it was some weird storefront... at least until I
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by synnik 15y ago
Not to nitpick, but founding Google doesn't automatically qualify you for a job at any large company, as the article states. Not that I would refuse him a job... but it would require the same interview process as anyone, because I need to f
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by synnik 15y ago
Oh, all you have to do is write a million dollar product and find a million dollars worth of customers? Is that all? This is old advice. From Steve Martin. On SNL: "How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars." - Steve Marti
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by synnik 15y ago
I've used the jquery-ui datepicker before. You can customize it to make the year a drop-down, similar to what you have. I forget what the default range of years is, but we modified it to suit our needs anyway... But can't you just modify yo
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by synnik 15y ago
I'm 39. My birth year is not even selectable in the drop-down. I had to go to 1974, then scroll back 2 years. Not exactly a positive experience.
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by synnik 15y ago
I use RSS primarily on intranets, to help the guys in the field, who spend maybe 10 minutes a day in front of a computer, keep up on what is going on in our industry. I control which feeds are displayed - they just need to open a browser an
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by synnik 15y ago
Yes, many governments (including the US) are setting up funds to support renewable energy projects. However, we are finding more support from developing nations, who are not as entrenched in fossil fuels as the US.
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by synnik 15y ago
Not yet - we do have a web site: http://www.globalenergyinitiatives.com As we are in the midst of funding talks, we don't have much public info to share on a blog right now. Once we close on funding, I intend to increase our social commun
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by synnik 15y ago
I'm doing my own renewable energy startup right now, with our own innovations in turbine design. And while the engineering is critical, it is not the problem with the industry. Energy startups fail primarily due to a lack of appreciation fo
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by synnik 15y ago
College graduation is also a good indicator that you can choose a path for yourself, stick to it for multiple years, and complete a goal.
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by synnik 15y ago
The problem is not only finding someone who truly deeply understands the language, but knowing how to tell that they do. I've seen way too many "Senior" developers who really have just done the same junior-level coding for 15 years in a row
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by synnik 15y ago
The brilliant part of the logistics is that Morton's really had no risk here, other than the cost of the food itself and some time. If they didn't find him, missed his flight, etc, no biggie - they just go home, forget it, and go about thei
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by synnik 15y ago
In my experience good developers act as architects no matter what their title is. But the purpose of a single formal 'architect' is more of a mediator between developers. Someone to find common ground when two viable technical solutions are
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by synnik 15y ago
I earned a degree in Fine Arts many years ago, and one of the hardest lessons to learn was to listen to your audience. The artist always had a message to send, and the audience usually got a different message. As the originator of any messa
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by synnik 15y ago
One size does not fit all. I prefer a 99 dollar ergonomic chair, as sitting and standing both exacerbate my bad hips. I prefer 3 22" monitors at half the cost of a 30". I prefer total resolution available, not size of the monitor. I just s

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