jcadam

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by jcadam 6y ago
I probably played Civ1 the most, on the Amiga back in the day. IMO, Civ II was the best in the series, and if I find myself craving a game of Civ, I go for FreeCiv. Never tried Civ VI, the last few iterations just did not hook me the way t
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by jcadam 6y ago
Ada is/was heavily used in the defense/aerospace industry. Most of these legacy maintenance requests come from defense contractors who do not want to pay top-dollar for expertise. They want to put butts-in-seats to soak up billa
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by jcadam 6y ago
I was a fairly junior software engineer at the time. And took the job only because it was 2008 and I was unemployed. Had never used Ada but the employer (rhymes with "Going") didn't seem to mind. My mother was kind of enou
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by jcadam 6y ago
I don't know, if I'm trying to create an open-source project with the intent of making something that becomes useful and popular, I'm not sure I'd want to artificially limit the number of potential contributors by pickin
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by jcadam 6y ago
I spent about 4 years of my early career working with Ada in the aerospace industry (specifically, I worked on the GPS satellite program). It was rather career-limiting because I ended up as a young engineer with a lot of experience in an
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by jcadam 6y ago
Cool. Now we just need LOGO on the JVM and I can fully relive my childhood coding days.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'm the most extraordinary software engineer in my office. I mean, it's my home office, but that still counts, right?
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by jcadam 6y ago
Everyone has a number. I wouldn't want to work for Oracle either. However, if they came to me with an offer that was several multiples of my current salary, I'm not sure I could turn it down :)
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by jcadam 6y ago
I think there's going to be a run on houses in the suburbs over the next year or two, as urban decay sets in. A lot of those downtown office workers are going to keep working from home, so all of those restaurants and cafes that cater
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by jcadam 6y ago
I suppose, in a way. It's really easy to give up Facebook and Twitter. Which I've done. Giving up Amazon is different. They actually ship me real, tangible items I need. Items that I'd have to track down from different re
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, spring boot. When 90% of what you're doing on the backend is gluing a bunch of different Java technologies together, Clojure becomes hard to justify. Fortunately, mixing JVM languages together on the same project isn't a bi
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by jcadam 6y ago
It's probably a result of my using shadow-cljs rather than figwheel. Cursive will catch up eventually, I'm sure.
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by jcadam 6y ago
I've found CIDER superior to Cursive for Clojurescript, specifically. I use a combination of IntelliJ (with the emacs keybindings) and emacs depending on which language I'm working with. Most of my projects involve two or more l
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, I had one take home problem where the instructions stated "Please don't take more than 1 hour to solve." So, just once, I decided to hold myself to one hour, and barely managed to get to a solution that worked. During t
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, the "interview" should have been nothing more than a review of past performance appraisals and a conversation to assess motivation/goals/etc.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Huh, the only successful interviews I have are the ones where I'm burned out after a long, fruitless, frustrating job search. And so I walk in assuming the interview will be a waste of time and just not caring anymore. That's whe
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yep, deactivated my account just the other day and deleted the facebook app from my phone. I don't need a constant stream of advertising and political propaganda. I can seek those things out on my own if I want them.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, I'm really digging working from home. I'm nervous my employer, who I am otherwise happy with, will force me back into the office full time in a couple of months. It actually has me considering looking around for a "true
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by jcadam 6y ago
It seems lately as though Facebook has finally found the optimal way to suck me in and keep me scrolling... show me things that piss me off. I think it’s time to just delete my account. Facebook was supposed to be a means to stay in touch
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by jcadam 6y ago
Craven appeasement.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, hard to believe great engineers would be happy that way. They apparently can't even have side/personal projects to scratch that creative itch if the day job isn't providing enough challenge. But leaving or doing a star
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by jcadam 6y ago
I'm starting to think Google (probably Facebook too) scoops up top talent simply to deprive potential competitors (e.g., startups) of the resources they would need to challenge them. Actually having something for them to do is seconda
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by jcadam 6y ago
I find it much easier to skip my evening glass of wine than to skip my morning cup of coffee.
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by jcadam 6y ago
If you're down to coffee as your worst vice, you're doing very well.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Yea, I had an amiga 500 and later a 1200 for a while. Moving to a PC running DOS/Windows felt like a step down.
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by jcadam 6y ago
Expectations for what software should be able to do were quite a bit lower in the 80s too :) I started learning to code as a kid in the 80s on 8-bit machines. Seemed like there was rapid progress in the availability of CPU power, RAM, etc.
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by jcadam 6y ago
There's a very good chance many of the stores destroyed by looting/burning in these poorer neighborhoods won't be reopening. Perfect opportunity for the large chains to close up some of these locations that had to be marginal
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by jcadam 6y ago
One of my favorite games from the 90s. The fact that the missions were set at night was probably a huge help for the visuals given the graphics capabilities of the time :)
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by jcadam 6y ago
And the downvoter(s) prove my point. Read between the lines: I'm saying that there are a lot of people selecting themselves out of the candidate pool for the large SV tech companies based on the perception of SV corporate culture being
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by jcadam 6y ago
Who wants to work for a company where they're living in constant fear of being outed as a non-leftist and losing their job? I get the frequent recruiting emails from FB and (much less frequently) Google, but am really too afraid to pur

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