stcroixx

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by stcroixx 4y ago
The languages may not make money for the corporation sponsoring them, but they can be used to implement corporate strategy for competitive advantages and you would never even know. The risk you're taking using a language like this is
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by stcroixx 4y ago
In the late 90's I used to sit next to a team of about 20 VB developers. When MS decided to make VB obsolete, those folks had to re-learn software development and were getting intern like opportunities because suddenly all that VB kno
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’d say their fatal flaw is you don’t control the platform. I’d not invest my time on them for that reason alone. Like writing Excel macros.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’ve worked on multiple database migration from something commercial to Postgres. ORM was a huge help.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I hear ya. Agile really made working in software unpleasant. I long for the time the team had a simple spreadsheet of items to work on. So much more efficient.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Agree so much. It’s such a tiny fraction of the time spent for me no amount of optimization would affect the overall timeline.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Seriously? 4 op-eds and some general demographic stats? Still not quite convinced there's a super generation.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I bought one less than a year ago. I took the budget for a macbook and spent it maxing out a system 76 laptop. Double the memory, over double the storage, ample USB ports, not really sure what's subpar about what I'm using. Bes
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by stcroixx 4y ago
And we changed the rules of the workplace dramatically. (We were usually just as competent, if not more competent, as the more senior people in the office. & We were usually underestimated.) I hope this is a joke.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I don't disagree with any of these points. Where I disagree is that style differences make code less understandable or more difficult for others to work with to any meaningful degree. To me, it's roughly equivalent to stylistic
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I'm not sure it's hard, is there evidence? Personally I don't think there's any valuable benefit, certainly not worth all the resulting disruption, and wouldn't advocate for it for that reason.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Maintaining systems is a balancing act. Your take seems kind of at the conservative end of the spectrum. Whether a certain degree of complexity is 'unnecessary' is so subjective and based on values and experience. You might be
553.
by stcroixx 4y ago
I guess you could leave out all the hardware aspects of it - that's why I think it's not a great question myself, just too wide.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Google asked me this in an interview.
555.
by stcroixx 4y ago
Not if there are ads.
556.
by stcroixx 4y ago
But you'll still be paid for those days when you leave that job.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
It's another example of an employer screwing employees and trying to conceal that fact with a misleading term. I'd expect such from any employer.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Vendor lock in cloud fad is going to end badly. Kubernetes outside FAANG has potential to get bad.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
My goal is to end the conversation as soon as I can to get back to work, so I stay away from many topics and just basically give a status update on in progress and next up.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I don't do any of that and if I was working somewhere where it was required, I'd consider that reason to leave.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Avoiding imaginary dog whistles and having nice round numbers apparently aren’t priorities to those doing national defense spending. I take comfort in that myself.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Agreed. Just remodeled my entire kitchen and the only thing I kept was the gas Viking range and ovens. When the best restaurants have been using these across the board for decades I might consider it but I’ll be dead then.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I've never loaned any money in my adult life, not even been asked, nor have I asked for a loan from anywhere besides a bank. Surprised to hear people are doing this with all the obvious potential problems.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
You've got to learn XML and XSD first, then you'll see that's not what you're looking at at all.
565.
by stcroixx 4y ago
Outside of FAANG outliers and SV, have software engineer wages really rocketed up? I've worked outside the FAANG world at companies of various sizes and industries for 25 years and haven't seen it. If anything, I'd say wage
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Agree. Every few months I check back in to see if anything at all has been proven and still nada. It certainly doesn't help that completely subjective things like sense of smell and how tired you are are key components.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Never have been and doubt I ever will be. I wish this was as easy to prosecute as any other kind of theft. What the streaming services do or don't do isn't going to have any effects on my ethics.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Strong disagree. I started software dev in the late 90's and among everyone I knew in tech MS was uniformly hated, even the DOJ sued them. They did everything they could to stomp out open internet standards. Untold amounts of money,
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I'd consider readability to be paramount in any design described as utilitarian. HN is one of the most readable sites I visit. UI/UX in software is a field which, to me, hasn't found it's feet yet. In physical architec
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by stcroixx 4y ago
But I just saw this commercial on TV where Mathew McSomethingOrOther led legions of happy looking people through the streets of a city pledging to change how the world works all because of Salesforce.com . It looked like an expensive comme

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