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by kyllo 11y ago
There may be awesome companies out there where anyone is empowered to just go fix some practice that's not productive, no matter where they are in the org chart, but those companies are few and far between. I'd love to see one.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Pretty much. And there definitely are jobs like that out there. I once had a job where literally no one would have complained if I didn't do any work except for sitting at my desk, replying to e-mails, and attending meetings (which I d
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by kyllo 11y ago
Here's a good guide to which ones are benign / dangerous and what they are for: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/#language-extensions
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by kyllo 11y ago
TH is hard to debug. When you get an error message, you see the TH generated code, which can look very different from your source, and the line numbers are meaningless. It's also GHC specific so if you're one of those weirdos usin
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by kyllo 11y ago
It is still increasing, but the slope of the curve is decreasing. It will peak in the next few decades and then start to decrease if current reproductive trends continue.
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by kyllo 11y ago
It think it's more like, human society is collectively deciding that optimum human population size is less than current size, and adjusting reproductive behavior accordingly.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Fortran, but Fortran is also quite low-level. It can do some optimizations that C can't because it disallows pointer aliasing.
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by kyllo 11y ago
1986 was 29 years ago dude. Almost three decades.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yeah that is an interesting paradox. It feels wrong for an algorithm to decide whether to kill a human, but what is so much better about that decision being made by a human? If that seems extreme, consider the self-driving car problem. 30
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by kyllo 11y ago
QA Team is great if it is a team of developers who are interested in QA and test automation/tooling. Not so cool if it's a department full of people who make low hourly wages to execute manual tests and don't write code.
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by kyllo 11y ago
The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO Having a top-level manager who is responsible for a whole discipline doesn't work, it just creates a high wall to throw shit over. Developers and QA
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by kyllo 11y ago
We're talking about social classes, not occupational categories though. Would you say that an immigrant inner-city convenience store owner and a bootstrapped SaaS startup founder are the same social class? They're both working ent
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by kyllo 11y ago
Physical vs. mental labor (aka blue collar and service vs. white collar) is what distinguishes lower and middle class and creates the third category. Lower class = your income relies on your physical labor Middle class = your income relies
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by kyllo 11y ago
The title of Architect only makes sense in enterprise Java or .NET OOP software projects where the architect's work product is UML diagrams and dataflow diagrams, and the implementation of the classes is delegated to a large number of
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by kyllo 11y ago
I've seen that movie before, it's called The Minority Report.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I think it's becoming a fairly popular career for women in China as well.
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by kyllo 11y ago
This is why outsourcing fails. Generally, outsourced developers will just implement exactly what the spec says to implement, no more and (hopefully) no less. You can't communicate with them synchronously and answer their questions in r
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by kyllo 11y ago
Well if all those bottom-of-the-barrel jobs get diverted to Gigster and it improves the quality of jobs available on other freelance sites, I'm all for it. Gigster might have a good business model, if they've automated the process
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by kyllo 11y ago
Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. So you don't have to talk to developers and they know exactly what you want from your written description of your idea? What could possibly go wrong?
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by kyllo 11y ago
Above is my understanding where I work as well, and I am in management fwiw. I would never ever want to read my employees' private emails and IMs. The thought alone makes me feel dirty.
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by kyllo 11y ago
OTOH you kind of need hashes/maps in the real world (sexprs can provide this by syntax, but not necessarily by agreed-upon function). And Unicode. And standard representations for the base datatypes. I believe Clojure's EDN form
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by kyllo 11y ago
I don't know about for CL but there is for Clojure: https://github.com/Prismatic/schema
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by kyllo 11y ago
Exactly. Vanilla JS (and JQuery and friends) have the semantics of mutating a tree (the DOM) in-place. A key differentiator of these functional libraries is the immutable data structure semantics.
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by kyllo 11y ago
...when all we really needed all along was S-expressions.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I've been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the past 8 years and I sometimes joke that it's my church because it's very much the "third place" for me. The camaraderie has kept me coming back, it's great to train wi
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by kyllo 11y ago
"stability, peace, and prosperity" Exactly (the English translations of) the words the Chinese government uses to describe their own goals.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Sort of, at least in that the airplanes would be grounded if the software didn't work. But this isn't unique to airlines. These big industry companies are lagging behind in technology and they always will, because they associate r
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by kyllo 11y ago
Basically it is all the result of aa long series of shortsighted "business decisions" based on simply doing whatever costs the least or brings the least short-term risk at the given time.
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by kyllo 11y ago
The point is they don't get sufficient resources to do their job properly because they are seen as a cost center.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Do you disagree that it's useful to distinguish between strength and endurance? codingdave asserted, "I think legs that can carry a 50 pound pack to the top of a mountain are "stronger" than a guy who can lift twice as m

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