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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Prolog doesn't look like javascript or python so: Think of this way. In Python and Javascript you write code, and to test if its correct you write unit test cases. A prolog program is basically a bunch of test cases/unit t
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by kamaal 11mo ago
More importantly even if you do want it, and there are business situations that support your ambitions. You still have to do get into the managerial powerplay, which quite honestly takes a separate kind of skill set, time and effort. Which
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Whatever merit alternatives have, the reality is these make long, like very long migration arcs, these days you will have so much team churn, maintenance rabit holes and regular tech debt and feature requests that its fair enough to say any
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>But when you hit some critical outage, edge case, etc., those people running the systems have such a different relationship to the system having simply maintained it vs. built it. Long stays in most companies are practically non-exi
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>I've been doing my daily journaling and task management on Emacs for while now Trust me, move to Google Docs. This is simply a whole larger and easier universe compared to anything Org-mode will ever evolve to be. Its also back
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Houses shouldn't be investments. People keep saying things without understanding what that means. Only reason why anyone even wants a home is because its profitable to them on the longer run. Else renting works. Either way the
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Where do you think the money that is accrued by the most wealthy will be spent/invested/parked? In most advanced economies today, that's equity. The ordinary person thinks of wealth as money lying around in the bank,
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by kamaal 1y ago
In time Mainframes of this age will make a come back. This whole idea that you can connect lots of cheap low capacity boxes and drive down compute costs is already going away. In time people will go back to thinking compute as a variable of
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by kamaal 1y ago
Nah, your parent comment has a valid point. Nearly entirety of the use cases of computers today don't involve running things on a 'personal computer' in any way. In fact these days, every one kind of agrees as little as hosti
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Clojure programmers earn the most? All the best finding a Clojure job though. Im guessing they pay all that much, while simultaneously cursing themselves for not using Python instead, and swearing to never use Clojure again. I know
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>It’s the Terry-Gilliam-level of absurdity of the billing process. Absolutely no one will tell you how much things are, and when you ask, they sass you that it is a ridiculous question. Here in India when my dad underwent bypass surg
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by kamaal 1y ago
I know of Indian immigrants who suffered for decades/years on H1B, endless anxiety and tensions, eventually make it to GC, then a passport. Then all of a sudden fall ill, lose everything and return back to India. People keep forgetting
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>I'm seeing a lot of frustration at the leadership level about product velocity- and much of the frustration is pointed at internal gatekeepers who mainly seem to say no to product releases. If we are serious about productivity.
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by kamaal 1y ago
If you look at programming language list- Apart from Python, Java. Most are targeted to specific platforms(databases, browsers, embedded systems) or tech(SQL for database). The general purpose programming languages today are still- Python,
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Perl enter the top 10 suddenly this year but I do not see any new developers. Perl is almost as active as Javascript. And more useful than Python. https://metacpan.org/recent I write Perl to do all sorts of thing ev
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Forth is a million languages that solve almost nothing." :-P That brings us to the question, when it was invented and people did use it. What kind of problems were they solving with it?
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by kamaal 1y ago
Im not sure how this is a negative merit for React. Besides if you are a small company, or a start up, your job is to get things done. Not to embark on a global technology crusade to push your favourite tech. By and large the best thing abo
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Companies tend to assume that somebody else is paying for the development of open-source software, so they do not have to contribute. I think if you are a billion dollar company using these tools, sponsoring maintenance isn't a
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>there’s often some financial incentive there. I know managers that were let go because it appeared like their only job was being host to that one stand up meeting everyday, and nothing else. I guess they just want people to return t
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Be glad you didn’t work in the development office of a bank in the 1990s, you’d be expected to wear a suit and tie to work. Priorities matter. I worked for a India IT services firm that mandated neck ties. They would even enforce it
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>doesn't seem too farfetched Far fetched? Its somewhat like a farmer complaining about rain and sun.
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by kamaal 1y ago
Its impossible to build anything at all, if you were to go entirely by the book. Wasn't the whole point of America being allowed to color outside the lines ?
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by kamaal 1y ago
On a more serious note, here in India most millennials/boomers remember taking a Engineering Drawing class in second semester Engineering courses. It would involve using a real drafter, real calculations and making real drawings. Isome
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by kamaal 1y ago
>It's amazing how everyone can massage numbers when they're trying to sell something. More like massage words. Like one fairly smart person told me- Doing math with words is pointless.
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Agreed, as an OO scripting language it's lovely, especially compared to Perl where the OO features never meshed quite right. Back then the whole OO crowd was with Java though. Python's Moat was beginner friendliness to wri
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Have you even ever watched someone experienced using Emacs or you're making assumptions on your (I suppose limited experience)? I am one of those experienced Emacs users myself. Wrote more stuff in Emacs and even vim than most
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by kamaal 1y ago
Its strange you have to write this. In India most of the banks now have apps that do nearly all the banking you can do by visiting a branch personally. To that extent this future is already here. When I had to close my loan and had to visit
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by kamaal 1y ago
Most people don't notice but there has been a inflation in headcounts over the years now. This happened around the time microservices architecture trend took over. All of sudden to ensure better support and separation of concerns peopl
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>They also don’t bother to announce a Vim or Emacs one either. vim has a universal and in many ways a eternal use case. You have to edit a file at some point on a server, be it a self hosted or even on ec2. Thats kind of the only rea
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by kamaal 1y ago
>>Is IntelliJ "bad"? The days of using a separate IDE for each language are kind of over. These very paradigms are outdated these days. vscode got it, very early. vscode works for everything. Most projects use Python/Go

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