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Fern Creek Software | Louisville KY | 100% Remote Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people and as a result, started hiring people. Sometimes a 1099, sometimes W2.

This is not super sexy stuff where you will get options that might be worth millions, but likely worth nothing. What you will get is a load of experience on new tech (asp.net core, azure, blazor etc) and a great focus on the best feature of all...shipping.

The job is remote so you don't have to be in Louisville though if you are close that is cool. Set your own hours and all that, I want pros not people that need babysitting.

1 opening right now...

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc)

Live the stress free life, work from home, build some cool tech, make money, be happy etc etc.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com

My wife is Stage 3, ++- (43 yo) and half way through the taxol phase of an ACT regimen; she is progressing well but I know she has the discipline to do a fasting diet if we thought it would help. Any thoughts on starting this mid-way through the treatment?

I have used lots of BI tools over the years, PowerBI is the class of the field and it is not even close.

SEEKING FREELANCER | Louisville KY | 100% Remote Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people.

Right now I have immediate need for a QA engineer. This role is a 10 week contract to write unit tests and integration tests in C# against an asp.net core solution. If you are good, we will give you more work and if you prefer a W2 arrangement we can do that. Seriously - need someone soon. Right candidate hits my email today could be working this week.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com

Upstrem | Full Time | Louisville, KY

One of the worst parts about startups is the valley of despair. But there is something awesome once you pull out of it and hit hyper growth. That is where we are and every day is a roller coaster. We are one of the fastest growing companies in a new segment of commerce and we need help! We are looking for someone who can straddle the world between operations and technology, a coder who can look at a 200 foot conveyor line with 50 people and find ways to make it more efficient. Someone who is crazy with the details and can envision processes to improve quality and then put them into reality by building it (code), deploying it, overseeing it and adjusting to make it better.

Do you want to build a unicorn? Here is your chance.

We are looking for software engineers to work from our locations in Louisville Kentucky. We hire fast and need someone yesterday so shoot us a note @ t.johnson at upstrem.com (careful with spelling Upstrem, no A in it)

SEEKING FREELANCER | Louisville KY | 100% Remote

Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people.

3 openings right now...all for 4-6 month contracts

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc) UX Guru (more than a photoshop jockey, make the html and css for us so we dont have to) QA engineer (test all the things, write unit tests, automated UI tests)

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com

Fern Creek Software | Louisville KY | 100% Remote

Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people and as a result, started hiring people. Sometimes a 1099, sometimes W2.

This is not super sexy stuff where you will get options that might be worth millions, but likely worth nothing. What you will get is a load of experience on new tech (asp.net core, azure, blazor etc) and a great focus on the best feature of all...shipping.

The job is remote so you don't have to be in Louisville though if you are close that is cool. Set your own hours and all that, I want pros not people that need babysitting.

3 openings right now...

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc) UX Guru (more than a photoshop jockey, make the html and css for us so we dont have to) QA engineer (test all the things, write unit tests, automated UI tests)

Live the stress free life, work from home, build some cool tech, make money, be happy etc etc.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com

Fern Creek Software | Louisville KY | Multiple Positions | Remote

Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people and as a result, started hiring people. Sometimes a 1099, sometimes W2.

This is not super sexy stuff where you will get options that might be worth millions, but likely worth nothing. What you will get is a load of experience on new tech (asp.net core, azure, blazor etc) and a great focus on the best feature of all...shipping.

The job is remote so you don't have to be in Louisville though if you are close that is cool. Set your own hours and all that, I want pros not people that need babysitting.

3 openings right now...

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc) UX Guru (more than a photoshop jockey, make the html and css for us so we dont have to) QA engineer (test all the things, write unit tests, automated UI tests)

Live the stress free life, work from home, build some cool tech, make money, be happy etc etc.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com

The best part about Chastain is his amazing ability to take sub par equipment and be competitive with it, he is a rising star for sure

The engineering and technical prowess of a NASCAR team would absolutely astonish you, it is hardly as you describe. I work closely with people in racing and am constantly amazed at what they are doing.

Asserting that Tesla is behind because they are fab at 14 instead of something smaller is so laughable you cannot be serious.

Thermal profile and power, instruction set and a dozen other things are more important.

Watch the autonomy day video on how the chip was built and why, will help a lot

I turned 40 today, so this is good news.

Not a startup...but I do know of (I am consulting for them on the project) an established SaaS company that is impressively large and successful in their vertical that is porting from PHP/Postgres to ASP.net core and running it all on Azure

Biggest pain so far is the versioning FUD around .Net core, standard etc. That said, it is not really an issue.

From a risk mitigation perspective we are trying to lean on some other established and long tested things like Dapper as a micro-orm and staying away from fluid elements that we really want to use like SignalR until they settle down some.

We also went as green field as we could, no attempt to port code in the classic sense, ground up rewrite.

I would be curious to see a whole state do this and see if participation really changed. we assume so but data is not there that I know of..

I believe the real solution is to stop with the election day concept and move more to an election week or something similar.

Article is over 3 years old

Michael Crichton tears up the Drake Equation (and SETI) pretty thoroughly in his speech entitled Aliens Cause Global Warming.

http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...

"...the Drake equation can have any value from “billions and billions” to zero. An expression that can mean anything means nothing. Speaking precisely, the Drake equation is literally meaningless, and has nothing to do with science. I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses. The Drake equation cannot be tested..."

-Crichton

" I think the world has figured out that programmers are writing the script for the future that everybody is going to live in"

Well put.

I almost created a new account to upvote you twice.

Any plans to support exchange in future?

There was ample breakdown of the article and lots of credible resources pointing towards places he was wrong.

This looks like it is based on OmniSharp which is open source https://github.com/omnisharp

tldr; light weight Visual Studio for OSX/Windows/Linux with support for dozens of languages, intellisense (autocomplete), refactoring, debugging (yes, real debugging), git integration and it is free

tldr; light weight Visual Studio for OSX/Windows/Linux with support for dozens of languages, intellisense (autocomplete), refactoring, debugging (yes, real debugging) and it is free.

I think people often discount the value that a change like this can have in readability.

For the longest time I was impressed by sophisticated/clever code that did hard things. As I built more and more systems I realized that such a perspective was futile that the better code in my mind was that which was clear, easy to read and understand the intent.

Any language changes whether they be core to the system or simply syntax sugar, any changes that make code more readable are by and large, good changes.

The point of the article was the fact there is a functional difference in how the runtime/code behaves in this instance.

Syntactic sugar would be something like automatic property getters and setters in C#; they just shorten the syntax drastically and the compiler or runtime unroll your code to the traditional implementation.

In this case you can interrogate things normally bound up into the exception instance itself, like the message without having to hit the catch block to wait for it to be hydrated. Once you enter that catch block things happen in the runtime that are costly so avoiding that if possible is the best route.

I think with lots of things, there is not enough volume and cost relative to personnel to justify the R&D and ongoing operations. For quite some time you would still need an operator and there is always the edge cases that a human can deal with on the fly that the robot cannot.

Bottom line, the world needs a finite number of plane refuelers and they are cheap. No need to replace them anytime soon.

But yes, technically possible at this point, I would agree.

I have a friend who fuels airplanes for UPS, I don't think he is going to get to work from home anytime soon.

I have been at home as an independent dev for almost 15 years and I love the flexibility..BUT, there is one thing that work-from-home people almost universally agree is a drag. When work is just a few feet away, it is hard to draw a line from where work ends and life begins. I hate the fact that the first place my kids ever come looking for me is my home office.

While I do appreciate the context, simply putting Mark Russinovich in a box that says he is an Azure guy, ignores history. He is probably one of, if not the most authoritative Windows person on the planet. He chose to do Azure fabric stuff because at his level, you get your pick of interesting projects. Taking the Windows code base and moving to to cloud scale was probably a pretty unique challenge.

So yes, while open sourcing windows would be a massive undertaking involving nearly every level of management and buy in at Microsoft - Mark R would carry a big stick in such a discussion.

Does the current partnership explicitly cap the partner count or is there some point in the future where you think it would make sense to cap the number of partners?