greaseball

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by greaseball 8y ago
Static typing alone won't save you from creating monolithic code that's hard to maintain. My current employer has been slowly decoupling their 20 year old core product written in .NET into microservices (mostly Java, some Node) fo
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by greaseball 8y ago
I get the sense reading this article that the main concern raised is whether or not enough value is being generated by companies and researchers that "use machine learning to solve problems related to X" to justify the investment.
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by greaseball 8y ago
Apple being the acquirer wouldn't change the potential conflicts of interest or the trend towards monopolization, which is what a lot of people are upset about. Animosity toward large corporations isn't unique to Microsoft.
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by greaseball 8y ago
No worries, happy to help.
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by greaseball 8y ago
Might be obvious, but the biggest thing you'll give up in this market compared to cities like Toronto or Montréal is selection. There's some larger companies with satellite offices here (IBM, Salesforce, etc), but not too many sta
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by greaseball 8y ago
Developers in Toronto are getting a raw deal. The cost of living is orders of magnitude higher than the rest of the country and devs aren't making the difference up with higher wages. So glad I made the decision to move from Toronto to
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by greaseball 8y ago
My team used Sails for a project about 3 years ago and can confirm that your description fits the framework to a t. We were sold on the premise of a Rails-like experience running on Node, but experienced all the shortcomings you described.
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by greaseball 9y ago
sigh it's not a Saskatchewan Ricky, it's a Samsquanch!
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by greaseball 9y ago
This sounds like the most likely explanation to me. The only programmers I've personally worked with that wrote code in a functional language for their day jobs were data engineers using Scala for an Apache Spark data pipeline. They we
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by greaseball 9y ago
This looks promising. Although, it seems they only offer NFL, soccer, and tennis coverage currently. Hopefully some day they'll add NHL and NBA games as well.
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by greaseball 9y ago
I'd love to see a SAAS product for watching sports. Similar to Netflix in terms of UI and pricing, but also with the support for live content. I know this probably won't happen any time soon since major US telecom providers have e
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by greaseball 9y ago
As a Canadian who's spent a few years in the southern states, I can say that the difference in infrastructure here does help reduce the risks of road accidents when there's snow. In the south the entire city shuts down because the
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by greaseball 9y ago
I really like what they've done here with the update notifications. It's much less disruptive than the alert messages at the top they had before.
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by greaseball 9y ago
Based on the survey results it looks like devs using PHP are paid significantly less on average. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#work-salary-a...