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by doteka 6y ago
The downsides are: 1. It’s slow in number crunching, if you’re doing any computation it won’t be much faster than Ruby (and much slower than Python due to the scientific computing ecosystem) 2. The amount of libraries is negligible, many ar
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by doteka 6y ago
Not comfortable sharing my exact employer, but it’s a small biotech in the Netherlands.
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by doteka 6y ago
Roughly 5-10 I’d say. We are able to weed out a good chunk in the phone screen (which is done by me or another engineer, not a recruiter)
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by doteka 6y ago
Although this may be controversial, the composition API feels very derivative of React hooks. I liked having Vue around as an alternative to React, and the declarative and predictable structure of components felt like the main selling point
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by doteka 6y ago
I’m surprised this is your experience. At my current employer, that’s exactly how we approach hiring. I send the candidate a take-home that broadly covers the basic tech skills they need to be effective in their role (implement a simple tes
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by doteka 6y ago
While certainly impressive, the Hello World example in their documentation is in no way preferable to writing JavaScript.
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by doteka 6y ago
I’ve been involved in hiring since my very first dev job - not sure I’d trust a random resume builder more than my experience sifting through 100s of them. But I guess there may be some small market here.
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by doteka 6y ago
Last time I was on the job market, I wrote a little CLI tool that given data in yaml format, spits out a pixel perfect pdf resume. It took me 2 hours and about 200 combined lines of Python, HTML and CSS. While I wish the author the best of
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by doteka 6y ago
Eh, I’d say k8s with the help of Helm is about as simple as it can get to deploy and manage large clusters of networked applications. The equivalent done using e.g. Ansible playbooks would be far more complex. If the complexity seems too mu
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by doteka 6y ago
Which as a consumer is exactly why I will continue giving them my money. The sooner targeted online advertising burns to the ground, the better, as far as I’m concerned.
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by doteka 6y ago
Not sure the age of the original author is very relevant. GvR was 35 when he started work on Python. Chris Lattner was 31 with Swift, Brendan Eich was 33 with JS. These are some of the most used languages today. I’d say it’s more a matter o
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by doteka 6y ago
I’m not sure you’re aware but you basically described the way it works in the latest macOS. If an app wants to touch something in user folders, it has to ask for permission.
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by doteka 6y ago
It’s alright, concurrent reads should not be a problem at least. Most drivers implement some features to make it easier.
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by doteka 6y ago
Those are literally equivalent though, anything you can install using yarn you can install using npm. They connect to the same registry and use the same package.json format. Also, pip is relatively recent. Before that, it was a mix of setu
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by doteka 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're being obtuse. But rewriting your stack in a language no one on the team knows because someone on HN said it's a better fit for your usecase is something no good engineers/managers would think is a
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by doteka 6y ago
That's generally decided by the experience of the existing team members.
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by doteka 6y ago
I actually use py2app to bundle the whole virtualenv into an .app file. Worked pretty much out of the box after fiddling a bit with pyenv (you have to build your python version with framework support).
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by doteka 6y ago
I strongly resent you suggesting that someone not having kids must mean they have an "aching void" in their life. Have kids if that makes you happy, but don't presume that this is what everyone's life must orbit around.
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by doteka 6y ago
For a personal project I am currently using this approach and can confirm it works great. I wrote just enough PyObjC to get myself a trayicon in the Mac menu bar, which shows a popover containing a wkwebview to localhost. Then I have all th
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by doteka 6y ago
I certainly hope so, because this was definitely on Swift 5.2 . In general if you come in expecting a dev experience anywhere close to writing React in Typescript using VSCode, SwiftUI and Xcode both are a bit of a disappointment - it'
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by doteka 6y ago
Also, a word of advice: the language in use should be one of the last things you're considering when looking for jobs. It really doesn't make a difference in your day-to-day happiness. Instead, try to look for a team you fit in wi
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by doteka 6y ago
Yeah, sure. What I have seen a lot when hiring, is "magpie developers". These guys always have the hippest CV - if it's on the HN front page regularly, you bet it's on there. We found in practice, these people tend not t
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by doteka 6y ago
The official Apple tutorial gives you an idea what they were going for, but in practice it’s nowhere near that smooth. In fact, most of the time I found myself staring at a “type too complex, add annotation” error. That one doesn’t actually
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by doteka 6y ago
My job is about 50% Rust, 40% Typescript, 10% Python with regards to language. I would say Rust is the best day to day experience out of these 3 except for glitchy editor tooling and the long compile times. We have 1000 line services that t
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by doteka 6y ago
In the Netherlands, most people who don’t live in a major city center (and many who do) still own a car. Us riding bikes isn’t an either/or thing, people do both.
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by doteka 6y ago
See I get why you’d say that about the JVM, but as someone working in Node daily I don’t find the server side JavaScript ecosystem particularly useful. As soon as you need to do anything else than database CRUD, you’re basically on your own
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by doteka 6y ago
And people wondered why Clojure is dying... Somehow a language designed from scratch with all the purported wisdom of Lisp ended up with a nastier import solution than JavaScript, which had none out of the box for its first two decades of l
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by doteka 6y ago
It seems to me that wanting UI developers to learn systems languages is bizarre. We don’t expect Linux kernel developers to learn UI/UX, why would the opposite be the case? They are working on a vastly different abstraction level. Also
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by doteka 6y ago
I have been working with various SPA frameworks for about 5 years now, from the bad old days of AngularJS to mostly React nowadays. Your comment about 1990 seriously rubs me the wrong way because it seems to imply React et al. actually does
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by doteka 6y ago
I am a software engineer who works closely with a team of bioinformaticians. Your reply suggests you only have one side of the story. A bioinformatician is someone who has quite serious programming skills on top of their biology knowledge.

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