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Best advice I can give, as a manager, is self-discipline. It's a core tenant of what divides my good workers, from my standard workers. Sure, learning Java, or C#, or Python is nic…

I really doubt this will get any traction, but I'm sick of this laptop my company provides me for development, as are a lot of the other devs, but our ownership thinks they're perf…

I'm going to try and be optimistic about this; 10b in research and development? I can't imagine that it's going to be for 'weapons' only right? Some of this has to go into the futu…

It is nice to have tools that don't require 30 seconds to boot up, just so you can view some xml (Looking at you visual studio). But the recommendation of vi or emacs...just why? I…

You definitely should. I remember when I started doing serious side projects, how invaluable having a document was. It should be living though. Start with something small, describe…

It's all in what you want as a reader. For some, it's comparing 'holding a physical book and turning the pages' to the more active, not taking readers. I don't think the leaders in…

There are impossibly diverse options for learning today. Ideally, you'll want to find which methodology (or -ies ideally) works best for you, and continue to branch from there. The…

Process Automation / Business Rule Optimization is a nearly untouched field for large, existing software driven companies. For goal N, where N is an amalgam of small processes, wha…

Kind of unrelated, but I recently tested out a scenario for the Dotnet Environment that worked really well; I created a 'Random' service that lives for the length of the execution …

That's the general direction I'd like to take. When we capture the inputs for the scrapers, I'd like to persist everything. Mouse jiggles, delays, idle time. I think it would defin…

We have an enormous legal team that communicates constantly with end points to ensure they are aware of our scraping. And as I said in another comment, we store no results other th…

According to the NDA with my company I can't reveal anything about the architecture beyond the fact that it is hosted locally on a homebuilt distributed system that randomly choose…

Well, when that option is available, as in the case of something like SAMBA WEB MVR, we absolutely opt for that instead, and pay our dues.

I still don't agree. The whole reason this business exists is to remove the cost from all the industries that need to run background checks. I think the extent and reason for the c…

I don't have a perspective on the ethics of easier background checks. We run employment checks, the ultimate decision of whether to hire falls to the customer ALWAYS. I've seen ple…

There are a number of ways we do this. First, the process of automating a source is not as simple as 'grab data, send to person that creates the case'. We have many many layers of …

I don't empathize with your viewpoint because, whether it's a web scraper, or a person, the work is exactly the same. There's no additional volume, or extra steps. We just emulate …

I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous vol…

Understandable, as IBM has always targeted the enterprise solutions market. Having control over (I think still?) the most popular enterprise linux installation is a nice add to the…

Hey Ben! (Also) Ben here. I work in New Jersey, as an Enterprise App Full-stack dev with 0 college experience. I started as a developer 4 years ago @15/hr, and I recently breached …

The important bit here is that, they will remain individual applications, with a unified underlying architecture. It is a smart move, internally, to leverage a single framework for…

I somewhat agree with this short article, with the exception of the 'Prestige' portion. "Certainly there is some level of prestige that comes with having a degree. This comes from …

Not sure if this is the correct use of 'Glass Ceiling'. Anyway, have you tried fundraising sites like GoFundMe, or Kickstarter? Have you shown your project on various social media …

Very bizarre... Just reviewing some of the categories and runners up; Application & Data Tool of the Year Javascript was pitted against frameworks made in Javascript? It was also j…

Solid self-awareness here by the team at Streetmix. It's touched upon in the sentence; "Discord, unlike Slack, is not as well-known in the corporate world. Although marketed to gam…