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by doktrin 9y ago
> So they both start as SWE or Junior/Associate SWE > That puts a ton of burden on teammates that may not be properly prepared to coach these people You hit the nail on the head. Bootcamp grads will typically require more coachin
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> If it turns out that random person can do the same with three months of study The best bootcamps invariably have a selective recruitment pipeline ensuring that they train students who have both natural aptitude as well as a baseline te
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Apps tend to fill up to take all available disk space Basically this. It's not just software, either. "Stuff takes up the available time / space available" is about as broadly applicable of an axiom as any I can thi
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by doktrin 9y ago
> I'm interesting in your background: which languages do you use Scala, Java, C#, Obj-C / Swift, Python, JS. > what kind of programs do you write? At work : line of business, database / search / indexing systems, m
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> Writing your own engine can be both fun and instructive but it is not the easy path towards a complete game. Yeah, definitely not and it's kind of an insane undertaking IMO given how full featured engines & frameworks like Uni
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Yeah that's fair. I've also underestimated the number of Cobol developers out there; C++ devs only slightly outnumber them.
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by doktrin 9y ago
So, I specifically cited finance in my original comment, and yet you come with "yeah but finance..." as if that's somehow revelatory. Moreover I wasn't asking about job opportunities per se - like you so astutely pointed
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Yeah I agree with this. It got lost somewhere in this shitshow, but I really was just looking for something to use C++ for : obviously I won't be contributing to a legacy codebase or applying for a job maintaining [insert critical soft
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> No one is trying to convince you to use C++ Weird considering that was my specific question. > considering it's like 20% of the US economy The disproportionate size and role of the parasitic financial sector is a tragedy for th
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> people have to work on maintaining those browsers. Same with MS office, Photoshop, etc. People do, but I won't be learning C++ to apply for a job maintaining some gigantic piece of software. I never asked about the job market fo
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by doktrin 9y ago
> C++ may not be uniquely good for this but most desktop apps you are using are written in C++ I disagree. Most desktop apps are written with some kind of bytecode language (like my code editors and IDEs) with a few being written in C+
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by doktrin 9y ago
> It's not an an evangelism article to convince those not using C++ right now. I get that. Maybe I should have added a disclaimer to that end. > In other words, a programmer thinking about writing a web app to track food recipes
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That's correct, and if I wanted to write a new web browser designed to be performance competitive against the big 3/4 I wouldn't have asked this question to begin with.
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> Remove C++ from software development and check what is still working... Remove opcodes & assembler from software development and check what is still working... See how completely absurd that sounds?
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> It's a little like saying what are some good modern uses for Java? Then you remember that millions of people use Android every day. Of relevance here, millions (or whatever) of developers need Java every day to build Android
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> I imagine you're going to respond with snark about how game engines are written with Cpp > Unreal Engine uses C++, Unity's core is C++. DirectX is a C++ API. I honestly think I addressed this. Most developers aren't t
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Android NDK, Objective-C++ Those toolkits are only useful for edge cases. SDK performance is adequate for 95% of real world applications. > From matlab to gnuplot, oscilloscope and spectrum analyser software, data analysis applicati
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by doktrin 9y ago
You guessed wrong.
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> Are you asking about the ROI in terms of professional career opportunities? Probably three orders of magnitude greater than it is for Rust, D, Haskell, Lisp If you're asking me to be specific, then I'd like to compare the ROI
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by doktrin 9y ago
> C++ coders are in high demand in various fields, just to let you know. What fields, aside from embedded? I'm genuinely curious.
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by doktrin 9y ago
> All of them, except web pages. This is just factually untrue. Mobile, desktop, data analysis, machine learning and even games : neither are primarily developed with C++ these days. I imagine you're going to respond with snark abou
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by doktrin 9y ago
> TBH it sounds like you immersed yourself in the "everything is node or go or rust" HN bubble I find that when someone's made up their mind about me based on little to no data, there's not much point trying to prove
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by doktrin 9y ago
This sounds like a lot of fun, but I'm concerned about the limited ROI. How many practical, modern use cases does Cpp have at this point for those of us who don't work in a few very specific verticals like finance or game dev? Eve
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> The US has 11x the population density of Iceland. Easier to have shared wealth when each person in your country can have 11x the land they could have in another country (with the caveat, of course, that this only applies if you are an
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> Meanwhile we build a popular opinion that these things are dangerous and need to be restricted or regulated. Software ends up as the new "burglary tools." If I'm against the regulation of software, it's because I do
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by doktrin 9y ago
Catchy concepts and convincing narratives sometimes precede more rigorous studies. As you yourself cautiously indicated, there might be something to this. I can't satisfy anyone's need for a thorough scientific paper offhand, but
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by doktrin 9y ago
The comment you responded to never said anything about organic food, they simply postulated that people shop at Whole Foods because they carry healthy food - which they do. I used to live near a WF and shopped there semi-regularly. They def
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by doktrin 9y ago
Depending on when your stoner friends got started, they may or may not be self-reporting accurately. From the same link : > Our findings suggest that regular cannabis use before age 18 y predicts impairment, but others have found effects
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by doktrin 9y ago
Yeah I wasn't taking phone screens into account. I'd edit my comment to clarify that I was thinking of in-person interviews, but the timeout has elapsed. I think I disregarded HR screens because the questions (IME, at least) are o
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by doktrin 9y ago
This is mostly orthogonal, but I'm yet another dev who loves using Ruby, but absolutely hates Rails. Ruby is a joy to use, whereas Rails is soul sucking, anti fun and overrated. I haven't been paid to write a line of Ruby in over

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