gshakir

Reminds me of a time when Steve Balmer got upset over iPhone use at Microsoft.

I feel you lost a good candidate. I think he negotiated all those things because it had to exceed his current level. Having a VP with that negotiation would have been good for the company.

A380 comfort level beats 787 and others. You will never feel the take off or landing and no turbulence either. I have flown with Emirates and I am hesitant to fly anything else. The business class experience was amazing with full recline seats. Fly them and try it out yourselves.

It depends if they are happy with their jobs. If they are going to be tired and miserable at the end of the day, the motivation aspect is not there.

Even though I like Apple stance on privacy, I always turn off microphone access to apps like 'WhatsApp' and others.

Using compressed air is not so bad. Plus I like my MacBook Pro look new and shiny :)

May be this lawsuit will prompt free (or low cost) keyboard repairs similar to $29 battery replacement.

I love the butterfly keyboard and one of the key did get stuck and since then I started using compressed air once a week and it looks good so far after an year. So I would suggest the same for others and refrain from eating around your keyboard as much as possible.

The numbers for Tesla and Amazon are skewed due to low paying factory/warehouse workers

In South Asian countries, veggies are cooked throughly and that has brought out some exciting dishes. Eating uncooked food is always a risk.

I haven’t used Windows in a while. Do you still have to run your own virus scanner or is it built in now ?

In my opinion there is no alternative. In the new MacBook pro the keyboard feels great. I have access to UNIX terminal and access MS office Apps. More over Apple commitment (so far) to privacy keeps you safe.

I found it surprising that the budget does not include emergency fund, gifts to charity. It does say at the end it is missing those things like that.

Looks like a good alternative to AWS Secret manager https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/

The investment in the stack should be based on team's skills and strengths. If they are good in Ruby/Rails, then choose that or if they good with JVM based tech, then choose Spring or Play.

And "optimized" to run on their cloud bluemix or softlayer

Which location is that for a cap like 150?

Can you give an example? For a GS-15 Making max salary, which is 164K. That is the base. It goes up quite a bit if you include 5% 401k match and retirement. So the total compensation is quite more than just 164K.

Yes agreed, Declarative languages like SQL or Ansible are great for most of the use cases. You can always use extensions to get down to imperative steps.

I don't wish that. How many DevOps people you know that can grok Haskell? There is a reason why Ansible is so popular, the barrier to entry is so low and that's the way it should be.

Avoid sites like freelancer.com. You can try the following:

* Go to meet ups. There are hiring managers that attend that are looking for full time or part time talent.

* Craigslist gig's section is good, since people like local developers that who like to meet etc.

* Find a niche area, blog about it, put some sample code on GitHub

Do you the like the new job (except for the code base) ? Like the domain, co-workers etc. If so then propose that you can increase the velocity of release by proposing good architecture practices.

Then have them write integration tests for all the major test cases and start peeling the layers. It is almost kind of fun to develop in brown field instead of green field. Looks like the code grew organically without much thought.

Yes, it can stain skin as well. Actually, you can apply it to the skin (via a recipe) to make it vibrant. This is common practice in India. I usually get turmeric powder (unadulterated) instead of raw.

It is a great spice to use in your cooking. But use only a pinch, it is very potent.

The business chat sounds like a great idea. There are some startups out there that are doing something similar and they are going to be affected.

I live in Rockville, MD and I couldn't agree more with the county politics.

Three candidate cities are in the same metro area (DC).

* Montgomery county, MD

* Northern Virginia

* Washington DC

The whole west coast seems to be ruled out, so clearly geography is coming into play.

Any one remember 'e-company' phase in 1999? Looks like it is all over again. This will lead to speculation in stocks and we all know how that ends.