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Best job in the world i can't believe they pay me to do this!

Full stack to me is more about ownership and responsibility than pure expertise. He's the guy that can literally carry the entire thing on his back if he has to. Technically speaking, usually because he's the one that created it, by himself, made it work, made it scale, and made it make money without any help. In my case he becomes the guy in charge trying to figure out how to hire people to just little parts of his job. And finding out he now has to learn how to hire people, just like everything else...

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Jeez if my guys didnt learn on the job they’d know only the wrong things. If anything, lol...

Surely what they learnt at bootcamp is less than worthless.

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It's an attempt to nullify the speaker rather than responding to the statement. It's become quite the thing these days.

No I am not a paid shill, try again,

You guys pre-suppose the poor people in this town can't make up their own minds and are somehow oblivious to whats really happening. I guarantee each one of you that your opinion would be different if you lived in this town and worked for Disney. Who are we to tell these people how to vote?

What is your alternative? Pass laws to 'force' them to 'do the right thing' according to people who don't live there?

Yes I did, bad assumption

If you live in that town and work for Disney you probably think it's working just fine.

Are you serious? Wow

I think municipalities should be free to make the best deal they can with large employers like this. Chips fall where they may. They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here.

Doesn't seem like this is anyone else's business.

There's portability+density issue with renewable or even free electric. You cant run planes, trains, ships, heavy industry, heavy haulers, etc om battery. And thats where the lions share of fossil is burnt.

This goes back to the days when people drank much more, at work, at lunch, etc...

In a drinking culture, nodding off at your desk is a very very bad thing because it means you can't handle your liquor and this just could not be tolerated. Due to all the drinking, with management and clients, if you had a problem your were a liability. It's insane but it was another time. Not my generation but I've had conversations.

Napping now, with the amount of real work we all do. The stress level we are willing to carry. It's just not anybody's business anymore.

How is the file system performance going with this? The latest release version runs Rails worse than shared folders on VMWare which is slow in bad way. Running MySQL on top of it might "work" but is it fast?

Try 'I am a born in America citizen on american soil, I want to talk to my lawyer, no i'm not giving you my password. No I won't tell you why.'

Same logic used in the Salem witch trials. You ever wonder why The Right to Be Silent is the first right mentioned in Miranda? Our entire criminal justice system is rooted is this concept. You have to be proven guilty and the state has to provide probable cause to search or seize.

Eric Schmidt is as biased on this subject as you can get, he profits from our data.

The ones that end in complete failure are the most valuable.

It's a great story because it's honest. Nothing in life is free and growth is messy and painful. You could have spent a lifetime at any steady gig and never seen anywhere near what you have seen in the past year. The good stuff is out here on the dangerous part of the limb. :)

I have yet to meet a recruiter that wasn't desperate for demonstrated talent. Every corporate shop i've seen has older programmers doing the real work and younger programmers paying the tech debt and building UI.

I think most of these articles are focused on startup culture and marque companies. (ie. 1% of the market)

Be very careful to properly disclose your outside interests when working with startups. One simple email up front can save you a lot of pain and heartache on pay day.

The only reason they announced it was to avoid being guilty of an actual crime after being acquired and not announcing it before hand.

Building from scratch since the early 80s. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that i've never really looked at my industry as a young man's sport. Young and dumb get chewed up and spit out on the first funding down-turn, which is about to happen again. They go out chasing shiney things, abused by ivy-leagues, and since they never had it to begin with, they don't come back. Seen it more that a few times so i'm not worried a bit.

So if your old and wise and still working congratulations! Maybe look back, if you can remember that far, and realize you've bern employed this entire time doing something you'd do for free if they didn't pay you.

Damm I love my job!

p.s. Remember the golden rule: Wait for critical mass, hijack, then do the same thing you did last time.

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Imagine a world where your given 5 million dollars and a business model; the only real guard rail being 'don't walk us off a cliff...'. It's not fun and games anymore is it?

A huge percentage of the code I write has nothing to do with the front-end. Am I going to hang my project's fate on a platform created solely with quick and cheap front-end development in mind? Probably not.

I do remember the bad old days when all you really had was a thick native client, a database, and scheduled tasks. So there is precedence, i'm just not sure it's good one?

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I like Node, I like Meteor, not ready yet, but close. I like the idea of sharing logic, data, and state that way. Not happy about the sideways protocol. Leaves Node available for the crap I don't want to run on the client.

Pretty sure the magical disappearing back-end (OP) idea is a dead end tho.

Remember that people with always push back when you attempt to change the status quo. First drop the expectation that you'll be encouraged and supported when you finally grow up and make the change. Just do it, and stop explaining why you're doing it.

I rented in Milbrae because it was as far as I could get from SF, still be on the peninsula, and still have access to Bart. Every useful part of SF has a Bart stop nearby.

Perfect!

I think this has more to do with how we operate at high speed. I delegate my memory to list apps and simple text notes. Since I did not have to store the information for any length of time in my head it's hard to recall that information later. Same break down as note taking in high level college courses. If you never read the notes it's like you never heard the lecture.

Divide the loss by the gain and call it cost of doing business. Do what you have to do and move on. Maybe next time don't advertise your intentions before getting paid?

What concerns me the most is that you just had to mention access to code AND that you had not touched it.

The car should protect it's occupants at all cost because that would be the normal reaction of someone driving the car themselves. In that case the car has been pre-programmed not to make a choice.

When faced with a split second decision whether to live or die, humans choose to live, that's how we made it this far...

I've seen brilliant people who can't deliver and mediocre players that get shit done day in and day out. Software is built upon hard work and compromise; it's more of a contact sport than it is a craft. Despite what people with little or no real world experience would have you believe.

There are people who would rather look good then play well, and then there are true ballers who never even thought about anything but winning the game by any means necessary.

The latency issue is now entirely solved in the DK2 so that's now a non-issue. I had it working on a 7950 even. The 980s and the Titan allow for real-time down sampling to eliminate all judder and help with the SDE.

I've been programming professionally since 1986 when I had a 70+ year old mentor writing accounting and plant control systems in TurboDOS. Now I code AND design large complex systems using either .NET or Rails. I don't send CV's to people unless they ask for them and they have to know of me in the first place to even ask.

I think the older devs that are still relevant probably don't show up in the job seeking type of data, they are probably already booked with paying work and startups!

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It's not really the workload but the brain overload. Right now I have a paying gig which I try to work on but not think about maybe a 3rd of the time. The rest of my time and mental energy goes into my one startup. I had a couple side startups but I had to let them go. My mind was trying to think about all of them at once!