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by perneto 8y ago
No. The UK has some of the worst tech wages in Europe, esp. on a cost-of-living adjusted basis. Switzerland is on par or better than the US. Other countries fall on a spectrum in between. FYI this isn't limited to Europe; Canada also p
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by perneto 10y ago
On the same topic, https://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock... has detailed advice on what to do as a startup employee in the section about options. (tl;dr: early exercise, 83(b) election, ask
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by perneto 10y ago
Ceylon, because after you've seen union types you wonder why they aren't implemented in every statically typed language.
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by perneto 11y ago
Of course! No need to rush.
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by perneto 11y ago
Now that there is an apparently superior alternative, do you plan to do something to eliminate the existing enum pattern explained at http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/tour/types/#enumera... ?
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by perneto 11y ago
Could you outline the differences between Scala and Ceylon constructors, for readers not familiar with both?
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by perneto 17y ago
Actually, the new IDEA 9 now has a free, open-source version, with most of what you'll want. There's still a commercial version with some more features enabled. http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_m... NetBeans' pro
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by perneto 17y ago
I've long been thinking that something like Coda (the distributed filesystem from CMU) would be the best option in this space. Coda keeps the data, but lets nodes locally sync some of it for offline use. It's been around ages, too. Has anyo
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by perneto 17y ago
djbolivia.ca - he even has a few mixes expressly made for programmers.
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by perneto 17y ago
It's worth noting that the practice of the groom's family paying the bride's family is nothing new in China - at least according to my flatmates from Hong Kong. The rationale is that the parents invested time and money into their daughter's
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by perneto 17y ago
This sounds inspired by SEDA (Staged Event-Driven Architecture). http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/ It was about time someone made good use of it, too! Is there more info available? The white paper is nice, but not too packed wit
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by perneto 17y ago
The report uses two metrics of economic mobility: absolute mobility, and relative mobility. Relative mobility is unitless because it's an elasticity: it measures how much parent income influences children income. This is from note 13 in the
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by perneto 17y ago
A lot of people in the US seem to believe this - it's the essence of the American dream after all. But if you actually take a look at the Wikipedia article, you'll see this: "France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway, and Denmark all