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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I like Elixir, but the ecosystem has years of catching up to be anywhere close to Python. Not just libraries but experienced developers. There's also a danger it might end up like Ruby - basically the support system for a web framework
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Given Instacart's recent problems, maybe sometimes a bad idea is just a bad idea.[1] [1] http://www.recode.net/2016/3/11/11586878/instacart-a-startup...
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> 2. Notwithstanding #1, there have been zero successful terrorist attack on aircraft in the U.S. since 9-11. How much is due to the TSA, as opposed to civilian and military intelligence work at home and abroad and simple measures such a
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
For point of reference, a chauffered driven car for the BBC chairman costed £100,000 a year in 2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/05/ne... I'm sure cutting a few layer
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I might have written my last project in Python rather than Go. Go is a great language in its niche, but it's overkill for a run-of-the-mill web CRUD API on a low-traffic site. Flask or Django would have got the project done in half the
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
An closed office/cubicle is fine for pair programming. You need room for just 2 people, not 20.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I have no idea if "terrible developers whining on Medium" is a thing. What I am actually worried about are arrogant developers. They tend to cause the most damage, write the most "clever" code, have the worst communicati
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I think you forgot the /s at the end of your post. Linkedin has brought me nothing but spam.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I was looking for the most important metric in the article - how many jobs have you filled so far? I have limited bandwidth for free-time coding, and anything has to compete with my own side projects and "list of things I need to learn
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
As someone in Europe, with 10+ years experience, I'm seeing a LOT less in the way of serious recruiter outreach (not spam) and opportunities than 5 or 10 years ago (when I had correspondingly less experience). Just one data point of co
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
If companies aren't pragmatic now, when supposedly demand outstrips supply, why would they change when conditions are reversed? I suspect they'd just double down and network will become even more important (you'll have more u
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Some failed ideas from the original dotcom boom just got recycled, such as Webvan. Better technology and market conditions meant that a bad idea in 2000 made more sense in 2015. So we might see some failed ideas from today succeed in 5 or 1
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I feel quite a bit more sorry for the family of Dr. Gibbons.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
The problem is that these crashes hurt both good and bad workers. Every week you see the nth article posted here on how hiring is broken, from HR filtering to recruiters to interviewing. So how do good developers survive, if their skills an
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
They're not trying to create a lifestyle, they're just running a small to medium sized regular business. "Lifestyle business" is just an idiotic Valley term.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
The worst "writer's block" is when I'm actively trying to think of ideas of what to program. I get the most interesting ideas for side projects when I'm doing anything but programming. For example, watching the Euro
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
It's about the story. An underdog - such as a very young female CEO - always makes for a good story for the press and investors (how Holmes, born into privilege, can be considered an "underdog" is beyond me, but I digress).
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Don't they hire/contract experts to evaluate the technology?
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
The big silicon valley companies don't need to care. They have deep pockets, and queues of kids round the block willing to work and live in cubicles for a chance to work with them joining every year. The VCs don't care either, the
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Referring to "scientists" that way is unfair. Nutrition scientists and doctors are working with the human body and its surrounding environment, an exceedingly complex model. They publish their findings in journals with cautions an
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> So by the third time they tried to headhunt me, I just told them upfront that their system/HR would reject me because of my grades and it was not worth our time continuing the discussion. One wonders how a company as rich as McKin
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Perhaps the way to go is representative democracy - vote for a committee from a pool of HN users, who then get to choose applications. The committee is re-elected every year, or whenever a member steps down.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
How well paid are PHP jobs compared to Rails? I know the UK has abysmal salaries for developers (especially outside London) but the average salary for a PHP developer [1] is in a class of its own, much less than Ruby [2]. [1] http:/&#
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I've noticed there seem to be a lot more remote Rails jobs than anything else (other than Javascript). I know some Ruby and am also thinking about Rails, despite my preference for Python- there just so few Python or Django remote jobs
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Maybe a "web" designer really needs to know their medium. A sculptor needs to know about clay and ovens, a clothes designer needs to know how to sew, the strengths and weaknesses of different fabrics and so on (even if Gaultier or
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
It seems that some sites disappear into a black hole (such as Kuro5hin) and some become dwarf stars (like Slashdot) - they're still burning, just not giving off much heat or light.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I'm sure Twitter has great engineering talent. Whether they're allowed to do their jobs is another matter.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
The context might have been "X is like comparing MySpace to Facebook" or some other historical reference.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
How well would it work with, say, PostgreSQL? Would you need to use async wrappers like aiopg in your views?
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> the German Communist party declared "After him, us!" They were kind of prophetic about that.

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