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gsarrica··on How to avoid the software salary ceiling
I know many companies who would rather have someone like you. Someone who they can give a problem to and they know you can solve it because of your wide knowledge base. "Sorry we can't give this problem to Bob to solve because all he knows is tech X." This is worth a lot to some people.

It's also not that you know many things, it's that you can learn other things easily and quickly. (without training)

The hard part is finding the right place to work at. Many large corporations are looking for a square peg for a square hole.

gsarrica··on Bedrock Linux
Thanks for responding. Was not trying to rag on the work you have done. It is very intriguing to see the work you have done, however I am just not sure about the targeted audience.
gsarrica··on Bedrock Linux
Tell me this though. Someone who will install Bedrock Linux is most likely a more advanced linux user. Would they not just compile from source instead of installing this disto? Should I install a whole different distro just to get pre-packaged software? I think not.
gsarrica··on Pusher-js 2.0.0 released: WebSockets, comprehensive legacy support
"Pusher has always worked across a wide variety of devices via a Flash based fallback mechanism, and we haven’t replaced this option in the newer version. Since the Flash version uses the WebSocket endpoint, it gets all the low latency, low overhead advantages of WebSockets. The drawbacks with this approach are that it involves downloading extra files, Flash isn’t installed on every browser, and certain ports need to be open on the client’s network."
gsarrica··on Facebook Home
Yes I agree. Did you notice the clock widget even updates to the correct time in the "Get notifications where you need them" section?
gsarrica··on GIT is the new FTP
Thanks for the deeper explanation. I kind of high leveled it there, but you are totally correct.
gsarrica··on GIT is the new FTP
This happens because Tomcat is unable to release some classes from the classloader. So every time I load a new WAR lets say I am using Spring. Tomcat doesn't remove the old Spring Jar from the classloader and just loads a second one for my updated WAR. After doing this a few times (Depending on the size of your app, permgen size and how many 3rd party libraries you have) tomcat will throw a permgen error. There is nothing Tomcat can do about this. It is the classloaders problem. Also it is not recommended to "hot deploy" to a production environment.
gsarrica··on Impressions of Android from a dev's perspective
I have seen this same problem with people not understanding how to uninstall or install applications. Granted my app is free and without advertisements I still somehow get these same kind of reviews... My favorite one star review to date: "Once u download this to your phone u will not be able to uninstall this app... I have been trying for days to get rid of it and it won't uninstall!"

The funny part is these people do not send emails to me asking for support they just give the 1 star review and move on. I want to say 90% of support emails are people thanking me or asking for new features. When I respond I always ask then to write a review on the market. Hopefully this offsets the 1 star reviews. And remember I do all this for free.

gsarrica··on Protip for salary seekers pt 2: Results from some mining of the H1-B database
I am also a software developer and my wife is becoming an Anesthesiologist. Would you mind connecting so we can learn what you may have picked up through the whole process?
gsarrica··on Largest Email Marketing Firm, Epsilon Hacked. Big Name Customers Exposed.
Got an email from Home Depot and Target... Looks like Home Depot is missing from their list.