jcadam

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by jcadam 4y ago
> I would take a pay cut to work in a sane language like clojure. Honestly this is probably part of the reason Clojure jobs can pay less.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Clojure w/ Spring Boot? No. It would do fine as part of a microservices architecture where some of the other services are Java/Spring. I've done exactly that in fact - wrote a few Clojure services to rip through and ingest s
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by jcadam 4y ago
I've had a couple of jobs doing Clojure full-time, the problem is that Java jobs pay better.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Another AI prediction: Targeted advertising becomes even more "targeted." With ads generated on the fly specific to an individual user - optimized to make you (specifically, you) click.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Mr. Zorg from 5th element is basically the archetype for a MegaCorp CEO.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Last company I was laid off from (a few months ago) said they would deduct from your severance (I forget the amount, but was more than the Macbook was worth) if you didn't return it. I did not test them on that and just returned it.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Sounds like a good way to create a cutthroat working environment :O.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I'm still not sure if it's better to do it that way (one big cut) rather than multiple waves of smaller layoffs spread over time.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> I knew it was only a matter of time once they went public. Very common. "This was a great place for an engineer to work. Then the MBAs came..."
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by jcadam 4y ago
Yea, the fact that it can come up with usable code snippets for simple programming tasks bodes ill for new/junior developers. AI is not threatening senior engineering roles... yet.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I really like Kotlin on the backend, it integrates nicely with Spring Boot, etc., but as soon as I say I have Kotlin experience, people say "Oh, so you're an android developer?" I've never touched android development in
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by jcadam 4y ago
I left the company not long after that, so I don't really know how it ultimately played out :)
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by jcadam 4y ago
I've been a "Senior Engineer" for over 10 years now.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Was once a senior engineer at a small-ish office of a fairly large company. We had a particularly high-strung junior engineer that was prone to throwing fits if he didn't get his way. Apparently, one day, he threatened to quit for ano
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by jcadam 4y ago
Everyone knows fortified Spearmen guarding a mountain pass are impervious to everything but nukes.
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by jcadam 4y ago
I'd gladly be a technical co-founder for the first type, but they aren't exactly common, and hard to distinguish from the BS artists.
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by jcadam 4y ago
As a matter of fact, I’m not jabbed. Yes, it cost me a job to stay that way.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Time for a new crisis.
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by jcadam 4y ago
So, no reason not to pickup a refurb/clearance M1 MBP and save some money :)
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by jcadam 4y ago
I closed my PayPal account some time ago. I'd heard too many horror stories like this one.
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by jcadam 4y ago
> There are people who are good at tech, but not good at casual conversation about tech. And conversely, there are people who are not good at tech, but good at casual conversation about tech. Those people tend to become your boss :)
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by jcadam 4y ago
I actually haven't used WINE in years - I pretty much only do dev stuff on my Linux boxen now, and there are generally *nix equivalents for most any utility app you need nowadays. Classic Windows gaming I assume is the main use case no
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by jcadam 4y ago
Are we the Vogons?
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by jcadam 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to write me a fibonacci sequence generator suitable for entry into the obfuscated C contest. And it actually spit out something reasonably well obfuscated (used lots of macros).
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by jcadam 4y ago
Maybe too much money was going to non-profits Amazon doesn't approve of?
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by jcadam 4y ago
> I wonder who'll be the ones to put old Google to sleep.. Hopefully soon, I make a concerted effort to avoid using Google services wherever possible. Even in cases where the alternatives are inferior.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Not using it now, but the last project I was on that did was at a defense contractor about 5 years ago. Basically, the lead engineer that was in charge of the new project set up what he liked before the rest of the team was in place. So
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by jcadam 4y ago
Wow, this thing has been around forever. I remember using it on geospatial projects 10 years ago.
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by jcadam 4y ago
Learn You A Haskell is full of useful illustrations. http://learnyouahaskell.com/
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by jcadam 4y ago
I always remove the flow-restrictor from new showerheads I buy.

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