biggerfisch

Your example email seems to include a near total lack of the details you claim to filter for. I think including more details (location and salary/benefits at least!) would really make you look more appealing. As it currently stands, the list of postings has very little to engage me by itself.

I think you mean the blue pill? If I remember correctly, the blue pill was the return to normal while the red pill was the "trace program"

I've noticed this kind of thing with lots of Google products actually - they're often written for downright ancient versions of python and can be a nightmare to get working with modern pythons. Any clue as why this is?

"Establishing everything clearly makes our Person easier to debug but harder to change."

I think that the line above from this article highlights a certain difference between massive, corporate projects and (initially) smaller hackathon projects. In my experience so far, the large corporations tend to prefer the statically typed languages, eg, C#, Java, etc, and all of the hackathons I've attended have been dominated by javascript, python, and the like. The large companies tend to also have lots of documentation and specifications surrounding each project - often even before a single line of code is written. These companies rely on the correctness of their design to not excessively change in the near future of development. In comparison, hacakthon projects, while often just or more successful, instead take great advantage from the fluidity provided by dynamic typing, allowing them to rapidly create totally new revisions of their object structure.

This is the exact reason I still use eclipse too. Another point you didn't mention is that there are a lot of other products built on eclipse. For example, in high school, when I did FIRST robotics, the IDE we used for programming the microcontrollers, WindRiver, was/is built on eclipse. Knowing eclipse before I got to that stage was incredibly useful and really helped my productivity. Eclipse is also "vulnerable" to the fact that nearly everyone has at least tried it and has some idea of how to use it, which when choosing an IDE for group projects tends to swing the balance in its favor since fewer people have to learn a new environment.

I don't have a smartwatch yet, but one thing that would really make me consider getting one would be a navigation-centered app. I'm thinking of one that would be capable of displaying both maps and directions in a clear manner. The few apps I've seen so far for that purpose have been clunky looking and don't inspire confidence.