thomascgalvin

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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
So the demo site [1] shows this warning: > We are psyched to tell you, NOT on this site, here you don't need no stinking JavaScript!!!!1! Which, if you simply include the script as directed in the "Installation & Usage&quot
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
I'm a recent convert to the Church of Kotlin. If you know Java, it takes a week or so before you're comfortable, and after that it's magical. All of the boilerplate, all of the tiny little frustrations and bad ergonomics, are
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
Web development is just starting to catch up to where we were fifteen years ago. Things like type safety, unit testing, and dependency management are still fairly new on the Javascript side of the house, and I'd argue that Maven is lig
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
And the author was paid by the word.
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
Kotlin is the first language I've gotten excited about in a long time. It's close enough to Java that I can get my engineers up to speed in a few hours, but it removed a lot of the bloat and tedium. The JNV / JS / Nati
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
Past work? I'm embarrassed by what I'm doing now .
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
Ketones aren't the goal of the ketogenic diet, they're the side effect of not eating carbs. Exogenous ketones, like this product, will put you into ketosis, because you by definition have ketones in your blood and are burning th
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
"Whhhaaaaa! This law that was supposed to make it easier to overturn bullshit patents has made it easier to overturn my bullshit patents!"
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
> Mice that had been given large doses of the drug over the course of two years (a lifetime for a lab rodent) developed cancer at a higher rate than their dope-free peers. Tumors appeared all over their bodies, from the tongue to the tes
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
But what about companies that bootstrap without any technical skills, business acumen, marketable ideas, or morals?
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
> It's not actually that hard to write readable, clean perl. The real issue is that it's trivially easy to write very clever, perfectly functional, and completely unreadable Perl. A lot of Java's verbosity is due to the fa
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
You would have to name off a long list of languages before you hit one I didn't think was better than Javascript. Python does seem to hit the sweet spot of "user friendly" and "maintainable" that Javascript shoots f
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
I think Perl fell victim to the inner-platform effect somewhere along the way. Larry Wall doesn't want to design a language anymore, he wants to create the ultimate platform for creating languages. The article points out that Perl can
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
We've spent a lot of time honing our interview process, and I think we're at the very least on the right track. Our Java phone screen is really short: 1. Explain the difference between `public`, `private`, and `protected` 2. What
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
> Lets take for example ORMs and Hibernate in particular. I can't tell you how many times I've seen horrors related to ORMs / Hibernate ... My teams don't use ORMs anymore. I've found that all of the time we &quo
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
We don't use any whiteboarding questions. There is a coding component of our interview process, but it's all done on a laptop. Our goal is to test like you work, so you have an IDE, access to Google and StackOverflow, and when we
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
You're implying that the US is sane. If we tried smart ID cards here, half the population would have a meltdown over the Mark of the Beast of 1984 or "papers, please" or something.
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
We use Guacamole at work to give our customers access to the internally-hosted web app we're developing for them. I've been kind of amazed that it works as well as it does.
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
> It's almost as if "everyone" forgot that before SQL (relational database) there was only NoSQL databases of various sorts (hierarchical, document, etc) and SQL and the relational model arose to address their shortcomings
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
Yeah, append-only computing is only a good solution in a field where you need to be able to thoroughly, accurately audit the state of the system with 100% non-repudiation. Financial and medical data are probably the two biggest areas, thoug
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
This is at least partially true, but ignores the "reality on the ground." Even many entry-level jobs require a college degree now, and forgoing a college education makes you unhirable in many markets. Until that changes, "col
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
> Most line managers worth working for, value their teams and will fight for them if they are unhappy, without the threats. Agreed. I've already gotten my team the best raise/promotion that I could. If they can find better at a
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Most of us aren't John Carmack, though. When you're the guy that basically invented the genre of code you're talking about, there's a very good chance that your next project will advance the state of the art. When you&#x
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by thomascgalvin 9y ago
This can be said about plenty of things. Encryption is probably the most obvious; there's a lot of benefit from reading about and implementing various encryption methods, and absolutely foolish to use any of that work in a setting wher
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There's a simple solution to this, which also has the advantage of creating better educational outcomes: have students do the reading at home, and the work in class. Dry lectures aren't the best way to learn something: hand-on wor