amcintyre

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by amcintyre 15y ago
Their behavior is just as frustrating from the other side. Since my resume says I've used Python for scientific computing, I must be a Django expert that has experience building scalable e-commerce sites, right? That's what 90% of the recr
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I think you might need a semilog-y scale to be able to see it.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Actually, no: in this case, the tools were used fairly frequently.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
"Now, the watchword to the development team is: it's not done until I can one-click deploy it." I have apparently been spoiled somewhere along the line, because I really don't like having clumsy manual processes that involve software/co
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I dimly recall trying to figure out how to make modern(ish) conveniences, like flashlights or televisions, under D&D rules. An imaginative person (i.e., not me) could probably use the "building technology on top of a magic-based world"
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by amcintyre 15y ago
> Drop the entertainment ideas, and work on something good for the world. That's one of the things that bugs me most about the job market, at least where I live: 95+% of the jobs are completely focused on entertainment or social media.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Sorry--I'm not "suddenly worried," I was worried from the start, and hence don't have a Facebook account. I apologize as if I inadvertently made this seem like a "that's the last straw" moment for me. However, I do know several regular Fac
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Thanks for the link--I hadn't seen that before. The last time I looked around for health care for myself (many years ago) I don't recall seeing plan prices that low.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Take any software engineer at MSFT and find out how many people are between them and Steve. Frankly, I think that'll be a telling (damning) statistic. I'm a software engineer with no reports at MSFT; there are 5 people between me and Stev
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by amcintyre 15y ago
> "I could have sworn that FB now lets you choose..." For me, it's the "now" part. The Facebook management can decide to make that information available to others, openly or behind the scenes, if they deem it to be in their financial
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by amcintyre 15y ago
So I'm not the only one that saw, "The 'Listen with your friend' feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE." and thought, "Why does that impress anybody that much?" Sure, the details are probab
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by amcintyre 15y ago
It may not be universal but there absolutely is free (or very cheap) health care available in the US. Where might I find this free/very cheap health care?
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Related to your off-topic comment: read the comment on the article site. :) Edit: Because it will probably get taken down, it says "Another great startup you should look out for is SlideshowAssassins, it goes and kills authors and webmast
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by amcintyre 15y ago
> My lack of excitement was interpreted as a lack of passion. And I was told startups look for passion. So sorry. I found it both annoying and silly. I was just told the same thing at a big company. I'm sorry, but I thought I was hired
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I have the same problem when people ask for my favorite something-or-other. For some reason I just don't rank things that way, and I'm not quite sure why.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
For, uh, small values of infinity? Or something? I find that I don't run out of storage on my computers any more, so perhaps I'm not their target audience. Best of luck competing in that space, though--it seems pretty crowded already. :)
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by amcintyre 15y ago
> The biggest competitive advantage is to do the right thing at the worst time. But, but, but...we have to just slap something--anything--together to beat the other guy to market! Or to meet our arbitrary deadline! We can always make i
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by amcintyre 15y ago
In this market, if your employees are not happy they will get poached. ...and they'll poach themselves even if you offer them a little salary bump, or a $50 gift certificate for that time they came in and worked through the weeken
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Sure, and there are a lot of other things you don't /need/, but that will make you more valuable to employers, or to your customers if you're a business owner. Everybody has to choose things to learn and not learn, but my experience has bee
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Thumbs up for telling people they need to know some math. Even if you're not planning to work in the specialized areas that are mentioned in the article, it wouldn't hurt to be more comfortable with math than most developers are, because y
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by amcintyre 15y ago
Sure, but that's why I mentioned Python: Ruby is only 4 years younger than Python, but I haven't run across that many greenfield projects that involved Python. Of course maybe I just haven't looked in the right places. :)
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by amcintyre 15y ago
From the article: "In fact, offhand I can only think of one commercial greenfield Ruby project I’ve participated in." I can say the same of C, C++ and Python in the context of my personal work history. Is Avdi's experience so unusual in th
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by amcintyre 15y ago
"Ruby has such wonderful evangelists that somewhere along the line I had gotten the idea that all Rails projects had 100% test coverage, and refactoring was a matter of course." Somehow, I (somebody with zero Ruby experience, and very littl
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by amcintyre 15y ago
If I was writing a real review, it might look a lot like the one marked up with all the "deceptive" indicators, with the exception that I'm not a big exclamation mark user. The grumpy old man in me wants to suggest that anyone who actually
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I've seen it, in various strengths/flavors, in the southern United States. My guess is that it's more common among people whose complete life experience is so far removed from any scientific endeavor that they've never needed to understand
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I found that taking the bus to work has given me 80 distraction-free minutes per day. It's much easier to focus long enough to read an entire paper or chapter of a book on the bus than in my office or living room.
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by amcintyre 15y ago
From the article: "When performance wasn't a consideration from day one, inefficiency becomes endemic, corrupting every square mibbibyte of the project. Why not iterate a giant array instead of using hashes?" Spending 5 minutes choosing the
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by amcintyre 15y ago
From the article: "In this case, there are software engineers available but not with the skill set the companies are looking for." Well, at least not at the salary levels companies are offering. If you want MINT/STEM-knowledgeable people t
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by amcintyre 15y ago
I can't tell...are you talking about the jobs the robots will be doing, or playing Farmville?
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by amcintyre 15y ago
"On the other hand, having run into the problem in various forms 'irl' probably did make reading the description/solution in Knuth more intelligible and well motivated, compared to if I had just sat down and read every one of his books firs

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