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by dlandis 11y ago
Probably platform I would say. Hard to compete against languages that fit pretty naturally into an existing Java or .NET ecosystem. I'm referring to Scala, Clojure, and F# of course. It is definitely "popular" in some other s
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I think it would be a security concern for a lot of people/companies to trust their source code to a closed-source binary from a relatively untrusted, unknown company.
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> I think IBM is becoming practically it's owner Hmm, why do you think this makes IBM the technology's "owner"? What do you mean by owner exactly?
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Wait, only two strong online services? I can think of like five other excellent services including a maps site that is years ahead of the competition.
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In my experience after reading her book and some of her articles I think Gayle (and many other interviewers) underestimates the effect nerves have on certain people. She may be a little too quick to classify certain people as "dumb&quo
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> But I'm guessing what you mean is that OCaml is a very non-mainstream language, so it will be rejected for most corporate projects just because it's so foreign. Rather than snidely guessing what I meant, why not just read the
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by dlandis 11y ago
I did a couple small projects in OCaml and I loved the syntax and style of programming, but I think there would pretty much always be a better language choice for a serious project, regardless of what type of program you are writing. Also,
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I've seen a few of the really impressive projects you've done over the past several years. How do you manage to stay so productive in your spare time?
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OK, so what does it do exactly? I'm sure it's an interesting project and the beautiful UI was mentioned several times, but seriously what does it do? This reminds me of reading corporate software marketing material -- they never w
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> Each time we dispatch an email in one way or another, we feel a sense of accomplishment, and our brain gets a dollop of reward hormones telling us we accomplished something. I see many people at work with this type of addiction and I
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> Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing? Seems like it is not too late; just talk to the CEO and VP of Engineering and say you want a new role created called Chief Architect or Principal Engineer. As employee #
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by dlandis 12y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure you understand it any better than I do. The article says: > Well, if you get hearing damage at a specific frequency, you’ll start to lose sensitivity to the quiet sounds at this frequency. However, your sensitivity
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> If you know people who have hearing loss, you’ve noticed that they can’t tolerate loud noises that you’re fine with, but they also can’t hear some of things that you can hear perfectly well. So what is the explanation of why they can&#