jcadam

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by jcadam 7y ago
Snobbery? Those "common folk" destroyed (as in, made completely unusable for its intended purpose) USENET.
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by jcadam 7y ago
As a "full-stack" developer I just don't have the time to follow the JS circus as closely as a dedicated front-end dev would. I switched from Backbone to Mithril a few years back (major improvement to my productivity) and I
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by jcadam 7y ago
I'm running a FreeBSD box as my personal file server (have a ZFS pool of WD Red drives). As a server OS, I've always preferred the BSDs. Unfortunately, due to Docker, BSD is becoming much less relevant for a lot of use cases.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I can certainly do infrastructure work. You better believe I hide that fact from my employers :P
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by jcadam 7y ago
> This is not a world that operates on JSON or XML. Expect binary blobs with flags (bits) that change the meaning of other flags in fun and exotic ways. That bring back memories... As a government contractor I've had to work with se
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by jcadam 7y ago
I loved growing up and living in Colorado. Then the Californians came... Now I live in Florida. I like the beaches here, but I do miss the mountains sometimes.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've used mechanical keyboards at home for years and love them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with a mushy OEM keyboard at work (not allowed to bring in your own stuff here). Same deal with mice (I prefer trackballs).
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by jcadam 7y ago
Well, AWS has been pretty egregious in their behavior toward the open source community.
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by jcadam 7y ago
As a Clojure enthusiast who has never been able to find a FT job using the language, I find it hard to believe that the demand for Clojure devs outstrips the supply. And even if you have to hire devs who don't already know the language
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by jcadam 7y ago
Oh, I admit there are good reasons for it. And there are people who prefer such a rigid, structured, and slow-paced environment. I ran into plenty while I was stuck doing that sort of work. Good for them. The world needs such people, pro
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by jcadam 7y ago
Just a bit of warning: Software Engineering in Aerospace is NOT fun. You're basically in a supporting role to the hardware and system engineers designing the spacecraft. It's pure drudgery... process to the point of absurdity, s
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by jcadam 7y ago
It's all self correcting in the long run, I say. A non-increasing population leads to economic stagnation (at best). That, coupled with a decline in religiosity leading to a loss of societal cohesion will eventually bring down the who
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by jcadam 7y ago
I'd also wager that our increasing usage of computers (including/esp. the handheld kind) to perform tasks that used to require us to use our brains plays a role (e.g., I don't bother calculating the tip at a restaurant anymor
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by jcadam 7y ago
Maybe I should try to get an interview with Google so they can feed me startup ideas. "Wow, great interview task! Oh, I'm no longer interested in pursuing a job with you, but thanks."
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by jcadam 7y ago
> I am a software engineer and I was once asked during an interview at a large hedge fund to pick a side and debate why war is justified. Heh, I actually wouldn't have minded that too much - but in addition to being a software engin
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by jcadam 7y ago
> The US is the most advanced country on the planet. This has only been true since about the mid 20th century and is by no means guaranteed to continue. Other countries are also populated by clever humans who would love to overtake us.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Pfft, I could fit all that on like, 10,000 ZIP disks.
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by jcadam 7y ago
No language supports the commoditization of programming talent quite like Go. Java gave it a good shot, but Go is much closer to "perfection" in this regard. Using Go feels like mindless clerical work. My industry (defense and g
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by jcadam 7y ago
> ...the features of the core language matter only in regard of whether they facilitate making a good DSL. Well, nothing I'm aware of beats the LISP family of languages as far as "making a good DSL" goes, but none of those
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by jcadam 7y ago
In the U.S., we need to add about 20 years to the minimum age requirement for representatives, senators, and the president. Those were set back when the constitution was originally written (different world, etc.) and need to be increased.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Make service in the House work more like jury duty. Everyone living in a district who meets the minimum requirements (age, etc) has their name thrown into a lottery. Representatives get selected randomly and have to serve for one session,
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by jcadam 8y ago
One of my pet peeves is when someone complains to me about being bored, as if their inability to occupy themselves is my fault and its my job to entertain them. My wife learned this about me early on (I'm an extreme introvert and can
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by jcadam 8y ago
I'm much too old to work at a FAANG :), I do make a pretty good salary for the area of the county I live in, though. In any case, moving to SV would only be worth it if salary+bonus were close to half a Megabuck, and I doubt there are
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by jcadam 8y ago
Very few companies include bonus as a part of a software engineer's compensation (large SV companies are more or less alone in this). Bonuses are generally reserved for executives (excluding sales staff, of course) in most industries,
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by jcadam 8y ago
If you're passionate about a subject, you're going to have strong opinions about said subject. If you voice/publish those opinions, some people are going to hate you. Perhaps a potential employer was set to hire you until t
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by jcadam 8y ago
The "History Eraser Button" from Ren & Stimpy comes to mind...
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by jcadam 8y ago
This whole discussion reminds of the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. i.e., a society arising in the centuries after a nuclear war failing to learn from their ancestors' mistakes.
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by jcadam 8y ago
I haven't bought a new PC game in at least 5 years. I rarely play console games anymore either. As a kid I was addicted to video games and dreamed of working in the industry (that dream is what got me started programming at 8). Now,
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by jcadam 8y ago
I feel your pain. I spent a year building a SaaS and then another year trying to find customers. Never made a single sale. I realize now I approached the whole enterprise bass-ackwards. Next time: find customers first, then build the thing
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by jcadam 8y ago
I listed it for exactly what it was listed for when I had bought it... about 7 months prior (and at that time it drew multiple offers within 2 weeks on market). It really was an unexpected situation.

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