Reliquishing geek points
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Perhaps I'm not Geek enough, but what I enjoy most is writing apps that help people do their jobs better or faster. I wrote a simple client server app a few years ago; stored procedures in SQL Server and a client front end in VB6 (which we need to port to Dot NET now). Nothing super challenging, but lots of coworker satisfaction. I wrote a simple VBScript for another coworker who could never remember how to map and open a shared drive. She was forever grateful. To each his own I guess.
Dale Lanz wrote:
Perhaps I'm not Geek enough, but what I enjoy most is writing apps that help people do their jobs better or faster.
So do I which is why I tend to rub people the wrong way here from time to time because I think the end result of what I do is more important the process of what I do. I would never hire a developer who seemed *too* in love with the tools and not focused on the end users.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
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I'm leaving my current job working on big data projects using machine learning to detect fraud in online advertising streams, writing fast code which routinely has workings sets of 10s of Gigs at a time, crunching 1000s of transactions a second. The only way to increase performance is to move things to a distributed scaled out "cloud" type architecture. I'm giving it up to work on a simple internal business application, and I couldn't be happier about the decision. What it comes down to is that I've met most of the people that I'm going to be working with and it seems like a nice pleasant place to work.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
One question. Can I have your old job? I love scaling out projects. Second Question: Would you be using Hadoop for this project by any chance?