jmgtan

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by jmgtan 12y ago
This is spot on! While I don't have problems financially, but I feel very much unfulfilled with my day job working as an architect for a big enterprise software company. Right now I do a lot of side jobs (architecture consulting) to ge
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by jmgtan 12y ago
You can use investopedia for almost anything finance/trading related.
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Paradoxes of Software Architecture (2012)(informit.com)
65 points by jmgtan 12y ago|25 comments
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by jmgtan 12y ago
I'm using a Thinkpad (T440) at work and whenever I have to undock from my desk I have to bring my mouse because I find myself always clicking the wrong things. Now I use an rMBP at home, and more often than not I actually play Diablo 3
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Job Security by Levels of Abstractions or Indirections(cutecoder.org)
2 points by jmgtan 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmgtan 12y ago
Freshbooks, Github, PhpStorm, Sublime Text (for those quick python/node js applications), AWS Thinking if I should probably get Intellij since I've been doing a lot of Java these past few weeks.
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by jmgtan 12y ago
You should give the latest version a try. Spring implemented JavaConfig, which allows you to avoid XML altogether. Coupled with the ComponentScan annotation, it can't get any simpler.
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Ah this brings back memories. My sister, who is still very religious, went into full blown panic mode when she discovered some D&D materials on my desk. This also brings back memories of tape backmasking to find "hidden" satan
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by jmgtan 13y ago
PHPStorm takes that title hands down
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by jmgtan 13y ago
They're slowly moving to node and java for quite some time. I interviewed there a few months ago and they drilled me on java stuff.
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Interesting discussion. Any thoughts on Spring and Spring MVC? Could Spring be considered monolithic as well?
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Nice! Looking forward to full support for Symfony2!
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by jmgtan 13y ago
I'm sold on php because of symfony, composer, and really good documentation of the language as well as the third party libraries. Been using NodeJS for quite some time, although I like it, I still have trouble looking for good document
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Well you want to avoid those freelance sites anyway regardless if you're doing projects using php or not. Making a good living building stuff is not even about what language you use, it's all about networking and how good you&#x27
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by jmgtan 13y ago
I do understand what AirBnb is trying to convey, but I sympathise more for the job seeker since I had really bad experiences with these types of question. Once I was interviewing for a senior software engineer position for a big financial c
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Well we normally have a time in (9am) and this is usually enforced via a fingerprint scanner and a physical attendance check by one of the admin person. There are 3 checks a day: morning, lunch, and 3pm tea break. Lunch break strictly start
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by jmgtan 13y ago
that's why I always play around with every new version of AirMail
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by jmgtan 13y ago
I encountered the same criticism (not doing overtime) when I was working for a Japanese company even though I'm the only one who is doing 5 projects at the same time and all ahead of schedule with no major issues. I was actually passed
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Personally I've been trying out AirMail for quite a few versions already, but I always go back to Sparrow. Sparrow seems more mature and faster for daily use.
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Nope. Actually convinced one of my colleague to drop ubuntu and switch to a rMBP. Corporate policies: not really sure what you meant by that. Lack of hardware choice: am using a rMBP, this is a very beautiful piece of laptop. I can encode v
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Never really understood the appeal of brew. I tried it several times, ended up wasting a lot of time looking for the recipes. I might be using it incorrectly. I do enjoy using MacPorts because I can quickly search the packages from their we
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by jmgtan 13y ago
Have you tried MacPorts? I use Linux extensively in the server side but really don't like using it as a development machine. I'm using a rMBP right now.
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by jmgtan 15y ago
Having worked in an enterprise company for a few years, and while there are some interesting problems to solve, the amount of politics and red tape that you have to go through before you even get to write a single code is a big hindrance to