A) If you want to make more money or look for career change, then you have to listen to market and learn whatever it needs or pays well.
B) If your goal is to do long term career investment, then keep learning Java and make yourself an expert of it. To become "expert", you inevitably will have to learn a lot things that are beyond Java language and platform. Later on, these knowledge can be easily reused in other languages.
A) is short term, B) is long term. How about allocate 50% of your learning to each of them, then adjust allocation when you feel you need to?
I do not feel right to discuss this with friends, colleagues. And recruiters always tell me "it depends". But every time I asked something and got accepted, I sensed that I asked too low.The problem is that experience of each person is different (I graduated for some years). I tried to look at some online statistics and they do not look accurate to me.Just wondering how you solve this for...
Sure, they all need basic IF-ELSE, WHILE... But it is really helpful not to focus on too detail of technical side at the beginning. At high level, understand why author needs to create this language? Why the author did not select existing solutions at that time? This kind of "culture" background will help you understand language much deeper and avoid a lot of confusions.
I hope this will help.
Are you happy with existing social network sites? What is functionality of social sites that you would like to add or remove?
If I need truth about something, I will do research to find out. I do not need app and I do not trust an app for that.
But that situation is different from the one we discuss here.
I do not know more information about ohmygord's project, but I basically want to point out to consider non-technical side of it. For example, people in the same team may not technical, and/or think maintaining existing solution is simple. I was in similar situation before, I was lucky to happen to select right strategy to deal with the situation.
* This is not best situation to be in, but if you learn to deal with this and emerge from it. This experience will make you so much stronger. So be ready to quit, but do not quit too early.
Good luck!
(I replied earlier, but the above two points are so important that they worth a different post.)
When you think about "return on capital", do not forget "return of capital".
* NEVER modify existing one. Once you change one line of comment, you own all the code and problem from that point.
* If rewrite is not allowed, then ask huge pay raise for this work. Basically it is not about money, it is about bring everyone on the same page on the status of he existing solution.
* If the above does not work out, prepare to switch to another project, or quit the job totally.
For enterprise software, user and buyer are not the same person.
I like to read books written by successful entrepreneur.Please recommend books to me.The following are examples of what I read and like.-------------------------------------------------------------Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer AgeDelivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and PurposeThe Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create...
I want to write a book and have the following questions.1) How much budget I should prepare. I do not care it sells well or not, so I do not want to spend money for marketing. Just want to write it and publish it.2) English is not my native language. It is nice if I can find someone to review it first.Thanks a lot in advance. 1) is more important than 2). I basically want to know how much it...
Think -- Think independently. Think as outsider.
Apply -- Apply what you created by independent thinking to what you learn about existing things in the real world.
Repeat -- Repeat the above the above 3 steps.
Is there any solution can1) keep anonymous for both payer and receiverAND2) takes care of PCI compliance also?Thanks a lot!
I do not want to sell, just want to have some idea how it may worth, if possible.Thanks in advance!
1) A real genius can figure out things, including how to get cash. If he can not get cash/investment, he is not genius enough.
2) PhD from top school gives a person good foundation to be a professor or some positions that require PhD. But that does not mean too much in business world. Education is important for any success, but please note education and schooling are different things.
3) PhD making 150K+ in finance is not news.
4) Money is always available for good investment for every single year, regardless the market.
5) If his machine learning is really working, he can train the machine to make money (including initial capital) for him.
6) Real academic research is usually years ahead of its time. Success in business usually needs massive adoption which means right at the time. That is one of reasons that a lot of smart people are not rich.
Overall, all you are talking about is "your friend is kinda smart and plan to stay in research (for some years)". Nothing more, nothing less.
1) Time to jump
As long as you ask question "when should I do it", you are not ready. From my own experience,when you feel it, you know it is right time. That "feel" is a natural conclusion of a lot thinking, researching, preparing and prototyping. It is like you need to eat when you are hungry -- you will not ask "when should I eat"
2) Freelancing
Start something takes a lot of time and effort. Freelancing may take your time and energy away. I did that trying to start something on the side, which I considered a mistake.
BTW, are you hands on developer, or development manager? $300k for developer sounds high to me -- maybe you are super-star developer...
Where can I find a list of successful self-funded one-person businesses for inspiration?Thanks in advance!
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
1) Partial Data, but fast 2) Complete List of data for user to select interactively
Google search belongs to 1) -- they simply can not display ALL matches to you. I guess they just show a few of the most relevant ones.
In other cases, your data set is not huge, so the goal is to make data selection more visible to user for easy selection. Speed is the secondary goal in this cases.
If you only goal is speed, obviously you need to cache subset of data based some conditions.
Hope this helps.
I believe that master the ability of learn on-the-fly is the most important thing. We simply do not have enough time to learn all knowledge.
Whatever you are working on, if you ask deeper and deeper questions, you will be able to continue to learn. And this way learning is much less abstract.