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by bpyne 9y ago
I wouldn't place a lot of importance in the rankings. Instead of trying to rationalize why your favorite language is not higher/lower than others, figure out the area you like programming in, e.g. higher ed, healthcare, database k
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A good bellwether for a startup is the sales force. They leave when there is no more money-making opportunity. (Of course, a startup can still pivot to uncover opportunity.)
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Kind of interesting feedback I received recently. I worked with a recruiter on a couple of interesting opportunities. One opportunity led to a final interview that was horrid. Afterward, the recruiter said that over the past few years she h
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by bpyne 9y ago
Exactly my thought. We had WF delivery for a couple of years. It was great for us. But, you could tell they were trying (unsuccessfully) to monetize it. When they curtailed it they offered a pickup service as replacement: Instacart is the a
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by bpyne 9y ago
I sympathize. Early in my career I landed a job in a small software company. My skills improved greatly. Then I made the mistake of taking an IT job. That IT job rolled into another and another. While I stay near the technical top in my IT
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by bpyne 9y ago
Coaching gives you a great perspective on team building. I'm still a novice coach, but my main goal with a new team is to get them to think like a team: it's not about the individual, it's about furthering the team's goa
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by bpyne 9y ago
Years ago I worked for a hospital. I noticed that many nurses smoked while physicians (mostly) did not. They read the same studies on the effects of smoking and treated the same emphysema and lung cancer patients. Yet, the difference in beh
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by bpyne 9y ago
The issue with rewriting to newer technologies is relearning - the hard way - all the requirements encoded over 40-50 years. Decision-makers are rightly afraid of the $100M mistake. As some posters here said already, organizations have to s
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by bpyne 10y ago
Out of curiosity, have you used Curry? The combination of logic and functional paradigms in one language is intriguing to me, but I have no time (right now) to play with it.
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I used it for a graduate course in formal semantics. As our final project, we had to implement Lisp in Prolog and prove the semantics formally. Until that point, I thought I had a good grip on Prolog. Debugging the project nearly drove me n
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Thanks for the tip. I see utop referenced all the time, but I just haven't fired it up. Currently I'm designing a small language so I can learn OCaml better. I'm planning to use the ocamllex and menhir tools for lexing and pa
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by bpyne 10y ago
As a fan of Scala and a developer who has been distancing himself from anything C-like for a decade, I found this post to be pretty fair. Go seems to force explicitness; Scala can be explicit or implicit depending on who uses it. In general
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As I read the author's comparison, OCaml came to my mind as well. Reading Minsky's posts and the Real World OCaml book got me really interested in its capabilities for modern software development. I've heard mixed reviews abo
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Individual preferences are at the heart of the matter: machinery inside the human body is creepy. But, I concede wholeheartedly that benefit exists. For example, using robotics to replace a severely damaged limb. It shouldn't be hard t
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"Fake news, hoaxes, ..., etc." These issues are all symptomatic of people who FEEL increasingly left behind by society. While a small percentage of the population you allude to are probably not capable of separating truth from fic
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Actually, EM was very much talking about the merging of individuals with machines. I can't take the following quote in any other way. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis bet
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Prediction or self-fulfilling prophecy? Sounds like he's determined to force it to happen whether or not the average person wants it. I was disturbed by the notion of an RFID in my dog. I am even more disturbed by having one in my daug
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Twenty-six years of developing software for different organizations yet I still struggle with the desire for simplicity in the face of conflicting needs. The tendency is to think of a "user" as a lone person in front of a screen u
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by bpyne 10y ago
From time-to-time I go over to Reginald Braithwaite's site at raganwald.com. He has the right mixture of practical and theoretical topics. I don't "follow" anyone. When new posts show up on HN, and the like, by certain d
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Each member of your team has a set of strengths and weaknesses in subject area, technical ability, learning ability, and too many other soft factors to enumerate. When hiring a new person, you're trying to find a fit for the existing s
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by bpyne 10y ago
Back in '96 I was in a startup company in the Boston area. We had a B2B app that we customized per customer. It worked over dial-up. We didn't foresee affordable internet connections coming. When it did we couldn't rewrite cr
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by bpyne 10y ago
(American here.) Agreed on all statements, but I need to add the freedom to not pay an absurd amount of income toward insurance, maintenance, taxes, parking, etc. Automobiles are expensive and getting more so as technology gets added and ta
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"It's a fixture of complex adaptive systems analysis that one encounters scenarios where having anything short of perfection is just as good as useless." Great point. It's one that not enough people are emphasizing. I ne
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I'd like to teach Music and CS somewhere in grades K-12. I'm not sure which age group right now. During Summer breaks from school, I'd gig, write code, and try to refine my teaching skills.
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Unfortunately, the debates devolved into issues more about "character" than issues. Speaking more broadly about the campaigns, the candidates spent more time defending their characters than talking about issues. In particular, Hil
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I graduated in 1989 with a math degree. For 24 years I didn't look at mathematical notation. Now in grad school for CS I'm seeing a lot of notation like you wrote. Some of it is coming back. But, it has become exceedingly difficul
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by bpyne 10y ago
IMO a culture developed in the US in the past few decades - I would be hard-pressed to pinpoint when but it's been within my professional life in IT - that we should minimize any activities in a work environment that do not have a dire
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This comment is related to your muse starting with "I want to know why..." I'm simply pondering and looking for feedback from someone who is actually a teaching professional unlike myself. "There [my comment: Finland], a
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My title is actually "Senior Programmer/Analyst". But, I think your observation is correct that it's not as common to have a title like mine anymore. It's strictly due the historical development of our field. Comput
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Masters at this "game" may prime you long before they need you. It's like a game of Go only more complex.

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