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by triplee 8y ago
Wait, what? Who is this even written for? Jobs in other countries? Interview every 3 months? You'll have to move locations constantly if you keep doing the latter, because you're going to get known as the person who wastes ever
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by triplee 8y ago
Scott Hanselman
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by triplee 8y ago
No. You shouldn't be ashamed of ANY language or technology, as long as you feel it's appropriate for doing whatever problem is put in front of you. Also remember that at various times, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, COBOL, ColdFusion,
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by triplee 8y ago
On the flip side -- remember your total compensation package. If you work a 60+ hour week, that higher salary broken down to an hourly and compared to the 8 and skate 40 hour a week job suddenly isn't so high. Also compare PTO and ot
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by triplee 8y ago
Literally everything you just said, and I can't say I could really have said it better. Also -- a fair amount of federal/state govt. and some contracting roles for govt. fit the bill here too. Certain very large nonprofits as we
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by triplee 8y ago
I like this idea. I HATE the homework, because one look at my resume tells you that even if half of it's true, I've been around the block and can pick up anything that doesn't actually require specializing in it since 2000 w
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by triplee 8y ago
At this point, get whatever experience you can to determine what you would like, and frankly, the contacts you make will be as helpful as the experience. It's an internship, you have time, and at a small enough future employer, you ma
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by triplee 8y ago
Wow, for once I was an early adopter! I started around like age 22, hardened at 30, and started rage quitting at 35. I didn't actually like my job again until age 38 when I found the right employer, because I got picky.
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by triplee 8y ago
Yes. Next question.
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by triplee 8y ago
OMG Becky, really?! First off, yes this piece raises some important ideas, but also misses the point of the comic, which isn't about smugness. It's boiling down the importance of something complicated to point out AT LEAST one re
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by triplee 8y ago
A couple months shy of 40. It's harder to keep open two accounts on the same news site (one for myself, one for a short term gag account) and actually keep them straight without giving away the game. Mentally hard, not technically, si
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by triplee 8y ago
I was way overworked on a way overrun project and since I was one of the most senior ICs, being pushed into leadership due to literal lack of actual managers for a while due to turnover and family leave. That wasn't great, but it was m
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Why the Government Sucks at Making Websites(gizmodo.com)
3 points by triplee 8y ago|1 comments
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by triplee 8y ago
The best to maximize income? One of those places in middle America or Alaska that pay people to live and work there. Work remotely on something boring so that you can spend the rest of your time investing your savings. Live in a small par
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by triplee 8y ago
Revive? How do you think I got here in the first place? RSS isn't all that dead since some of us olds never stopped using it.
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by triplee 9y ago
Well that's downright horrifying. An article from somewhere else notes some categories beyond not only criminals, but ethnic profiling for potential separatist groups, etc. This is some straight up Minority Report business.
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by triplee 9y ago
Modeling yes, which makes sense given that it's a tabular math tool. Using it to handle all the pricing structure for a few thousand clients on the other hand is another issue by having underwriters plug in values that they got from an
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by triplee 9y ago
It's on everyone's computer in the office, and doesn't require internet or training outside of your non-tech specialty. Also, there's a TON of .xlsx files in the wild with years of business knowledge and processing. Eve
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Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands(wsj.com)
290 points by triplee 9y ago|301 comments
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by triplee 9y ago
Cleaning my 22 year old's play area (which is basically the entire apt). And the entire laundry and dish process. My expenses for work. Telling people on the internet that they are wrong.
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by triplee 9y ago
This. I'm transitioning from being a full stack web dev (because that's basically impossible now) to being a data integration developer. Old school ETL grew up along with the ML folks to be sophisticated, and essentially another
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by triplee 9y ago
Evergreen. I've been doing this professionally since 2000, with coding going back to the mid 90s when I was in school. I'm at a client site that is still rolling things from their MAINFRAMES into web apps. I know some old LISP pr
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by triplee 10y ago
At my day job, I'm working on a project moving retirement and pension data out of a 30+ year old mainframe system into a replacement system that is still being built in .NET/Angular. As a side project, I'm working on building
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by triplee 10y ago
Glad to see more going into this, but it's definitely not the end of this scam. My father just got hit, and they were calling him (he didn't answer because I told him not to) on Friday of last week. This is an international scam,