clifanatic

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by clifanatic 10y ago
> You are only as old as you believe you are. Well, I'm 42 and I believe I'm 20... until I spend any time hanging around 20 year olds.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> It was actually Steve Russel I seem to recall reading that McCarthy was actually surprised to discover that Lisp _could_ be run by a real computer; he intended it to be a completely theoretical tool.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> most of the jobs are for senior roles. They mean 3-5 years.
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Trump meets with tech titans as Bezos lauds 'productive' session(cnbc.com)
2 points by clifanatic 10y ago|0 comments
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I really don’t think that’s what he’s saying, and if at least some of this doesn’t resonate with you, you’ve never looked for (programming) work after 40. The problem is that programming is, by it’s nature, “strange” work. In every other
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Yeah, I've never really understood being _offended_ by being asked to do something relatively simple (and honestly, those are actually pretty good problems). I might consider it a little amusing if somebody asked me to write FizzBuzz
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> were started/ramped up under W. Bush Assault on privacy and massive surveillance started as soon as the internet became a household word - which actually happened under Bill Clinton.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I think a lot of this religious behavior stems from an underlying belief, mostly by people who've never tried it themselves, that programming _must be_ easy and anything that makes it appear hard (and especially slow) means that somebo
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Jesus Christ, Scrooge, it was a joke. And not even remotely contrary to any of those guidelines.
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IBM promises to hire Americans as tech executives set to meet Trump(reuters.com)
2 points by clifanatic 10y ago|0 comments
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> There is no union nor labour law in China (well technically they both exist but..). Same thing in America. > So labour abusing is normal. Same thing in America. > Many tech workers are 'voluntarily' working 996 on a 955
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by clifanatic 10y ago
There's a great, fun, programmer-centric website called thedailywtf.com (sorry, I just scheduled the rest of your afternoon for you). Developers can submit WTF's that they've found in other's code - as the site admin sa
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Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google(businessinsider.com)
3 points by clifanatic 10y ago|0 comments
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> how many people here seriously believe the result would not be exams in Agile Software Craftsmanship Manifesto Driven Development Well, since the sort of people who set up regulatory exams are likely to be the same sort of people who d
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by clifanatic 10y ago
My kids were born 11 and 13 years ago... can I get a job there and take those 40 weeks retroactively?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
At my last job, my title was "Vice President" (against my preference). There were five of us. I was Vice President over nobody, and spent all my time doing the same things I do (programming computers) at my current job with the
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Younger people are not smarter. They might learn faster new things. I was a young person once (no, seriously!). I _thought_ I was learning things fast back then. When I got older, I realized I was trading speed for depth.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> That recipe to stay current looks tiresome. ... Your reward: you are still employable. It does make pursuing a career in programming seem dubious, doesn't it? There's an old saying about "clawing your way to the top&quo
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Heck, even software with the equivalent level of unpopularity (PHP) doesn't disappear.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Next month - 30 days of web coding using only vanilla C! Day 1: write a web browser! (I kid, this is awesome)
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How Modern Offices Suppress Free Expression(inverse.com)
3 points by clifanatic 10y ago|0 comments
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> technical interview process Even before that is the technical screening process. If the company has standardized on Angular 2, your experience with Dojo, Ext-JS, jQuery and even Angular 1 is considered irrelevant by the screeners - yo
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Have lots of sex - your wife will love you again Unless she finds out.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> shows you several links, including the ones from Stack Overflow. And all of the stack overflow answers that were linked from the top of the google search are "Have you ever heard of Google, N00B?"
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Looking at the link I'm inclined to agree with Don.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Why do you think that is the wrong approach? "Because you should write code that works in the first place!" -- your boss
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by clifanatic 10y ago
"Surely I'm misreading that title..." "Nope, that's really what it is..."
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Any sort of programming certification test would be gameable. Seems to be working for the American Bar Association.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Because he got handcuffed. He actually asked them to handcuff him and then take his picture because he said it would look cool. Look at the picture, the police officers are smiling in the background. He played them.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
So, you drive around trying to catch Amazons on your phone?

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