cvboss

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by cvboss 17y ago
The only reason to hire the majority of that IT "talent" was the cheaper rates, not some outstanding brilliant achievments or skills. I think the guy is lobbying the interests of those bodyshops, that make tons of money selling developers f
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by cvboss 17y ago
I think in a typical firm very few people would refuse to give their passwords... most of us would give it with a "sure, no problems, you are welcome" smile :)
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by cvboss 17y ago
Mate, "liberal arts" is not a subject, trust me, you do have liberal arts in India :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts edit:link added
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by cvboss 17y ago
I second that. Never do unknown amount of work for a fixed amount of money. Forget about "good guys" and "friends". You either charge them per hour or (if fixed job) control the contract with detailed requirements. You deliver that - you ge
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by cvboss 17y ago
The article is NOT accurate. I am a happy owner of Dell laptop with Vista - and the guy insulted those two things :) Seriously, I think its a matter of personal preferences.I am using my dell/vista 10-14 hours a day, restart maybe once a we
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by cvboss 17y ago
1. FAR manager (this one tops them all, can do also SSH/FTP stuff, text editing, archiving etc) 2. Notepad++ 3. Firefox 4. skype 5. eclipse 6. the bat 7. adobe photoshop
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by cvboss 17y ago
Nowadays a good developer on a contract can earn more than his full-time manager. And less stress, and less responsibilities, and also different projects and different people. Yes, some corps do not treat contractors well, so, well - look f
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Sun setting down on the core Swing(pushing-pixels.org)
1 points by cvboss 17y ago|0 comments
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2008 Best Performing Cities(bestcities.milkeninstitute.org)
1 points by cvboss 17y ago|0 comments
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by cvboss 17y ago
"I'm back to hacking in C, since it's the still only way to ship portable programs." Scrolled to the bottom, found that line and thought the article doesn't worth my time :)
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by cvboss 17y ago
Yes, smells bs, thats what the comment says: This article is a HOAX, the messenger, Frank Engelsman is a NON existing Dutch Private Investigator from a NON existing company called 'Ultrascan' in Amsterdam, this company is NOT registired at
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by cvboss 17y ago
Thanks a lot for the info, I can't believe I just bought two applications I always wanted and never could afford for 10 bucks!
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by cvboss 17y ago
So what do they prefer? I haven't come across a better product so far
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by cvboss 17y ago
Capitalism happens when the factors of production (land/capital) can be private, not necesserily owned by the goverment, "business" or "customer" are really irrelevant to the economic system :)
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by cvboss 17y ago
I think that the reason in "Users were very aggressive in reducing their user counts, and our average selling price became very small - less than $10/month" is that I think their average account (like mine) wouldn't benefit from using the s
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by cvboss 17y ago
It’s not about Java. If there were no consultancies to hire, the management would not be able to hide its incompetency and immature, stupid and strategically wrong decisions on many levels.
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by cvboss 17y ago
The article is a bit ..... naive?? :)
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by cvboss 17y ago
I think when they are telling you a story, even a boring and a stupid one it's okay, but the problem with Es is that very often you have to listen to their "mental" process, how ideas are emerging in their brains... now that's really boring
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by cvboss 17y ago
How about joining that startup?
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by cvboss 17y ago
I am not sure buddy, but it would be nice to see how it fits or replaces(?) the traditional approach from a high level perspective :)
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by cvboss 17y ago
Nihao! Good application, however I would like to see more instruction/tutorial how it works, since it's asking me to draw, but I am not sure what to draw, since I don't know that symbol and I would like to learn it. ps/ I am interested in l
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by cvboss 17y ago
I reckon people who buy SUN hardware will never-ever run their app on GAE for too many reason. I do agree however there is nothing wrong in omitting core classes, I think SUN started it with idea of lightweight client java a while ago :) An
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by cvboss 18y ago
I don't think it's a "loss". Every new account is an asset for them, and they paid 5 dollars to "buy" accounts without actually giving cash to account owners (as you mentioned). However, unless they have assets to cover this "deferred liabi
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by cvboss 18y ago
If you have nothing to lose, that means you have "nothing". Having "nothing" probably doesn't give you enough resources to do anything at all, right? There are always opportunity costs anyway. And... the article says paypal lost ~170 millio
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by cvboss 18y ago
Thanks a lot for your feedback, 3pt14159! Very practical advice, I would definitely start working on a new, better "selling" landing page. The idea of hiring someone to help with a blog is also good, however I think it might be costly for m
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by cvboss 18y ago
edited: oops, i think you just added Oceania.
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by cvboss 18y ago
Thanks a lot, simonk, I will look into this idea. ps/ I didnt intend to "spam", really. It's just an attempt to get feedback from the community I highly respect and value. Anyway, point taken, thanks! :)
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Ask HN: Review Our Website - Online Resume Management (cvboss.com)
3 points by cvboss 18y ago|8 comments