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by hkarthik 14y ago
I actually met with some programmers from Shopify at a conference this week. They spoke of Tobi's leadership very well and I could see he's worked hard to cultivate a certain culture at Shopify. Reading this essay really validates a lot of
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I've personally moved to Ruby and I'm slowly bringing Javascript and other JVM languages like Clojure and Scala into the fold. In addition, I've moved to vim as a text editor and tried to avoid IDEs where possible. The biggest thing to do i
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by hkarthik 14y ago
As a recovering C# programmer, I can safely say the cost of licensing and tooling is the main detriment, along with cross platform issues. Working on C# OSS means stealing licenses from your employer, buying an MSDN subscription on your own
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by hkarthik 14y ago
The issues around Monsanto that get people fired up are more around their enforcement of their seed patents and the wide reach they've got on the seed industry as a result. Monsanto has systematically worked to destroy access to seeding mac
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I am most interested in the Plex/XBMC support. I have been looking for a small footprint XBMC box with enough power and this seems to fit the bill.
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The issue, as I see it, is that many developers in the Microsoft ecosystem consider Microsoft to be a trusted benefactor and are detached from the realities around software engineering today. Such developers often won't touch concepts and i
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I bet they plan to make up for it with content sales via iTunes and the App Store.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
> If I need to ask a teammate a question, I turn my head slightly to the left and ask them. They respond immediately. And then they stand the chance of losing anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour of productivity thanks to your interrupti
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I was hoping this guy got vim/tmux and a decent linux package manager working with his phone so he could program with it. Instead it's about how he's using a mobile keyboard and wordpress mobile. Why is this on the front page?
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Many developers who don't come from a CS or Math background will run from such questions for the following reasons: 1) They've never solved problems like this with code before. 2) They fail to grasp how such problem solving skills can judge
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Saying Ballmer is responsible for the existence of both .NET and Xbox is like saying Al Gore invented the internet. There were lots of very smart leaders and engineers involved in the creation of both of those and their contributions far ou
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by hkarthik 14y ago
One way to break free of C# is to get familiar with the JVM by building a side project using Clojure or Scala. You'll be able to read Java just fine so that is an option too. Another option is to learn how to develop mobile apps for iOS and
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Pretty cool that you launched iOS and Android together. Did you use a cross platform toolkit to do so?
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I graduated with a CS degree ten years ago and I could only check the following: Designing data structures Analyzing algorithmic complexity (Big O) Version control was glossed over in my class with little importance given to it.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I wish there was. Architecting a system for failover requires a mindset change, a culture change within your org, and the right technology that lets you build for it while not slowing yourself down too much. The last point being the hardest
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by hkarthik 14y ago
+1 I love my Synology NAS. Truly a great product.
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The two go hand in hand. Aside from a very small cross section of Mono users, most C# users are very dependent on Visual Studio.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Everyone's saying it was inappropriate to send this response to a recruiter, but maybe the intent was to see if this email would make its way to Sergey Brin or Larry Page. I would love to see their response to it.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I can identify with some of what the author has saying, as I've struggled with a pessimistic attitude throughout most of my adolescent and adult life. However much of it was formed long before I learned to code. I've recently been working t
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I agree, non-algorithmic work is the vast majority of programming work today because most of it is related to Application Programming. The reason for this is that most Application Programming emphasizes the use and sufficient knowledge of a
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I would argue that major content providers like Comcast and Time Warner have done a lot to keep us from having access to bandwidth or imposing data caps even when they provide the speed with their cable internet providers.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I've had the exact same concern regarding pricing of equipment for workstations/laptops. It's not hard to imagine a world where the workstation that costs you $2000 today will cost closer to $4000 simply because the demand is 20% of what it
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Apple succeeded in music because music was already pretty beaten down by piracy when Apple approached them with iTunes. The same strategy won't work with TV because they saw the piracy danger coming and made serious efforts to squash it and
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by hkarthik 14y ago
As a developer, in addition to retraining yourself, you also may need to change jobs fairly often. Often it's the only way to utilize and develop newly acquired skills if you want to stay relevant and make the skill acquisition worth it. Ho
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is very cyclical. We're in the honeymoon period with some of these technologies. Two years ago you saw a lot of posts proclaiming that NodeJS and MongoDB were fantastic, world changing technologies. Now you see a lot of posts saying "W
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by hkarthik 14y ago
"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day." This. I've lived this way for the past 8 years and it's been a breath of fresh air. To me, this is the definition of "living within your
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Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM(wired.com)
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Why I'm done with Scrum(lostechies.com)
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Single family home rents vary a lot based on school districts. If you don't have school age kids, you can get something in most parts of the bay for $3500, but the schools are very medicore (and probably terrible compared to most other part
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by hkarthik 14y ago
agreed. But there is a difference between knowingly doing something sloppy to get things done in the short term versus working like that on a regular basis and thinking it's just how programs are written.

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