WDCDev

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by WDCDev 5y ago
Yeah this matches up with my experience when I was working as a consultant and trying to get large organizations to buy into managed and structured changes to their enterprise IT environment. It is not an easy job and it is very necessary
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by WDCDev 5y ago
It's when a major fund(s), bank(s) or lender(s) blows up and is followed up a successive string of failures until the "big one". Every financial crisis or recession from the last 30 years or so has had a string of failures le
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by WDCDev 5y ago
Yep - I've ignored the many many Amazon recruiting emails I have received over the years. I have absolutely no desire to deal with their shitty employment practices and idc if it is "team dependent". I am not taking that ri
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by WDCDev 5y ago
Whistleblowers have plenty of protections and can be exempted. Libel can be stated such that they only apply to private matters between individuals, where accusations that do not reach the felony level - which is exactly what is going on h
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by WDCDev 5y ago
Yes - and it's driving people further into tribes where the only way they feel "safe" is in and around their own "kind". This isn't civilization, but a regression and if it goes on for a few more generations i
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by WDCDev 5y ago
> I was stunned at how someone with zero evidence and an obvious axe to grind could rally such disdain for someone else with little more than a few unsubstantiated social media posts. I feel that this is due to the weird place victimiza
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by WDCDev 5y ago
Ha! I kinda stopped paying attention to most consumer-oriented startups a few years back when some kooky poetry delivery service got a few million in funding. (I am trying to find a link to it). Then there was that "pizza robot&quot
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by WDCDev 5y ago
> Yes? That's what the whole article is about. Articles like this have been written for 5 years now, but the money keeps flowing into these projects. Argo, Aurora and Aptiv etc. are all still burning mountains of cash. I am shocked
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by WDCDev 5y ago
Has there? I can't imagine investors/corporations dumping billions, annually, into an project which won't produce a return for 40-50 years.
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by WDCDev 5y ago
My family moved into our newly built home in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Oct. of last year. We were part of the first group of buyers in a relatively new plan of higher-end homes. Since Oct. of last year, the base price of our mo
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by WDCDev 5y ago
It is for a lot of executives, especially ones which are clueless about technology or who do not have a technology background but were promoted and told to "fix the TPS submission and reporting system!". These characters are typi
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by WDCDev 6y ago
> Everybody considers themselves a designer, but it is baseless optimism that is supported by little data or precedent. Good designers are unique. Design ability is a 'talent'. Being able to conceive a complex system that maint
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by WDCDev 7y ago
> Use the right technology for what you're trying to build. Yep .. so if you want a rich responsive user experience, DON'T use any web technologies. GMail (AND Gsuite) is a perfect example of how a relatively simple concept li
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by WDCDev 7y ago
I am not buying stock, but a business model that could work is renting out a percentage of their capacity to companies/startups that need to deliver goods or services to customers' homes. I also don't believe self-driving wil
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by WDCDev 8y ago
Layoffs happen all the time so I am not reading too much into this re. macro economics. However, I firmly believe the autonomous driving bubble will pop eventually, and you will have layoffs across that entire segment of the tech industry.
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by WDCDev 8y ago
They think it's about gotcha questions and they think they fail because they didn't leetcode hard enough. But ... if you read some of the feedback from interviewers at "those companies" that rely on these interviews, t
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by WDCDev 8y ago
Contractor ... Biometrics firm. I loved this company and would still be there today had they not lost so many ppl with the draw downs in Iraq and Afgh. BTW ... this is a true story. One of my career's shining moments.
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by WDCDev 8y ago
In the field at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, next to old WWI style bunkers that were prob. full of mustard gas or chlorine gas 100 or so years ago, in a tiny trailer filled with server equipment ... with a failing AC unit, in the August heat o
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by WDCDev 8y ago
There is no one answer to this questions, and efficiency isn't always in the best interests of a "big company". Efficiency always must be tempered with risk. In startups, risk is embraced and therefore they can be very &quo
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by WDCDev 8y ago
I thought I was the only one that noticed. It's certainly makes it clear why this type of situation persists.
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by WDCDev 9y ago
I agree. I have been using it for over 20 years now, and use it almost daily in many different capacities. Excel along with the entire MS Office suite of applications is ubiquitous across almost every enterprise. I am curious how Airbus i
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by WDCDev 9y ago
Interview Style. Are you going to whiteboard me or do something else?
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by WDCDev 9y ago
I'll bite on your suggestion of a different process. Bring the candidate on site for a 4 hour coding session. Provide a standard list of questions the scale in difficulty. Think: 1) Fizzbuzz 2) Reverse a string 3) Write a calculator
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by WDCDev 9y ago
They also have a lot to lose by leaving the position unfilled for months on end. If you aren't Googlefaceapplezon, then false negatives could be as costly as false positives given time is money.
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by WDCDev 10y ago
Data is a commodity.
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by WDCDev 10y ago
This depends on the goal of the projects. If it's pure R&D that doesn't have a requirement to transition to commercial use, then you are absolutely correct. I don't think that's the case here. Some percentage of p
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by WDCDev 10y ago
The good news is that global populations will begin to decline over the next 100 years!
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by WDCDev 10y ago
Don't build a DSL for a production system, period. Production quality DSLs are for academics and/or staff engineers that have enough time and resources to build and maintain them. I don't know about you, but I have a const
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by WDCDev 10y ago
Run for the hills any time anyone says, "It's our in-house developed DSL!". It's a virtual guarantee that whatever was cooked up is some sort of insanity like JDSL.
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by WDCDev 10y ago
I would withhold judgement on Lockheed. It wouldn't surprise me if someone there raised the lack of a backup strategy as an problem with the govt. ... only to be ignored or told there wasn't enough budget for it.

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