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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Every company I’ve worked for has been overstaffed in engineering to one degree or another. The sad fact is that this is not a 1:1 type of thing… it’s typical for 80% of the output to come from 20% of the team. Many people coast along on t
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
I mean a realistic use case that a normal person would actually do… people who are used to just tapping their iPhone twice to pay for things. My mom has absolutely no clue what you’re talking about… at best she might have a ledger nano one
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
At least when you do, you’re fdic insured up to 100k typically
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
except it doesn't solve either, because it's still risky to keep (whether with a 'trusted third party' or at home on some physical device... at the end of the day it can't be better than physical possession.. i.e. c
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Relative to what, though? It’s a garbage collected language running on a virtual machine. At the end of the day, if I want high level ergonomics I’ll use Python and if I want performance I’ll use C. If I want both at the same time I’ll u
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Yes! Email James.martin@zelis.com with your resume and GitHub link if you’re interested.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
I’m trying to hire a senior engineer (with a lot of Rust experience). We just hired a new junior last week. It’s not all bad.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Performance, mostly. It’s in the middle. Why do anything in the middle?
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
What does this enable?
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
The fact that when I started, there was no other way to really use a computer. It booted into basic. I definitely feel like becoming ‘self-taught’ today, on the entire stack down to at least the operating system level would be very, very h
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
You have cobra coverage until you go get another job, which is something you absolutely have to do regardless. If you have an hsa, you’ll still have a bunch of money in there, too.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
I work as an engineer in America and yea.. that’s totally not how the math works. Healthcare expenses are largely covered along with the much higher pay and lower taxes. I think my out of pocket cost last year was negative after hsa contr
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Assuming you’re a good one, teach kids how computers actually work. The push towards higher and higher levels of abstraction has made even basic things seem like voodoo under the hood to anyone who grew up post-windows 95.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
At the end of the day, functional programming isn’t fun (to me). None of the qualities touched on in the article are unique to it, either. So… I’ll keep not doing it.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Is that significantly more than average over the same time period? Would imply a fairly low adoption rate even at that peak, if it was one.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Everything said here about dell is true of every windows laptop I’ve ever owned.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
That Disney roller coaster designing game from the early 90s. Also, pretty much all BBS door games. I’m sure there’s somewhere hosting them on the web, but it’s just not the same.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Apple ones are… my latest windows machine (an ASUS g14) has all of the silly problems that every other windows laptop I’ve ever owned has had. Terrible battery life, loud, hot, awful trackpad, power management issues… they’re all mostly the
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
The last line of this article is intended only to confuse people. Odd choice.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
There’s absolutely nothing that I need less when working than to be surrounded by a bunch of other people. If we know one another and are friendly, it’s worse. If they’re loud, you may as well write off the entire day.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
I agree this would be very cool. I can’t count the number of times I wish I had runtime interactive debugging in a repl along the lines of pry in Ruby in just about every language that doesn’t have it. That said, gdb etc are pretty awesome
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
You’re not at all, and it’s one of the main reasons that I feel confident hopping into a codebase that I’m not as familiar with in something like Rust than say Ruby or JavaScript. The lack of strict types makes understanding how a program
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Watched the video of this on YouTube. Overall a great talk, though I don’t agree with many of his conclusions. He seems to argue that ‘move fast and break things’ is the way forward, and that big dynamic runtimes allow for this with great
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
The only problem is that then you end up married to your mountain of abstractions. Designing things to work as intended from the outset is, in my experience, always the better path. It’s like ‘buy once, cry once’ for technical debt/eff
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Rust is going to the moon.
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
It matters to the guy paying the AWS bill... or anyone who cares about their ecological impact. We have a duty to utilize resources as efficiently as possible, no different than anyone else. Building every new project on top of a mountain o
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Well, hopefully you’re good and can demonstrate that with your GitHub profile or something else you can show. Assuming that’s the case, I got my first programming job (I’ve only ever worked remote) long before being remote was common, and
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
It’s amazing what people can do with stuff like this. Such a beautiful language (Ruby) made so ugly yet beautiful when viewed from a higher altitude.. there’s a metaphor there somewhere
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
Not to be rude, but this is so far off base as to be laughable. You don’t have to understand much about how the system works (really no more than what is contained in the last ai day presentation) to understand why none of this is a proble
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by jmartin2683 4y ago
I wouldn’t invest significant time or energy into anything that is primarily driven or funded by Google until it’s very established and somehow making them a boatload of money.

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