fiveo

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by fiveo 16y ago
I think people downvote you because the topic is about programming language, not human language. I have to agree with you though, knowing English and Mandarin are better (at least for me) than knowing programming languages.
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by fiveo 16y ago
The thing about Java developer is that they're getting easier to be replaced (outsource or offshore). That might not be the case if you're specialized in SAP (ABAP, FICO, ERP), Oracle (PeopleSoft, CRM, Financial). Sometime it is due to the
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by fiveo 16y ago
I think you can get more $$$ with PL/SQL, T-SQL, or ABAP.
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by fiveo 16y ago
I'm on a similar boat. I decided to quit pursuing technical excellence and heavily thinking to switch career to either DBA (I've been taking database courses at a local polytechnic college) or Sys/Net-Admin. More of the "Ops" kind of caree
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by fiveo 16y ago
I'm talking about WinForms .NET. .NET itself is not even 10 years old.
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by fiveo 16y ago
What about ASP.NET, ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, and now ASP.NET MVC + varieties of view engine? What about WinForms, WPF, Silverlight?
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by fiveo 16y ago
I think this is the biggest difference between programming language and OS/RBDMS. The changes happening around programming languages are much faster than that of the OS/RDBMS world. People who know UNIX concepts are most likely employable w
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by fiveo 16y ago
I've just started to scratch the surface of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and they just release RC v3? Nuts.
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by fiveo 16y ago
I think the term 'generalist' here is a bit unknown. If you're a developer working on web-based software, you are known as the web-developer guy (specialist). If you're a developer working on transactional, security, concurrency, you are kn
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by fiveo 16y ago
How many companies of your type out there?
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by fiveo 16y ago
Silicon Valley wants the best and brightest. This filter is opinionated based on the company. If you're looking for work at VMWare, your Rails and MongoDB experience won't be needed. They want C/C++ guy who can hack Linux kernel or write de
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by fiveo 16y ago
While I do enjoy programming, I don't think software development is a good industry to have a career in. The market is so fragmented right now with different choices of programming languages and different technology requirements. And you ar
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by fiveo 16y ago
Agile is such a generalization. There are many practices below Agile such as Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, DSDM, FDD, etc. Agile itself is just a set of principles. The actual implementation still require some processes. I don't think people sho
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by fiveo 16y ago
I don't mind occasional OT (with compensation). Fact is, in where I live, companies can get away with lots of OT and not compensating them. I don't mind to go to management position late in my career. Not now, but maybe later. Interesting t
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by fiveo 16y ago
There's some amount of problem solving and planning involved. But not as challenging as to implement the next distributed storage mechanism. I'm probably closer to done for that world. I'm not a research scientist. I'm looking at the specif
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by fiveo 16y ago
I understand and well aware of that. Having said that, I also often see companies purchase Oracle for technical and business reason. I went and saw myself first hand experience a multi-financial company that opted for Oracle (as opposed to
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by fiveo 16y ago
I do wonder what "discipline" means. Cause it often depends on what the CEO wants. For me, as a software developer, discipline means TDD, repeatable process to write code (no, it doesn't mean we should throw-away creativity).
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by fiveo 16y ago
Thank you for your response and to share your experience as well. Greatly appreciate it. It would be great if I could have some stability in my career and yet still able to work on something else (be it RoR or LISP or something else). <
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by fiveo 16y ago
If I could lead an internal project with the said solution, I'll go for it. I'm a FOSS lover. Keep in mind that not all internal projects require a custom write from scratch solution. Some would do fine with customizing Oracle modules.
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by fiveo 16y ago
Would you mind to explain further? What kind of Oracle tasks you do on day to day base? The reason I asked this is because I've been in a few software product shop and they all unstable. I guess I'm on the other side of the bridge. But than
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by fiveo 16y ago
I'm actually flirting to move to everything Oracle for my career (seriously). There's a big money and (hopefully) less work for those who know how to use 10% of Oracle's other software aside from their database. Now I can go home by 5 and h
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by fiveo 16y ago
Since I cannot edit my original comment (no idea why), I'd put my update here: Looks like the people that replied my post got into deep technical discussion without mentioning a startup in the scale of Twitter. Exactly like what the author
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by fiveo 16y ago
RDBMS does require a bit of planning (not too much, and not too rigid) and previous experiences building good data model; both traits don't exist in hotshot hackers/startups these days because they either don't have the patience or much dee
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by fiveo 16y ago
Hmm, Twitter is really big in using Scala. The important message is this: "focus on the process to build a great company and great products... They didn’t become successful because they built these systems. They built these systems because
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by fiveo 16y ago
There are programmers like this today. They can install Windows and MS Office but once something more complex happened in their Workstation at the office, they'll call Sys Admin to fix it for them. It's a mix of laziness and doesn't want to
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by fiveo 16y ago
I read a few articles yesterday regarding WPF/Silverlight and politics inside Microsoft written by ex-Silverlight Product Manager: http://www.riagenic.com/ (Check the blog section) Hopefully that can give you some idea what the future wil
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by fiveo 16y ago
vancouver WA (US) or vancouver BC (Canada). Anyway, forget about them both, there's nothing in those cities. Vancouver BC has lots of small (but weird) "social media" startups that probably died within 2-3 years. Lots of "online gaming" (I
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by fiveo 16y ago
Yeah, EA Vancouver/Burnaby is one of those "satellite" branches: when there's a problem, they get to experience first-hand on what downsizing means. Wouldn't count as the best bet since aside from OT there are big possibilities of massive l
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by fiveo 16y ago
Oh where do I start with this one hehehe. SR&ED: I've said this before and I'm going to say this once again. It attracts fishy investors, clueless businessmen, lame business models (clone of X social networking site), and a sense of fal
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by fiveo 16y ago
I second to you. In Vancouver, I've seen many companies who have probably live as long as 3-5 years before they crashed and closed down permanently. Most of the issues are related to their inability to innovate and their use of old technolo

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