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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Why? The world is full of people doing an honest job at their level without believing in the direction their industry, as a whole, is taking.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Another plausible explanation is those who share his view won't admit it publicly to not destroy their career.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
> they are just as dishonest as any other politician. It's even worse, they're not elected.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Scala is an interesting language, but now, it's back to java ugliness as soon as you need to import some existing java classes. That's my issue with all the JVM languages (and .NET is even worse here).
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Thank you for reading me so well :) It's a very interesting language for sure, checks a lot of boxes. How is the market trending for it job wise? What I'm finding online so far seems pretty mixed.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Things could change though when you look at the landscape of computer languages today: - OOP is trending downward, and for good reasons, look at Java and C#, too verbose, too top-down. - dynamic languages are not efficient enough, especiall
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
After nearly 50 years on this planet, a few in no special order: If our imagination is limitless, our body and mental aptitude are not, which can be painful to realize but acceptance makes for a more gentle attitude towards ourselves and li
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Oh yes, like it will ever happens... Remember, it's mainly developed countries who are childless while poor, uneducated countries, and often war-ridden, continue to explode demographically.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
I believe you've been brainwashed, time for you to quit what seems like a pretty toxic female environment.
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Without Richard Stallman, no linux as complete OS, no gcc, no emacs and hundreds of other libs/software. Stefano Maffulli: make a list of what you brought to the world and compare with what he did and then ask this same question for yo
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Ask them if they judge their kid is "useless". And since when do we judge human beings on their usefulness? Should we kill every non productive beings with that reasoning since they're not "useful"? And nobody downv
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Ask HN: Web design for back end developer
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
Agreed, 100 is too big and yes, I completely understand the need to tightly select the people that are gonna come in, even more so if the group is smaller, but maybe the process could be a little more organic, or informal? Maybe having some
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by w3mmpp 7y ago
I like the idea, I don't like the process, seems too much like interviewing for a position imo, but I appreciate what you're trying to accomplish. My 2 cents, why a form and not simply request an introductory email? For the kind o