jcadam

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by jcadam 7y ago
I'm certainly not comfortable with the ACA. I'm old enough to remember what health insurance was like before Obama came along. The sudden and dramatic increase in premiums, deductibles, and co-insurance was effectively a massive
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've tried... nobody hires remote developers without remote experience. It's one of those Catch-22s, like getting credit with no credit history.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've found 1-2 years is also about the time it takes for me to become bored and want a new project, new responsibilities (promotion), etc (I've only asked for a raise once during my entire career, so it usually isn't about
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by jcadam 7y ago
Oh yes, I do :)
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by jcadam 7y ago
Oh, my official title was "Lead Engineer" in the HR system. I just wasn't given any "lead" tasks or responsibilities.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I kid you not, I also had 3 bosses. Matrix management, yay :/
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by jcadam 7y ago
I'm in Florida and nearly 40 :) I've landed a fairly good spot now, might actually stay longer than my usual 1-2 years.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Problem: Interviewers lie. I once interviewed with a company that brought me into a new, shiny, well-appointed building on the corporate campus for an interview. I did well answering their questions. And they answered my usual questions co
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by jcadam 7y ago
I remember myself and every other senior engineer on a team once rejecting a candidate and being overruled by management. The guy was hired and... turned out to be as useless as we thought he'd be.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I love Lisp, and I don't despise Ada. I mean, I would never pick it over Lisp for a new project (well, I can think of one or two very narrow niches where it would probably be the most appropriate choice), but I would rate Ada above, s
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by jcadam 7y ago
Bah, I love Lisp (particularly Clojure), have used (and rather liked) Ada in the past, but I'm not sure I'd consider myself in the first group: "Applied Mathematics." I fancy myself more of a maker (I like making useful
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by jcadam 7y ago
Probably in the form of a tax break like everything else. $X tax credit per remote worker, or some such. Whether or not that would be enough, who knows...
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by jcadam 7y ago
Cool! I'm currently working through the lacinia tutorial to learn GraphQL (I've invested a lot of time in getting good at designing RESTful APIs, so GraphQL definitely feels alien to me), making a few changes as I go (I prefer mo
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've been trying to switch from vi to emacs. Partly for Clojure, partly because it's free and I've grown tired of trying to convince employers to buy me software tools (they never do). Overcoming 20 years of vi muscle memory
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by jcadam 7y ago
Can't help but wonder how Brendan Eich would have fared in the job.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> mono-language policies (or similar tight, top-down controlling of the language stack) are simply a matter of time. All companies enforce that as they mature. Yea, that would be my cue to leave.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Out of curiosity, why the move from Clojure to Haskell?
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by jcadam 7y ago
I can usually tell when I lose an interviewer. They stop paying attention and start fiddling with their smartphone. Every time I start a new job hunt, I have to fail a few interviews before I get practiced up again.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> I've known some very talented developers who could never pass a standard software engineering interview but if you give them a week to create a project they'll have something to you that works. > I've also known some
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by jcadam 7y ago
USAA is great if it you meet the membership qualifications - I've been with them since my Army days (They keep loosening up the requirements, at this point if your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommat
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by jcadam 7y ago
I used Ada for a few years back when I was working on satellite programs. It's the closest thing to a "If it compiles, it probably works" language that I've ever seen.
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by jcadam 7y ago
These are Apple users you're talking about. Their loyalty is pretty much unconditional, and they'll view this as an exciting opportunity to upgrade.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Next time I get an idea for a side project, I'm thinking of giving Racket a go. I've used Clojure on past personal projects (and currently at work), but I'm starting to grow weary of the JVM. If the next idea that comes to m
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by jcadam 7y ago
The author also states that the post is satire if you make it to the end.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I'd be happy with my home value simply remaining stable at this point. Around here (Florida), home appraisals seem completely random - either granting large amounts of "free" equity to buyers, or destroying equity and killin
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by jcadam 7y ago
I pay a bug guy to come out and spray around my house quarterly. It helps, especially with the ants. Pretty much a required service in Florida.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Yea, in my part of Florida we get the huge palmetto bugs (polite term for American cockroaches) coming inside during the summer. Fortunately, they don't usually infest homes like the German cockroaches. My cats take care of the few t
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by jcadam 7y ago
I got an MBA (not from a top school) back in 2010. It has not changed the trajectory of my career in any way as far as I can tell. I'm a 39 year old Senior Software Engineer. My BS in Computer Science has done much more for me, obvio
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by jcadam 7y ago
All of my previous job searches started with me seeking remote work and ended with me giving up and taking a local job. There clearly is a surplus of great engineers looking for remote gigs. I've recently landed an on-site job (I had
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by jcadam 7y ago
The supply of good Clojure developers far outstrips the demand. There are a large number of us who do Java at our day jobs, and hack Clojure on our hobby projects. I can't imagine why anyone would have any difficulty finding and hirin

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