richpimp

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by richpimp 7y ago
I develop key performance indicator software for my company's manufacturing plants. It's basically a real time analytics dashboard that also trends data over time. One of the results of this software has been a better understandin
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by richpimp 8y ago
It completely blows my mind when I see stuff like this. We're not all perfect programmers, I'm sure, but still. An alarm should go off in your head when the thought occurs to put front-end code into a query. The only exception I&#
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by richpimp 8y ago
I recently went to a department store called Kohl's for the first time with my wife, who'd been shopping there for years. For those unfamiliar with this store, think something similar to a JC Penney's. What struck me was that
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by richpimp 8y ago
I can't agree more with this. As with anything we use in our applications, understanding and leveraging the strengths of our different tools is vitally important. If, for example, I needed a cartesian product of two datasets, SQL is th
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by richpimp 8y ago
It's very interesting how many application developers shun SQL. I believe a lot of it is due to a pervading sentiment that SQL is unruly or inelegant. There are certainly quirks to the language, and it is a difficult transition to thin
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by richpimp 8y ago
Different perspective here than most. I worked in the retail grind for a decade before getting into software development. The best decision I ever made was going back to school and getting into this industry. For those who've done this
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by richpimp 8y ago
The crazy part about overworking in the software development industry is that, at least from where I am (TN, US), job opportunities are abundant. I could maybe slightly understand working the crazy hours if ours was an industry where jobs w
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by richpimp 8y ago
I wonder, though, what percentage of those people already have families. I was part of that demographic not that long ago. Had I needed to support a family then, I'd likely still be in that demographic. No doubt, many people will not b
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by richpimp 8y ago
> For a lot of people it doesn't mean a single goddamn thing how hard you work or how hard you try. From my viewpoint, breaking out of poverty comes down to these factors, in order of greatest to least importance: 1. Starting off on
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by richpimp 8y ago
> Refrain from having children if you cannot afford to have children. I'm 100% on board with this. You can make a lot of mistakes in your life and still pull yourself up if you're unencumbered by marriage and kids. I know from
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by richpimp 8y ago
It's not so much that I believe that the earth will be in utter ruin by 2100, or that I'm a super green environmentalist (I'm not). My pessimism comes from seeing intentional ignorance and utter stupidity every day. Of course
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by richpimp 8y ago
I'm reminded of a scene in an admittedly crappy movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. No, not the awesome original, but the recent one with Keanu Reeves. Super quick plot synopsis, an alien is sent to Earth to wipe out humanity because
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by richpimp 8y ago
Perspectives change as we age, particularly if you decide to start a family. It's easy and fun to socialize with your coworkers when you're young and unburdened. After all, once you're out of school, where are your friends mo
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by richpimp 8y ago
I see pros and cons to both sides (4 year university vs boot camp). I have a CS degree, whereas our front end developer came from a boot camp. For my part, I have found the underlying theory to be helpful in ways I couldn't have compre
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by richpimp 8y ago
I wonder with more frequency every day if there will ever truly be a solution to the problem of rising health care costs in the US. I see a lot of posts here suggesting that privatization should be removed, and any jobs lost that are relate
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by richpimp 8y ago
Someone please help me understand. I use relational databases everyday for my projects (db, api, frontend). I'm well-versed in SQL and general best practices, and my projects scale well (admittedly I'm not in the petabytes level o
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by richpimp 9y ago
Software developer, 3.5 years experience, $88K /year, ~10% bonus, TN USA
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by richpimp 9y ago
Does it really matter if it's ethical or not? I mean, we're not talking about the ethics of, say, killing a tyrannical despot or allowing a terminal sufferer to commit assisted suicide. If it were me, I'd keep on collecting t