macnod

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by macnod 25d ago
Location: Manteca, CA, USA Remote: Yes (required) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Java, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions Résumé/CV: https://sinistercod
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by macnod 16y ago
I haven't used Windows in years. But I used it for a long, long time at work. And I became more proficient with Windows after I learned Linux. You don't need Linux for anything, but learning it can make you a better programmer.
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by macnod 17y ago
According to this person, KWrite is better than Emacs and Emacs is a bug. In my opinion, this makes his post a little less credible. The rules that he suggests we all learn for how to use tabs and spaces in a file are helpful, but only when
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by macnod 17y ago
Out of curiosity, I wrote a simple non-optimized quicksort function in Common Lisp (SBCL) and timed a 180,000-element sort at 567ms, about half as much as the Java version. I'm sure that could be improved greatly with better coding and type
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by macnod 18y ago
I think in extremes: If you're a computer and software user, OSX is the way to go. If you're a hacker, you can code in more than 10 programming languages, and you've been writing code for more than 10 years, then you'll be way better off wi
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by macnod 19y ago
No degree. I've been programming professionally for 20+ years. Usually better off than my peers salary-wise (since the beginning). Generally regarded as the best amongst the programmers I know personally (which is a bad thing, in my view).