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by eddtests 3y ago
Depends on the ‘consulting’ - are you giving strategic advice to the CTO’s office at a multinational? You could be making millions! Are you augmenting an SME’s team as an IC? You can make a little more than an employee after accounting for
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by eddtests 3y ago
Mojo released an example of their new language which will mean readability and simplicity compared to the Python implementation will surely have been a requirement… I get someone within Modular doing some horrific looking low-level Mojo stu
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by eddtests 3y ago
I signed up for the SDK and the generated codes are taking 2+ minutes to be sent to my email address - imagine if this was 68,000 times slower! :O
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by eddtests 3y ago
Okay I looked up the team and agree they are brilliant, but I still don't know if I trust them to make this open in the longterm. Why can't they open it on Github but just not accept PRs?
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by eddtests 3y ago
You’d expect that to happen as potential interactions increase, I assume. I’ve always wanted to learn how to use a modelling tool like TLA+ or something to find breaking issues in games - like first turn wins (that isn’t just Exodia in Yugi
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by eddtests 3y ago
Probably, but again K is a language from 1993. I think closed-source languages are relics from a time it was more normal and some are so established they're still accepted, but new closed-source languages feel out of touch. Can you t
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by eddtests 3y ago
Oh, behave Edit: Now I have Austin Powers stuck in my head when I see Mojo
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by eddtests 3y ago
Who would risk using a closed-source language? I know some academic groups using Matlab, and I know some engineering companies use tools like Simulink, but these are very established products. I don't think I could even get sign-off
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by eddtests 3y ago
Ha, that is a substantial gap. I was expecting some issues with third party libraries, not a core part of the language missing.
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by eddtests 3y ago
They still hire SDETs so I assume it's not true, however I did have a manager who said his whole team were laid off from Microsoft so I imagine they had some substantial downsizing from these days [0]. [0] https://techcommun
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by eddtests 3y ago
This is an issue with QA as a whole. It shouldn’t be some bug counting department - if they did their job well then they won’t find bugs at the end of the process (because bugs were found left, and bugs will still exist because exhaustive s
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by eddtests 3y ago
Do you have links on this? I’ve not heard anything about it
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by eddtests 3y ago
Personally I think it should just default to front-of-building but have a no-charge button to have delivery to the door which drivers can see in advance. Then if they don't want to bother they can skip it, and if people need a delivery
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by eddtests 3y ago
> What you have deliberately neglected to mention is that there is a desk at the first floor of the building where the food can be left for you to come downstairs and get after your meeting If your apartment block has a front desk then t
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by eddtests 3y ago
Or quick groceries for the elderly? There are a lot of people using these apps beyond fast food for lazy people. For example I used to order a lot from a meal prep place that did chicken, rice, and broccoli when I was working in another sta
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by eddtests 3y ago
The list isn't too bad actually, if you're English! Or any other nationality, but here is the English list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Victoria_Cross... Just in case it's easy enough to
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by eddtests 3y ago
How do people end up in mainframe application development nowadays? Honest question - I’ve never seen a single post or job ad on the topic in 9 years
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by eddtests 3y ago
Really? Didn’t know that, although I get stuck in the first chapters math every time I look ha
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by eddtests 3y ago
So I've just spent some time looking into this - there are Cobol compilers that target JVM and .NET. GnuCOBOL compiles to C too. Apparently 80% of all bank transactions and 95% of all ATM transactions in America are still running COBOL
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Learn COBOL in a day(microfocus.com)
83 points by eddtests 3y ago|77 comments
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by eddtests 3y ago
Not affiliated, just found it fun that there are modern-looking COBOL training sites out there
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by eddtests 3y ago
Dulwich College also ‘gave us’ seven Victorian cross medalists and numerous admirals/generals - better chance of someone being notable in military strategy coming out of Dulwich than an average school, regardless of the articles worth
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by eddtests 3y ago
OTC at Dulwich College is probably the opposite of military competence to be honest!
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by eddtests 3y ago
There's a big push on Swish which is a mobile banking app and only available to people with BankID - there are smaller places that are Swish-only which means you cannot pay with a card or cash but a Swedish-specific app. I am now with
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Curry’s Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by eddtests 3y ago|0 comments
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by eddtests 3y ago
When we talk about Currying I can grok these, but if I saw that ES6 example in the wild and FP isn’t on my mind I’d be so confused when reasoning about it, especially if it was more complex than adding. Haskell better be good at Currying si
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by eddtests 3y ago
This is not as useful as you’d assume, some places just don’t acknowledge non-State ID’s regardless of what they try to sell you
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by eddtests 3y ago
When I moved to Sweden I had the same issues because of a dependency on Swish and BankID (and personal ID numbers). It can be a real pain for things when you’re staying a little longer than a weekend and want to go to a gym for example. I w
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by eddtests 3y ago
I don’t want to be to specific but my 10x was from a 1st line sysadmin role in a small town in England to a senior engineering role in Palo Alto. I’ve gone down a lot since moving to Sweden though, because I chose to take a role in person s
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by eddtests 3y ago
Honestly the description of this place sounds like what I’ve found Sweden to be, since moving here from Palo Alto last month. I am walking distance from everything I need, I am 10 minutes from a huge park with a large body of water, I walk

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