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by gizi 11y ago
The next important thing is most likely not a programming language (and certainly not a framework). At that level, there's a real breakthrough only once every decade, if even. Everything else is noise that you can happily ignore. If a
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by gizi 11y ago
I like it that Oracle openly publishes this kind of blogs. I would personally never work for a company which expects me to develop anything using Oracle gear. It's simple. I can always find another company that doesn't and that pa
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Aristotle's first mover theorem is is a number theory(firstmovernumbertheory.wordpress.com)
1 points by gizi 11y ago|1 comments
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by gizi 11y ago
Do something else for a while and take a good look around you while doing so. What do you see? Things only got worse. Life elsewhere is even more prone to bullshit. There is only one notable difference. Most of them do not even seem to make
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by gizi 11y ago
My current Dell Inspiron 3437 came pre-installed with Ubuntu and only cost 250+ USD. It is true that I do not trust Canonical or Dell, but why would I trust Purism instead? What proof of trustworthiness do they provide? My Dell's very
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by gizi 11y ago
First step: make sure to have a plan B ready, before making any other steps in the negotiation process. Look for jobs similar to yours and that pay the same or better. From there, the situation becomes rather simple. If you walk away, the p
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by gizi 11y ago
I've worked remotely for the last 10 years now. Existing businesses will probably stick to their existing practices until they die, while new startups which don't have too much baggage to drag around, may indeed see that the futur
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by gizi 11y ago
As a contractor/freelancer, you may very well switch every 6 months. Nobody says anything about that. It is an absolutely normal thing to do. Just say that you had achieved the goal of the short-term contract for which you had been hir
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by gizi 11y ago
He neatly explains why traditional, say, "reasonable" management does not work in IT: - Objectives are a way of saying prove to me first that you know where you are going before you go. - We’ve come to believe too much in metrics
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by gizi 11y ago
There is language knowledge (horizontal) and then there's domain knowledge (vertical). Language knowledge is not just knowledge concerning its grammar, but about its entire tooling environment. In other words, it is not enough to know
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by gizi 11y ago
Start working. You won't learn programming until you actually do it. You can always do some kind of degree online in the meanwhile (or afterwards when you have time). That should keep the credentialists at bay. There are lots of websit
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by gizi 11y ago
I agree. Bringing back those ghosts from the past, is just bad taste. We all have learned our lessons from that, and it is time to move on now. That is why I don't like it when they throw around the "nazi" argument, every tim
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by gizi 11y ago
Concerning Greece paying up, you have no choice: they can't. Read my lips: They have no money. The EU proposal was simply not realistic. Any proposal that contains the idea that Greece would be paying up, is a dead-end, non-starter. Co
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by gizi 11y ago
I actually sympathize with the Tsipras guy. He took on an impossible job and in my opinion he is actually making the best of it. You see, Greece has to default. We all know that. All that is needed now, is a sufficient number of face-saving
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by gizi 11y ago
When the Greek government originally borrowed their debts, they did so mostly from commercial banks in other EU countries. Therefore, the first Greek crisis was systemically dangerous. It had the potential of dragging the entire EU banking
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by gizi 11y ago
Technology churn. I have been sailing on the concepts of http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html for the last 10 years. It is true that not all IT employers or clients reason at that level of thinking. But then again, t
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by gizi 11y ago
> Coding is getting much, much easier. I don't know about that one. If you want to build a compiler or a scripting engine, you will still be dealing with the one or the other variation of lex and yacc and then get bitten by the intr
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by gizi 11y ago
> Nope, in fact you are going to see salaries start to retreat as more people get into the industry. That is what they said 15 years ago. Getting into the industry is not hard. It is staying that is hard. You need a respectable amount of
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by gizi 11y ago
The estimate is that 80% of all effort in software goes to maintenance of existing systems, of which 21% goes into bug fixing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance With every new system successfully broug
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Joel test: Do new candidates write code during their interview?
2 points by gizi 11y ago|1 comments
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by gizi 11y ago
What makes someone a good engineer? Who would have thought that Larry Page or Sergey Brin were simply magical engineers BEFORE they devised Google Search and created nearly half a trillion dollars in value? In my impression, you will only k
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by gizi 11y ago
Yes, but "I believe that all beliefs" is a belief statement. It is not a statement of disbelief. You are not really taking a risk. You need to say something like "I do not believe that any belief ..." Actually, to some e
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by gizi 11y ago
Yes, but their total disbelief needs to be phrased in the correct form. Furthermore, not every exception will be valid. Altogether, it is a logical problem. They have to solve it correctly. I want to see their proposal in which they phrase
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by gizi 11y ago
The danger in adopting a superstition is that it would lead to a contradiction. Total but naive disbelief leads to a contradiction, unless you allow for an exception. In other words, critical thinking is not that simple. That is why we have
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by gizi 11y ago
Even though I admit that my current projects are in PHP, I also know that there is nothing that you can do in PHP that you could not do in another programming language. Just out of curiosity, why does it have to be PHP?
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Statements of total disbelief
3 points by gizi 11y ago|11 comments
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by gizi 11y ago
I am busy already. I already have a job that I like. So, I am not even remotely looking at what other jobs are around, because at the moment I consider that to be a distraction, a waste of time. Now you can generalize this: you can safely a
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by gizi 11y ago
Borland specialized in supplying tools that assisted in building windows-only desktop GUIs which would in turn access a database sitting somewhere on a LAN. As soon as the market moved to web GUIs, and hosting on linux, they were dead.
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by gizi 11y ago
> Knowing how to use a relational databases correctly requires no formal set theory. Very true, I guess. But the other way around, someone who has used relational databases, will immediately understand formal set theory and find it absol
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by gizi 11y ago
Wow. You are projecting us back to the mid-12th century, before we got hold of Algoritmi's famous book: Kitab Al-Jabr, i.e., Liber Algebrae. Before that it was only arithmetic and bits and bobs of Euclid's Elements (=Geometry). Th

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