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by oacgnol 10y ago
I've also run into this myself in publishing my own blog posts. I had this burning need to add caveats and write very defensibly because the fear in the back of my head of being "well, actually..."d. In the end, I still pushe
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by oacgnol 11y ago
I was laid off along with most of the engineering staff at the startup I was working at in February due to lack of funding. Since I'm based in NYC and my colleagues were very well connected people, the software community immediately re
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by oacgnol 11y ago
Echoing any recommendations for 'Scala for the Impatient' - it is a fantastic beginner/intermediate book that gets you productive pretty quickly, so much so that I'm planning on having an intern who has no Scala experien
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by oacgnol 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with you, to me it's a form of humblebragging. It's definitely a nice thing to be in high demand and 'complaining' about recruiters knocking down the door seems so arrogant and unaware. The low qua
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by oacgnol 11y ago
I've been through a few 'crunch modes' before and while there was a general feeling of "wow, we accomplished that" afterwards. Looking back, however, I now realize how profound of a hangover it produced in me and so
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by oacgnol 11y ago
I think this is the most reasonable take I've read and encompasses the whole "right tool for the job" mindset that I like. I've found that when starting a new project I get paralyzed with coming up with the perfect data
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by oacgnol 12y ago
Thank you so much for the hard work. I've been using Skeleton for a personal project even though it hadn't been updated in over 2 years. As a (mostly) backend developer, Skeleton has proven to be the best possible starting point f
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by oacgnol 12y ago
Location: NYC Remote: open to it Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Scala, Play, Akka, MySQL (also in a past life: PHP, Java, Hadoop) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/longcao email: longcao at gmail
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Can't a man walk down the street without being offered a job?
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by oacgnol 13y ago
I've found this to be a problem with reading technical books on my Kindle. I'm constantly flipping back and forth between examples and text and it's really not as good (read: not as fast) as flipping physical pages.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Can you estimate how much faster your processing is now vs. before on MySQL? I find it interesting that your cluster is only 6 nodes - relatively small compared to what I've seen and from what I've read about. It'd be interes
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Can I just say that I love your attitude? A borderline unhealthy sense of self deprecation and just 'doing it' because you can - qualities I wish more tech people had.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
If you're well versed in Clojure and FP principles, the only difference for you would be in picking up Scala syntax, in my opinion.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Which has been superseded by Slick ( http://slick.typesafe.com/ ) and does exactly as the parent says.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
He's one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter [1] because of this; he regularly tweets about stuff he's learning, especially new languages. It's quite inspiring and uplifting to see a such a figure in the industry still
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Your being a big white guy visibly unaffected by soy is strictly anecdotal evidence - perhaps you aren't affected by it. The plain reality here is that we don't yet know the full effects of a diet high in soy has on the body, so I
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Growing up before I knew anything about computers I always asked my parents if I could play on the home PC, which really equated to MSPaint time. Others might have started off with tinkering with BASIC and whatnot but I think I'm fortu
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by oacgnol 13y ago
Somewhat related, there's a great This American Life episode on the same kind of subject called "The Convert": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/t...
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Playing with Reactor, a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM(tech.kinja.com)
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by oacgnol 13y ago
I'm somewhat bemused that The Social Network isn't on there somehow, despite the movie's misgivings.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
It's not even marketing in my mind but a public obligation. If there is anyone who would be able to provide this service, it's Twilio. Agreed, hats off.
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by oacgnol 13y ago
And even if he's not - he should concede this point. There's no winning for EA if they continue to argue this, consumers have already made up their mind about it. They should cut their losses and own up to the SimCity debacle.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I use both ag and ack interchangeably and one thing I wish is that ag would be 100% compatible with ack options. It'd be nice to just do a s/ack/ag and expect things to work.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I've been meaning to try out matcher[0] for usage with CtrlP, I'm not sure how well it works but it's written in C and is purported to speed up search. Not sure if it's still being maintained, however... [0] https://github.com/burke/matche
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I totally get the theme but I can't help getting nervous goosebumps from the artifacts - I feel like I have to reset the display cable or blow into the cartridge! Well done.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Every Thursday? What was the average age of your team? I would think after a few weeks this kind of habit would be exhausting!
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Your willingness to learn new things on your own should help you get your foot in the door as far as interviews. It's a total developer's market right now, so I would encourage you to quit your job and start looking for a position.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I don't know if you could say that the impetus is largely because of the brokenness of the American education system. Online education startups like Coursera, Udacity, etc. have a far reaching effect on the rest of the world too. I'm willin
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by oacgnol 14y ago
That's what a separate thread would be for.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
As someone who was a developer in Austin as of a few months ago, I can imagine other Austin area companies salivating at the fresh infusion of developers into the market. They should be okay (or at least I hope so!).

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