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by milesvp 12y ago
There's probably something to this statement. there was a great article I saw on HN about a year ago that was talking about this (wish I'd bookmarked it). Crux of it was he looked at idiomatic python, saw all the hash lookups that
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by milesvp 13y ago
>> I’ve even seen people talented enough to breeze through the entire degree without ever running into a problem too big to intuitively understand; those people have a very bad time when they run into a 10 million line codebase in the
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by milesvp 13y ago
I suspect a high score might lead to higher income potential. I knew a guy who claimed his high SO score led to more recruiter spam.
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by milesvp 14y ago
This confused me as well, it felt like the author was thinking about the problem space all wrong. As soon as I read "As a Django developer, there wasn’t a straightforward and obvious way to just do things in the background on a page request
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by milesvp 14y ago
>Time spent learning the UML meta-meta-model and Object Z >is, for 99.9% of developers, time completely wasted I thought it was interesting that the poster used these examples for CS. I didn't take a single course at university that
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by milesvp 14y ago
Never go back to a boyfriend/girlfriend that let you go. The relationship won't be any different. Same is true for a company. Never go back to a company that let you go. There is one caveat (and it's the same caveat for working for family,
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by milesvp 16y ago
Forgive me, but I think you mean in python you miss static typing. Python is strongly typed. Also, just to jab at C/C++, pointers to void... really? It all but makes C/C++ a weakly typed language. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Pyt
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by milesvp 16y ago
Um, does your cash lower your tax burden? You should look at your marginal tax rate. I'm personally pushing 40% marginally, which means that any "perks" that the company can offer me which don't show up on my final W-2 are worth almost twic