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by alarge 10y ago
I guess the results here would surprise you if you assumed that hiring bias was primarily the result of an explicit bias against {gender, race, etc.}. While there is certainly this class of bias, I personally haven't found as much of
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by alarge 10y ago
This may be redundant with what others have said at this point, but I think this article is wrong-headed: it perpetuates the idea that you will/should have winners and losers. The biggest barrier I've found to helping improve an i
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by alarge 11y ago
I couldn't live without folds. Whether I'm in C++, Java, Go, Ruby, or a custom ASCII report I've written, I use them extensively. I add fold tags around every method/function implementation, and sometimes an additional
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by alarge 11y ago
Maybe I'm just showing my age, but having/requiring a good IDE is a anti-benefit for me. One of the things I'm loving about Go is just how little "environmental baggage" the language has. No Makefiles, superfast b
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by alarge 11y ago
I'm not a real fan of assigning a context-independent global value label like "good" or "bad" to code. While there probably are examples of truly "bad in all respects, in any context" code, the vast major
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by alarge 13y ago
Can someone address the actual usefulness/fit of Haskell as a general purpose programming language for development of complex systems? Most of my career (roughly 30 years), I've been a Unix server-side engineer, writing code in C
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by alarge 13y ago
Poll is a bit confusing. I'm always reading a book, e.g., I've always got a book open at home that I pick up and read at different points during the day - anywhere from 30 minutes to ~120 minutes total each day. How many different boo
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by alarge 13y ago
Not very close. Said 32. I'm 47. From the other comments, seems like a pretty narrow range of guesses.