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by johntdaly 5y ago
What you are talking about is something along the line of OZ/Mozart or Alice ML. These type of languages are not usually used to program actual applications in. They are used to teach programming language concepts and how they relate a
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by johntdaly 5y ago
If it is cheap on the resources (less cpu and ram) it is probably more expensive on manpower. If it is cheaper on manpower it is probably less resource efficient. You can take a look at the Web Framework Benchmarks [1] the fastest framework
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Do you already know HTML and CSS? If not, you might want to get that squared away. HTML shouldn’t be that hard and don’t go to far into CSS since you probably won’t do much CSS work later on. You might be able to pick a book that teaches yo
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I had to drop out before I got my Bachelor’s degree and I’m missing some of my general requirements rather than CS requirements and I’ve been doing fine as a programmer. So I would say you also have to look when people dropped out and why.
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I don’t think you understand my stance an intelligence or IQ tests the way I intended it. I am just saying that having a high IQ (single measure of intelligence) doesn’t guaranty you that the person is skilled right for your job (multiple t
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I honestly believe that HR in IT is so broken that just about nothing they do makes sense. Most interviews are BS, most coding interviews/tests are BS, an IQ test is BS too. I don’t think the IQ test is inherently worse or better that
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Well, I’ve heard of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine yesterday from HN, same with Kyiv. I’ve got HN open at work and refresh it when I need to think so HN might be more relative for world news than you think. There also once was an artic
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Because they are old and elitist. Or at least that is the way I see the situation in Germany and the US. There aren’t a lot of new politicians that are young or tech savvy and the people that might have thought about it probably aren’t high
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Daniel is also a smart kid who can make his way through university without getting a leg up anywhere along the way and come out to be successful afterwards. Just calling affirmative action racist isn’t helping. Things are a bit more nuanced
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I think you have to consider that many of us where born in a time where “not seeing color” was touted as “the solution” to racism. And while there are points for “correcting” based on skin color the ting is presented and perused rather badl
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Yes, he definitely did that. What sucks for people like his student is that they counted as a minority and got shafted by that until they didn’t count as a minority anymore and got shafted by that too. It sucks to be an invisible minority.
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Yea, I know of undeadly and read it off and on, freebsdnews too. I stoped reading undeadly a while ago when they had a rather long lull in publishing. From a post further down I take it freebsdnews has the same problem. I fallow DragonflyBS
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by johntdaly 5y ago
That is interesting. I would like to hear more about jails and how they compare to containers on linux. This is the first time I’ve heard about nomad and I would like to here more. That the whole thing integrates with ZFS is news to me too.
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I know a company that still has its product in ColdFusion. Just because you are not “hot” anymore means that all your code goes away. The problem that PHP has are not that it is dead or going away (not going to happen). The problem it has i
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I agree with Clubber, stick with CS and a minor in business. MIS sounds nice if you want to go IT. The minor in business can take you in some of the management positions in IT, experience can take you into others. But the minor in business
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Finish you degree with a minor in Business and go into the management aspect of IT sounds like the best plan. After you got some experience you should be able to “shop around” a bit for some other type of management position that aligns wit
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by johntdaly 5y ago
That is what tools like FileMaker of xBase/Clipper where made for. If you are on Linux you might be able too look at Glom. Second best choice, RAD tools like Delphi and VisualBasic where designed to make your life easier fo this type o
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I am a Ruby/Rails developer that is currently not writing Ruby/Rails code on the job. I use it for my private stuff and I would have loved to go back to developing in Ruby/Rails for money. On of my ex-coworkers and Ruby/
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I for one prefer to look down on the masses by choice of programming language not job title! But in all seriousness, yes our job titles are BS to a large degree and we have the tendency to look down on other programmers for various reasons
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by johntdaly 5y ago
I don’t think you are wrong about Engineer in Germany but it just doesn’t apply to software. If you go into classical engineering there are rules. For example you couldn’t call yourself a civil engineer (‘Bauingenieur’) in Germany. If you a
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by johntdaly 5y ago
What sets the Engineer apart from the Developer for me is: * the engineer can work with other developers/engineers * the engineer writes code that is maintainable * the engineers code has an architecture * the engineer can find a solut
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by johntdaly 5y ago
System automation is very “scripty” so the traditional tools have always been in scripting languages (chef, ansible, puppet, salt) and you can have lots of other peoples “code” running instead of doing it all yourself. That is sort of the a
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by johntdaly 5y ago
good luck and try to have fun learning
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Honestly, I think that question is a bit harder to answer than you might think. 1) I would want you to know enough HTML, JavaScript and CSS to make a simple website. And I can’t really recommend a tutorial or book because this is so basic t
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Python? Yes. Unix? No. There are environments for Python for Android and iOS, there are also web based ways to use an interpreter [1]. You can also get going with online tutorials instead of getting a book. Python has way way more options t
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Learn Python and get comfortable with Unix/Linux. There are a lot of books for learning Python (get something that is Python 3.x) that cater to different tastes. Find the one that looks the most “fun” to you so you stick with it. If yo
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by johntdaly 5y ago
fixed! on the page https://www.pixelhop.io/writing/my-experience-being-in-my-fi...
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by johntdaly 5y ago
link is broken link is also broken on the site ( https://www.pixelhop.io/writing/ ) I get "n is not a function"
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by johntdaly 5y ago
The funny thing is that in the book it ends with him in an asylum and one of the male nurses telling him that he doesn’t need to worry because the project is still on track as planed.
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by johntdaly 5y ago
It is not just that. NestJS feels “cobbled together” out of what was already being used. Rails feels like one coherent thing and the plugins don’t break that much (well most of them). But the difference is that everything feels coherent in

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