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by viandante 15y ago
Same problem for me. Anyway, call me mad, but we are too used to believe that each specific domain of knowledge must take years to be fully understood. That is just not true. What is stopping you from going from engineering to economics, or
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by viandante 15y ago
Hi, I am not sure if it is that challenging, but calculating the impact of different pricing schemes on revenue is quite a mess. You have hundred of thousands of product numbers. That are sold in different quantities, bulks, countries, reg
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Any data mining jobs here in Germany?
5 points by viandante 15y ago|0 comments
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by viandante 15y ago
Frankly speaking, I think the most important would be to acquire those skills usually needed in start ups. After that, you can work as a professional and not a mere employee. The issue then is: how do I acquire those skills (given that Univ
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by viandante 15y ago
Do you happen to know any good site/source to get a job there in one of those start ups/tech companies? I am oriented towards data analysis/mining and I happen to be working in Germany, it would be just amazing to be able to apply for some
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by viandante 15y ago
David, if you have something better than excel in mind, I'll be glad to hear that. Personally, I have been giving it a lot of thought and I can't come up with a complete better solution. But other (Palo, Hyperion) seems to make money on sol
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by viandante 15y ago
'I think it's only when you make a complete rewrite from the bottom up in another paradigm that you can extend the power while retaining the usefulness.' True, but again, look at the users. People with very poor IT knowledge and very scared
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by viandante 15y ago
No problem, when I have time I send you an email. I would like to discuss this myself to see if there are cheances to build something in this direction.
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by viandante 15y ago
Andrew, have you ever worked in a business environment? People get scared for some humble sql, how the hell are you going to convince them to learn programming (also vba is a problem)? Plus, what about cost/opportunity? Would you prefer to
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by viandante 15y ago
People do need an alternative to Excel, but it must address the issues Excel has, not compete on the same ground. One example: data consolidation. Try consolidate 30 excel files from 30 different people across the globe and you will be aski
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by viandante 15y ago
That is not the right way of looking for a developer, neither of doing start ups. Share your idea and people will help you. If it is easy to implement, you may try weekendhack
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by viandante 15y ago
Thanks a lot man. This was really useful, I am on my first steps with unittest.
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by viandante 15y ago
Could you put an example on pastebin or somewhere? I would really appreciate this.
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by viandante 15y ago
I take the occasion to ask here if someone could point or write some documentation on unittest in Flask. I am trying to get that right using mongodb...
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by viandante 15y ago
Hi, you did not test it?
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Why developers need business people(viandante.posterous.com)
1 points by viandante 15y ago|0 comments
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by viandante 15y ago
It is implied. It is kind of the norm to think of business people as useless around here. My point is that this is stupid, really stupid. There are tons of problems in the business world and they are tackled with old software from the '90 (
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by viandante 15y ago
I would rather not work with any developer who underestimates business guys at this level. Now, if you want to make the next "To Do" app, a dev can be fine, but if you want to do something useful, you will need a biz guy. I mean, this think
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by viandante 16y ago
Hi, it is difficult to give good advices without some data. As first thing, I would suggest to honestly ask your "customers" what would they pay for. Maybe you can propose some new features and bug fixes only when you reach a certain ammoun