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by pianoben 9y ago
I'm using "prized" here as a synonym of "favored"; perhaps it's a bit archaic. I don't intend to alter or misconstrue the meaning of the survey result. Certainly, a front-end developer has a choice of com
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by pianoben 9y ago
Quite a few of those stats seem suspect. For example, I personally find it hard to believe that "80% of professional developers" prize Javascript above all other languages. Seems unlikely based on my network (which of course is
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by pianoben 9y ago
Literally the first Google search result has it all laid out - well cited, at that. I would hope that you avail yourself of this wonderful resource in the future, saving time both for yourself and for others.
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by pianoben 9y ago
https://github.com/bitfunnel/bitfunnel This was his second MSFT team, as I recall - I don't know that he ever publicly identified the first.
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by pianoben 9y ago
I find a lot of use in mine as a voice-control system for home automation; it's great to be able to say, "OK Google, lights out!" as I head upstairs to bed. The convenience and _naturalness_ of the interaction is just so cool
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by pianoben 9y ago
rdio had award-winning iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps based on Xamarin, with around 70% of the code shared across all platforms. The remainder was all platform-specific code, but still in C#. Sadly, they went bankrupt, though not bec
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by pianoben 9y ago
Oh, I've never seen that before! We've never encountered this kind of MERGE-related race condition before, but I'm not sure that we'd recognize it if we did. Probably it would surface as a failed transaction, but our me
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by pianoben 9y ago
I write JVM-based server code, so I can't really comment on the experience of using postgresql on .NET. I think that I tried it a few years back, and had an OK time of it, but I wasn't using EF. Sorry!
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by pianoben 9y ago
As a preface, let me say that SQL Server is great so far. It's rock-solid, and the query planner is wonderful. T-SQL itself is my only real gripe. That said, here are a few things that annoy me: The major bummer during development w
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by pianoben 9y ago
Better late than never - this is a welcome alternative to Amazon's RDS support for postgresql, the lack of which has been the primary reason I've kept personal workloads off of Azure. I'm excited to take this for a spin! Azu
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by pianoben 10y ago
This looks to be "language features" only - so, lambdas, but no Java 8 APIs. Optionals, streams, etc are not included. ...I hope they fix IntelliJ's default suggestions, which try to turn all of your loops into `.stream()` c
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by pianoben 10y ago
What an interesting comment on the state of corporate relationships; Google actively delayed disclosure of an impactful vulnerability for Apple ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795332 ). I wonder why they would not do
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by pianoben 10y ago
I don't disagree that there exist a good number of people making $WAY_MORE, but it certainly seems like that number of people is greatly overstated - as in, for every such senior engineer I personally know, I know probably 10-20x makin
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by pianoben 10y ago
An excellent example of playing the game he sought to escape. Isn't it all, from religion to the vague algebra in TFA, just a riff on the only real question? ...not that I'm above it, either. As a 35-give-or-take person, existent
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by pianoben 11y ago
I'll note here that the email startup Acompli, started in 2013, was acquired in 2014 for $200m. Their product is now Outlook Mobile. Gmail hasn't had nearly the stifling effect that one might assume!
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Thrifty: Thrift for Android, from Microsoft(github.com)
7 points by pianoben 11y ago|0 comments
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by pianoben 11y ago
I remember browsing through their job listings a year or two ago, which gave me the same impression. All of product engineering was in Boston - SF just has sales-type roles.
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by pianoben 11y ago
The Acompli (now Outlook Mobile) acquisition has gone quite nicely so far (source: am on said team). That's just one recent example; there are quite a few MS products that came on board via acquisition.
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by pianoben 13y ago
This is super-useful; sometimes it takes more time to find the right resource to edit than the time it takes to actually make the change!
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by pianoben 13y ago
Travel. You will always be able to learn to code on your own time, but how often will you have the opportunity to see the world? After university, I spent four or five months in Thailand; the experiences I had broadened me as a person and
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by pianoben 13y ago
Here's my perspective - I moved here in 2010 from Missouri, so my newbie info is a little out-of-date. As far as working at a startup, don't worry. If you're halfway decent, people will be falling over themselves to hire you
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(Clojure) How to deploy to Clojars without the headache(bendb.com)
1 points by pianoben 13y ago|0 comments
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by pianoben 13y ago
Do you have Radio connected to Facebook? It posts stuff you listen to if you do; that could easily explain how Spotify got the information...
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by pianoben 13y ago
I can't bring myself to get too excited; with so many details unknown, this smells strongly of the vapors. That said... I'm still holding out for the Ubuntu One, or something like it.
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by pianoben 13y ago
Since I've switched to zshell, I've found that I haven't used Ctrl-r much at all. The intelligent history feature does it for me. For example: If earlier I had a long command like `mvn clean test && mvn deploy -P re
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by pianoben 14y ago
Thanks! I don't have any publishable code samples handy, but will add them soon. Off the top of my head, it could be clearer to say `Expect.The(graph).Not.ToHaveCycles()` than it would be to implement using basic assertions. I'll put some
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by pianoben 14y ago
After writing unit tests using Jasmine and great-expectations, I've never wanted to go back to NUnit assertions. Instead, I built my own version for .NET languages.
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Show HN: Better Unit Testing for .NET(github.com)
7 points by pianoben 14y ago|3 comments
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by pianoben 14y ago
Am I the only person who read the acronym as 'Bay Area Query Language'?
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by pianoben 14y ago
I also got the all-white window on first startup - MB Air with Lion, fwiw.

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