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by 0x445442 7y ago
> but FAANG companies would have to fundamentally rethink the kind of person they'd like to hire if they want to move out of affluent Urban cores. And yet Apple seemed to have figured out this type of problem quite nicely during the
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by 0x445442 7y ago
But once you learn the alien language you can understand all written forms in that language. When you speak of Perl, which dialect of Perl are you speaking of? I'm not singling out Perl here as I see the same issue in varying degrees w
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by 0x445442 7y ago
You answered your own question with your qualifier... "Ruby seems more consistent and straightforward than any other non lisp language I’ve used."
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I agree with your assessment and the irony with respect to this topic is a big contributor to the current state of things in places like the Rust Belt is what other's have said is not feasible; jobs moving to the people. If all that ma
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Very insightful. I grew up in upstate California and you've pretty well described my kin. I would love to leave the city and move some place similar but to do so would drastically limit my options of employment. The irony is I work in
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by 0x445442 7y ago
So why are we to draw any conclusions one way or the other based off a data set that's statistically insignificant compared to the age of the earth?
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by 0x445442 7y ago
So while pair programming what happens with the never ending string of distracting Slack messages and diversions? It just seems completely impractical for the environments I’ve had experienced.
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The thing I find interesting about retro computing is how far one can take the platform in terms of productivity. In other words, how far can the platform be taken if one ignores content consumption. There's also a minimalists/eff
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> If you see someone doing something wrong I think it's here where you may get hoisted on your own petard and that's the price society pays for moral relativism... Case in point, these days one who thinks abortion is obviously
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If you can find stable remote work that you enjoy that's surely something to consider. If you are flexible on where you can live you can really skew the relative compensation in your favor. I think for most situations you'll find
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Not at all. In fact there's quite a decent tech scene being built around ASU in Tempe; Amazon among others are there.
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My wife and I went through the exact same thing back in 2006 and I can tell you while fear of the unknown is real, it might have been the single best decision we ever made. Also, Phoenix is pretty reasonable cost of living wise and they hav
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Ah, LinkedIn... Recruiter spam central.
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> It's very hard to "mimick" the successful parts of their lives Given the level of luck involved I'd say it's near impossible. I've noticed a definite transition in the past 20-25 years and that's more
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by 0x445442 7y ago
You know I hear this argument a lot and I don't buy it because it ignores a baseline at the lower end. I think there are a lot of people that are not concerned with the luxuries you reference but are deeply concerned with their base ne
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Of course the risk is that working on what you want to may not ever put bread on the table. There's heavy confirmation bios in play here as you only hear about the Gates', Musk's and Jobs'. The optimal approach for most
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by 0x445442 7y ago
This happens to me all the time starting pipelines in Gitlab. Which typically results in unwanted merges to master which then need to be reverted.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Gerry Sussman has a really good talk touching on [2]. It was surprising to me that his real interests are in classical mechanics but he uses computation as a tool to convey the ideas.
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They sort of already are: https://github.com/newapplesho/aws-sdk-smalltalk
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64-bit DOS?
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Yeah, I recall an article that said their physical hardware was in jeopardy during hurricane Sandy.
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After a year of AWS I can tell you it's as much a PITA or more to manage all the components as it would have been to manage a few Spring Boot and MySQL Droplets.
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by 0x445442 7y ago
> It’d be more interesting to talk about them, and how they came to make the wrong decision for what they thought were the right reason My guess, essentially holding their finger to the wind. Most orgs can't afford to do real engine
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Nice; a sufficient high school civics curriculum in 18 minutes.
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> "doing the greatest good to the greatest number of people" Determining this, even with the information available today, seems like folly; like a never ending circle of statistical manipulations and justifications to support p
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by 0x445442 7y ago
Great insights. I'd also add; the notion of UI/UX and good business covering up engineering is highly dependent on the business space. The further down the call stack you go the less you're going to get away with bad engineer
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> It is absolutely nuts that we don't have a greater diversity of computing platforms (as we did in 80s 90s) I'm seeing signs of a possible resurgence here with the reduced cost of PCBs, FPGAs and the like along with the increa
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by 0x445442 7y ago
I'm with the Raskins, the problems derive from interacting with computers via applications. This may or may not be at the forefront of your mind but your fondness of Lisp and Smalltalk systems supports my claim. Other systems such as O
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Thanks for finding that.
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Do you know if the paper controlled for all the variables in tandem. For example, I wouldn't think line count is necessarily mutually exclusive to modularization. That is to say, I'd expect well modularized code to reduce line cou

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