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by 62951413 5y ago
I think that the existence of leetcode interviews, where tech companies ignore your background as much as possible, is a condemnation of my 20+ years of building real-life systems. And a means of filtering out people over 40.
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"existence of your own civilization" is a strong statement. At face value they just want to conquer back half of Europe. Not to send millions across our souther border. Not to kill any Americans. Not to rape their women. Not to tu
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by 62951413 5y ago
Don't worry, even getting close enough to that dystopia will wipe out the society and so not that many people will be left to worry about happiness.
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by 62951413 5y ago
I'm surprised I see much more emphasize on money and almost nobody mentions working on something less trivial or using interesting technology. The latter could be simply different from what you are bored with by now (e.g. Flink after S
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by 62951413 5y ago
There's no coherent grand strategy. The world is structurally hostile to families and men and it's getting worse. It was hard enough in previous generations because men and women are in an adversarial relationship courtesy of moth
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by 62951413 5y ago
Kotlin is surprisingly good if you cannot afford Scala. It's less divergent from the Java ecosystem and doesn't introduce anything conceptually new. But it's not that popular on the backend. The only thing about it I personal
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by 62951413 5y ago
Java ain't no Scala to have any unusual prerequisites. It was designed as the golang of the day and that still shows in its lack of particularly sophisticated features. Speaking of beginners, I'd venture to say that Java has the l
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by 62951413 5y ago
Have you maintained code bases not written by you much? Have you worked in teams of 10+ people long enough to see people leave the company? You can never write down too much. Please * write meaningful JIRA descriptions and try to have PRs
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The Commies never do. Stalin was still "defending his revolution" in the late 30s long after all those millions had been murdered. That's the nature of their barbarous ideology.
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I believe "who cannot cut it in STEM" is a very dangerous thing to say. How many theoretical physicists or golang developer positions are available? By definition only a minority of men can hold them. And the government is importi
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by 62951413 5y ago
If only I had had anyone in my extended family familiar with computers when I was a teenager. But I'm not sure about programming before the age of ~13 or whenever something like algebra shows up in school.
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by 62951413 5y ago
Wouldn't it be more like a crisis of post-modernity? They say high modernism and all that 20th century stuff is behind us. People never trusted authorities outside of the first world. The Western governments were hiding their true natu
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by 62951413 5y ago
There are two flavors of Scala and only one of them is about cats/scalaz. I feel intellectually inferior to people who use the latter in production. But I don't think anymore it's a reasonable aspiration to become one of them
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by 62951413 5y ago
I remember perusing a book on ML (the language) and having aha moments such as "so this is where the '_' naming convention comes from" and "this is where pattern matching was borrowed from". Monads (aka zio&#x2
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by 62951413 5y ago
Scala is not necessarily a detour in this discussion. It's arguably the most functional language among mainstream ones. And for better or worse its ecosystem seems to be influenced by old Haskell hands much more than one would expect.
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by 62951413 5y ago
There's no question that family is what is missing from your life. A grown man needs a family to take care of. And yes, it's a direct contradiction to what has been discussed on this very forum re:divorce. And no, I cannot suggest
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by 62951413 5y ago
You make it sound like variety and incorporation are less important than math and physics. If only we lived in a democracy where people had a chance to make Orwell fiction again. Do you know which party the very same teachers' union co
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by 62951413 5y ago
I'm mostly with you for the immediate future. So even if cars driving themselves to our offices to write code for 8 hours is in the cards I'd be curious to hear more tactical informed guesses. What would an intermediate stage look
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by 62951413 5y ago
In the world where Scala and Kotlin exist "It's the new Java" is not exactly a compliment.
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by 62951413 5y ago
70M people would like a word with you. Don't confuse legacy media propaganda with what regular people think. Especially when you hear newspeak.
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by 62951413 5y ago
There is no shortage of engineers to begin with. I have interviewed enough in my life to be certain about it. Curiously, it's not even about the alleged higher compensation required by senior engineers. I never asked for too much and w
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by 62951413 5y ago
* I could be a verbatim translation and so lose subtle semantics; "don't expect what you don't inspect" would be idiomatic * Any Soviet saying would come from a culture used to double-speak to survive government oppressi
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by 62951413 5y ago
Model-driven development and code generation from UML were once supposed to be the future. It will be interesting to see how much further this approach takes us. Assuming ANNs resemble the way human brain function you'd also expect the
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by 62951413 5y ago
I always thought Java was the original protobuf library. Of the big three (PB, Avro, Thrift) only protobufs have a great modern RPC library included. I suspect more people start using PB because of gRPC. Unfortunately many people are still
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The parallels with the JVM are obvious on multiple levels. In case of WASM I'm curious specifically about cross-language portability. We have learned from the JVM that while technically possible it may not be a popular choice. Java&#x2
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by 62951413 5y ago
Did the West actually win the Cold War? The parallels with the Soviets are getting more real by the day. With those exceptions the commitments like that would be right at home in Putin's Russia and whatever is left of their universitie
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by 62951413 5y ago
A boring technology is one with which a large number of developers have previous production experience with. Or probably even "of the developers you can realistically expect to hire".
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I hope in real life you have enough discipline to practice things which people like me would call "code quality". Because taken literally it would lead to all those code bases I have had to maintain - barely a useful test in sight
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by 62951413 5y ago
I'm fairly certain people like me are confused by Prolog not because it's declarative but because it's a logic programming language. Which is more exotic than a functional one with even more esoteric syntax. I have a feeling
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by 62951413 5y ago
No revolutionary technology can be expected to be practical for casual users. They are building a cool product and I hope they find a market even if a niche once. But I'd prefer https://www.youtube.com/c/Jetsonaero

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