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by jshen 11y ago
> I'm not arguing that vegetarian and vegan diets are quintessentially malnutritious. I'm arguing that many people are doing it wrong. You seem to be implying that vegetarian diets are more problematic that meat based diets. Yo
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by jshen 11y ago
It depends on how you define meat. I'm a vegetarian, and it doesn't seem to be hard to get enough zinc without eating beef, chicken, etc. http://bembu.com/foods-high-in-zinc Eat some shrimp, spinach, peanuts, etc
813.
by jshen 11y ago
I love Go, I love Rich Hickey and I love clojure. I don't understand the confusion.
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by jshen 11y ago
I've always found the list comprehension harder to read for non trivial examples. It may just be a matter of which a person learned first.
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by jshen 11y ago
When you are unsure, make it a function. I have frequently regretted making things fields, and I have never regretted making it a function.
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by jshen 11y ago
Jruby 1.7 simply doesn't work in GAE, and maybe it's not worth making it work there, which I would understand. I opened an issue a while ago ( https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/2304 ) and I spent
817.
by jshen 11y ago
Have you tried the pure-Java fallback on App Engine? I tried it for JRuby 1.7 and it didn't work. I haven't tried yet with 9000, have you?
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by jshen 11y ago
> Google should figure out a way to monetize that isn't just maximizing clicks and optimizing ad revenue. After many years of things like 20% time, no one at Google has created anything that monetizes at a level close to ads. Why wo
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by jshen 11y ago
novelly every person in the world will have a smart phone. Many will not have a desktop or laptop. Need I say more?
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by jshen 11y ago
There are languages that have what you want. Why not use them?
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by jshen 11y ago
> With no word as to why she left or was fired - it screams something political or a massive disconnect with the userbase No it doesn't, and in most cases the company is protecting the privacy of the individual being fired. Can you
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by jshen 11y ago
> or you rely on some sort of code generation approach. Exactly.
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by jshen 11y ago
The problem with all statements regarding programming languages is that they rarely have empirical evidence to back them up. Do you have any data showing that generics will lead to a cleaner language? I have seen a study or two that tried t
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by jshen 11y ago
It is not a pure superset. With the current app engine, Google takes care of security patches for the language. With container engine, the customer is now responsible for security patches for their language.
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by jshen 11y ago
"but I think that the analogy might be that if the team is using an interesting technology stack, there's a higher chance the engineers there are of higher caliber" My experience doesn't support this for a few reasons. O
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by jshen 11y ago
I read that back when it was first published, believed it, and built a few teams using it's philosophy. I've also been at a few big companies that haven't followed it's direction. In my experience it doesn't work un
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by jshen 11y ago
Smart companies want engineers that are focused on solving their challenges, not those that prioritize the tool they use over the real goal.
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by jshen 12y ago
you have a strange definition of immutable. Language is changing rather constantly. Take an 80 year old and have them listen to a conversation between 16 year olds. I bet there are a bunch of words they don't know the meaning of.
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by jshen 12y ago
Language changes dramatically over time. Read English from 1000 years ago! There is a great example in "The Language Instinct" which shows a writing in English from 4 different periods in time. The oldest will make non sense to mo
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by jshen 12y ago
and how is this different than dev in general?
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by jshen 12y ago
webdev requires deep knowledge, it just may be a kind of knowledge you aren't interested in. Placing more value in your own pet interests is more than a little condescending.
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by jshen 12y ago
It also reminds me of an Einstein quote. "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits."
833.
by jshen 12y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write that up. Now I have so many questions :)
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by jshen 12y ago
Do you work at google?
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by jshen 12y ago
But how do you manage scope and deliverables on a team that doesn't occasionally require overtime?
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by jshen 12y ago
How does your team scope out and schedule work? For us, we do two week sprints and then have a few hard launch dates a year. It's often hard for us to finish all work we commit to without working a bit of OT. I've always wondered
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by jshen 12y ago
"if the question is closed and there are no existing duplicates, then the question itself doesn't have much value." Not fitting the guidelines of SO and not having much value are two very different things. Are you sure you me
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by jshen 12y ago
What about relocation?
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by jshen 12y ago
What I see on your links is very promising, and there certainly are companies willing to hire entry level people. You'd definitely get a phone screen if your resume crossed my desk. What you don't say is how you've looked for
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by jshen 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe with sum types you can chain together multiple calls then pattern match once at the end. In Go you have to check at each call.

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