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by a-saleh 8y ago
From certain point of view, it has. When I started learning programming in mid 2000, closest thing I would use is anonymous implementations of runable in Java? These days, I don't think there is a main-stream language in use, that woul
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I would say there are several languages that straddle the line. AFAIK there exist 50+ people teams that use i.e. ocaml (Jane street, Facebook), haskell (gallois, Facebook, Google), erlang (whatsapp, pivotal) I would say that beyond i.e. 10
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There are languages that have stronger type systems. I.e. idris, agda. There is paralel lineage of ml-style languages (ocaml, F#) that deal with abstraction in different way (I find ocaml module system fascinating and yet have to fully comp
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For me it is the money. I think I would enjoy it, doing the research, even the grant/publication game. But where I live, I probably wouldn't have money for feeding my family. The money you get kinda assumes you are still a student
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Looking at the situation in Venezuela, I do often think about Iran. Like, on the surface, they seem to be in a similar situation geopolitically. I would think, that if Venezuelan regime displayed at least the same level of competency as Ira
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In my opinion, the 24/7 coverage that was fueled by the tragic images was a mistake.
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I am using a 5$/month linode server. 1 vcpu, half a gig of ram, 20 gig space. Good enough for some node-js dev. Not enough for haskell unfortunately.
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Still, for me it is quite hard to imagine what would I create with APL. Usually, when trying a language, my instinct is to implement a web-service. Or a simple gui-app, with some library. With APL, I am looking at it and wonder. I looks pow
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Yes. Few times I even started vim in tmux inside VS Code terminal :)
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Would you be willing to try: a) some IOS-native IDE, i.e. http://continuous.codes/ ? b) how would android fare in comparison? I.e. I really like termux project, it seems to have much more installable packages than i.e. blin
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For me, it 80% is. But I am the kind of a person, who edits his .git/config in VS Code through vim in the embedded terminal :)
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T.b.h. these two were often dis-joint. Applicable skills learned in the wild and the ones learned in CS classes can have little in common. I would say they are almost orthogonal. But for the most white-board style algorithm questions I have
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The model I am used to is the http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ despite the fact I don't really know what is behind the data. It postulates, that if everybody would consume/travel, we would need two more earths
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If I understand correctly, termux is a terminal emulator first, with some additional packages installed. Android is running linux kernel, so in theory, if you have like sh executable compiled for android you would be able to run it inside o
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Was there ever anything similar done? Only thing I recall was the weird AT&T split [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
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I for one, LOVE both BASIC and VBA :-) But maybe that is just nostalgia speaking, BASIC was my first language :)
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For me, knowing the vi-style editing has been a boon, mostly because I often find myself in shells that are not mine. 8 times out of 10, there is at least vi there.
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Actually using go-lang for a project. I really don't like the language. It is verbose, with really simplistic error-handling, over-reliance on accepting interface{} in methods (meaning arbitrary object). More-over, I really like the ba
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I am playing around with it. Right now I am trying to work my way through 99 problems [1], but using the ReasonML syntax [2] I am quite far from using it professionally (or in anger, as they say), but my next toy-project/game will prob
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Around my parts, this was supplemented by my church youth-group. I know that many other parents were taking their kids to local Scouts groups.
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For a true decentralized forum, I would probably prefer https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ .. the protocol seems nice and understandable, doesn't use block-chain, just distributed append-log, based on user white-lists, user&#
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Tldr: I cope by going to free therapy sessions First I would muster up all my energy try to activate my basic survival instinct, sit down and start planning. How much money do I have? What is the runway, if I don't get more money, what
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Haskell and Purescript (a close-relative compiled to Javascript). Have yet to 'use it in anger', though :)
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Second, as aid in design. I had the pleasure to use languages capable of deriving implementations from types directly (where otherwise you'd use reflection) and ones with type-directed search and typed-holes (even though unsafeCoerce f
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Not common at all. Unless you are a college student (most people I knew went intern->part-time->full-time) But most employers are open to them. I used it as a negotiating tactic, where they offered 15% more than I had, and I countered
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I Work in Czech republic. So far switching jobs was not a problem. Nor getting a job. Around 7 years as a developer on some form or other. Currently 2500$/Month with a 4 day work-week. Interesting work. Up to additional 500-1000$ a mon
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Second that. If you have RedHat in presence in your country, it is usually fairly easy, unless you would be hired for junior position/internship. I have worked with remote-developers based in Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France and
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If I were in that position, and wouldn't want to break off the relationship, I would probably try to change billable-hours to billable days (or even weeks?) I would then try to keep strict 8-hour a day work-schedule (ok, maybe even jus
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I would say it is about incentives. If hiring manager is 'graded's on number of people hired, usually has a decent budget that might dissappear every new fiscal year, and they want to hire you, they will be willing to negotiate :)
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Either Ocaml or ReasonML. I always liked functional programming, and dabbled in haskell, but it always seemed too much of an investment to bring anybody who doesn't already like haskell into the project. But they did add deriving_via t

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