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by jshen 13y ago
Random question, why would someone use gccgo over the standard go compiler?
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by jshen 13y ago
I think we've always held that torture is worse than killing a in a war.
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by jshen 13y ago
I was replying to the implication that the bush admin was just your typical political sin of power. Why you viewed that through a partisan lense I do not know.
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by jshen 13y ago
I never said the Obama admin was better. I was replying to the implication that the bush admin was typical.
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by jshen 13y ago
The bush administration asserted that it could detain anyone without a trial and torture them. This is not equivalent to any average administration as you implied.
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by jshen 13y ago
The bush admin asserted that it could detain anyone without a trial and torture them. You know, they were trying to do good. We should just let that slide.
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by jshen 13y ago
This has nothing to do with ruby. In any language you can have a method that returns an attribute or a method that calculates something.
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by jshen 13y ago
Clojure is not a 10x improve to over java, full stop. It's not even close, and I've done a project at my day job in clojure, it's my favorite language.
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by jshen 13y ago
I have no doubt about a tenfold variance across different people, but I'm highly skeptical of any claims that a particular language will make you 10 times more productive over the long haul.
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by jshen 13y ago
Sure, if you only need to hire 1 or 2 people then good people aren't terribly hard to find. Once you get to 10 it's a very different ballgame.
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by jshen 13y ago
so you were trying to hire 1 person? And from that you conclude that it's easy to find many good people at below market rates?
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by jshen 13y ago
I can't change HR policy, so I can't publish it, but I bet if I did it would cause a lot of headaches. Very few people are worth the top end salary, and most aren't self aware enough to realize it.
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by jshen 13y ago
Could be yes and is likely to be yes are very different things. Since you mentioned fog creek, notice they don't publicly publish their salaries.
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by jshen 13y ago
Perhaps I have an invisible dragon in my garage. What do you think is more likely, that no one is doing it because it's highly effective or that no one is doing it because it causes problems?
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by jshen 13y ago
I asked theperson i was replying to if he could be concrete. If you agree with him why dont you tell me why in a concrete way? Or tell me what are you trying to prove and how, and I may give you concrete info.
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by jshen 13y ago
Not only do we go to meetups and conferences, we host them. At some point you may want to consider the possibility that I know what I'm talking about.
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by jshen 13y ago
The answer to all three questions is no.
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by jshen 13y ago
Exxon is in the top ten for revenue, that is not a good example on your part. also, $100k is not a large salary in my book. Doubling it is the sort of gamble I'm talking about.
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by jshen 13y ago
We have engineers making up to $250k total comp most are in the $150-200 range, we have offices in LA, Palo alto, and NY, we pay relocation of some kind, and we want generalists that are really good.
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by jshen 13y ago
Show me a company that advertises it publicly.
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by jshen 13y ago
I think we pay very well because when we do find a good person, we offer them enough to get them unless there is some non monetary reason they went with another company. We do not have a problem with people turning down offers, we have a pr
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by jshen 13y ago
great point, and we could do a lot better on this front. We do a lot of recruiting and typically find good people rather than waiting for them to apply to a posting. We're/I'm very active in the local dev community, meetups,
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by jshen 13y ago
You fail at reading comprehension.
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by jshen 13y ago
The problem isn't that good engineers turn done our offers, it's that very few good engineers come in the door. The ones that have were very happy with their offers. Edit: Didn't realize you weren't the person I original
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by jshen 13y ago
I think you're wrong. I have the hardest time finding good engineers, we pay very well, we don't expect anyone to work crazy overtime, etc. Can we make this more concrete? What sacrifices do you think is being asked of competent d
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by jshen 13y ago
And there are other catastrophic events.
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by jshen 13y ago
The short answer is networking. They get to a point where they know enough people to find work. What kind of dev work do you do?
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by jshen 13y ago
Have you tried remote contract work? I know my company has a number of remote contractors making around $70-$80 per hour.
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by jshen 13y ago
are you in a big city? All the devs I know make good money, and their salaries have been steadily rising for over a decade. Also, all the devs I know can get a new job in a week or so. Then I hear stories like yours and wonder what the diff
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by jshen 13y ago
There is research on this. A good place to start is dunbar's number. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

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