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by b_t_s 7y ago
You can get more strings in that line with obj-c ;P NSString * string = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"myString"];
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by b_t_s 7y ago
I'll second that. Similar problem reading code. All that cruft reduces the signal to noise ratio. Most of the time when I'm reading code I don't care what the types are, just what it does at a high level. Without type inferen
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by b_t_s 7y ago
and then there's counterproductive documentation. It may have been correct at one time, but now it both both wastes your time and misleads you. This is why pushing as much documentation as possible into the type system is a win.
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by b_t_s 7y ago
"where I turn" This wording really hilights something that I think a lot of dynamic typing proponents don't fully appreciate. Using a type system is a learned skill, not something you magically get for free. You need both a
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by b_t_s 7y ago
For the average American that's like saying that "30% of the population of this city has legs". Sure that's a lot of people walking around, but if you look around and 70% of the population is in wheelchairs, thats prett
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by b_t_s 7y ago
"The vast majority of applicants cannot code at all. And I mean that literally: they're at a loss at how to write a function that adds two numbers or counts the number of elements in a list." I'm genuinely curious how yo
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by b_t_s 7y ago
It's also to do with India. There exists an even worse category of "small consulting" on places like odesk that caters to individuals and small businesses that are very budget conscious and whose need for software developmen
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by b_t_s 7y ago
dude my productivity went down for like 2 years after having a kid. Griping about productivity during what "should" be parental leave is just wrong. Seriously, consider changing jobs, they'r not all like that.
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by b_t_s 8y ago
you can just withdraw it. Their website should have a way to do a bank transfer or write you a check. You will owe taxes, but if you're never coming back to the US, then whatever. If you're coming back, then you can generally inv
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Ha, that's cheap. Last time I checked the medical system gets over 20 grand a year from me(some via my employer). Works out to like 4 to 7 grand a visit, and that's mostly routine checkups/vaccinations for my kid. There&#x27
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by b_t_s 8y ago
This is a great question. It can show a lot of things, overlay bureaucratic process, control freak, lack of trust/understanding of devs, general disorganization, penny wise pound foolish mentality, not invented here syndrome. Or it c
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Yea this is a location thing. Im no rockstar ninja wizard, nor have I ever lived in a 1st tier tech hub like SV. I'm a competent professional with 2 decades of experience, but not particularly remarkable in any way. Here in the US t
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by b_t_s 8y ago
There's a whole spectrum between super rich and broke. In the middle of that spectrum we may still have to work for a living, but we have a job an we have savings and if we need to pass up several offers from toxic and/or doomed
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Also, these _were_ just recreational airsoft guns, very comparable paintball. Lots of people play airsoft and paintball for fun in their spare time. Yea, you're supposed to have goggles on, and point blank shots are frowned on 'ca
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by b_t_s 8y ago
This is one reason I prefer the philippines over thailand. Thailand has amazing food and beautiful beaches, but even second and third tier destinations are so overcrowded with 20something drunk eropean backpackers it's hard to appreci
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by b_t_s 8y ago
I did read the article, and I maintain that it is training. It can save lives. They're trying to make you more afraid of dying through inaction than dying through action, and get you familiar with the fear so you don't freeze. Thi
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by b_t_s 8y ago
The training is fairly reasonable for someone who has a reasonable expectation of engaging in combat. You need to drill reactions under duress until you stop thinking and just do what you've drilled instinctively. The problem is that
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by b_t_s 8y ago
"It can take up to 2x-3x times longer to make an Android app" . Is this still true? Was it ever really true? I've seen android features tend to take a bit longer, but we're talking like 20% longer, 7 years ago. Now, i
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by b_t_s 8y ago
This feels like something that is only remotely feasible for contractors or recent grads living with their parents. The interview process is enough of a logistical PITA for most of us. Extending it to a week is comically stupid. Besides,
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by b_t_s 8y ago
If you remove the more apathetic voters, what does that leave? Raving fanatic partisans. Which leads to a broken gridlocked government. Which leads to increased voter apathy and efforts to disenfranchise the "enemy" party. First
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Core hours _should_ mean the core of the day, about 10 to 4, not whenever to whenever.
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by b_t_s 8y ago
If you've got a reasonable rainy day fund and are already in or willing to move to a tech hub it's probably pretty low risk.
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by b_t_s 8y ago
It's a failure to understand how any of it actually works. There was a comment higher up how many older people have memorized steps to complete tasks, but have no understanding of underlying concepts. Despite 2 decades of effort on my
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by b_t_s 8y ago
I think that level of security is only even possible at companies with small codebases or a high degree of siloing. I totally fit this description as a junior with 2 or 3 years experience at my first job where I wrote half the product. At
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by b_t_s 8y ago
isNilOrEmpty is great, though I prefer my variation nilEmpty that turns empty things into nils. Slightly more flexible/chainable. The reality is that there are a lot of cases where the empty state could be nil or an empty collection&#
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by b_t_s 8y ago
I think it's because software is inherently easier and less critical...castles of shit actually work. Software is fairly unique in that level of quality and reliability needed to have significant economic benefit is very low, and the c
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Management genuinely understanding and accepting (A) the maximum sustainable work week is 40 hours, (B) estimates are uncertain and assume a sustainable 40 hour week, (C) changing scope changes timelines. Also not hiring jerks and some deg
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Truestory. I was and embedded engineer and I still find this stuff pretty dull. I can't imagine a kid caring unless they have a specific project in mind. Especially when everything these days has nice graphics and there are so many op
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by b_t_s 8y ago
To support the "you can get pretty far in playgrounds on an iPad" assertion, one of my coworkers built something like half of a language flash card app on his ipad before he transferred it over to his laptop to finish it. I though
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by b_t_s 8y ago
In the Salem witch trials the accused were executed. This was a job application, not a criminal trial, and the worst thing that would happen to him is not getting a promotion. Even in a civil trial the burden of proof is just more likely t

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