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> Who? Maybe we've worked together. I don't want to be doxxed, but let's say I worked for your fierce competitors and the ones your former employer "borrowed"

by bitL 9y ago

> Who? Maybe we've worked together. I don't want to be doxxed, but let's say I worked for your fierce competitors and the ones your former employer "borrowed" a lot of ideas from. Also rejected an offer from them. > You're very late to the starting line here. I am not talking about gradient boosted decision trees-based meta-programming here. Finally, it's good to have an open discussion about this. I simply don't want to tell everyone that functional programming is the "promised land". I hope we can figure out much better programming abstractions in the future. Good luck at Udacity, some NDs like SDC/Robo/DLF were simply awesome!

KirinDave 9y ago
> I don't want to be doxxed, but let's say I worked for your fierce competitors and the ones your former employer "borrowed" a lot of ideas from. Also rejected an offer from them. You worked for Sun and Oracle, then? I imagine the feelings around the (somewhat technologically inferior but vastly more popular) JVM are pretty complicated. > I am not talking about gradient boosted decision trees-based meta-programming here. Neither am I. > Good luck at Udacity, some NDs like SDC/Robo/DLF were simply awesome! Thank you.
- bitL 9y ago
  > I imagine the feelings around the (somewhat technologically inferior but vastly more popular) JVM are pretty complicated. Yeah, type erasure messes up everything, you can feel its bad influence on Scala & Kotlin. I am a big fan of Anders' languages since Delphi days as well and listening to ideological justifications internally how JVM is better or IDE is evil was sometimes funny. But it was open, so it won in the end and I am glad about it :) But it wasn't the only company, I worked for; another one that produced another rising star and was deep in meta-programming as well; with love-hate relationship with your former employer as your ex would love to kill us but some of your customers completely depended on our products, so you had to let us live. I am looking at how to use Deep Learning/RNNs/NLP/TTS/SS/CV in automating away many of the annoying rudimentary development tasks in favor of programmers only caring about higher abstractions. IMO for that I found functional programming woefully inadequate; your opinion might be different, nevertheless I'll see if I can push it in the direction I like in the future and how far it can get.

by bitL 9y ago

KirinDave 9y ago

> I don't want to be doxxed, but let's say I worked for your fierce competitors and the ones your former employer "borrowed" a lot of ideas from. Also rejected an offer from them. You worked for Sun and Oracle, then? I imagine the feelings around the (somewhat technologically inferior but vastly more popular) JVM are pretty complicated. > I am not talking about gradient boosted decision trees-based meta-programming here. Neither am I. > Good luck at Udacity, some NDs like SDC/Robo/DLF were simply awesome! Thank you.

bitL 9y ago
> I imagine the feelings around the (somewhat technologically inferior but vastly more popular) JVM are pretty complicated. Yeah, type erasure messes up everything, you can feel its bad influence on Scala & Kotlin. I am a big fan of Anders' languages since Delphi days as well and listening to ideological justifications internally how JVM is better or IDE is evil was sometimes funny. But it was open, so it won in the end and I am glad about it :) But it wasn't the only company, I worked for; another one that produced another rising star and was deep in meta-programming as well; with love-hate relationship with your former employer as your ex would love to kill us but some of your customers completely depended on our products, so you had to let us live. I am looking at how to use Deep Learning/RNNs/NLP/TTS/SS/CV in automating away many of the annoying rudimentary development tasks in favor of programmers only caring about higher abstractions. IMO for that I found functional programming woefully inadequate; your opinion might be different, nevertheless I'll see if I can push it in the direction I like in the future and how far it can get.