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by runT1ME 9y ago
I think the idea isn't bad. There are people who want to mentor and people who are in need of mentors, makes sense. However, I have two main questions: Does having a person to talk to offer a compelling alternative to a blog post&#x2F
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Hah, so will you tell us the company? Sounds like some of us should be applying there... (though it did seem to make you not want to stay and be a developer there?)
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Maybe this is true, but plenty of big companies are hiring tons of engineers... so I don't know how this is true universally.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
So you've never worked at those companies, and you are assuming what it's like to work there? And are you claiming you make 500% more than say a senior engineer at G/FB?Am?
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Scalaz, Http4 for web stuff, Netty/scalaz-stream otherwise. We really don't need "frameworks" to be insanely productive in Scala, just a few tried and true libraries. This also really helps when jumping into new project
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I work with some larger Scala codebases too and the compile times are not that bad either. Maybe 30 seconds is more common for the large ones. Certainly not worse than C++, only a bit slower than Java. >2. Modify your IDE habits to be
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I work on a large Scala team. We use microservices so my regular compile times are somewhere between 4s and 20s. I rarely have to do a full rebuild. IDE support is bad, that's a good criticism but a good chunk of us don't use ID
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by runT1ME 9y ago
It's not that there's anything wrong with someone changing their mind. I certainly thought FP was useless ten years ago, java was the best and generally had some bad ideas about software engineering. However, the difference is I
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Does anyone remember when he wrote this? http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.ht... And in the comments section he got lit up because he was unfamiliar with Haskell/Scala/OCaml type
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Except, you know...software engineer, IT, DevOps, Infosec, WebDev, etc.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Netflix has an employee stock purchase program that let's them purchase stock at a discount. Netflix's stock went from 80 to 160 in the last year, so I think it's not too far fetched to assume some of the less risk averse Ne
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Why would we have the same number of jobs? If more women are working who didn't before, they will need some way to commute to said job, to buy work clothes as well as leisure clothes, have more disposable income, etc.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what the word abstraction means and the point of it.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I've worked on teams of various sizes and skills writing OO applications and trying to use inheritance and OO to get code reuse is always a nightmare. I currently work on large project with hundreds of Scala engineers of various abi
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Anathem by Neal Stephenson is basically hard sci-fi directly inspired by Penrose's book "The Emperor's New Mind". Also one of my favorite books. :)
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by runT1ME 9y ago
>Beyond the magic of map/flatmap/etc, the things that allow you to achieve terseness I think if you assume 'terseness' is the goal of constructs such as map/flatMap you're missing the forest for the trees.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I find this claim dubious. I have been in the industry a long time and I have found the opposite.
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I work remotely from Orange County for a big company that 'doesn't do remote'. I contributed to open source projects that were already in use by the company, and I had to start out on a '3 month contract' (working
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by runT1ME 9y ago
You're close to inventing monads! I did this once too for async reasons also, and it's how I wandered into the world of Monads and functional programming. I would definitely take a look at Scala's futures and what it means
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by runT1ME 9y ago
Doesn't this say more about the flaws of the business and/or the management than it indicates this being a good idea? Many of the most successful software companies do everything they can to attract and retain the upper end of so
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by runT1ME 9y ago
I work at Verizon and they gave me a MBP with root access...so this is not universal at the company.
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by runT1ME 10y ago
Then the best option is to live frugally on a high salary in an expensive COL location. Really only housing scales linearly. If you can save on that, your base salary can be doubl, which affects your 401k match %, your bonus %, any raises
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by runT1ME 10y ago
No, you need to raise compensation . If someone is worth 250k at Google, they may work for your company for 150k if they get 600k worth of options paid out over four years at a reasonable valuation.
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by runT1ME 10y ago
Very good on the coast, high paying, fun work. Pretty sparse otherwise. I'm sure there are exceptions, but it does seem like it is growing. And, ironically, the main reason companies cite not choosing Scala (or only dip their toes i
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by runT1ME 10y ago
>Generics would be really nice for generic data structures (heaps, trees, etc), but code generation is ok at that. Either code generation is an implementation detail of generics, or this is an afterthought that adds incidental complexity
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by runT1ME 10y ago
I quite enjoyed playing with Reason and would love to get a chance to use it for something at work. We use a ton of Scala on the backend here at Verizon Labs (so many of us are into hardcore FP) but we occasionally run into GC issues, so th
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by runT1ME 10y ago
Don't have kids so I can't comment on that, but I reserve time for fun. I almost without fail reserve friday night as a night out with either my wife or friends doing something that's not related to work/tech/progr
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by runT1ME 10y ago
> just data structures and algorithm skills seem starkly lacking among the autodidactic programmers remove autodidactic from the sentence and it is still true.
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by runT1ME 10y ago
>t's very easy to learn programming on your own these days, sure. But it's a lot harder to learn public speaking, finance, management principles, marketing, college-level reading and writing, technical writing, time-management,
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by runT1ME 10y ago
But could all practicing lawyers pass the bar right now in their respective state? I'd guess no. The problem is not the questions necessarily , it's that you have to study a bit and do the same goddamn interview questions at

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