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by halfastack 6y ago
An interesting POV. I certainly hope that's true. Is IBM reputation good in the contractor space? As in, are their services largely viewed as dependable and good value?
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by halfastack 6y ago
How does that make sense? Can the "grad" do good enough job compared to a senior? I've seen my fair share of "senior" developers, who had insanely high salaries for some strange reason yet their output was mediocre
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by halfastack 6y ago
Wow, I actually really concidered CCI. It seemed like such a great company to work for. It's good to know this.
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Red Hat Names Paul Cormier President and CEO(redhat.com)
3 points by halfastack 6y ago|0 comments
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(Un)Expected struggle in a small project and why that is a good thing(medium.com)
2 points by halfastack 8y ago|0 comments
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by halfastack 8y ago
This actually makes a ton of sense, only I'm afraid investors won't reply to random "hey, my name is X and I'd like a job advice" emails...
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Learn Fundamentals of Java EE from Red Hat with JBoss EAP 7(edx.org)
2 points by halfastack 8y ago|0 comments
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by halfastack 8y ago
I love the idea of "Steve" or "Ariana" at Asana thinking "Oh, another email from whiddershins, better write that down for him into his account. Good on you, mr. whiddershins!":))
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by halfastack 8y ago
There is a spectrum of meditation activities. What does and does not constitute 'meditation' depends on one's training. I've heard the arguments of "I don't need to meditate, running is my meditation", whi
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Ask HN: What is your experience with IT/Dev certifications?
1 points by halfastack 8y ago|0 comments
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by halfastack 8y ago
For what it's worth, you can simply google something like "20 EUR in USD" and that works really well.
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by halfastack 8y ago
> But who is willing to pay for all the documentation? Anybody who wishes to be successful. RPI would not be as successful had it not been for the ton of materials on it online, be it by the manufacturer, or the tinkerers. Any newcomers
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by halfastack 8y ago
Is there something like this that I could either self-host, or use as an app while syncing the storage file..?
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by halfastack 8y ago
Thunderbird is, hands down, my most used desktop app, if we're not counting IDEs and editors. Definitely would recommend; Thunderbird is awesome.
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by halfastack 8y ago
Well, I personally like it to just satisfy my curiosity about what are some of my friends and coworkers up to. Generally, I am quite curious about what is my friend/coworker/ex-coworker/... doing, and I am genuinely happy wh
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Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work(medium.com)
89 points by halfastack 8y ago|72 comments
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by halfastack 8y ago
I looked over the Linux questions, and they were pretty bad: Q.1: What is the core of Linux Operating System? Shell Kernel Command Script Terminal I mean... If they asked me about that at an interview, that'd be a huge red flag. I woul
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by halfastack 8y ago
"A startup that really wants people working 80 hours a week" sounds like the most US thing I've heard/read this month. The US work culture is utterly insane. They say that the Japanese work extreme long hours, but from m
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by halfastack 8y ago
The thing is, "somewhere in the backend" is generally accessible from the internet, and vulnerable to attackers (so you need only a maliciously crafted packet, or something similar); whereas for 7-zip vulnerability, there must be:
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by halfastack 8y ago
Sure, but there's a difference between "yea, we like 7-zip, let's put some money into it" and "yea, we use Tomcat to actually run our apps connected to the DB, might be nice if it got a bit of patching" (and fu
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by halfastack 8y ago
This is a very strange distribution of projects. There are projects like VLC, Filezilla, and 7-zip, next to often mission-critical pieces of software, like Kafka, Tomcat, and GlibC. I wonder what went into the decision process to include ea
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by halfastack 8y ago
Because all of those who started on something like C, C++, or Java have way better programming practices? My experience tells me that starting language is literally not a vector in determining how good of a programmer someone is.
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by halfastack 8y ago
That was my experience as well. Needless to say, I was woefully unprepared for the job, but that also meant I have learnt a ton of interesting things.
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by halfastack 8y ago
I upgraded from MBP 2012 to the 15" 2015 version the last year. I'm sure 2k15 will be fine for a while, but this is unsustainable with the direction Apple computers are going. It's more expensive than ever; in Europe, I paid
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by halfastack 8y ago
For enterprise software, a couple days is indeed strange. For OSS, it's standard in good communities I'd say. When I filed bug fixes against Tomcat, I often had fix within that day (though it was released only during the typical r
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by halfastack 8y ago
I have difficulty seeing what this would add. As a Java developer, I know what "List" is, just like I know what "ArrayList" is. If someone instantiated new better.ArrayList(), I immediately have to check what the hell is
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by halfastack 8y ago
What do you mean? You can do both: - import com.package.foo.Bar -> use Bar.methodOfBar() in code - import static com.package.foo.Bar -> use methodOfBar() in code What does "import com.package.foo.bar as bar" add? Other than
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by halfastack 8y ago
Intellij also automatically escapes your string and inputs newlines wherever necessary, so if you copy a long string, it's generally done for you (I've copied pieces of XML and it generally worked totally fine).
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by halfastack 8y ago
Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?
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by halfastack 8y ago
> I'm pretty happy that 'rm foo' doesn't say anything, and typically I find motion a distraction. It has happened to me on several occasions that I accidentally ran "rm -rf /some/dir/owned/by&

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