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by a-saleh 8y ago
I kinda liked to listen to functional geekery [1], because I really like the space of kinda-fringe-but-mostly-practical space many of the guests occupy with regards to functional languages. Good mix of people working with languages professi
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These are rough estimates :) while comparing offers of my previous and current employment, there was the thing of having less vacation when working part-time (only 16 days, no sick-days, compared to 25+5) but the 20% pay-rise vs 20% less wo
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I did this when negotiating salary at my last job. I discussed this with my wife, and we agreed, that having +20% salary wouldn't improve our lives much. Working 20% less probably would. So far it seems that it worked out :-) The extra
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Not a book, but a series of lectures on old testament from yale open courses. I found them as a young Lutheran, at a time more evangelical and fundamentalist influences were comming into my community, including young-earth creacionists. Und
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I wouldn't aim for startups. I would aim for larger, established corporations, that have good track-record with internships. I am biased, but speaking from my experience at RedHat in Czech republic, from time-to-time I would see intern
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by a-saleh 8y ago
For side-projects I like to play around with PureScript. Mostly because I really like things like simple-json, where it can parse a json string based just on the type you are expecting. It looks powerful, and i.e. Halogen framework has dece
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Maybe I haven't used datalog enough, but the convention of lowercase data, uppercase-starting Variable strikes me as limiting.
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Aggregation is awkward. It is not that composable. Sub-queries are not a thing. Prolog conventions make things awkward. The ammount of datatypes seems to be limited. If you encounter datalog in the wild it will be something pretty-custom, l
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I think it is the fact that most of the time a) things don't work b) it is hard to say why they don't work Annecdotaly, from looking at my mom, a 50+ year old economist working on insurance backend platform, any sort of error wou
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I would give you this advice: Try to follow up with people that interviewed you, you might actually learn why you didn't make the cut. This might be harder with large companies, but even during the interview, a question like 'If t
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I used to go indoor bouldering. Now too tired unfortunately. I have been climbing a bit (indoor as well) and if I could spare 3 hours two times a week, it would have been awesome hoby :) Right ammount of strength, endurance and puzzle-solvi
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by a-saleh 8y ago
On one hand, I agree that there is something about the "biologically wired implicit grammar processor". I would view it more along the lines "if you state your problem in a way we are used to talk abou it, you will find your
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Depends where. I.e. I spent 3 years on nodejs project, and first require was either lodash or underscore, bringing in the usual suspects of map, reduce, filter along with some sort of pipelining operator. I spent 6 months on C# project usin
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by a-saleh 8y ago
In your case I would try to relocate. I worked at Red Hat and from what I heard you could relocate from i.e. US to Czech republic and retain your salary. This was rare and I am not certain about the specifics, but I have seen it happen seve
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I live in Brno, Czech Republic. It is ~400k city, that grows by another ~100k when students return :-) Tech scene: * We have Red Hat, Net Suite/Oracle, GoodData, Seznam (local search portal, still somehow competing with google), and fe
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Hm, I guess I should mention last two jobs, because I am just two months in with my current job. Previous: Started as an intern during first year of my 2-year masters. Went to their recruiter during their open-house. Told me there would be
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I have been told, that when I was ~2 to ~5 years old, making these sorts of choices was hard for me, and I often copped out i.e: Q: "Do you want jam or honey on your bread slice?" A:"One half jam, one half honey?" :D
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I had two thoughts when I read it. First, I am currently reading Zvonkin's Math from three to seven, and he included an essay where he talks about "language support" when solving math problems. Hypothesis was, that to use lan
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by a-saleh 8y ago
T.b.h. as a young parent with a 4yo daughter, I am kinda affraid to give her more free reign. Currently, I am fine with she doing whatever if a) I know where she is b) I know there is at least some obstacle between her and the traffic. c)
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by a-saleh 8y ago
What is this linear-logic thing that does what monads do? I haven't yet grokked linear-logic (apart from the advert, that you might want to use it to reason about resource constraints), so I would like to read about this :)
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Currently short-term-ish? I have achieved more than half-a-year of income in my short-term savings, but I feel unsure if I should start long-term i.e. pension-fund-style savings. As I will be 30 next year, I probably should. I probably shou
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I played: * Dungeon World (and World of Dungeons) * Apocalypse World * Blades in the Dark * Scum and Villainy I blame mostly Steven Lumpkin and Adam Koebels streams with J.P. Mc Daniels on twitch. One day I would love to play the standard 5
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Well, I just got married that year with a daughter on a way that we didn't entirely plan. My biggest advice would be along the lines: * your parents love you, and you should ignore all of their well-meant advice, because it will bring
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Ever since I have worked with RedHat, I really like the standard-issue lenovo ThinkPad. I am writing this from Fedora linux on T470s. But the best idea probably is to just get what your friends/coworkers are using :)
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Ask your friends for work. When I was growing up, few of my friends were helping with their family businesses, and some of those were IT related. These were my first jobs, like setting up a server for friends fathers business, or rewriting
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by a-saleh 8y ago
You have several options. This is what I would do in your place. First, I would forget about interview-prep. Second, I would try to get better idea about actual work, call friends from university that already work, and talk to them. I did l
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Somewhere I heard that 80% pure 20% impure is a good sweet-spot. I think I read it somewhere on this blog: https://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html but it does kinda ring true. What I experienced more, is that function to be state
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by a-saleh 8y ago
If I had to do a project, probably vue or just vanila-js. If I wanted to learn more, I really liked the purescript book [1]. It made many concepts I wanted to learn in Haskell click. I am not sure I would be confident enough to try to deliv
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Most often: * Tim Ferris show - kinda like the interviews, and really like the experimental mind-set of Ferris Less often: * Magic Readalong - Two guys talking 20 minutes about interesting functional programming and life. These are the con
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Now-days I stick with google-docs. I suppose this is largely due to the reason I am mostly taking notes on meetings: * having one document per recurring meeting kinda makes sense * vaguely structured per meeting log kinda makes sense * it i

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