Tistel

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by Tistel 10y ago
Its impossible to accurately estimate an unknown. Once you have experience, a rough sketch of the solution will pop into your head right away, but as you go along all these devilish little details will pop up. Also, meetings run by people
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by Tistel 10y ago
I wonder if the Erlang/BEAM VM could take advantage of it. Erlang would be a beast. if any of the pure functional languages get running on it (for easy parallel), watch out. Nice work!
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by Tistel 10y ago
Ugh. This is so me. I turned 40 last year. Did CS, writing code is still the fun part of the job. Anyway, I used to maintain a fashionable amount of stubble. This year I noticed my beard was starting to go grey. Now I shave a lot more
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by Tistel 10y ago
it was weird. When I saw it fall I felt a spike of empathetic pain for it. My mirror neurons fired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron I felt bad for it.
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by Tistel 10y ago
This could be huge if they can keep the prices near Walmart levels. This could be a way to get around the negative stigma of shopping at Walmart amongst the hipster / bourgeois / middle class. If they pull this off it will put r
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by Tistel 10y ago
I have been a dev for 15 years. Its seems less fun now. I did hard core C++ games for 13 of that (Nintendo DS+Wii, 360 and PS3 games). You always had a pretty good sense of what what going on. Now I am doing web/mobile. Its just a
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by Tistel 10y ago
In terms of obsolescence, it's dog eat dog within the tech world too. On Friday, our new COO told the dev team (we were not consulted, just the CEO) of his plans to move the back office to the cloud (salesforce). Nobody but the coo k
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by Tistel 10y ago
I am a programmer. Its totally possible for this to happen. But, bugs will buy us time. We are too stupid (for now, a new language or proof system could change this) to write good enough software to destroy ourselves. Also energy effici
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by Tistel 10y ago
I left Vancouver and currently live in Toronto. The real estate bubble monster is a truly frightening beast in those cities. Outside of tech (I am a programmer) and banking, so much of Canada's economy is in real estate. http:&#x2F
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by Tistel 10y ago
I live in Canada, did a degree in CS and work as a programmer. I do ok money wise. I consider myself lucky that I enjoy programming. I live in Toronto and have zero chance of ever owning real-estate (unless there is a massive real estate
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by Tistel 11y ago
The postmortem used the word "quirk." They might consider drilling down on the specifics there. Especially if that is the heart of the bug/accident.
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by Tistel 11y ago
I think this is great. I live in emacs and a bit of bash. emacs on windows works, but, does not feel right. Everything is a little wonky (the path slash thing, the unix find and aspell tools etc). If this makes emacs feel like it does
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by Tistel 11y ago
I know a couple of people who did the move and both said it was a wash money wise once you factor all your costs (healthcare, rent, private school for the kids etc). Your job options are an order of magnitude better though.
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by Tistel 11y ago
I lived in Vancouver for 5 years. Beautiful spot. Met a lot of interesting people from all over the world. But, even by Canadian standards (which are much lower than the US) the salaries in Vancouver are notoriously low. A much better (
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by Tistel 11y ago
does anyone know anything about the implementation (language etc)?
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by Tistel 11y ago
Are there any articles about how/why the sluice gates are seized? Is it sediment blocking them? Or did something mechanical break? I would like to hear from an engineer. I know that the US Corps of Engineers has probably been to it
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by Tistel 11y ago
I think thats it. 1/4 to 1/2 my day is pointless meetings. Some days its 100%. Every company has those odd people who just go to meetings all day (or so it seems). When they are not in a meeting they are sending slack/ema
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by Tistel 11y ago
great. now my nightmares have a voice. :) I do love the fact that someone had a non-trivial odd-ball idea and followed through.
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by Tistel 11y ago
lisp is beautiful. The crown jewels of computer science. getting to spend time with it reminds you that programming can be fun (and profound) while you are being paid to work with some awful drudgery language solving some stupid problem.
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by Tistel 11y ago
I am from NB (Anglo). So I have very rusty French. I am sure it would come back if I used it. Montreal is a great city. My salary doubled for the same industry (programmer with CS) going from Van to TO. Vancouver is beautiful if you li
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by Tistel 11y ago
This is me. I left Vancouver for Toronto 5 years ago. What is not mentioned (that I saw) is that salaries in Vancouver are also much lower than Toronto for the same job. Montreal is even cheaper than Toronto and is probably more fun (i
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by Tistel 11y ago
Knuth is famous for focusing on writing his books. He even stopped using email because it was too distracting. I doubt he has the time (or interest) to export all his writing to modern indexable formats on a site he maintains (Prof. Knuth
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by Tistel 11y ago
Oh, I agree. Its not the language's fault. You can write a good or bad program in any language. No language can save you on its own. But, as the expression goes: some programming languages give you enough rope to shoot yourself in
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by Tistel 11y ago
C++ compile and link time. I once worked on a PS3 game that had a 50 minute turnaround time (change code -> compile -> link -> load). No scripting either. The horror. It was because the company had home brewed a bunch of "
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by Tistel 11y ago
If you go to google finance and plot the S&P 500 for all known time you get a chart that goes back to 1975. I see three big humps 2000, 2007 and 2015. This is obviously not the most sophisticated analysis, but, there seems to be a pat
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by Tistel 11y ago
Its a bit weird being a small part of computer science. The big early movers and shakers were still around for most of our lives. The whole field is within living memory. Now they are starting to pass away. Engelbart, McArthy etc. Thin
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by Tistel 11y ago
I was working at a place that had decided that they needed "big data tools" and part of the team was developing a Hadoop data cluster and myriad of other tools (Tableau, Reddis cache etc). I put all the campaign (it was an ad tech
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by Tistel 11y ago
Me too. I live in a city far from where I grew up. Good job. Lots of money. Don't know a soul.
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by Tistel 11y ago
I have been using emacs for over 15 years. I still discover new things. I am working on a distributed project and found tramp mode about a year ago. Its amazing for multi-hop remote editing. Worth the price of admission alone.
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by Tistel 12y ago
Mostly Canada (with a couple spots in the USA) in Toronto and Waterloo. http://juicemobile.com/ ad tech for the mobile advertising. C++, Python, JS, AngularJS and Django.

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