zeemonkee

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by zeemonkee 14y ago
What's the hot shit right now then, if not Node?
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
In contrast to Finland, where each of the cases above require me turning up in person. Had I just needed to mail off a form, it wouldn't be so much an issue.
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
All good points - from a foreigner's perspective in either country. I think the key here is not web/non-web but the government in question having an intelligent, joined-up registration system. In the case of Finland, once I'd registered wit
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
> bureaucracy is ten years behind Finland. You still need to visit an office to get anything done instead of doing things over the browser I found this to be the case when moving to Finland; the amount of bureaucracy needed to get start
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
> it's not weird to see grown men (and brilliant devs) run around the office and shoot nerf guns at each other 1999 called, it wants its startup cliches back.
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
I think you want "boost" - kind of turns the meaning of the article on its head. The title is all I can see, however, because of the paywall.
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
Yes, to both - unfortunately personal circumstances keep me here in Finland. I'd recommend Amsterdam to anyone, however, it's a great city.
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
Maybe because he prefers languages where he has to do his own garbage collection ;-)
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
I don't know about Austria, here it's a case of "well, this is the industry standard, why do you deserve more? - oh you're a foreigner? Just be grateful we even give you a job" (even if you speak Finnish). So, most employers don't go with i
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
I've had a similar experience in Finland - the shitty salaries (and lack of interesting work that isn't somehow tied to the sinking ship that is Nokia) are one reason I avoid Finnish companies like the plague, and just work for foreign clie
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
Probably the closest match to Snap (based on the OP's description) in Python is Pyramid: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html The routing system in particular looks quite similar.
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
What do you think is the best solution to the lack of capital? More Europe-wide VC funding (and networking) perhaps, so we're not so reliant on local funding?
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by zeemonkee 14y ago
Unfortunately this is all too typical of the tech scene in Finland. While there have been a few breakout successes (Rovio, F-Secure for example) and the tech talent in Finland is generally top-notch, much of the scene is dominated by a tigh
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> It's about being a dreamer No, that's being an idiot. A successful entrepreneur - as opposed to someone who loses their shirt - may be a visionary and a dreamer. But they take calculated risks. You have to know when to persevere, wh
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
As a counterargument (although I agree with you in this case): it was just as well George Lucas had less control over the original Star Wars films, as the prequels proved.
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The commoditisation of the entrepreneur(kernelmag.com)
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
This might be a good explanation for this behavior: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858603/why-is-keyword-ha... tl;dr; use "is" only with singetons (None etc)
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I've made good money fixing utter crap written by people who decided a new startup is the best time and place to learn a whole new technology at the same time. There's so many ways for a startup to screw up - marketing, financing, hiring, p
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There's a pre-route macro: http://webnoir.org/autodoc/1.2.1/noir.core-api.html#noir.cor...
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> It's the only reason I use an Algol dialect after 10 years of writing Lisps. Why not a Clojure stack ? Is Play itself, or Scala ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Or expense, including accommodation.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
There is very little cultural innovation either - popular entertainment nowadays consists of reboots, prequels, sequels, and karaoke hits (American Idol and the like). It's part of the same symptom I think of stagnant, litigious, bottom-lin
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I've noticed that Tornado comes with its own MySQL wrapper, however I'm concerned it might have blocking issues. Does anyone have experience with using this ? Also, what do people use for form validation with Tornado ?
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
You guessed wrong: > I remember how hard it used to be to arrange for my son to play with a classmate after school
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> Django are learned by people already familiar with Python If only that were true. Like the OP I've been working with mostly legacy Django codebases the last few years and much of the same issues he raises could be applied to those pro
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Most languages in the world have no spoken form. They all have grammatical "rules", that is they follow a certain syntax, morphology, etc.
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
> IIRC, Finnish has something like 28 noun cases. That is intimidating. It's not actually that complicated, most are simple suffixes - so for example, instead of on the table in Finnish you say table-on ( pöydällä ). Once you learn
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
Why does anyone bother listening to this pontificating, clueless idiot any more ? Because he helped crash a crappy hilariously-named CMS product into the ground over a decade ago ? I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post about the American Tea
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
I think a lot of the Java hate is because of the architecture astronauts who hijacked the language in the last decade - J2EE/EJB, the GoF, FactoryFactoryFactory shit and so on. I remember seeing the earlier versions of the servlet API and i
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by zeemonkee 15y ago
OK, then, I'll go with PHP sigh .

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