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by wheaties 17y ago
Being a Scala programmer I can tell you that most of the developers I've talked to don't, in general, try to program in an imperative manner. For some solutions/problems it is far more concise to write it as imperative code. That's not a
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by wheaties 17y ago
First the do-not-call-registry and then this. 'Bout time they did some good. Now fix the @#$%$% angel funding issue with Dodd's bill.
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by wheaties 17y ago
+1 for correctly stating how those investment vehicles are structured. In fact, expect not to see them much later in the future as people didn't understand how or why they performed as they did.
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by wheaties 17y ago
Thanks. That was a good read I hadn't read before. It's so very true. Non-software people shouldn't run software shops unless they can delegate to someone who is.
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by wheaties 17y ago
Good article. I'm still waiting to hear back so I can have y shot. I wanted to give STM a try too.
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by wheaties 17y ago
If you look on Dice, Monster, HotJobs, or CareerBuilder these are the only jobs you'll ever see listed. Quite honestly I've forgotten what a "good" job description looks like.
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by wheaties 17y ago
The NY Times article was more informative: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/technology/01hp-Web.html Looks like it's 10x slower than DRAM. It might make it to market in 3 years but if it's speed is as slow, who will buy? Regardless, I
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by wheaties 17y ago
"In particular, I am interested in understanding why the best and the brightest high school students in the United States usually choose not to become engineers or scientists..." Really? I guess my experience was different wherein I saw m
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by wheaties 17y ago
I've had 3 good experiences plus many horrendous, horrible, and painful experiences that make me totally dubious of all recruiters. As a matter of fact I now carry a copy of my resume to all interviews. However, to answer the question: -
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by wheaties 17y ago
In 10-20 years I question whether there will be a Netflix. Already cable and tv companies are moving in with On-demand movie rentals. While the film industry will fight the decline of physical rentals tooth and nail eventually they won't
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by wheaties 17y ago
Not bad compensation for a start-up.
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by wheaties 17y ago
Someone, somewhere will read this and use it as a basis for upcoming interview question answers. Now my job is more complicated by the fact that I have to separate the gullible from the ignorant. Thanks...
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by wheaties 17y ago
Refactoring is almost always good (almost the key word.) Reformatting, unless the code follows no style what-so-ever, is bad.
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by wheaties 17y ago
No, NYC couldn't have created a small, crack team for several reasons: 1) Government Software jobs pay less than civilian. It can take up to 6 months of paperwork to hire someone. While that paperwork is in process the job applicant must
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by wheaties 17y ago
This goes up here and now I'm so annoyed at myself for not getting better directions to the Friendly Toast for the Scala talk on Android SDK.
766.
by wheaties 17y ago
Thankfully people are pushing through STM and actor based parallelism. There's already an STM for Boost, Clojure, Erlang, and Scala to name a few.
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by wheaties 17y ago
No, the real question is why did he get money for being careless. If I put on my skates wrong as a kid, fell down and bumped by head, know what happened? My mother yelled at me for not being careful. Now, we sue the skate manufacturer.
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by wheaties 17y ago
The WTF is the fact that a single employee would cost a company several tens of thousands of dollars plus several weeks of development time all because that employee didn't want to remember a password.
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by wheaties 17y ago
"...poorly defined and slowly evolving design requirements; overly ambitious schedules; and the lack of a plan to guide hardware purchases, network deployments, and software development for the bureau." Yup, that's about how it goes.
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by wheaties 17y ago
If you haven't worked in government contracting you don't know just how spot on this comment is.
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Wide Finder, Scala charges to 3rd place(wikis.sun.com)
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by wheaties 17y ago
Sounds like a plan to me.
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by wheaties 17y ago
Damn, that's a "well done sir" type of article.
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by wheaties 17y ago
That would be too hard. It's much easier to simply say "I'm right. Everyone else is wrong. This language sucks compared to my favorite language."
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by wheaties 17y ago
Not to scare you but we've turned people away (not me personally, my company) who have stayed at the same position at the same company for the past 20 years without advancing to a more senior position. That doesn't mean they're management,
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by wheaties 17y ago
The rub is, if Google were to block all of Mahalo, a lawsuit would surely be filed.
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by wheaties 17y ago
I totally give Microsoft high-fives for placing their browser above all others even if, technologically speaking it isn't. I don't see the EU saying anything to Apple about Safari. I don't see them really addressing the problems with the
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by wheaties 17y ago
Great, I wouldn't hire you. I don't care how smart you are. Just on the basis of effort you're willing to put forward on tasks you deem unimportant to you means that I can't trust you to perform tasks that I deem important to me. I need s
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by wheaties 17y ago
Ah, now I see. So this will get around the true multi-threading issues. Thank you both for the clarification. This is truly something to watch.
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by wheaties 17y ago
I love OCaml, which this virtual machine says it is based upon, but doesn't it have issues with multi-core processors? That is, doesn't it suffer from a limitation due to its garbage collector?

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