lgieron

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by lgieron 14y ago
I prefer the small or medium-sized complexity. For really large systems, even the high-level architecture is too big to fit into one person's brain (which is one of the reasons why most of the large software projects are more or less a fail
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by lgieron 14y ago
> They didn't care about the money, they didn't care about the allure, they didn't care about the status Isn't that a romantization? How do we know they didn't love tech AND wanted to become rich at the same time?
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by lgieron 14y ago
IMO the recent version of Eclipse's Scala plugin is much better - IntelliJ's automatic error highlighting was nightmarish last time I checked (repeteadly highlighted correct code) and it's just too much of a distraction to bear.
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by lgieron 14y ago
What do you mean by "Can it even be parsed reasonably"? The size of the language seems to come in large part from the fact that it wants to be an OOP and a functional language at the same time, with providing rich and sometimes bleeding edg
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by lgieron 14y ago
I agree that, when you're learning, the "_" can be annoying since it's basically overloaded (its meaning depends on the context). Scala is very rich in features (how many other languages need a 800+ pages book to explain just the syntax + c
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by lgieron 15y ago
Job postings on Valve site tend to be very specific about the person's duties. To me, it seems to be in contradiction with being able to choose how one contributes to the company. http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html
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by lgieron 15y ago
Well, the companies I know tend to do their recruiting based on word-of-mouth recomendations - so they have to know you from some previous job or you need to be recommended by someone etc. It's a tiny sample of a couple companies though, a
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by lgieron 15y ago
This market is already (at least partially) covered by small consulting shops which provide sales front for competent freelancers who don't feel like doing the whole corporate networking&sales ritual.
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by lgieron 15y ago
> It's like the system discards pages of programs just because the app has been inactive for an hour or so. From what I've read, Windows memory manager does the same thing - after a while, it swaps out unused pages, even if plenty of fr
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by lgieron 15y ago
In my experience, you can't really try to be good friends with someone - like with love, it's more about finding this special person (or a couple of them if you're lucky) with which the friendship seems effortless and just works naturally f
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by lgieron 15y ago
Minor comment from a Scala fan - on that last line you could have used: happyLast.count(_ == true) instead of: happyLast.filter(x=>x).size
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by lgieron 15y ago
It's simple really - if the recruiter expects smooth, calculated responses, chances are the company sucks - so, by being sincere, you just avoided a potentially frustrating experience of working for them.
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by lgieron 15y ago
That's right, but often the goal is to look for a right job, not for any job. In that case, sincere answer to the question could help forsee any number of problems (like culture/values mismatch etc.), which benefits both candidate and recru
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by lgieron 15y ago
Not to sound incosiderate, but isn't computer programmer one of the worse jobs for a person with ADHD? Programming for a living requires hours of near constant focus, every day. Have you considered an alternative career, where your conditio