pelemele

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by pelemele 5y ago
One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus
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by pelemele 7y ago
The current generation of 50+ years old developers came from a way smaller pool of developers when they all started 30+ years ago and that's the reason that only a minuscule of them still codes. The percentage of current younger develo
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by pelemele 7y ago
...and next step should a proper audit of the while train fiasco...
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by pelemele 7y ago
'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...
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by pelemele 7y ago
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
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by pelemele 7y ago
...most innovations were coming from Europe... Not too many people know about Operation Paperclip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip ) and what it meant for NASA and space race (Wernher von Braun was chi
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by pelemele 13y ago
This. Like it!
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by pelemele 13y ago
They got awesome ideas but a really awful implementation of them - Tablet PC and Pocket PC devices/mobile phone (MDA anybody?) are two examples...
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by pelemele 13y ago
1. Nobody cares about handwriting all day long, quite a niche use (the same as for Tablet PC 8 years ago). 2. Nobody cares about MS Office anymore. There are alternatives (and free) for regular folks. 3. There is no new PC coming and MS lea
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by pelemele 13y ago
Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different. I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so I could tell you a l
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by pelemele 13y ago
It's cool until you see the price tag for Visual Studio Profi/Prem/Ultimate (I assume you can't use Python tools with Express versions). In that case I will stick to my old copy of Visual J++...
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by pelemele 14y ago
Best Buy is just a test center for Amazon - a lot of people come in just to see and touch stuff before buying it from Amazon. I saw a guy checking a headphones in BB and immediately buying it from Amazon on the spot from his phone.
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by pelemele 14y ago
Insurance lobby - how to find any reason not to pay
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by pelemele 14y ago
How old are you?
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by pelemele 14y ago
1. Comfort zone - if you ever worked in corp world you know what I'm talking about (he mentioned that he enjoys family time after 8 hour work shift so I would like to know how he keeps up to date with skill set). 2. I've seen it myself at
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by pelemele 14y ago
If you are sure that you will be able to market yourself after years of working on some no name corporate stuff, by all means. I've been there and seen guys working 10 - 12 years at the same company, enjoying their 8 hours shift just findin
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by pelemele 14y ago
Yes. The same here ;-)
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by pelemele 14y ago
Oh those nights! Waiting 15 minutes for a program to load from a tape recorder just to find out that tape is damaged at the end ;-)
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by pelemele 15y ago
>> good idea, but I think this is an industry where you don't >> win with technology...but with connections in the >> industry... Exactly. CRE is slightly a different kind of animal.
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by pelemele 15y ago
As a life expectancy is much longer than it was 100 years ago (~30 years difference - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html ) we will see more and more "older" people doing stuff which was not imaginable just a half century b
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by pelemele 15y ago
Me. It does nothing when I click on Enroll button.
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by pelemele 15y ago
let us be clear, yoga is for relaxing mind and body, not acrobatic displays as it has been marketed in america. Exactly.
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by pelemele 15y ago
My friend, gravely injured in a nasty accident, told firefighters not to mention anything about the accident to his mother becuase she would be scared - just 5 minutes before he died. It seems that his brain worked the same way as yours af
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by pelemele 15y ago
Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar. We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974), the same web markup la
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by pelemele 15y ago
Exactly, once you settle for a specific amount during an interview, it's over.
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by pelemele 15y ago
Because he was mentioning real projects done in India.
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by pelemele 15y ago
Wikipedia: Smith came up with the idea for anonymous web-based email in 1995, and worked with his colleague at Apple, Bhatia, to found the company.
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by pelemele 15y ago
IT industry is very young but in next 20 years it will be pretty common to see a lot of 40+ folks in this business. It's obvious that we don't see many 50+ folks in IT today since when they started 30 years ago IT business was more or less
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by pelemele 15y ago
My experience in finance IT business is different (but it depends on finance business itself - the difference between writing systems for mortgage industry is different than what quants write and that's different from guys writing integrati
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by pelemele 15y ago
If you put money and effort to your R&D, you will try to protect yourself as well.

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