jstraszheim

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by jstraszheim 14y ago
It seems pretty unnecessary to call such people liars. Surely they know their own minds better than you. Anyhow, it is not too difficult to understand the “write for yourself” aesthetic, if you are willing to make the effort. I think Jane E
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by jstraszheim 15y ago
My first programming job was for a boss who (we believe) had Asperger's. He was great and the job was great. I mean, he was a bit weird . But so what. Anyway, it's a serious condition, but beneath it is a real person who may be a great per
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by jstraszheim 15y ago
This is very hard for non-nerds. Imagine simply not knowing what Github is, or why you would look there, or having no concept that "Java EE backed by Oracle" is a different beast than "Ruby/Rails in front of PostGres". Imagine if one of you
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by jstraszheim 15y ago
I simply cannot understand how Google can be so short sighted about this. The simple questions: what about an in-the-closet gay teen? or what about a domestic violence survivor? should make their whole stack of cards fall down. They sho
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by jstraszheim 16y ago
Mention one time to your boss that you believe you're very underpaid. Then, don't say it again. If a raise doesn't come, start looking for a better paying job. When you find one, put in your notice, be professional, but don't take the
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by jstraszheim 16y ago
I dunno. I was out of work for a year once and then settled for a few years of staggering underemployment. I even came to believe that I would never again be hired as a developer, that no company would look at me, that my resume was too wea
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by jstraszheim 16y ago
Well, I think this is interesting: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1022663
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
That was a very odd and wonderful comment. Thank you :)
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
You're wrong. All sorts of people were following me, and me following them, just by clicking the Buzz link.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
There is something self-referential about this post, but I can't quite figure out what.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
It is nice, those rare moments, when a company has a clue.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
I don't know. I think those books are worth reading at some point, but without SICP, Knuth, or Norvig's stuff, it is hardly a great list.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
Agreed! I took one look at your mystery meat navigation (after turning of noscript) and hit the close button. If you want to attract talented developers, get a better site.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
Just curious, what do you think is the right direction?
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
OK, a bunch of others recommended it, but I'll add my voice and recommend SICP. There are lots of good books on programming, but it is the best single source. After that, decide what parts of programming you like, and come back asking for
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
It is sort of useless advice, though. If you're the sort of person whose inclined to "do it wrong", you already are. If your not, simplistic advice isn't going to help you find the one correct way to do it wrong. You'll just end up wrong
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
His point that Clojure will prove almost as difficult as Java because you have to figure out what to make REFs of seems wrong to me. He is missing the point that the remaining stuff in Clojure is purely functional, and therefore really not
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
It looks like an awesome book. You can get the PDF for free if you follow the links the article.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
Plus I didn't realize it was possible to set the font size to .0000000000001 pt.
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by jstraszheim 17y ago
I'm pretty much on the right side on all of these. I probably should be getting paid more.
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Wow. They are actually for unicycles and banjos. I was expecting some weird, ironically named, social networking sites.
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Controversial and flamey topics would shoot to the top and more considered, but denser topics would languish.
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Perhaps I've become an FP zealot, but I just can't agree at all with this author's suggestion. Small methods, "agile", unit testing, and all that are fine and lovely, but none of them approach the kind of safety and composability you get
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Being on the JVM is a very big deal. I have associates who wouldn't think of using a "fancy" language for anything, who are now looking closely at Clojure, and its chief attraction to them is evidently the JVM. On the other hand, I like it
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Back before it was a public project, there apparently was a Clojure on .net. It appears, however, that it is now pretty firmly matched to the JVM. Given its present state, it would be about as hard to separate Clojure from the JVM as Java.
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
I thought this was going to be another rant about strong vs. weak typing.
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
According to MS it: "Microsoft Performance Management allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization." http://office.microsoft
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
He means the compiled code of a lambda can't be GC'ed. He was creating new functions inside of an eval. The individual closures created as code executes are GC'ed like everything else. Since eval is rather specialized, and everyone rec
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
It might be true. I like CL as much as the next guy on YC, but I would quite happy if someone offered me a paycheck to use Closure. Hell, I'd be happy to get a paycheck using Python at this point. (I use Java in my day job. It is alright
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by jstraszheim 18y ago
Nothing big. I've played around with it.

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