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by zpk 13y ago
The answer is yes, and no. Its the talent that costs money, and deservedly so. If you can land that cheaper then go for it. Check out Robert Rodriguez too, he makes movies for 1/3 the typical Hollywood cost...he gives solid advice on learni
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by zpk 14y ago
Stats, Coursera+hadoop OR Mobile java+droid / IOS OR Rapid Web Django+Python or ROR+Ruby Pick a vertical, then a technology and do a project.
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Rumor: Google Negotiating a $1 Billion Buyout of WhatsApp(maximumpc.com)
2 points by zpk 14y ago|0 comments
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RBC replaces Canadian staff with foreign workers(cbc.ca)
2 points by zpk 14y ago|1 comments
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by zpk 14y ago
And its full of fraud...at this point these companies should be banned, its highly unethical.
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by zpk 14y ago
"then allocate any remaining H1-Bs for consultancy agencies from India" The idea of companies eliminating a source of relatively cheap labor is unheard of, not gonna happen. While I agree with your statement, this is the crux of the problem
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by zpk 14y ago
Financial industry as a whole is under a lot of stress right now. The jobs opps out there are shrinking...Banks talk about going lean, AKA layoffs. If you can't get into an investment bank, go for a tertiary opportunity. Try retail or some
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by zpk 14y ago
I love IntelliJ, I sound like I work for them. I don't.... If you do Python web development, specifically Django you can debug your application with that. Never tried straight Python, but probably that too.
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by zpk 14y ago
Unfortunately I can't gauge that at all. They don't pre-announce, I got my license of IntelliJ last December...I discovered the news here. I think they have a twitter acct which you can subscribe to, and they mention sales on that.
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by zpk 14y ago
"I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm"...RubyMine and PyCharm are IntelliJ plugins, check them out before dropping $$ on the license upgrade.
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by zpk 14y ago
IntelliJ, for almost everything...best $50 I ever spent. Seriously, Java, PHP and even my first Rails project. Missing my favorite MVC framework(CI) for PHP though. Wait for the sale.
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by zpk 14y ago
Glad you mentioned this, the point often gets missed...Colonel Sanders didn't start KFC till his 40's. Dangerfield didn't get into comedy(again) until he was in his mid 40's. I wish we could find some examples in the tech arena, to break th
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by zpk 14y ago
If there was a real talent shortage and a real Visa need, then we would allow H1-B's to self sponsor. Let the company elicit one visa and employee, and have the Fed gov garnish 5-10k over the first year from the employees' wages. After that
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Study: High-Skilled Immigrants Are Neither Better Nor Brighter Than U.S. Workers(techcrunch.com)
38 points by zpk 14y ago|63 comments
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by zpk 14y ago
Oh, oh! Can I get some more details? What's bad about Cloud Sites? Does this mean you are using Cloud Server? Did you deploy the web and database on a single instance?
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by zpk 14y ago
If you want a good start to Django follow this guy's setup. The virtual env made managing my libraries a lot easier. http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-p... Rails the framework I think is better than Django. I just
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by zpk 14y ago
The replies are true, but to your question, yes. Right now would be a good time provided you were on square footing with both.
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by zpk 14y ago
I want this, but I want job postings relative to me. What I mean by that is my preference for location, salary/rate, my skills, telecommute. Now I know you are doing this manually initially, but will you be organizing the jobs, can you do s
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by zpk 14y ago
Hmexx, I'm so late to the game responding here...but I like this idea a lot....From the investor side. I am in a similar boat as you, maybe we can pool resources up the ante and invest in several mvps. Let me know.
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by zpk 14y ago
"What's actually said is more like, "Take a few months and a backpack and go travel somewhere" or "start a company with no idea if it'll pan out". Party. Start a band. Chase some girls [or guys]. Read a lot." I am in my 30's and I hope to c
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by zpk 14y ago
Here's a fifth
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Booting Up: The NYC Tech Talent Draft Begins(betabeat.com)
1 points by zpk 14y ago|0 comments
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by zpk 14y ago
So we are going to ignore the 800lb gorilla? We will ignore the fact these firms which are the largest applicants for visas are being investigated by the FBI. And conversely think that Microsoft is doing this not for cheap labor, and there
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by zpk 14y ago
I could not agree with you more. It's literally part of the business model for consulting firms here.
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by zpk 14y ago
If we are using anecdotal evidence, I knew several paid less than their colleagues at my last job. And they were hired, because of that very reason, cheaper restricted labor. Its not hard for me to imagine in a country where labor force has
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by zpk 14y ago
I second this setup. Coming from a Java background IntelliJ stood out over Eclipse for my eyes. I recently purchased PyCharm for my own side project. IDE struggles here a little, because of typing and var declaration( or lack there of). How
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Turner Broadcasting acquires Bleacher Report(money.cnn.com)
1 points by zpk 14y ago|0 comments
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by zpk 14y ago
You're 19, you have so much ahead of your life ahead of you rather than behind. Go look in the mirror and smile...You can start from scratch today, and in a decade still be ahead of 99.999% of your age group, and even people twice that age
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by zpk 14y ago
So let them, let them have to do that work and share email addresses, which would potentially be a PR nightmare if discovered, and users did not consent. I'd rather do that than willingly give multiple domains my ID letting one service unif
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Where the Jobs Are: ZocDoc NYC Tech Standout(newyork.cbslocal.com)
1 points by zpk 14y ago|0 comments

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