jcadam

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by jcadam 8y ago
You should always be required to a look a person in the eye when you fire them. There are way too many managers who will do anything to avoid uncomfortable situations (for them). So we end up with things like this... "Computer says yo
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by jcadam 8y ago
I put this sucker on the market in the fall (bad time, I know). I got a great job offer I couldn't refuse and had to move. Unfortunately, I have yet to "realize" my new, higher salary because I'm paying double for housi
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by jcadam 8y ago
The housing market is starting to feel like 2007 again. I've been trying to sell for 6 months. Prices are stagnant (or slowly falling), nobody's buying.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Oh good, so now cities will need to pay a contractor to develop, operate, and maintain some complex hardware/software solution to perform a task that was until now being easily and efficiently performed using a stick of chalk. Because
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by jcadam 8y ago
Money is flattering.
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by jcadam 8y ago
My first exposure to the actor model was with Akka on Scala. After working with it for a little while, I thought "this is what OOP should be, perhaps I just hate broken implementations of OOP (i.e., Java, C++), rather than OOP itself.
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by jcadam 8y ago
I worked at Boeing on a large satellite program back in this same time frame (2008-2011). I worked on the software simulator for the satellite that was used to test flight code and the ground system (i.e., give the ground control software
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by jcadam 8y ago
Yep, once tried to correct a Wikipedia page about an event I had direct knowledge of, only to have my change reverted. Whatever. Not going to get into a fight when I was only trying to contribute - enjoy being smugly wrong. I'm also
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by jcadam 8y ago
Yep, keep your stuff portable and you can always migrate to AWS/Azure/etc. later if your personal project should turn into something bigger.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Years of experience tops out at "8+"? An engineer that started working at 22 is barely 30 by the time they reach that experience level. Is 8 years really the point where additional experience ceases to have a meaningful effect o
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by jcadam 8y ago
Training on your own time after hours vs being paid to attend training during your regular work hours? I know which one I'd choose.
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by jcadam 8y ago
> Oh man, yeah. We've got people straight of school stuck on projects written in JOVIAL. Literally put them into a dead-end job straight out of school, we can't retain them. Exactly this. I got stuck doing Ada near the beginn
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by jcadam 8y ago
It's mind-numbing "code-to-spec" work. You aren't involved in the design or architecture (that is done several levels above you by "System Engineers"), you are given a highly detailed spec (sometimes so detail
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by jcadam 8y ago
I learned Ada because I took a new job back in 2008 (at Boeing, doing spacecraft modeling and simulation) and discovered on my first day that I would be using Ada. Naturally, I was expected to just pick it up on my own (Not complaining, th
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by jcadam 8y ago
Debtors' prisons are technically illegal. But... yea.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Meh, anything labelled "non-violent" is bound to be an ineffective waste of time. Pass.
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by jcadam 8y ago
One of my favorite movies, and very popular amongst vets and folks who work in the defense industry. An instructor actually played the "scope creep" scene for us at a course I attended back when I was an Army officer.
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by jcadam 8y ago
I still have to unload/load my dishwasher manually. Same goes for gathering, loading, unloading, folding and putting away laundry. Whoever develops a robot (or robots) that can perform those tasks is going to be very rich.
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by jcadam 8y ago
I started using Streams and lambdas immediately, along with functional interfaces. Java is still not nearly as pleasant as Scala or Clojure, however.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Still have an old first-gen i5 powered 27" iMac. I pulled it out of the closet a year ago and replaced the dead OEM hard drive with an SSD and set it up in a corner of the living room as a GP/web machine. The optical drive is de
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by jcadam 8y ago
> until I drove the car out front of the sales department and started jacking the car up to replace it myself. Nice.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Just reinforces my belief that an ivy league degree is much more an indicator of socioeconomic class than it is intelligence or aptitude.
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by jcadam 8y ago
Yea, that's probably true. Everything gets less fun as time goes on.
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by jcadam 8y ago
> are going to make the web a lot less fun are going to? It already has. I'm old enough to remember a time when the web wasn't considered a synonym for the Internet, when USENET was actually useful, gopher was a thing, and
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by jcadam 8y ago
Hmm... tempted to try a tiling window manager again (tried i3 a few years ago, but couldn't really see the utility at the time), since I just got a big 32" 4K monitor for my dev machine. I've caught myself starting to manual
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by jcadam 8y ago
> their IT person quit upon discovered 2 drives dead on the raid 5 array and no backups. Based on the rest of your story, he probably feared for his life...
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by jcadam 8y ago
Yes, they do help.
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by jcadam 8y ago
I'm doing it. My wife is a stay-at-home mom. Here's the thing... my wife hasn't worked since we were in college. We never got used to having two salaries coming in. I think the real difficulty is couples base their lifest
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by jcadam 8y ago
I've wasted a lot of time during my attempts as a solo developer to build a product with a scalable backend architecture for the hordes of users that never materialize. Next idea I have, I swear I'm going to throw all my effort in
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by jcadam 8y ago
Plenty of time, I suppose. But if history is anything to go by, you can be sure we'll wait until the last minute to start fixing old software.

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