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by codeonfire 11y ago
If you want high performance and simple why not use flat files, bash, grep (maybe parallel), cut, awk, wc, uniq, etc. You can get very far with these and if you have a fast local disk you cat get huge read rates. A few GB can be scanned i
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yeah, which is why companies should stop going on about 'owning' things. If I'm going to own its creation and operation, I'm going to own all the revenue it produces. All of it. I have all the means of production (no
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by codeonfire 11y ago
That will never work because economic returns to a piece of code will not go to the engineer. Both management and company owners will want most of the returns of the code, leaving no profit motive for the engineer to be ultimately responsi
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yes if you buy $1000 of merchandise, you will end up spending $900 and then you can buy prime with the $100 you saved. However, you have to buy the $1000 of merchandise first. In reality that $100 is eaten by sales tax since if you work a
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by codeonfire 11y ago
No, prime has music, instant video, free shipping, discounts, etc. It is a loss leader that can costs Amazon way more than $100 per member. Otherwise Amazon would scrap the 10% and give all its employees prime. On entitlement, It's n
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by codeonfire 11y ago
10% off up to $100 per year. So about 1/4 day off. Why bother?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Usually it is an organizational issue rather than any technical or time problem handling or classifying exceptions or errors. People have to be convinced to not log something unless it is going to lead to some action being taken. Second,
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by codeonfire 11y ago
They don't. At one particular tech company, I examined all 100+ VP's. Only one had a software engineering background and no longer works there. Merely talking about engineering will get you labelled as a serf in any big compan
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by codeonfire 11y ago
There is a guy suing Godaddy because they called him an "obese christian" and would mess up their "image" if they hired him. That is the environment right now in software dev hiring. That is the standard, sadly. Maybe
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by codeonfire 11y ago
A Master's degree from an accredited US university should get an automatic green card. We need extra enforcement so that certain academic departments at state U's don't become diploma mills. H1B should be ended. It's
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Mobile device makers don't want it. In their mind each person has one device. A person with five devices is not their target market. Users don't want it. They probably have one device and don't want to worry that someone
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yeah, a department I worked in had over 1000 vm's up with nothing installed. That's what you get when you have high turnover, huge cash flow, and management that didn't care.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
That was the Matrix bullet time shot.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Swag! credits! Honestly, most of the stuff was boring to me. There's more to tech than consumer products and mobile. Photos and messaging and stuff is great, but where is the dangerous stuff? Where can I get a Google nuclear reacto
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Virtual reality was huge in the 90s. There were headsets, arcade systems, hollywood movies, but not really any valid long run business ideas outside of gaming. Consumers don't want to do anything that involves wearing a huge 90'
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Why do most corporations run their own email servers and domains? For the same reasons. Engineers know how companies that provide email services really run behind the scenes. Companies do whatever the fuck they want and lie about it. Th
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Software development has been turned into a ridiculous contest rather than a job or profession. Twenty years ago you would go to college, work on some projects, meet with some companies in your town and get a job and maybe work on fighter
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Self taught people with low/no experience should be called 'programmers' at best. In almost all industries, people who specialize in one or two things would be called a technician or programmer, i.e. Angular programmer or we
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Yeah, well I went to engineering school and I do software engineering. Not everyone is in the same boat.
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These are all things any engineer should be able to/ does do. The title "lead dev" sounds like marketing.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Part of the problem, at least in America is one that people don't want to talk about. The industry has globalized greatly over the last couple decades, and many companies hire in areas that have no labor standards. Companies are oper
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by codeonfire 11y ago
The business side in my opinion is much more harsh. If only it were a fun comedy. Many companies are much bigger and don't have comedic actors working there. Somewhere between SV and Breaking Bad is real life. Sometimes though I ha
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by codeonfire 11y ago
There are a few things that I thought we would (should) have in the mainstream based on science encyclopedias of long ago: 1. Spaceplane - this was a big thing a while back and is no longer talkeda bout. Military needs are what drove the t
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by codeonfire 11y ago
It's easy to count hours worked, so it's not countless. It's also not a positive. Did space shuttle workers work unlimited hours?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Where I worked salaries were the same, but everyone above line manager generally got a 100% bonus. So while engineers might get $25k in stock, a line manager would get $150k, director $300k, and VP could get over a million for successful p
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Didn't they create that in response to the previous ageism lawsuit?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I think that A. shutting someone's business down is going to be viewed poorly by just about anyone and B. If you are trying to recover payment then it's in your interest to be able to show they are/have been receiving benefi
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Why does no one think it odd that there are several large tech companies with 100k+ employees each, but think something is wrong if there are thousands of small five person companies? Tech workers don't need the resources of large tec
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If I were in high school, I would start studying sophomore level math: linear algebra, differential equations, probability, statistics. When you get to college and actually have to take these classes you can spend more time concentrate on
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On the first point, managers where I have been rotate around more frequently than a year. They reorg every six months or so. Secondly, if a team sized software project goes on more than a year, it is in jeopardy, so most team sized projec

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