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by twunde 11y ago
IBM is still a strong company, but they are no longer in the position where they are market leaders in their product lines. Watson is the only new product to catch fire, otherwise they are competing and losing to Oracle and Microsoft. Softl
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by twunde 11y ago
The most interesting part of this are the links to the actual reviews
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by twunde 11y ago
1) It's very verbose. You pretty much NEED an IDE 2)Eclipse. I gave up on java a few years ago when it took 5 minutes for the IDE to open up and then would freeze up every few minutes. This was about 5 years ago now and I was using a
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by twunde 11y ago
DO just gave a talk (~2 weeks ago) where they mentioned that they were moving to software RAID.
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by twunde 11y ago
Keep in mind that many of these jvm languages allow you to use java code. So many of these languages are using the newer language and java so it won't drop off and instead should continue to increase
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by twunde 11y ago
Seconded. You should be able to create tickets or at least file an initial ticket that a PM can flesh out. Tickets (or any type of change control system including git) really serve two purposes. 1) To track what changed 2) To track WHY some
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by twunde 11y ago
The best thing about working at a startup? You can start making changes yourself. Start by organizing your work and then share it with teammates.
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by twunde 11y ago
Is anyone here actually using Azure? My teammates using it have encountered all types of problems, with bad stability problems (worse than rackspace and their bimonthly outages)
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by twunde 11y ago
1) Look into configuration management. Ansible and Salt Stack are both python-based so everyone should be able to contribute if needed. 2)It's popular to run your automation through CI tools like Jenkins because it has auditing and log
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by twunde 11y ago
We've done something similar where we log requests along with parameters to a sql table. One thing to beware is to make sure you're not logging passwords, credit card info, ssns or other types of pii.
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by twunde 11y ago
1) What you really want is a mental model of what the application is doing as a whole and what the subsection you're working on now is doing. Look for existing diagrams if possible. If there aren't any start making them as you go
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by twunde 11y ago
This is exactly why businesses have some sort of bug tracking/task management software. You don't need Jira, but something lightweight like Trello would work. The most important part is to make sure to comment on issues with your
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by twunde 11y ago
It's even better when you set up the alias to disappear or reappear every other login
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by twunde 11y ago
It sounds like you haven't given up your ownership of the code. If you're leading a team of 8-12 people and don't have time to do any coding by yourself, you no longer own the code, your team does. You are going to have to le
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by twunde 11y ago
Automated deployments are worth spending time on. A good deployment/release process frees up dev time, makes it easier to debug production issues and removes a whole class of bugs. Most languages/frameworks have some prebuilt tool
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by twunde 11y ago
How many meetings do you have a day and do you feel that you need to be in all of them? And does this include only formal meetings or informal ones as well? I've started to limit my meetings to a maximum of 3 a day and usually 1-2. I&#
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by twunde 11y ago
I like uberconference a lot, but I had a lot of trouble doing screen sharing while in Italy. This may depend on your internet connection and your global location. The voice over internet was great thou
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by twunde 11y ago
The goal. I was really surprised by the number of new insights I had, even after reading the Phoenix project multiple times.
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by twunde 11y ago
It's partially marketing and partially support-based. React and Angular were released with a lot of fanfare by Facebook and Google respectively (and with a lot of documentation) after being used inhouse. This meant that there was alre
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by twunde 11y ago
Work on the commercial project. Even if it hasn't shipped, it is something worth talking about. What features did you implement, what were the challenges you faced along the way, what would you do differently next time?
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by twunde 11y ago
That's quite a nifty resource
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by twunde 11y ago
Sounds like I'm doing something very wrong then. I have a corp-issued windows 7 laptop. Any advice or resources for how I should be setting up my machine? (Chocolately isn't installing properly at the moment)
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by twunde 11y ago
The sad part is that it's even worse when using windows. The only thing I've got working without too much yak-shaving was node, but anything devops-y is a pain including vagrant, otto and even the package manager (chocolately)
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by twunde 11y ago
Management mistakes can be found across all companies big and small. What you're seeing in particular is that a senior dev has been promoted to be the CTO or equivalent and has little prior management experience. This is pretty common.
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by twunde 11y ago
There are a few jobs that you could do right now that would provide you with some exposure such as migrating apps to new servers. Make sure to get friendly with your current infrastructure team. Learn to set up servers (vagrant + configurat
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by twunde 11y ago
The equity is vested, you own it. You have no obligation to return or surrender it or even sell it. This is why companies have vesting schedules. Additionally, starting a new company with the same idea with the same team would most likely
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Thoughtworks November Technology Radar is out [pdf](assets.thoughtworks.com)
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Engagement is more difficult because a foreign team may not understand some aspects of what they're building because of cultural differences. Time zones make communication more difficult and so clarifying stories or making product deci
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by twunde 11y ago
I disagree. Many companies I know started out by outsourcing development to some sort of agency and then brought some development in-house after the product is finished. Many agencies will give you a much stronger initial product, since the
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by twunde 11y ago
I used v1 a while back for a toy project. It seemed focused on building rest apis, and had some nice tooling surrounding that. If you're doing anything else, you may want to look at other frameworks thou

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