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An interesting POV. I certainly hope that's true. Is IBM reputation good in the contractor space? As in, are their services largely viewed as dependable and good value?

How does that make sense? Can the "grad" do good enough job compared to a senior? I've seen my fair share of "senior" developers, who had insanely high salaries for some strange re…

Wow, I actually really concidered CCI. It seemed like such a great company to work for. It's good to know this.

This actually makes a ton of sense, only I'm afraid investors won't reply to random "hey, my name is X and I'd like a job advice" emails...

I love the idea of "Steve" or "Ariana" at Asana thinking "Oh, another email from whiddershins, better write that down for him into his account. Good on you, mr. whiddershins!":))

There is a spectrum of meditation activities. What does and does not constitute 'meditation' depends on one's training. I've heard the arguments of "I don't need to meditate, runni…

Have you finished some certifications in 2018? Have you attempted but failed some? What is the best value for money? Were there experiences you'd consider bad? Also, how helpful we…

For what it's worth, you can simply google something like "20 EUR in USD" and that works really well.

> But who is willing to pay for all the documentation? Anybody who wishes to be successful. RPI would not be as successful had it not been for the ton of materials on it online, be…

Is there something like this that I could either self-host, or use as an app while syncing the storage file..?

Thunderbird is, hands down, my most used desktop app, if we're not counting IDEs and editors. Definitely would recommend; Thunderbird is awesome.

Well, I personally like it to just satisfy my curiosity about what are some of my friends and coworkers up to. Generally, I am quite curious about what is my friend/coworker/ex-cow…

I looked over the Linux questions, and they were pretty bad: Q.1: What is the core of Linux Operating System? Shell Kernel Command Script Terminal I mean... If they asked me about …

"A startup that really wants people working 80 hours a week" sounds like the most US thing I've heard/read this month. The US work culture is utterly insane. They say that the Japa…

The thing is, "somewhere in the backend" is generally accessible from the internet, and vulnerable to attackers (so you need only a maliciously crafted packet, or something similar…

Sure, but there's a difference between "yea, we like 7-zip, let's put some money into it" and "yea, we use Tomcat to actually run our apps connected to the DB, might be nice if it …

This is a very strange distribution of projects. There are projects like VLC, Filezilla, and 7-zip, next to often mission-critical pieces of software, like Kafka, Tomcat, and GlibC…

Because all of those who started on something like C, C++, or Java have way better programming practices? My experience tells me that starting language is literally not a vector in…

That was my experience as well. Needless to say, I was woefully unprepared for the job, but that also meant I have learnt a ton of interesting things.

I upgraded from MBP 2012 to the 15" 2015 version the last year. I'm sure 2k15 will be fine for a while, but this is unsustainable with the direction Apple computers are going. It's…

For enterprise software, a couple days is indeed strange. For OSS, it's standard in good communities I'd say. When I filed bug fixes against Tomcat, I often had fix within that day…