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by tabtab 7y ago
It's a matter of economics of the labor pool. Companies often want high-skilled developers on the cheap, and then act surprised when they can't actually find any at their offer level (or they have poor people/team skills). No
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by tabtab 7y ago
I agree there is or can be a lot of overlap between OOP and aspects of functional. With some diligent language factoring, I suspect they can be blurred to be one in the same. That way one doesn't have to learn two different sets of rul
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by tabtab 7y ago
In my opinion, Java wouldn't need to use lambdas as often if it had a more powerful object model. You'd define methods instead of pass lambda's as parameters. Lambda's are often a band-aid for a weak object model. For ex
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by tabtab 7y ago
One has to write code intended for a variety of readers having different skill levels. In practice you have to "dumb it down" to a degree.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: Despite the perceived smartness, our industry has a weird anti-intellectualism deeply ingrained in it. Programming is a profession - you're supposed to get better over time. Unfortunately, programming is statistically a dead-end
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by tabtab 7y ago
I didn't mean to come across as a bigot. My poor score suggests that's how it's being interpreted, though. The stated purpose of the visa program is to solve "labor shortages". If there is no longer a shortage (su
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by tabtab 7y ago
It's hard to judge without actually seeing an example of what it "should look like". If one thinks it should be long, then they should make a strong case for why this person deserves a longer-than-normal write-up. NYTimes typ
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by tabtab 7y ago
This reminds me of these discussions: https://wiki.c2.com/?MaspBrainstorming https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/brrzad/universal_p... https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: I hope it will go supernova in my lifetime, it will be spectacular. It could bleep up satellites and communication lines, nobody really knows. Be careful what you wish for. If Yellowstone and Betelgeuse go off at the same time, we are
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by tabtab 7y ago
When is SamuelJackson++ coming out?
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: Yang is approaching this issue from a position of technical merit and not on an irrational emotional basis like most others. Unfortunately, politics is not rational. Energy sources that kill slowly but gradually make less news and at
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by tabtab 7y ago
Pessimists write more reliable code. Optimists assume users won't do funny stuff. Society owes the early croakers gratitude for their dedicated pessimism. Oh, and git off my lawn!
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by tabtab 7y ago
When the AI bubble pops, will they go home? I was in the middle of the dot-com bust, and the visa workers didn't go home, making finding a job in CA difficult. I had to go out of state.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Classic ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRMVhlNP5I "You bought the wrong TV, silly head!"
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by tabtab 7y ago
I'd estimate for every 10 tech and gizmo fads, 6 die, 3 find a nice but small niche, and 1 takes off big. I'm ignoring those that may come back several decades later, when surrounding technology catches up.
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by tabtab 7y ago
When I was young and naive, they paid employees the "risk bonus" in stock shares, not cash. I asked for more cash, and they said, "nobody takes cash, stock shares are the thing". They were the dud thing.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Well, fake you!
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by tabtab 7y ago
Fake people reading and writing fake news on fake websites? If this keeps up, we'll end up with a fake President. Don't give me negative points, for this is a fake reply.
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by tabtab 7y ago
All indentation does is tell you that there is a hierarchy of some sort. The fact something is one level deeper than another still doesn't tell me generally what it does, because that depends on what the parent(s) does. And it's n
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by tabtab 7y ago
I cannot speak for the others here, but with languages like say JavaScript, the symbols usually represent something. {...} will usually represent a block of code. "[...]" will usually represent an array-like index. With Lisp you d
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by tabtab 7y ago
Nice!
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by tabtab 7y ago
Isn't that what a "pipe stove" is? It's centuries old if I'm not mistaken. Basically your fireplace is a big rectangular box with a metal pipe to carry the smoke out of the house. You put the food to cook on top of
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by tabtab 7y ago
He could have said, "Yes, poultry is very popular during Christmas in the West." That's probably what a skilled politician would do: lie without lying. If pressed further about KFC itself, he could have said, "KFC is one
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by tabtab 7y ago
Seems to me it would be hard to get insurance on such. If something goes wrong, it could blind somebody, burn their face, etc.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Why doesn't Honda sell an as-needed "finder service" for say $200? They'd make some money without looking like a jerk. The $200 should probably be premised on actually finding the vehicle. Honda makes money, customer get
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "left the door open for someone to actually create something to fill the VB niche, but all the focus on web technologies has meant that nothing really stepped up." Indeed! Desktop tools largely got ignored and everybody went w
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by tabtab 7y ago
The "original" VB fell out of favor because the architecture didn't scale well. It was great for smaller projects, but shops that wanted bigger apps or stronger abstractions to avoid reinventing the wheel had an easier time w
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by tabtab 7y ago
I can see that working once everyone knows the systems and each other's tendencies and habits, but a new person pretty much needs to be embedded to absorb unwritten information.
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by tabtab 7y ago
I like the idea of such ASCII GUI's for prototypes and internal IT oriented apps. It has a fun retro feel. Does anyone know of a JavaScript library for building such?
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by tabtab 7y ago
It's working now for me. I've seen that multiple times lately: an article is intermittently hidden. It may be marketing games whereby they make it open to attract links from commenting forums such as Reddit and this one, and the

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