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This is not unique to Uber. I have worked in toxic environments that depleted and debilitated me to the point that, in two cases, I was psychologically completely incapable of even thinking about finding work for three months after being la
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> The only thing that can hurt you in this industry is that you stop learning and stop growing. I tell my employees to always learn something new every month. I am lucky enough to work in an environment where we work with many technologi
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> How do you do this? I draw them the Cone of Uncertainty ( http://www.construx.com/Thought_Leadership/Books/The_Cone_of... ).
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> I can't imagine you'll find many older, experienced devs willing to put up with the "we need to ship so you've got to put in 80 hours this week. Yes, because we've fallen for that bullshit before, killed oursel
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"Full attack dev?" I like that - may I use it? -- 58 year old full-attack dev
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Yes! Thank you. I never know what to call myself. I just signed a comment as "broad-spectrum software developer", but your description is more accurate. We catch the things that fall between the cracks; we are the glue that binds
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> What's up with the phrase, "Still programming?" What's up is the rampant ageism in the industry - the perception that you are washed up as a "dinosaur" developer after a certain age, maybe 40 or so, and be
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More like, divide and be strangled by the huge web of interrelationships... :)
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> your software is very likely a daemon on a headless server/cloud somewhere This is true of every Erlang system I have developed, so, I concur.
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I dispute that Erlang has a huge barrier to entry. Although there is a larger barrier than for, say, Python or Ruby, I feel that Erlang gets an undeservedly bad rap, especially given the ROI. I am no genius, but I was able circa 2008 to
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RTFB! :)
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Well said.
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> Even if another company had to lay their own cables, that happens and isn't impossible. But highly improbable, because it's very expensive to lay cable and hard to recoup the investment. There are countless articles on the In
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Hmm, I don't think it's _that_ bad...
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This is how it works. They're fundamentally satisfied because their staffing budgets look awesomely low, there is a latency between the time the hiring is done and the dung hits the turbine, then they somehow manage to pass the blame f
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Maybe it's a subtle plug for CryptoAuditor and Universal Key Manager, products the author's company offers? > CryptoAuditor is a product that can control tunneling at a firewall or at the entry point to a group of cloud servers
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tl;dr measure the right things, not just those that make you look good.
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Erlang's bitstrings are one of the things I love about the language. I've never seen an equivalent in other languages (not saying they don't exist, just that I haven't seen any).
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Can't all these data structures be described just as well using ASN.1, which has the advantage of being thoroughly documented, tried and tested, and just as declarative?
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> you can get someone (or a minor army if necessary) on the phone or on the premise immediately That's "on the _premises_".
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I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day. If it's a "cheap way to feel smart", then perhaps those that feel smart merely by watc
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I think requiring someone to swear to tell the truth is more a way to nail someone for perjury later than it is to make them tell the truth. It's like those immigration forms where they ask you if you have ever performed an act of terr
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I am very glad that Hercules is still around. Kudos to those intrepid enthusiasts who implemented it and kept it going all these years. It's sad that they weren't able to capitalize on their efforts, but as a F/OSS supporte
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Thanks for this! I had a number of interactions over the years with the S/3x0 world, and I wasn't always sure what was under the hood. I was aware that there was a bewildering slew of xxAM access methods, but had no chance to look
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Oh yeah, I remember the code pages. Joy. I didn't want to bloat my comment, so thanks for mentioning this!
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Nonsense. The optimization they are referring to is not premature in any sense of the word. If anything, it's belated and overdue . In any case, the originator of the phrase, Knuth, specifically said that it related to "small e
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Wait, where was the phrenologist's testimony? /s
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I think even the knock-on effects will be incalculable after 4 years.
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DG? You're really giving away your age ;)
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This. Anyone who had doubts can get a stack of z/OS DVDs and the Hercules S/390 emulator and just try to get it to boot! Not trivial. Although I don't know if Hercules is still alive and hasn't been shut down by the suit

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