nickelplate

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by nickelplate 16y ago
I always preemptively raise my eyebrows when I come across an article about agile because, in my experience, agile is mostly used by hit-and-run managers as an excuse to avoid making the hard decisions. Apparently, "embrace change" makes it
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by nickelplate 16y ago
What about POUT (plain old unit testing)? Ie writing he test after the feature?
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by nickelplate 16y ago
>> acknowledge a phenomenon called a "long job search" Depending on the skill set and the market, job hunting can be a long process indeed. It is usually easy for a good developer to find something ; it can be much harder to find s
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"It isn't hard to find good software engineers." I agree with this, even though I feel for the startups that are having a hard time finding people (because they're startups). When a company is struggling to find good developers it is usuall
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"My instinct, however, is that not knowing HTML (which I define as understanding the structure and basics, not complete mastery of XHTML 2 tags or something of the kind) shows an alarming lack of curiosity especially given how dominant web-
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Sometimes language specialization is a result of domain specialization. If you're an embedded programmer or a game engine programmer, there is a good chance that you will use very little in your job other than C or C++. People don't necessa
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense But I did five mil I ain't be rhyming like Common since When your senses got so much in common And you've been hustlin since your inception Fuck perception go with what makes sense" He is essent
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"Y'all not remembering. My motto is simply: I will not lose."
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by nickelplate 16y ago
I think Ballmer is not CEO material for a tech company. However he may be good COO material.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
If you are just out of school, salary doesn't matter that much as long as you are able to cover your living expenses. Far more important is opportunity for professional growth. I would say the projects that you work on and the people that y
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Given that he is such a micromanager, I am not sure Steve Jobs would have made a good CEO at the time. Apple was already huge at the time, and as the head of a large company you need to be able to see the entire picture (not just your favor
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by nickelplate 16y ago
This might work at a startup or a small company, but at a large company like EA, it is nearly impossible for a single individual to change the culture. EA has been a staple of bad management in the game industry for years, but it apparently
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by nickelplate 16y ago
I would not count Rare as a good acquisition: Microsoft bought them for $375M, and they haven't produced a single hit since. To put that in perspective, Bungie (a much smaller studio than Rare at the time) was acquired for less than $40M, a
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Actually, I suspect that you and the author might be in agreement. Your "quality monitors and computers" would be considered "top notch" by many companies, not because they actually are, but because said companies don't care about treating
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"A friend was recently asked the same, also said no, and was declined the interview." I think that's retarded. There are more effective ways to filter out bad apples. Candidates could be asked to solve a puzzle and attach their solution to
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"Because the first person has documented proof of ability" I think this really depends on the position you are trying to fill. A track record of shipping code to customers counts for a lot more in my eyes than open source code (unless we're
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by nickelplate 16y ago
I have seen it happen. You're not fired outright, you're just moved to the top of the layoff list, and you will be a clear target in tough times.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
"But everything not being equal, I'll choose the better project every time, no matter what the environment is like." Really? Don't get me wrong, I largely agree with the spirit of your post, but... there are some real shitholes out there. A
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by nickelplate 16y ago
I am looking for a job in Toronto, ON. I am mostly comfortable with C/C++, but if the domain is interesting enough languages will be a small part of the whole piece so I am happy to jump on other technology stacks as required. My "anonymous
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Molyneux is insanely brilliant, but he tends to hype his games so much that the end result falls short of expectations. He's made similar claims about Fable - then known as Project Ego - that never materialized.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
> "Why running with one leg is great" - written by someone who run each days with one leg. He is not saying that C++ is great . In fact he mentions several issues that bother him in his day to day use of the language. The problem with
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by nickelplate 16y ago
const does not so much catch bugs as it prevents them. It is a way to specify a contract. If your code is const-correct, the next programmer using or maintaining your code can read a function or method signature and know immediately whi
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by nickelplate 16y ago
You don't have to build these libraries from scratch every time. You could store pre-compiled binaries in a shared drive for every possible configuration, and developers can simply copy them to their machine. Not that big a deal.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
This hit me pretty hard.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Well, there is failing, and then there is failing . They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Danger and create the Kin, and they are cancelling it only a few weeks after release. This is beyond embarassing for a company with the s
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by nickelplate 16y ago
I wonder if Roz Ho will resign or go into early retirement...
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by nickelplate 16y ago
The problem with StackOverflow is that it doesn't allow discussions, and as long as that will be the case I only see it working for general, domain-agnostic questions. If you have questions about the dark corners of C++/C#/Java, or how to b
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Jobs only said there was no chance Google would leapfrog them, and that WWDC would not disappoint (which it didn't). No one expected iPhone 4 to be more of a game changer than the first iPhone.
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by nickelplate 16y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20060720193601/www.xprogramming.c... Edit: Damn, he indeed superbly demolishes Larman's "evidence".
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by nickelplate 16y ago
Wow congrats man, and good luck!

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