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by bmj 13y ago
As someone who has used several cross-platform frameworks (Titanium, Cordova/PhoneGap, investigating Xamarin), I have a question about going "full native": how do you handle shared core code? Our app has an engine that drive
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by bmj 13y ago
I wonder if a better analogy might be a carpenter or general contractor. License requirements in most states have little to do skill or experience, but rather with carrying liability insurance and conforming to consumer protection codes.
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by bmj 13y ago
I've been looking at some of the options on that website, and this one seems to be less complex than many of the tools there. This isn't meant to be a blogging tool, but rather a simple way of emulating server-side includes or ba
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by bmj 13y ago
Electricians are poor examples: in many states, you must be licensed (which generally requires some combination of education, experience, and certification). Many states also require the electrician to hold some amount of liability insuran
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by bmj 13y ago
You say that, even though the U.S. is actually composed of 50 largely self-governing states, most of which are within the scale size of a scandinavian country. True, but not are as populous as a Scandinavian country. Additionally, it wou
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by bmj 13y ago
$43k? My first offer was $28k, though, to be fair, I didn't have a programming-related degree. I'd also like to underscore the comment in your parent post--"good enough for me." It's not always about pay. I'
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by bmj 13y ago
Sublime is only free-as-in-beer. Some use vim because it is also free-as-in-speech.
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by bmj 13y ago
I think it may have much to do with his role. See the job posting: https://developers.google.com/jobs/ If your job is to be an advocate for employees at your employer, it is likely better to be around those people, ra
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by bmj 13y ago
I am not an engineer, but have a good friend who is an engineer doing nuclear reaction cooling systems. He worked in the industry for close to ten years before getting his PE, and only did it because his employer asked him to (I believe it
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by bmj 13y ago
There's no test - all you have to do to be a software developer is declare yourself to be one. There's no overarching professional organization or boards, therefore incompetents aren't de-certified and national lobbying isn&
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by bmj 13y ago
Well, the setup is pretty normal. I'm in a "normal" cubicle, using a standard keyboard, and a couple of 21" monitors that have been raised a few inches. When I squat, my arms are raised higher than there are when I am
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by bmj 13y ago
Interesting. I've been a desk squatter for years--I've never wanted a dedicated stand desk, but I've been able to configure my set-up to allow good posture while squatting. It certainly provides a nice break from sitting.
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by bmj 13y ago
US here as well. My family takes a 4-6 week road trip each year (we go to points west to rock climb). I will typically work 5-8 day remotely during those trips (usually in a block at some point mid-trip), and unless I know something is br
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by bmj 13y ago
I have to tell you that I'd rather the person who operates on a heart or a brain or flys a 777 (and there are many more I'm just picking a few obvious ones) focus on their job 100% and get rest to function at a top level. Then
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by bmj 13y ago
Actually, the article says the rate for software developers is 2.7%, and is referred to as "elevated." Would it be fair to say that some percentage of that percentage probably aren't qualified to find work as developers, and
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by bmj 13y ago
Some may say there is some correlation between these two things. [NB: I am not a Facebook user, and am well over 30. I don't consume much social media.]
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by bmj 13y ago
I wasn't "attacking" .NET/Java stacks (I'm a .NET developer who has to maintain a .NET 2.0 code base). I was just wondering if the teams that use CoffeeScript, Node, Grunt, etc. tend to adopt bleeding edge stacks,
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by bmj 13y ago
I wonder how many of the sites/web apps built with the latest crop of stacks and tool chains will be around in 10 years? I suspect these sites will either "disappear" (that is, no longer be maintained), or will be constantly
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by bmj 13y ago
If you are being asked to interview candidates (especially if you are being asked to coordinate/lead the interviews), then you should also have the time/bandwidth to do the follow-up work with the candidates, even if that means se
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by bmj 13y ago
My guess is that trunk based development is the idea that all commits pushed to the canonical repository are pushed to trunk (rather than a remote branch) with incomplete code being hidden using feature toggles? Perhaps I'm misunders
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by bmj 13y ago
So the bellwether of a language's health is whether it is being used in San Francisco?
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by bmj 13y ago
By this measure, C, or C++, or Ruby must be dead, since I've not seen any new code written in it during my 13 years in the industry. That said, I suspect there are fewer people picking up Perl for the first time for a project these day
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by bmj 13y ago
What about Catalyst? Or Mojolicious? Or Dancer? If it's just used in legacy code, why are there still healthy frameworks being produced (granted, these aren't as popular as Rails, but, Perl on the web is hardly in legacy mode)?
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by bmj 13y ago
I'm on the fence about this. I've worked in an organization with product managers for nearly 8 years now. The good product managers know how to drive the product (and understand the market, something engineers may not be interes
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by bmj 13y ago
Does anyone have any statistics on how many dairy cows are killed per year because of this? I suspect we are looking at a lesser-of-two-evils scenario: would you rather have a small number of cows culled each year because of sickness, or a
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by bmj 13y ago
I'm struck by the way that, when I lived in Tucson, it took seemingly 30 or 40 minutes to get anywhere. I'm currently staying in Tucson for a brief spell, and I am struck by the very same thing! It's kinda crazy. I certain
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by bmj 13y ago
It makes me sick that I pay around 40% in state and federal taxes and social security (not that much lower than Western European countries) yet there is still so much poverty and poverty related issues in our country. I wonder how much of
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by bmj 13y ago
I have two kids (10 and 8). Yes, some nights we do not eat together because of schedules, but those nights are few and far between. My wife and I find it quite important that our family can share a meal at least once a day. We know lots
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by bmj 13y ago
Socialism is when workers control the means of production. I might be picking nits, but Socialism is when a group controls the means of production. This can be workers, or the state, or simply a group of citizens. Think of a cooperative
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by bmj 13y ago
A good friend of mine explained his giving in this way: He sets aside some amount of his income (say 10%) for giving. Some percentage of that (5%) is allocated to organizations that will receive money each month/quarter/year. Th

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