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by qohen 8y ago
My experience with the internet is that people just can't help themselves to point out when somebody is wrong As always, there's a relevant XKCD cartoon: https://xkcd.com/386/ ("Duty Calls")
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by qohen 8y ago
This guy has 2 blogspams that he's been posting over the last 12 hours or so to HN, one about things developers 'love' to hear from management and the other about git. (They're blogspams because the posts are from 2 othe
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by qohen 8y ago
Not in our timeline [0]: Although Bush stated at the time "Our mission continues" and "We have difficult work to do in Iraq," he also stated that it was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. Bush never uttered the
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by qohen 8y ago
Elixir was a wrapper for people who already knew Erlang Elixir was a wrapper for people who already knew Ruby . Which is why most Elixir users come to it from the Ruby/Rails community. It was created by Jose Valim, a Rubyist and Rai
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by qohen 8y ago
we used a Java thing called Prevlayer or something... Prevayler. From http://prevayler.org/ : What is Prevayler? Prevayler is an open source object persistence library for Java. It is an implementation of the Prevalent S
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by qohen 8y ago
The $300K/yr. recruiters I'm thinking of are not people who have some out-sized reputation, at least not as far as I'm aware -- I think the economics of the business simply allow them to make a lot of money if they can regula
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by qohen 8y ago
Yep. This may not be 100% right, but: think about this -- imagine you're a recruiter who is a partner in a firm, not someone just starting out and getting paid very little. Let's say you place people with average salaries of $100K
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by qohen 8y ago
TBH I have never been impressed by any technical recruiter I've met. You know what is impressive about (at least some) technical recruiters I've met? Despite not knowing much about tech, they can pull down $300K/yr (and thi
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by qohen 8y ago
This is about the case of Sergei Aleynikov, a senior Erlang developer (among other things) in NYC, who ran afoul of Goldman Sachs when he made plans to leave for a new job at a Fintech startup or the like. The case was rather odd, to the po
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by qohen 8y ago
Hadn't seen that before -- it's in "Sherlock Jr." : https://youtu.be/cC1aD7e4ZHs?t=256 (There's a bit more to the bit -- give it a couple of minutes).
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by qohen 8y ago
This is great: deep in the thread [0], after being congratulated on the Facebook deal the day after it happened, Jan tells the story about how the deal with Facebook had to be scheduled around a frequent-flier award ticket he had for a flig
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by qohen 8y ago
How did this advocate of e-waste reuse end up behind bars? Asked and answered: “I don’t think anybody in that courtroom understood what a restore disk was,” Lundgren said.
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by qohen 9y ago
FYI, while Basho is dead, their assets were picked up by bet365, a UK-based gambling company that, like some other similar companies, uses Erlang extensively. Riak MDC -- i.e. the Multi-datacenter replication piece, the closed-source bit t
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by qohen 9y ago
Peter Hastie, of sports-news site Bleacher Report, gave a talk at Erlang & Elixir Factory (2017) about GenStage (and Flow) -- there's a description of the talk and an embedded YouTube video at the bottom: http://www.erla
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by qohen 9y ago
No, Mr. Smalltalk is Richard Kenneth Eng, a Canadian software-engineer: https://medium.com/@richardeng
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by qohen 9y ago
See e.g. Emil Maurice, he was a Jew One of his great-grandfathers was Jewish; he was not.
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by qohen 9y ago
An update: having been made aware of the issue, the developer has renamed his library to Enot[0], which is meant to evoke the Russian word for raccoon, yenot. [0] http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/Enot-Erlang-package-mana.
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by qohen 9y ago
The conclusion of Professor Skiena's answer to a question about tech interviews[0]: "When I had a startup company, all candidates we interviewed were amazed that I never asked them algorithm questions! I wasn't hiring them to
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by qohen 9y ago
This may not be so. I expect many people would see the good in technology that prevents accidents and deaths even if it isn't perfect in its first release and that those who don't feel this way at the start might be brought around
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by qohen 9y ago
Another free Lisp book, one that focuses on macros -- and is quite readable -- is YC-founder Paul Graham's "On Lisp". There's a download page [0] (for the book and code) at paulgraham.com as well as the following on a de
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by qohen 9y ago
s/adultery/adulthood
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by qohen 9y ago
Another post[0] by the same author complements the one I posted above -- this is more recent and is focused more on MongoDB's moves as a company, relating what he saw at MongoDB World 2017): You might expect a database company to anno
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by qohen 9y ago
Literally any other. I'm unaware of any alternative so unreliable. There was a post on LinkedIn last year, "MongoDB: The Frankenstein Monster of NoSQL Databases"[0], by the CTO of SlamData, which I think produces an analyti
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by qohen 9y ago
I see how my note above might sound a bit arch/harsh -- sorry about that -- actually I mainly posted it to alert others who might be interested in commenting on the story (or interested in reading what others might have to say...a bit
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by qohen 9y ago
I, and some others, posted stuff about him further down this thread, for those who might be interested -- you can click the link [0] to get there directly or just keep scrolling through this thread. [0] https://news.ycombinator.c
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by qohen 9y ago
Please note that this story was posted on HN yesterday [0] and has 170+ comments so far: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244381
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by qohen 9y ago
Thanks for the link, emerongi. BTW, this isn't just some random podcast -- TLDR was a podcast put out by "On the Media" [0], the (US) public radio show that dissects how news is presented to the public, how the media works, e
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by qohen 9y ago
And there's this memorial [0] from EVE new-service imperium.news which explains his contribution to the game : An excerpt -- I added a few paragraph-breaks: If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galax
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by qohen 9y ago
Been to Fanfest, met Mittens (and Vile Rat, RIP :() For those not aware, Vile Rat, AKA Sean Smith [0], was one of the 4 Americans killed by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya on 09/11/2012. This is an excerpt from a Kotaku piece on h
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by qohen 9y ago
Related: today only, Packt Pub's book, Getting Started With TensorFlow , is the free daily e-book: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning (You need to set up an account on packtpub.com to partic

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