throwaway456789

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by throwaway456789 11y ago
I agree with you about Clojure in particular. I did do some non trivial work in Lisp in a graduate class, but its not the same as using it all day. I don't believe I would seek out an opportunity where a Lisp dialect was the programmi
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
That's actually the plan... And then maybe join a SV start up because money doesn't matter anymore... Going to be tough to do as an enterprise Java developer though. =P.
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
All I'm willing to say here is that I work in financial services. Actually, one of the reasons why I mentioned patio11 above was because it would interesting to talk to him about this kind of stuff given he's also trying to change
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
Plead see previous comment about my compensation. I don't think a company would pay someone that much unless they were really good.
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
Yes. You should if you want to make a lot of money...
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
Who ever said I was interviewing for a job? I was commenting on the state of the industry as a whole. Read some of the comments (and the article). The article mentioned that one person who multiple companies thought was the best they hav
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
I never understood why that was a prerequisite. I program for 60 hours a week. So what if I don't want to do it on the weekends too.
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
I am pigeonholed. Sure I know other languages: Shell Scripting, Perl, HTML/CSS/JS, Groovy, SQL, C#, etc, but 80 percent of the code I write is in Java. I'm at a Java shop and have golden handcuffs. It's Java or bust fo
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
It's funny you say that. I can't name one factory pattern off the top of my head... Never needed to learn one. I should clarify -- I'm in my late twenties, and I've spent my entire career (10 years) writing Java code.
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by throwaway456789 11y ago
I'm an "enterprise" programmer because I write in Java... I'm also older than the average age of a start-up employee (late twenties). I've never written a line of Ruby, and I've never written object oriented