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The Unemployable Programmer(unemployable.pen.io)
513 points by fuligo 11y ago|449 comments
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by fuligo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK, remote or onsite (EU and US) I have twenty years of professional experience in web app and website development. I'm currently in Germany, but my schedule is flexible - I can accommodate your timezone. I'm also availa
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by fuligo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (from Europe, mostly Germany) I am a full stack generalist programmer with a heavy web background and more than 20 years of experience. My favorite tools and tech: - HTML5/JS/CSS (browsers are awesome!)
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by fuligo 12y ago
This is why I fear net neutrality (and the internet as we know it) don't stand a chance. A lot has been accomplished with public awareness and public outcry has repeatedly averted disaster - so far . But the proponents of this come ba
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by fuligo 12y ago
As you can see, there is a lot of hate towards my comments above, and most people here seem to think my thoughts are a net detriment to the discussion so I will stop posting. I'd just like to say in closing that I want to pay money for
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by fuligo 12y ago
> worth remembering that the guy in the sofa in front of his TV is not the only HBO customer It's funny how those pass for prohibitive reasons why something can't happen until suddenly these reasons go away. This is exactly
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by fuligo 12y ago
> they would have to make sure that they are offering something far superior to torrented content I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, so this is the last time I'm going to respond to that (no offense): I want ex
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by fuligo 12y ago
> big content providers are never going to sell you a file This is obviously wrong in principle. The way music downloads work right now is exactly what I've been describing - music from iTunes or Amazon comes without DRM, and th
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by fuligo 12y ago
> Would HBO make more money if they sold each episode separately to everyone all around the globe They would make more than they make now, that's for sure. Because right now, there is no way for me to pay them. > Because, an e
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by fuligo 12y ago
What I want entertainment companies to give me is exactly equivalent to the result of downloading episodes from illegal Bittorrent sites plus the ability to actually pay for them. I want a DRM-less HD video file that I can play on any com
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by fuligo 12y ago
As programmers we're in a unqiue position to get a sense of this, actually. It's very very old spaghetti code. Some of it essential, there are even some cleverly re-used common routines, some of it is just ballast, some of it can&
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by fuligo 12y ago
I'm not sure the original comment deserves this clarification, you'll be hard pressed to find someone on this forum who didn't already know about the nature of mutations. The point is though that while the mutations themselve
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by fuligo 12y ago
Computers are very, very, very far from being like humans, especially when it comes to consciousness. The problem is different, that the system, the military and economic and political system doesn't really need conscious
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by fuligo 12y ago
This is why the incident and all reports of it is so hard to navigate, there don't seem to be enough facts - just the differing perspectives of three people, which we have to judge on the merits of their plausibility. In the linked art
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by fuligo 12y ago
> I avoid running near men (particularly groups of men) because of a fear that I'll come to harm It's not irrational. I'm a man and I avoid groups of people at night, too. It's an absolutely reasonable precaution. I
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by fuligo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (from Europe, mostly Germany) I am a full stack generalist programmer with a heavy web background and more than 20 years of experience. My favorite tools and tech: - HTML5/JS/CSS (browsers are awesome!)
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by fuligo 12y ago
Dumb detectors can have the same problems. I'm not sure if they get contaminated or suffer some kind of other breakdown, but I had to switch out two smoke detectors in recent time due to their propensity for going off on a whim. Of cou
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by fuligo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (from Europe, mostly Germany) I am a full stack generalist programmer with a heavy web background and more than 20 years of experience. My favorite tools and tech: - HTML5/JS/CSS (browsers are awesome!)
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by fuligo 12y ago
The original comment was a joke, then? Because these are really the only two contexts it can be parsed with. I took a look at your brief comment history. The amount of feedback you're going to get here will be increasingly limited as y
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by fuligo 12y ago
His colleagues and family went to considerable lengths keeping it out of the spotlight - so we can assume he didn't want people to know. That means it's probably an illness with a significant stigma, likely something with a strong
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by fuligo 12y ago
> There is little to disagree with what you're saying On the contrary. There seems to be a lot of disagreement, or I wouldn't be so heavily down voted. Of course I'm not complaining about people who think my comments are
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by fuligo 12y ago
I don't think you can rightfully accuse me of making simplistic judgements after reading my comment, but you are right that my reservations are subjective. My reservations say something about me and my values. > I choose to believe
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by fuligo 12y ago
It's hard to disagree with that. However, being offensive (in the way that word is most commonly used) is not even my point. I also never expressed doubts about his engineering prowess. People can have significant mental impairments an
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by fuligo 12y ago
I wonder if he would get this much positive attention if he wasn't a Christian extremist. Would the article have conveniently left out his racism if he was, say, a militant antisemite instead of being focused on black people as he is?
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by fuligo 12y ago
My first reaction to this, and especially to the "hn" wall, was: this is very cool, we can all collaboratively write some weird/interesting/funny stuff and overall it's going to be artful and inspiring in some way.
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by fuligo 12y ago
Generating SQL statements always involves string manipulation at some stage, doesn't it? I mean at some point even PDO has to send query strings to the SQL server. The question is whether Drupal really needed to implement their own eng
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by fuligo 12y ago
> let's also explore this way of building games That's what he said, isn't it? He also actively encouraged people to write their own languages which address what they care about. > nobody is doing anything worth lo
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by fuligo 12y ago
> He is not a messiah, it's already happening That's a lot of negativity towards a guy who's said from the beginning he's just building a language that he wants to use himself. I don't think he's presented
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by fuligo 12y ago
The fact that he since the last video came out he not only built the lexer, parser and C-translator for this, but that he also made a complete bytecode runtime blew my mind. This guy is one hell of a productive programmer!
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by fuligo 12y ago
For anyone interested in a bit of background about him and some other indie gaming greats, I highly recommend checking out "Indie Game the Movie" - it's a documentary about the development process of Braid (Jonathan Blow), Fe

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