RogerL

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by RogerL 13y ago
No one is expressing surprise. We are expressing reasons for why it needs to change.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Ya, I lost the instruction manual to my crystal ball so I hate trying to predict things like this, but I don't see any moat that the US has that will stop the world from writing the simple CRUD apps. And we regularly get 'self tau
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by RogerL 13y ago
I kind of think I said the opposite. I said the kind of thinking that works for such start ups (you must admit plenty do exist) leach into companies where such thinking does not work. In fact, I said that the world is fueled by things like
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by RogerL 13y ago
But "Aha" does solve it?
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by RogerL 13y ago
I have seen a turnaround, a dramatic one. I forget the number, but this was for something in the range of a $60MM contract. I will not identify the company or product for various reasons. How was the turnaround accomplished? By firing every
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sorry to reply to myself. This was intended as a reply to steven777400 below, not to the article itself. I guess old people can't handle these new fangled interfaces ;)
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm sorry, do we have any evidence that young people work longer? I don't discount that it happens in certain fields, such as finance, but that is forced on them by the system. Or any evidence that age = worse code? And, can we se
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm replying to this one only because it is on the top; I am not singling the author out in any way. This is all so foreign to me. I moved to SV 2 years ago, and I am 47. Y'all are in such a bubble. Every day the recruitment ads s
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by RogerL 13y ago
I haven't found that to be the case. We build machines, reinstall OSes, upgrade OSes; by and large wireless 'just works' in these cases with Windows. The pre-install is not a special case here.
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, your conjecture is that physics will continue, but our appetite for new features will plateau? I don't buy that, personally; in fact I think it is exactly the opposite. I want a calendar program that is smarter than me, I want sear
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't exactly know the truth of your statements above, but I've spent my life doing all of that cool stuff. I've written code for flight computers, done machine vision for factory inspection, supported cancer research by do
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by RogerL 13y ago
Google's style guide is written so that mediocre programmers don't get too trapped by C++ nuances.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Have you talked to the bigger companies? Microsoft is here, for one, and are unlikely to turn up their noses to a .NET developer. Plenty of places have dozens of recs open. Don't talk to the stupid recruiters, talk to the companies the
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by RogerL 13y ago
Not knocking your decision to live outside of SV, believe me I understand it, but on the purely economic front one thing to recognize that while housing and other expenses may eat a lot of the salary, you are contributing (or rather, can) t
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by RogerL 13y ago
My cause is my mortgage. Sorry, not picking on you specifically, but the HN meme of 'what we do is so important' is pretty tiring. My very first job, supporting cancer research, was actually probably pretty important in the scheme
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by RogerL 13y ago
I consider low rent a plus. It tells me that the owners are perhaps managing their cash flow to be maintainable, and take seriously the fact that people just handed them a heck of a lot of cash. (there is a lot of nuance I am not covering
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by RogerL 13y ago
As the other poster pointed out, this paper is measuring nothing, or at least it is not written in a way to let us know. I find it unremarkable that a sudden focus on quality and testing reduced the bug rate. It does not follow that TDD is
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by RogerL 13y ago
There are several claims on here, that I could address by replying, but I'll try to top post. I see several claims about how much better the code is with TDD. Well, can I see examples? I write tests, but I don't do TDD. By and lar
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by RogerL 13y ago
Read the literature. Kent Beck, the author of the idea and the book describing it, very clearly argues for test first. The test tells you how to design. I'm not sure if that is what you mean by your paragraph or not. But in his book, t
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by RogerL 13y ago
You can always find outliers. The question is, does the self-flying plane reduce the # of deaths and injuries, or increase them?
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by RogerL 13y ago
It's the job of the person making the claim to provide the evidence for their claim, not the job of the listener to provide counter-evidence.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Science says otherwise: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy02osti/30769.pdf
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by RogerL 13y ago
I guess I will just email the architect of my building and tell them they did it wrong. I should have sunlight when? edit: longer answer - I work in Mountain View, where there is huge competition for buildings thanks to Google. Small compan
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by RogerL 13y ago
laptops are not productive (for me). I like the Valve approach of putting your entire workstation on a movable desk, and you just wheel your entire desk to where you need to be at the time. Collaborate for a few weeks? No problem. Go off to
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by RogerL 13y ago
Because most buildings have a large footprint, and only the offices on the parameter have windows. I am typing from a windowless, interior, private office. It is pretty depressing, but I prefer it to open space (which I could easily get her
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, because there is certainly no way to browse the web via your phone's hotspot! I think this is called shutting the barn door after the horses have fled.
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by RogerL 13y ago
why?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Years of experience don't matter (IMO). I will pay you based on the value you bring. PhDs have demonstrated the ability to read the literature and conduct research under supervision. That is not necessarily very valuable (knowledge gai
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't know the author, so I cannot say how his interviews went. In general I think you have to take control of the interviews and just show the person why you are valuable. It's hard to find talent; the person interviewing want
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by RogerL 13y ago
I've wondered about that. Take your PO to the bank, and they'll be more than accommodating in setting you up with a revolving line of credit. Why give up equity? Sometimes they do say "go away, you don't need me", b

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