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by twunde 9y ago
In the US, most of the train technology is old and not cross compatible, making each installation difficult and expensive. Looking at the NY metro area trains and driveways, there are frequent mechanical issues, both on the trains themselve
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Tech appears to be going through a relatively soft landing at the moment. The past few years have seen a series A crunch affect the VC and startup worlds. More recently, the cult of the startup founder has started to crack with ethics, sexu
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To be clear, your "old" programmers should be among your most valuable employees as they should know what pitfalls to avoid, what the warning signs are and should know a great deal of design patterns or tricks to help improve your
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For most companies with IP clauses, the company owns 100% of the IP (and your company). Additionally, VCs won't invest if there are problems with the IP.
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To your explicit question, Google and most large companies run formal training programs (think college courses). However most are about learning a new skill (like teaching beginner Python), not about learning a new tool although those presu
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It sounds like you're looking for a managed services provider. Many hosting companies will do this or partner with companies that do. You can start there. I believe that this is one of the few things that Rackspace still does. Of cour
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I think it's definitely a concern as anecdotally it has become much harder to get a H1B. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/immigration-visa-... and https://www.bloomberg.com&
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Assuming you have health insurance and are based in the US, your plan most likely covers this. Check your insurer's website or talk to your doctor's office. Many insurance plans also have remote mental health services.
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Since the tax on RSUs (stock options) was removed from the final bill, they will probably be minimally affected. I imagine that the taxes affecting grad school could affect hiring a bit as well
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bigco - There's going to be a fair amount of project management and process (which is absolutely needed). Part of the learning curve will be learning how to effectively work across teams/departments. Also you will probably see a r
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Apple has actually updated their UX recently to let you know if your s3 buckets are public or not. EDIT: The recent update made it explicitly clear that your bucket is public. Previously, you might not notice, especially if you were taking
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It's somewhere in-between. There's no required HIPAA certification process, all you need to do is sign a BAA and you're a covered entity (and HIPAA applies to you). HIPAA really requires only a few things: if you have a breac
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Practical Monitoring, just released by OReilly discusses this same problem. If you have a Safari Books subscription, it's definitely worth a read
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If you're a developer, you're really looking to build idempotent and self-healing services/applications as much as possible (especially anything that's being run by a queue/job scheduler/crontab). One thing th
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Learning to document well. I've written runbooks for tasks that would involve me reading through the code for a day and brought the time involved down to 5 minutes (and that can be handed to junior engineers or new hires). I've al
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You can remove the red state. It applies to blue states as well for telecom and energy
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I'm just going to put this out there since we're discussing ZFS. There's an open ZFS conference in Norwalk CT in April: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zfs-user-conference-2018-ticket...
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For apps that are already in production (and being used), Hotjar and competitors can be very useful for seeing what users are actually focused on. My last company actually went through 4 different iterations of their home page in a year, w
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The actual issue of the case is that healthcare providers have been consolidating for a number of years, so much so that in the northeast is very rare to find independent providers. Small doctor practices are now usually part of a larger pr
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I will note that I've had some trouble with Uberconference when calling US to India, although that may have been the phones/conference rooms that the teams in India were calling from. That said, I used to use it while traveling in
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Uberconference.com, although admittedly I've seen Zoom frequently and I'm starting to see Google Meet in my org (ask but ubercobference support video). For audio, it federally depends on where people are calling from (India tends
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I love the fact that at the very end of the article, there's a link to see Google's stock price.
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The article correctly identifies consumer-facing education businesses as being incredibly difficult. I used to work in education and Chegg is the only consumer-facing company I can think of in the industry. Most other education companies ha
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Things like that are fairly common, especially for older websites or organizations with small teams who haven't invested in tooling. There are fewer and fewer organizations like that, but they are still around relevant outside major te
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The main thing to keep in mind with Lambda is the number of library dependencies you're pulling in and your development workflows. I believe that you're limited to a certain file size per a lambda job, which includes dependencies
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I used a browser plugin similar to StayFocusd to block social media and news sites while working. This helped wean me off of checking Hacker News throughout the day. This helped me focus much more on work and on enjoying my personal time.
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Bug bounties are fine, but the problem is that I think a lot of companies are unprepared for the amount of time and resources that they require. I think that it's more cost effective to do pentesting at first
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Unfortunately B2B sales tend to have a longer sales cycle so you're definitely in trouble. At this point you probably need some financing and you need some sales. Anything else right now is a distraction. Sales/marketing advice: M
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There are a number of browser plugins where you can prevent yourself from viewing sites. It can be a big help to ban social media and news sites. That said I do think it's a good idea to remove internet from your home
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VisualStudio for any .net language, Jetbrains if they have an IDE for a specific language and for small projects or changes I'll use vim. The main impetus for switching editors/IDEs is when an editor has specific built-in support

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