jshen

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by jshen 12y ago
A major hit to readability. Every call site where you want to check for an error requires adding another level of nesting.
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by jshen 12y ago
LOL
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by jshen 12y ago
No it's not. I know plenty of engineers making around $200k in total comp who are leaf nodes in the org chart.
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by jshen 12y ago
> What's really sad that many companies have pay scales that all but force engineers to move up the org chart This hasn't been my experience.
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by jshen 12y ago
> It is sad that one of the most influential engineers or our time thinks that to be the best engineer he has to be on the bottom of the org chart. Says quite a bit about where we place value. It's because he knows what org charts m
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by jshen 12y ago
"Java enterprise shops are not using git and JRebel and Play Framework and continuous deployments and 2 week sprints and reactive development refactoring boilerplate into lambdas. Nor are they "mocking" amazon web services fo
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by jshen 12y ago
Have you ever managed for than a few people?
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by jshen 12y ago
From recruiters. I can spot the good ones.
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by jshen 12y ago
Sure, but that doesn't happen instantaneously, which is what allows for a shortage. I've seen no good data on this issue either way, but from my anecdotal experience, salaries have been rising for a while now.
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by jshen 12y ago
I've had some rather amazing opportunities that came without a salary range in the initial email. Using that as the primary factor is surely suboptimal.
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by jshen 12y ago
A shortage occurs whenever quantity demanded is greater than quantity supply at the market price. More people are willing and able to buy the good at the current price than what is currently available. When a shortage exists, the market is
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by jshen 12y ago
"the concept of a "shortage" of something in a free market is not a coherent one" This is obviously wrong.
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by jshen 12y ago
That's short sighted.
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by jshen 12y ago
It sounds to me like the value is coming more from management than the programmer. After all, you admit that few people have the skill to deliver that value and the programmer can't deliver it themselves.
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by jshen 12y ago
I can summarize your point of view as, "pay me a million dollars and I'll blame others for the problems" Who wants to hire that attitude?
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by jshen 12y ago
My point still stands. If this is true there is an enormous opportunity for you to get rich. Try it and let us know how it goes.
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by jshen 12y ago
The most obvious flaw, a programmer is only worth 5.7 times their 1999 salary if their work is generating 5.7 times as much revenue as it would have in 1999. I see no evidence that this is the case. If it were the case, and the vast majorit
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by jshen 12y ago
That's flawed reasoning in so many ways.
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by jshen 12y ago
What are you worth?
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by jshen 12y ago
It's been working fine for me, but I don't use it for work email.
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by jshen 12y ago
maybe a clearer way to phrase it is "they redesigned gmail around the majority of gmail users".
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by jshen 12y ago
It did say what I claimed, fossil fuels are subsidized. You want to add a qualification that isolates special subsidies that the fossil fuel industry gets which aren't stanfard for all businesses. That's a useful distinction and m
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by jshen 12y ago
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011...
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by jshen 12y ago
convincing of what? Someone said that renewables aren't viable because they are subsidized. I said that fossil fuels are also subsidized so that is an odd argument to make. I've shown that fossil fuels do get subsidies. I'm n
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by jshen 12y ago
Because there is no such thing as the platonic ideal of a free state.
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by jshen 12y ago
Here's one In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same timeframe, renewa
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by jshen 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_State...
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by jshen 12y ago
There are huge subsidies for fossil fuels. Does that mean they are not viable?
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by jshen 12y ago
Right, there is no good data at all suggesting that languages like Haskell are better for teams. Yet we are constantly served peoples overly confident opinions that they are.
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by jshen 12y ago
Not relevant. I'm sure there are bad choices, but the difference between Go and Haskell is probably negligible or in Go's favor.

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