lacampbell

124 ms·

1111.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I am not being clear. Why live in an NZ city of 200,000 when you could live in an American one of the same size and enjoy a lower cost of living, and cheaper rent?
1112.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Wellington City has 207,000 people. Which US tech hub could it be compared to?
1113.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Why would you want to be a remote worker in a place with a higher cost of living?!
1114.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I wish more companies would give example problems to solve in your own time. I did one for a fairly large Australian company, and they rejected it. By the time they got round to letting me know (very long turn around time) I had already fou
1115.
by lacampbell 10y ago
A bit of that, and a bit of pointing out America is probably a better place to live in than most western countries in terms of career and opportunities.
1116.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I have a lenovo thinkpad x140e and I love it. It's underpowered and "bulky", but as a healthy adult I really don't care if a laptop is a few hundred grams heavier. I've dropped it once or twice as well. But I am not
1117.
by lacampbell 10y ago
America has several advantages: - higher salaries - electronics, groceries, cars etc are all much cheaper - lower rent if you compare towns and cities of similar sizes - world leaders in computing for the past 50 years Have you been to NZ
1118.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I'm curious too. I live in New Zealand. How can I get a software job abroad - say in the United States?
1119.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I feel compelled to point out the irony of the New York Times calling something an "Oppressive Gospel".
1120.
by lacampbell 10y ago
> If you're poor, you hang on to stuff, because it may come in handy. Do you? I found when I was poor, I had to get rid of stuff because when I had to move towns to get work and couldn't afford to transport it all around.
1121.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I feel like delay you get when rotating the blocks is too short. I often ended up over-rotating it. Might just be me. Other than that good job.
1122.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Off topic, but the first paragraph mentioned using 2G mobile internet in Taiwan... why!? 4G is cheap and plentiful there. https://guidetotaipei.com/article/cell-phones-and-sim-cards ($100 TW = $3.18 US)
1123.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Is there any useful data on web vs mobile app usage? I remember reading http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/think-the-web-vs-mobile-ap... (it might have been posted here), that suggested only in the USA was the
1124.
by lacampbell 10y ago
My memory is fuzzy on all of the above, so this all just represents the impression it left on me. > When was the last time you tried Scala? Around 2 years ago, as well. It showed so much promise but I ran into so many problems using it d
1125.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I desperately want to like Scala. An expressive, concise pure OO Lang with static typing designed for a REPL is something I often wish existed. But every time I've used it I've come away disappointed with the execution. A bewilder
1126.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I see a lot of bad C# code, but I don't feel the need to make snide comments about C# whenever I see or hear it mentioned. It's pretty clear to me it's not the languages fault. There's nothing in Java forcing you to make
1127.
by lacampbell 10y ago
> 1. Young children seem to have the biggest capability in learning languages. Is there any evidence that this is actually due to their capability? I would say it's far more likely it's their environment. IE, people are constan
1128.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I don't find it to be a feature. I find it infantilising. "Other users didn't like this post, so we'll make it hard to read". I think it was a terrible design decision on an otherwise very clean site.
1129.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Generally not mutate. And if we must mutate, mutate in a batch with a single method with a descriptive name. We should generally not use goto or local variables either. Avoid reaching for these constructs first. But if it's by far the
1130.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I guess not. Sometimes the cleanest thing to do is to just mutate a field - particularly for GUI objects. I don't know if it's worth the overhead of having unthinking developers writing { get; set } for every field in every class
1131.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Diameter is a nice example of a getter property. However you could change radius to simply public int Radius;
1132.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I would say that at that point, it ceases to be a simple setter method (or set property). It's not a simple case of mutating some element of a data structure of filenames as strings. There'd be some validation and error handling i
1133.
by lacampbell 10y ago
It would probably look exactly like setName(newName). For me a better question is - why is the name being changed? What high level goal are you trying to accomplish that truly needs you to to directly mutate internal fields, after the objec
1134.
by lacampbell 10y ago
Probably a rethink of the design. Why are you creating an object, then mutating its name from client code? The whole point of an object is that client code shouldn't be concerned with such details as maintaining the state of each inter
1135.
by lacampbell 10y ago
I really don't understand why people love properties so much. Getters and setters are elements of bad style to me - like global variables or gotos. A language like Java (or indeed C#) - specifically designed for huge teams and enterpri