sixminuteabs

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by sixminuteabs 4y ago
Recession and layoffs are slightly different. I view the more proximate cause of layoffs etc is the increase in the cost of capital and more of a feeling that there might be a slowdown. Company execs, boards and investors had a different de
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by sixminuteabs 4y ago
I agree with a lot of the criticism in the article, but also agree with this idea that Scala is in the best position it has ever been. Core Scala is migrating to Scala3 (will take a few years) and the scala team had the courage to take on t
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by sixminuteabs 5y ago
We're US only for now.
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by sixminuteabs 5y ago
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by sixminuteabs 5y ago
When I say more freedom, I primarily mean freedom to focus on the problem domain and freedom to contribute in a major way more quickly. Upon reflection, I realize that my expression about optimal solution was about optimality in modeling an
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by sixminuteabs 5y ago
We develop the majority of our code in scala at my company (in fintech). There seems to be an experience in this thread that training in Scala is difficult. For anyone who is considering and wants another perspective - I have found that jun
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by sixminuteabs 5y ago
As someone who has hired and worked with consultants, these make me chuckle a bit and I think speaks more to a problem of lack of self-awareness of the consulting side (and in the world in general) around consulting's primary role (fa