DrMagnus

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by DrMagnus 7y ago
I dunno about everyone else, but 90% of my email is things like automated alerts, team mailing lists, etc. I reply to maybe 1% of my actual email, and I can't filter it for the once in a never that its THE WORLD IS ENDING, and they nee
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
I don't work for a Fintech startup, I work in finance. There's a huge difference between startup culture and corporate culture.
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
This is an oft-repeated sentiment, which I've never seen actually happen. The free market pursues profit. Not customer needs. The most "efficient" thing to do is fleece customers when they're at their most needy: when
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
What indication, given the current healthcare environment, makes you believe that any health insurance company is ever going to prioritize people and their health over profits? It's easy to say "it's too hard, and the governm
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
Functional programming is a concept, not a magic cure-all for bad programmers. Java also supports functional elements (though I'm not implying it's a functional language in the slightest). I could have an optimistic view of progra
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but for the area that I work in (finance) I can't help but feel the features of the JVM are a net gain rather than a loss. I'll absolutely agree that it's not good for applications tha
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
I used to feel that java was a good teaching language, but after using it at work, I totally agree. Java is excellent for enterprise distributed systems. It's got excellent tooling and an absurd quantity of libraries. It's not go
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by DrMagnus 7y ago
This feels like someone who prefers Clojure really hard, and doesn't like Java. Admittedly, I'm a finance Java EE wageslave, but java is really not that complex to understand. Objects are references, updating the referenced objec