sharkdesk

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by sharkdesk 8y ago
In theory, that is true. In practice, if the consuming client is javascript, it is really hard to map the numbers into an arbitrary precision number upon decoding (which would come from some library like big.js), rather than a pure double.
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
Lots of good ideas in the article - the key is to really stand out. I take 10 weeks off a year to go travelling - true vacation time, not remote work. I know I can get a 20% raise if I switched companies (I know that because I got an offer
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
to be clear, white foreigners are treated like minor celebrities.
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
That is a fair rebuttal - perhaps my opinions are shaded by the fact that I've worked for several companies and none of them have a code review process which isn't 95% style nitpicks - the idea of one which lacks those has always
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
linters and auto formatters add a lot of value, but some style changes don't fall into that. e.g.: naming things, or just when the language provides more than one way to do something, which one you choose.
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
Actually, someone is paying the team to solve business problems and create revenue.
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
In regards to your last sentence - as a developer, I _like_ solving business problems, and coding is just a tool used to get there. What makes me proud is when end users are able to use the application and it solves some problem they have,
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by sharkdesk 9y ago
The third option is to acquire a US competitor, let them sell your product into the US market, and make sure they have the same executive decision making power as the team in Australia