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by twunde 10y ago
To go a little deeper on a few of these: Take a look at queues like Celery as part of events/concurrency. You'll also need to look at design patterns as part of OO like factories or adapters.
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by twunde 10y ago
I will say that it can be an advantage, but it's rare. It becomes an advantage when your primary language lacks the tools to do something well. One of my previous companies was a PHP shop and they used Python to chop up audio files, wh
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by twunde 10y ago
I keep mine only on my laptop/desktop. The key never leaves, and each laptop or desktop has it's own set of private keys so that if I lose it, I can just disable the keys for that machine without being disrupted
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by twunde 10y ago
It's definitely worthwhile to understand why a site is asking for your phone number. At the company I work at, we require a phone number because a lot of our customer's don't have email addresses and/or have given us a b
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by twunde 10y ago
From what I understand, the price of heroin has dropped dramatically, to the point where I remember a news story saying It was cheaper than weed. In the US, there is definitely a heroin epidemic, with a lot of use and attention in New Engl
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by twunde 10y ago
Very few companies provide feedback on interviews because it opens them up to legal liability. In general when feedback is given it is because there is a specific singular reason they rejected the applicant. That's pretty rare, most c
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by twunde 10y ago
A large portion of this is dependent on the software stack you end up working with and the associated communities. The Ruby on Rails and javascript communities heavily advocated open source work so many developers have open source work and&
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by twunde 10y ago
This is a concern across most industries, not just software as hiring managers are more likely to identify with people who share their background. This is reasonable to some extent. When interviewing non-native speakers, their ability to co
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by twunde 10y ago
Pretty much but with even more choices depending on the data being analyzed. I will also add that Excel and Access are both heavily used, especially if you don't need to analyze terrabytes of data at the same time. Excel maxes out afte
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by twunde 10y ago
According to the Ars Technica article http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/data-center-disaster... a fire broke out in their main datacenter. Assuming that was true, employees were most likely evacuated an
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by twunde 10y ago
The experience really depends on why you were acquired. I was brought in as a consultant to support a Google acquisition 6 months in. It seemed like everyone had been interviewed during the acquisition process and depending on how you did,
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by twunde 10y ago
Additionally, a significant portion of the population has cat allergies
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by twunde 10y ago
It comes down to the fact that there are more people familiar with linux than BSD. Orders of magnitude more in the US. Unless you're working on something where the GPL is a concern, it's easier to default to linux.
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by twunde 10y ago
I'll try it out, thanks :)
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by twunde 10y ago
I find this incredibly useful. I work on a relatively small tech team as a lead/project manager/manager and every so often I get very busy where I only have 1-2 hours a day to do my dev work. I've also seen other devs and sys
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by twunde 10y ago
From http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01845743#page-1 1) Integration testing, 2)Systems testing, 3)load testing and 4) user acceptance testing. This would have been done with simulation tools alongside m
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by twunde 10y ago
Yes, if you look at bigger companies like Google, teams and individuals have Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are tracked and used to evaluate performance. The trick is to define your KPIs to align with the organization's values.
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by twunde 10y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that many tech companies especially mid-size to large ones may have a special program to recruit veterans like Google's https://www.google.com/about/careers/veterans&
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by twunde 10y ago
What I believe the parent is referring to is that there is an acknowledged shortage of COBOL programmers. See http://blog.stafflink.ca/recruiting-tips/cobol-and-the-mainf... or just google COBOL programmers shortage. T
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by twunde 10y ago
This is probably in respect to a few things. 1)There's no need to constantly update your version of the language and framework unlike with say Ruby and Ruby on Rails. 2) COBOL is battletested so most of the failure modes are well-known
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by twunde 10y ago
I think the most impressive part is that apparently the same system and code had been running for 15 years as the number of transactions reported on had increased exponentially
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by twunde 10y ago
I never had much luck applying directly for positions. Try working with recruiters. They have a bad reputation as a whole, but at the very least they should be able to get some interviews scheduled for you. The other thing you should try do
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by twunde 10y ago
Make sure to find a lawyer specializing in startups.It's probably best to get the most up to date equity documents the company has as well as the documents you originally signed.
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by twunde 10y ago
The real problem with Mongo is that it's so enjoyable to start a project with that it's easy to look for ways to continue using it even when Mongo's problems start surfacing. I'll never forget how many problems my team e
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by twunde 10y ago
I worked at General Assembly when it first came on the scene and did coworking. There were two major benefits. 1) people corrupting there would regularly help each other out and often do business with each other. 2) When investors came by
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by twunde 10y ago
I'll second this. This book hits upon most common security vectors. It's amazing how few developers know what csrf is and how to defend against it even now. If you're not ready to invest money yet, check out the owasp top 10
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by twunde 10y ago
You can definitely write successful applications without tests of any sort. However, as your application becomes more complex, it becomes more and more likely that you'll find it difficult to make changes without breaking something els
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by twunde 10y ago
Yes. You could do BDD with something like cucumber or codeception. It's also possible that the tests use a test database without mocks. You'll generally see tests without mocks or injections in older codebases where the codebase
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by twunde 10y ago
I spend most of my time debugging or extending old code, but then again I'm personally responsible for about 600,000 lines of undocumented code without any tests (but there are a lot of daily reports which act as monitoring checks). I
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Fundraising is almost always a timesink so you'll need to decide whether it's worth the time and effort versus spending that time on customer acquisition and corporate partnerships. Good press and corporate partnerships will certa

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