ataturk

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by ataturk 8y ago
I liked Clojure in 2014/2015 but like Scala and Groovy, interest has fallen way off. Seems like the JVM language wars are over. I still think everyone should learn LISP. I just don't think Clojure was that awesome. Java 8 isn&#
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by ataturk 8y ago
Learn how to "dig in." At least in the enterprise space, problem solving is more important than the code you write. I have seen many people come and go because although they can write Java, they can't figure out what to wri
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by ataturk 8y ago
My guess? An unholy alliance between government and private industry which allows each to get away with things the other can't. For example, squelching free speech can be done by a private company with practically no impediments. Me
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by ataturk 8y ago
That quote is very profound. I know from my own doctoral research how difficult innovation is and how stressful that becomes. I want to also have a personal life outside of just working and what I saw at my university was unhealthy to the
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by ataturk 8y ago
I could not agree more. It is so frustrating to have a device like my iPad Air 2 sitting unused because the screen got cracked. The cost to repair it was higher than replacement cost. If we care about the environment even one single litt
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by ataturk 8y ago
I'm sure my graduate adviser appears to be a high-frequency publisher (before he became Dean). His name was on every paper that his 9-10 PhD students got published and rightly so--he got us the funding, helped us formulate ideas and p
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by ataturk 8y ago
So many great lessons in that story, from "too many lawyers in Boston" to "debased currency" to "moral arguments that both sides felt strongly about." It's all there, same as right now. It is also striki
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by ataturk 8y ago
We don't have to close them off entirely, but we do have to acknowledge the problem in our faces. Google would be happy to apply the censorship worldwide, not just in China! If Western culture isn't dead, if our Western legal tra
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by ataturk 8y ago
This sounds sad, but I'm not sure how I really feel about it. I went to college with a lot of Music Industry major types in the mid '90s and I thought most of them were kidding themselves about their real prospects even back then
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by ataturk 8y ago
Actually, I'm a fan of accountability, so no. What should happen is the easy loans should be eliminated altogether, which would get Wall Street out of higher ed and return things to a more sane basis. These schools ran away so hard w
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by ataturk 8y ago
Just to be clear: There has never been any real evidence put forth that Russia tampered with the US elections in any direct manner. They had some bots of Facebook that attempted to sway public opinion, and that's about it. Whether t
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by ataturk 8y ago
I agree. I quit every job where they don't respect my personal time, especially vacation. Life is just too short. It's bad enough what I've been through with companies and their stingy PTO policies (US).
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by ataturk 8y ago
Couple things: First, 23andMe is not medical advice and I don't know how they get away with supplying such advice. Second, all medications incur risk to your body, so taking something like a Herpes medication for years in the hope th
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by ataturk 8y ago
It's decent when your employer springs for a "dock" type devices that allows a single USBC hookup to the laptop, including power, which is the setup I had at my previous role. It sucks when you have to attach and detach a who
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by ataturk 8y ago
My 81 year old mother has dementia. It is a terrible disease. She has no short-term memory at all and it makes caring for her extremely difficult. Also, as the disease has progressed, she has gotten into crazy hallucinations and almost hu
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by ataturk 8y ago
The problem with being broke and lazy is that the quality of life totally sucks and that a single health emergency probably means you are going to die. Food for thought. Also, it sucks but I can tell you firsthand that having a million dol
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by ataturk 8y ago
Retirement at 80? Both my in-laws are gone, both cancer victims, one died at 67, the other 74. My mother is 81 with severe dementia, she doesn't know who I am. My father, the only really left standing, has two hip replacements and o
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by ataturk 8y ago
I worked my way through college and still got a 3.75 in a double major of Math and CS. My girlfriend at the time got a 4.0 at her college but had a full tuition scholarship and did it by dropping any hard math course that wasn't absol
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by ataturk 8y ago
The 2015 MB Pro was damn decent. I bought my daughter a refurb 2012 Pro 13" with 16GB of RAM and yes, it is damn decent. Not sure what the hell is wrong at Apple. My work machine is the 2017 MB Pro and its awful, I hate it.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Stupid article. Is there any age at which having a positive attitude isn't overall helpful? The issue with old age is the random serious illness lottery and really nothing else.
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by ataturk 8y ago
I wish I could say otherwise, but all my startup experiences have been kind of like that. Wouldn't change it for the world, though.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Mine are growing up way too fast. My daughter, 12, lost interest in toys fairly early and was never into dolls or princesses at all. She did have a great Scooby Doo phase and we did buy the figures and toy Mystery Machine from Toys R Us a
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by ataturk 8y ago
RTP in Durham, NC--there are so many office parks that were just 80-90% empty after 2001. I have a hard time imagining that any of them have any decent occupancy even now. That whole area must be commercial RE hell for some investors some
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by ataturk 8y ago
I'm in the midwest. I've had zero luck with remote work. Zero. The rest of what you said is spot-on.
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by ataturk 8y ago
True. Scrum is mostly propaganda. I have yet to see it work right and it's been more than 3 different jobs now. The closest was at a big corporation where they sent us all the agile training, had buy-in from management, the PMs, eve
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by ataturk 8y ago
Why would we visit forbes.com to learn about astronomy?
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by ataturk 8y ago
It's funny that serialization is noted as a "horrible mistake" from 1997 but no mention of RMI, the even worse mistake. I guess Java has a lot of bad mistakes. I wish Oracle would end Java so I could move on to something el
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by ataturk 8y ago
Wouldn't this be true for anyone who survived WWII? In other words, a majority of the people on the planet, centering around Europe and the Far East? But every single Soviet citizen was negatively affected by a war that cost them 27M
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by ataturk 8y ago
All devices with mics and cameras should come with physical switches to disable them. Even a couple of DIP switches on the back of the device would be fine.
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by ataturk 8y ago
Eh, you can have all the attitude you want, but I'm watching my mother wither away with dementia (she's 81). There's nothing attitude-wise that is involved there. It's just luck whether you can still do coding at 40,50,

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