fpisfun

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by fpisfun 9y ago
There are definitely some that at least have tact and respect for the skills that developers have. I won't talk to any that don't come across in this way immediately. If they are all about buzzwords and clearly haven't taken
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Haha so true, to me, and I'm sure a lot of others here, reading comes very naturally, it's by far the easiest way for me to consume information. I hate watching tutorial videos, for example because I'd much rather read tutori
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by fpisfun 9y ago
People place orders saying they will buy it at x price and these are matched with sellers. I recommend checking out poloniex to understand how a crypto exchange works. Coinbase isn't actually an exchange rather they have to buy Bitcoin
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Like any traded asset it's just based on the current buy and sell orders, same as with the stock market
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Actually there was circle they were very similar to coinbase, I used them for a while. They decided to get out of Bitcoin for some reason and I have no idea why.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
The whole idea of calling functional features advanced language features is a bit ridiculous I think. Yes, something like java only recently started supporting functional programming, but the paradigm has existed for a very long time.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
No, map reduce can be run in parallel, at least in some cases.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Anyone who thinks more lines of code equals better software should not be working in this industry. Hopefully the naive observer you're referring to would be someone with no background in software development
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Life is what you make of it
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Right, things that enable those currently in power to remain in power they do well. Things that help the average citizen, most definitely not.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
It's also something that would potentially kill their initial business so they had no choice I think but to go into it
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Have you seen software developed by the government? Outside of things like NSA spying, military things, etc, it's generally terrible, I doubt there are many governments that could pull this off
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by fpisfun 9y ago
I think it can be a good way to size up a person too, I once was in talks with an entrepreneur who was working on a business and wanted to eventually hire me as a technical lead. He would keep mentioning how he wanted to make the company in
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by fpisfun 9y ago
These types of posts and the ensuing comments drive me crazy because they have mentions of very high salaries (for example people talking about 400k total compensation, etc) but sparse info on what type of developer positions actually pay t
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by fpisfun 9y ago
There are still many concepts that transcend the specific language / platform. As I've become more attuned to this I'm sometimes horrified by code that supposedly senior engineers write that egregiously violate separation of
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by fpisfun 9y ago
I can definitely really work for 8 hours a day if it's on my own project and I'm in the flow but no way I can ever get in they mindset to do it for an employer, especially that I have a less than spectacular salary, I'm guess
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by fpisfun 9y ago
I can never grasp why any developer who didn't need the money would do anything other than work to build their own business. I know if I ever have enough to not worry about it I'll never work as an employee again.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Yep, my company cut bonuses this year, so no 10% for me, definitely not something to count on.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
The alt coin market is always up and down I'm not referring to trading only Bitcoin. Also it's fully algorithmic trading so there's no emotion involved, etc
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by fpisfun 9y ago
I keep hearing salaries mentioned like this and I'm sure some developers make this but I really don't think the average developer is making this at these companies, based on salary comparison websites, etc. A developer who makes t
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Cryptocurrency currency bots can be way more profitable in my opinion, I'm working on this myself. The complexity is no joke, to build a truly robust system, but hopefully it will be worth it
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by fpisfun 9y ago
You can do everything that a marriage entails without the legal contract that gives someone else leverage over everything you own.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Haha nice, I always like when people think this way because I've realized I only need so much money also and killing myself working to get more than that is pointless because I already know very well that money doesn't bring happi
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by fpisfun 9y ago
This is definitely not true, many businesses in Latin America will accept dollars, and not just in Mexico.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
I'm actually taking too a few people in Venezuela who may do some work for me and I'm going to pay them in Bitcoin, it seems a much option than their currency at the moment.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
When an Amazon warehouse opened in my area relatively recently it seemed that many people were scrambling like crazy to try to get a job there. These seemed to be people who are poorly educated and low skilled but clearly the Amazon job rep
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by fpisfun 9y ago
Just tell them you're a hacker and then evade any further questions.
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by fpisfun 9y ago
It is pretty funny that she would insinuate they would hire more women to pay them less because a good developer is so much more productive than a bad one so, at least for an "on site "job where you're only pulling from local
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by fpisfun 9y ago
There's still a huge divide in terms of talent, the vast majority of programming jobs outside silicon valley seem to be working on legacy code that is terribly architected (think Java apps written in a procedural style, etc) whereas to
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by fpisfun 9y ago
To be honest I had started to hate programming and the industry overall until I started learning functional programming and about category theory, etc. It turns out I've been working on crap my whole career, at least in my opinion, and

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