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by brianmcc 13y ago
I'd missed that initially; I'm amused that someone's gone all this time thinking "wala" is just a noise people make to indicate "done!"
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Real, disturbing parallels with Win 8. Loads of "normal people" were hugely vocal about the UI problems with Win 8, and the flaws described by this author re Xbox One, and MS just did nothing. Really, it is like watching a car dri
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Agree with other replies: there are ways to approach this that will cause friction, and ways that might not ("I wasn't looking, but this came along, now I have a tough decision..."). And no matter what your approach, some bos
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Two weeks is still far, far too soon to be making any kind of decision like this. Two weeks in you're still working out which way is up. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/ninety-days/
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Yeah but I wonder if his Ma even reddit...
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by brianmcc 13y ago
To be fair the ability to spot a Father Ted quote at 80 paces is a pretty British trait :-)
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by brianmcc 13y ago
>> Sometimes I think computer science history need to be at-least an elective subject for software engineering/computer science courses. This is a really great idea, never thought about it before. Possibly even a decent book idea
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Java, Spring, SQL, XML processing, and recently Scala and NoSQL (E.g. Mongo) are good choices to invest in learning - they are used extensively but of course not exclusively. Don't worry about super special libraries - just cover the b
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Very good advice. Be a good guy / good employee, not just a strong technical contributor. Couple of qualifiers to: "Do a bit more if you can" - don't over-reach, doing stuff no-one's asked for could be a negative, a
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Be genuinely interested to hear what others think about this. I have contacts who do this (often sharing links) and it makes me cringe - I'm quite capable of discovering my own news - and I find it a bit too attention-seeking. I tend
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Any plans for UK / Europe shipping?
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by brianmcc 13y ago
27 external references and 4 books in the article seems a reasonable start, no...? ("Cite" not "site" btw)
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Really, so you mean the Nexus 5 has fast camera performance with these updates? I would definitely be interested in one, but fast picture taking really would be a "must have" for me.
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by brianmcc 13y ago
I agree with you, I hate that so many places are like this. It really isn't right, and rewards the wrong behaviours. From my own perspective I have been lucky for the most part in having had good managers/team leads even in organi
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by brianmcc 13y ago
This is interesting. And definitely a "real thing". To me it raises an interesting question about effectively demonstrating value to one's higher ups. It's a little sad that pushing for "visibility" is so impo
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by brianmcc 13y ago
HTC One has been an excellent handset; high standard of build quality, "basics" all fine (calls, battery, etc), with its main benefit for us being the fast camera (fast is vital when photographing young kids!). I hear from a fell
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by brianmcc 13y ago
0.01%, not 0.0001% surely? I.e. 1 in every 10,000.
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Probably was no job. They had a few unsolved JIRAs and needed a breakout clone for a client :-)
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by brianmcc 13y ago
HN can get just weird sometimes. Next week: "I stood on a rusty nail and my foot got sore, I'll try not to do that again" guy gets taken apart for not standing on 1,000 nails in a double blind study to get statistically signi
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Good luck in your role and no personal animosity but "graduating in computer science at the university of Milan" and "i've never really programmed" - really? What on earth did your degree consist of?
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by brianmcc 13y ago
(post was by BenjiSmith, just on Joel's site)
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Every couple years it resurfaces and every couple of years it still seems painfully relevant and current. And I keep reading it, sniggering away, each time :-)
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by brianmcc 13y ago
I find resumes pretty efficient - I can look them over, and make a snap judgement wrt which ones are worth a phone screen, which aren't. Over many years of doing this, I find a good correlation between first impression and subsequent
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Can't believe we're still discussing this. Are there great developers who just code 9 - 5? Yes. Are there great developers who code in their own time? Yes. Are there terrible developers who just code 9 - 5? Yes. Are there terrible
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by brianmcc 13y ago
I can see your point, pretty valid. I guess I prefer control over magic. I can produce a complex SQL SELECT, use functions/joins/views, and populate either full entities with it or just teeny tiny DTOs, e.g. if I just need custom
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by brianmcc 13y ago
One observation - seems you can almost predict people's preference for Hibernate or Ibatis (or something else) based on whether they are "application folk", who see the DB as just the persistence mechanism, or whether they vi
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Very interesting; as someone's who been very happily using Ibatis with Java and Spring for many years I've always been wary of Hibernate for just the reasons you mention. The thought of ceding control over SQL to a framework so ex
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Minor nuances aside, I found his argument quite strong. To me they are different markets. Windows isn't dead any more than COBOL, it's not just not where the growth is. Whether or not some individuals live exclusively in an Appl
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Interesting question - having always used the expression "I'm yet to do XXX" I didn't even realise how odd it might look to those unfamiliar with it. It's pretty standard English IMO, certain nothing I'd consi
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by brianmcc 13y ago
Agreed, surprised this whole aspect isn't discussed much, much more. There's obviously a massive difference between "can code proficiently" and "can code proficiently in an interview situation" and I would gues

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