taylonr

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by taylonr 11y ago
>But hearing it come up -- and like this -- during an interview without solicitation just reeks of a toxic environment. That was my thought. As I was reading this, the voice in my head said "Run! Run for the hills!"
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by taylonr 13y ago
I think that there are a lot fewer people using that feature than you'd assume. Even lots of developer coworkers don't know about that ability, even fewer use it. So I can't imagine there are a lot of non-techie people out t
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by taylonr 13y ago
Just to nitpick, the article says aggregates have been in SQL for 3 or 4 decades, but SQL wasn't an ANSI standard until 1986 (28 years ago, almost 3 decades.) I get that a language exists before it is standardized, so were aggregates i
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by taylonr 13y ago
100% this. I spent the first 12 years of my career not writing a single line of production JavaScript or CSS. I did it on the side for my own purposes, but never professionally. Why? I didn't want to. (I still don't really want to, but I li
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by taylonr 13y ago
>I wonder what would happen if students would learn to build simple apps like that in school, instead of Excel? If there is a school that is teaching people Excel, there is a problem with the school, and I'm not sure having easy framewo
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Show HN: MatTime a site used to track time spent on the mats(track.couchjitsu.com)
1 points by taylonr 13y ago|0 comments
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by taylonr 13y ago
I think it goes with the territory. In a lot of senses, this guy gave up his personhood and became a corporation. The things we take for granted as individuals he puts before the board. For example, he was able to convince them that he want
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by taylonr 14y ago
It's not that it hasn't been tried before. I would guess it's similar to Atwood and his new Discourse platform. It looks nice, and developers & designers get excited about it. But one reason forum software hasn't been dramatically overh
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by taylonr 14y ago
I get nervous every time the federal gov't tries to mandate things in school. It always seems like something from either the 50 facts & fallacies of software development and/or the mythical man month. It's as if they realize things are
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by taylonr 14y ago
Problem for me wasn't so much my manager. He did a good job, as far as he could. It was higher than him. But the last job I left was due to management.
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Avoid the "Rational Trap"(taylonr.com)
1 points by taylonr 14y ago|0 comments
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by taylonr 14y ago
I essentially did this throughout my college career. I don't think it was 5pm, though, more often 7pm. What set me off was getting so frustrated one night doing Calculus at 10pm. I tend to need 8+ hours of sleep per night, so by 10 I wasn'
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by taylonr 14y ago
My favorite part was the 3 primary & 3 secondary factors they looked at to identify. So if the people doing this can tweak those factors it will help them out.
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by taylonr 14y ago
So you didn't "accidentally" hire people. You did it with a lack of foresight. To me, that's different. Saying you accidentally hired people makes it sound softer than it really is. If Raytheon or Boeing hired 2,000 people ahead of a defen
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by taylonr 14y ago
So it's not really an accident. They meant to hire those people, they were just bad at forecasting. To me, those are separate issues.
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by taylonr 14y ago
Aren't points 1-8 commonly referred to as "advertising"?
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by taylonr 14y ago
How do you "accidentally" hire more people than you can afford? I could see two people both hiring a janitor without realizing it, but not "accidentally" hiring a lot of developers, designers or whatever else.
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by taylonr 14y ago
That's a fair point. But I think if you look at most non-startup companies that stay around for 3-4 years they don't typically have the valuations that the startups do in the same time. For example, Joe's Plumbing shuts down after 2 years b
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by taylonr 14y ago
Interesting thing is that even if it's the end of the line for Microsoft developing new versions of Windows(and I don't think it is), there is still an entire ecosystem that won't be going anywhere. I'm working for a client right now writin
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by taylonr 14y ago
I did misunderstand. My bad.
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by taylonr 14y ago
I doubt it. In fact, I think of the majority of the people I know if they were to try and download Tweetbot and couldn't, they'll be mad at Tweetbot. Even if Tweetbot states something like "Twitter has limited the number of clients we can s
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by taylonr 14y ago
And a lot of today's startup community was watching Sesame Street
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by taylonr 14y ago
I see this as two problems. 1. Too many options. They even mentioned it "Did I log in with Facebook or Google or Twitter or what." 2. Having both social & native logon. You could actually solve both by either 1. Only using native logon.
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by taylonr 14y ago
Funny you mentioned VB6 days, that was the first thing that came up at work when we saw it. I haven't downloaded it yet, so perhaps I'm missing something. But our thought was that it mimicked the VB6 "Place Code Here" mentality.
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by taylonr 14y ago
Are you tailoring your job application process to each company? If I'm at Amazon see a bunch of Java I might think "Ok, I can find 20 people with these Java skills." Instead of showing Amazon why YOU are indispensable for THEM. Also, I'm gu
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by taylonr 14y ago
This approach made me think of MFC calls. Instead of having multiple return values you'd have a single return value and multiple out parameters. It's been years since I've done any MFC work, but calls like: HWND myWin = GetTopWindowTitle(re
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by taylonr 14y ago
I'm not convinced this is a problem specific to startups. People don't know how to do presentations. I saw it while in school. I had to take a technical writing class that required a presentation at the end. Most engineers suck at presentin
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by taylonr 14y ago
I agree. Many "work outside their chosen field" doesn't equate to "Many are flipping burgers." I have a degree in electrical engineering, but I write software for a living. And not the cool stuff I used to do at Caterpillar, but websites a
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by taylonr 14y ago
Sorry, my clearly US centric bias was showing. I didn't even think about someone who actually has decent insurance replying on this thread :) I've been fortunate enough to get promoted & change jobs over the past 5 years so I've actual
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by taylonr 14y ago
"The details and evolution of healthcare costs in particular were eye-opening" How long have you been working? I ask out of curiosity, because I've been working for the past 12 years as a software developer. For the last 8 years if I didn'

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