Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.
I play yahoo's online chess once and a while.
Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages. I would love for everyone to be successful…
I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy. Newer is not always better. Try racket or common lisp.
I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc) My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a real chainsaw (chain removed). It is…
I don't have a tombstone worthy project. But my favorite personal project is a database comparison tool. It is basically a "diff" on databases. Everything from the schema, to stored procs, indexes, etc. It also works…
"the tools I use recognize that structure" Yes. I would describe it as parsing the content into a tree. Interaction's with content can then be legal operations on the tree, instead of random acts on plain text. Thank…
Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me. Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of the few languages that gets generics…
I use C++. For user applications, not "systems". -Momentum. I am already familiar with it. -RAII and smart pointers -Generics -Best supported for cross-platform mobile phone use.
I thought I was the only one using C# and Postgres. Secret's out!
"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week." This is where most people with a family would stop reading. "If you're young and energetic, come join us." That is border-line ageist. The rest is a half-hearted apology that…
That wording doesn't sound very attractive. Down right scary actually.
I'd buy a house for myself. I'd buy 1 low-end rental property (dip my toes in with 1 before finding out I don't like land-lording). With that much cash, inflation becomes a big issue. You don't want to let the money sit…
Well you do have to ban raw pointers. Heap allocation is safe with smart pointers.
New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.
It's not strange if you consider there were no female programmers on the team. Demographics is a different point all together.
Pasting a response: Blocks are an improvement, but not the same as RAII. A block is literally converted to a try-finally by the compiler. It is the same thing with a cleaner syntax. There is no safety added to the old…
Reality is there are many Java code bases which handle resources like this. For java 6 and below this not bad code; it is how you are forced to deal with resources. Even with the new block syntax, you have painful…
I look at Java code and it horrifies me. Java is great if your resource is memory. It turns into a horrible unsafe mess the moment your resources are not memory. //C++ RAII goodness. void foo() { conn.open();…
I have no doubt ageism is real but it does not start in the 30's. Trust me. You have a few decades to go before ageism is your problem.
This is going to sound like sucking up on hacker news but.... Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. It is the reason I looked into lisp. A very entertaining read that made me change my opinion on several political issues.
If you work for people who promote MBA's then it could help get you promoted. Other than that I see little value. I'm a pessimist. How much will the MBA cost and how much extra money would your promotion bring in? Need…
How many Ph.D's have you met who can't write software? If years of study is not a good measuring stick, I don't see how a "software engineer" certification will help. I see it as red tape. For serious work you have…
"I should be grateful that at least I have a job in this economic climate" Really? How about you test that theory by seeing what hits you get in a job search or with a recruiter. You don't need to quit your job to start…
"i have seen...." ads, offers, or friends salaries?
Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.
I play yahoo's online chess once and a while.
Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages. I would love for everyone to be successful…
I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy. Newer is not always better. Try racket or common lisp.
I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc) My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a real chainsaw (chain removed). It is…
I don't have a tombstone worthy project. But my favorite personal project is a database comparison tool. It is basically a "diff" on databases. Everything from the schema, to stored procs, indexes, etc. It also works…
"the tools I use recognize that structure" Yes. I would describe it as parsing the content into a tree. Interaction's with content can then be legal operations on the tree, instead of random acts on plain text. Thank…
Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me. Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of the few languages that gets generics…
I use C++. For user applications, not "systems". -Momentum. I am already familiar with it. -RAII and smart pointers -Generics -Best supported for cross-platform mobile phone use.
I thought I was the only one using C# and Postgres. Secret's out!
"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week." This is where most people with a family would stop reading. "If you're young and energetic, come join us." That is border-line ageist. The rest is a half-hearted apology that…
That wording doesn't sound very attractive. Down right scary actually.
I'd buy a house for myself. I'd buy 1 low-end rental property (dip my toes in with 1 before finding out I don't like land-lording). With that much cash, inflation becomes a big issue. You don't want to let the money sit…
Well you do have to ban raw pointers. Heap allocation is safe with smart pointers.
New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.
It's not strange if you consider there were no female programmers on the team. Demographics is a different point all together.
Pasting a response: Blocks are an improvement, but not the same as RAII. A block is literally converted to a try-finally by the compiler. It is the same thing with a cleaner syntax. There is no safety added to the old…
Reality is there are many Java code bases which handle resources like this. For java 6 and below this not bad code; it is how you are forced to deal with resources. Even with the new block syntax, you have painful…
I look at Java code and it horrifies me. Java is great if your resource is memory. It turns into a horrible unsafe mess the moment your resources are not memory. //C++ RAII goodness. void foo() { conn.open();…
I have no doubt ageism is real but it does not start in the 30's. Trust me. You have a few decades to go before ageism is your problem.
This is going to sound like sucking up on hacker news but.... Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. It is the reason I looked into lisp. A very entertaining read that made me change my opinion on several political issues.
If you work for people who promote MBA's then it could help get you promoted. Other than that I see little value. I'm a pessimist. How much will the MBA cost and how much extra money would your promotion bring in? Need…
How many Ph.D's have you met who can't write software? If years of study is not a good measuring stick, I don't see how a "software engineer" certification will help. I see it as red tape. For serious work you have…
"I should be grateful that at least I have a job in this economic climate" Really? How about you test that theory by seeing what hits you get in a job search or with a recruiter. You don't need to quit your job to start…
"i have seen...." ads, offers, or friends salaries?