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by ryanobjc 12y ago
Totally agree here, manually verifying a chunk of code once, for example early on in the dev lifecycle, then having it exist inside a big system is really the "EE" way of doing things. But the reality is you gotta dig deep and cha
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
While you are correct, I'm not really sure how I feel about you mocking documentation really. I guess communicating with your coworkers is pretty passe?
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
There is two types of complexity: - irreducible complexity, this is inherent to the problem space. For example, tax software cannot be simple because the tax laws are not. - incidental complexity - this is because programmers like to prove
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
btw there are 3 different tuition deductions! Maybe its also an indictment of the tax code, but I don't see why I should give turbo tax a break.
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
It's about both! From a programmer point of view, the ideal is a language that doesn't let you make simple mistakes like the goto fail; bug. From an engineering point of view, it's having the processes in place to make sure t
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
keep an eye on http://github.com/ohmdata
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
Fixed, thanks for the early bug report!
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
A lot less than you'd think - the fundamentals of HBase are excellent. File formats, compacting, etc is all solid and the same. The issues arise during fail over and the architecture of how HBase and HDFS interact. That is where the
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
It's really too bad, their basic product - turbo tax free file uses the 1040 EZ form and can be confusing. My gf who is a student was told by turbotax she owed over $300, after doing it on paper, the old fashioned way, the tax liabilit
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
As others noted, the system is heavily based on degree status, but there is one visa class that isn't: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa But it's tricky and may not apply. Consider getting a degree, the
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
You make some great points. I also note that if I wanted this controversy to fade away, I would seed conversations with people who say things exactly like this. There is no way to know for sure!
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I would say that your 'team lead' is not "very good" because part of being team lead is ... leading a team. Creating a toxic environment where people are afraid of him, alas is not in the job description. This is where s
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I don't think the point is to fix the would-be 'teachers', but to remove a major geek-shaming avenue and making it a more accepting place to ask questions and generally not know things. You know, like as if you were in school
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
interesting. My thoughts on this area have changed a bunch, I think when I was young I was a lot more about cleverness and conciseness. Now that I'm older and I've worked on a large variety of software systems, I am starting to be
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
So, openmindedness to you means... Supporting female genital mutilation Racism Homophobia And much more Are you sure you want to take that stand? Isn't that like doubling down on segregation in 1970?
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
A CEO exists to serve the staff, the community and the world at large. Ditto for any leadership role. There is. Ton of laws and legal precident which enshrine this. Given that context, yeah the CEO doesn't get to piss of the people he
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
So, I guess I need to look closer than the pixels then: typedef struct k0{signed char m,a,t;C u;I r;union{G g;H h;I i;J j;E e;F f;S s;struct k0 k;struct{J n;G G0[1];};};} K; Sorry I guess I'm just not seeing the "not much there an
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
One thing we know from studies is that when we effectively delegate work to someone else we trust, we no longer worry about it. The other thing we know from studies is that inside our brain we consider the 'future self' as anothe
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
One problem is sometimes people who have 10 years of experience really have 1 year of experience repeated 10 times. Also communication ability. Most coders cant.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
To answer your question directly ... a senior engineer MUST absolutely have had the responsibility of taking several systems to production and maintaining it there for some period of time. Ultimately there is just a whole area of experience
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I particularly like this one: "Mature engineers are empathetic" Which to me means that most engineers are not mature, and not senior. Considering how much poor behavior I've seen by so-called "Sr" engineers I am ha
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
When I see messages like this, I start to think... who is this person. What are their agenda? What's the chance they are turkish? After all, if you cannot see the difference between the alleged single person targeting and the blanket
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
That isn't part of the language, that's part of the standard library. Just the same as java, which has a standard hashing function, AND hash table/map. Ultimately, where does the language end, and the standard library begin?
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Following up, the main argument is "java doesnt have hashes built in". Well neither does C, C++ as well. Nor does Scala actually. There are a lot of good things about Java, namely the JVM, interfaces, great libraries, reflection
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Uh, goods are not just things companies produce, but also things they consume. Therefore it could also include employees. Also, if you have a look at the class action filing, the mechanism of action is quite clear. To lay it out, the way t
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Interesting polemic. The arguments aren't super compelling to me. Ultimately java is just a tool. The culture around it shapes the macro picture but still.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Good point! Although, you didn't really talk about what the engineer gave UP to work at the company. Depending on the time, $200,000 over 4 years is not a really good reward. In the mean time you have forgone: - better healthcare (if
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
you've never had to only have 1 class per file. You can only have 1 public class per file however. You can also nest classes in other classes for quick little data types you need locally. So the notion that every single last tiny cla
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Interesting post, a little random, ultimately it's really hard to 'prove' something like this in a single article. Studies maybe, but there'll always be someone saying something contrary. I can only really offer my exper
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I worked there as well. The problem is that the kind of selective agreements are a form of market collusion that is enshrined as illegal in anti trust law. So even if it "makes sense" it also infers with market dynamics. Finally

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