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by superswordfish 10y ago
In neither of those places. It's something I've observed living and working in both, however, and it's one of the main things I miss.
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The conversations are on a different level though. In a secondary tech market you'll hear CoffeeScript vs. JavaScript, Laravel vs Rails or whatever. In the Bay Area, and also in Cambridge, the discussion might be about compiler archite
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Just pray you don't end up on the wrong side of the law (to be fair, the same could be said of CA).
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Editorializing, there's been a brain drain for some time now, with money men replacing creative types.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Long Island and Boca Raton aren't exactly stiff competition in the "life of the mind" department. Also I disagree, IT is huge out there but other disciplines get short shrift.
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There's also seven years of OSX before the iPhone happened.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
With Trump already an also-ran in November, who may even have to run as an independent, it doesn't take much courage to write this now. It just became politically correct to slam Trump in public. If you wait too long, he'll have d
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Sure, but it's a bit odd, in the context of startup centers, to mention a place's ranking as one of the best places to be born -- most people in a position to relocate themselves to work at a startup are already fairly secure, and
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Programmers (and their children) don't really have to be born in a particular country to have good quality of life. That sort of ranking is more useful if you're poor. There is the "safety net" factor, but again, less im
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by superswordfish 11y ago
But we're humans and our foremost means of communication is language. Who cares if it's clumsy and imprecise? Try us, it's the best we've got. Saying it's ineffable is lazy. Unless you're talking about the cent
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by superswordfish 11y ago
> This is common with LSD trips and other such experiences. What other experiences? > The very first line in the Tao Te Ching is "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." Some things are ineffable. So you're
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> I ended up depressed and anxious for about three or four months afterwards Holy shit, that sounds awful.
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> Everything was so obvious, answer for question "why?" was known, even if i couldn't say it out loud, i could feel that answer for this question was somewhere in my mind, but i just couldn't access it. Feeling that i
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by superswordfish 11y ago
It's the same as with Java, PHP, ketchup, strip malls, pop music, professional wrestling, etc. which are usually criticized with minimal mental effort. The opinion is used as a signal that you're not "one of them," that
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by superswordfish 11y ago
Would you consider somebody who sells cars an auto worker? I sure wouldn't. It has nothing to do with "class" (as if engineers constituted such a thing).
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by superswordfish 11y ago
Doing cold calls in a boiler-room is a shitty job. News at 11. > Tech workers have no job security. The bad ones have none. The decent ones might, it depends on circumstance. The good ones almost always have plenty. But don't call y
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by superswordfish 11y ago
This could use a good revision/proofreading, it uses punctuation incorrectly, jumps around, and is difficult for me to read. Which is a shame because the article looks interesting. Maybe I'll give it another stab after a cup of co
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Yet there are people out there capable of learning more than one technology deeply in a short time, and you'd be doing yourself and your employer a disservice to write them off as charlatans.
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by superswordfish 11y ago
You can keep telling yourself that, but actually most places asking for only five years' Ruby experience would kill for somebody with the same experience in a similar language. Rails really isn't that hard to learn, especially if
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by superswordfish 11y ago
Yes. I've worked with a handful of career Python developers, and they're even worse than career Java developers (at least the Java stack tends to be deep and sophisticated, demanding some expertise). They are practically useless w
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by superswordfish 11y ago
This is a scattershot of some good practices, most unrelated to the title. But on that topic, > Think of changing a tire: you screw in the lug nuts loosely first, in a star pattern. Once you have all the lug nuts in loosely, you tighten
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by superswordfish 11y ago
It's interesting that you think working for a big tech company makes you especially qualified (or else you would not have mentioned it here). By working for a smaller company, you'd have to know these things or else face a world o