bitcrusher

What's with all of this nonsense about 'humility' lately? It's almost as obnoxious as 'entitled'.

If the person who posted this link believes that it is Beautiful, then it is. You may agree or disagree but humility has nothing to do with it.

I've had pretty good luck with Airmail, which happily supports Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Might be worth a look.

You are so right about this. I think the only thing worse is that through it all, whatever band you like is NOT METAL. Only the three sub-sub-sub-genres that I like are true metal.

Bah. Get off my lawn.

Spoken like someone who either isn't a programmer ( a PM, maybe? ) or is projecting. Programmers don't 'goof off' more than any other group of people.

Programming is generally a solitary activity, largely due to the immense amount of concentration it takes to build a mental model of a system that you're working on. Tracking variables, context, structure, side-effects, out-come scenarios, etc. takes a lot of brain-power. 'Pairing with someone' for long periods of time adds another dimension to that... Communication and synchrony with another person.

They forgot to mention that ( at least in my circles ) they are notoriously known as an 'engineering factory', where most people hate their job, because very few people want to pair program ALL DAY, EVERYDAY.

Pair programming in small doses, works wonders. One to three hours working together on a problem can see serious productivity gains. There's no magic to this however; Any collaborative environment gravitates towards this sort of activity naturally.

As with most things, balance is necessary. Some solitude to think and reflect, some collaboration to explore your ideas and some pairing to smooth out the rough spots.

Hmmm.. So this is a SaaS IRC bouncer, in a web-app, without the ability to use an actual IRC client.

Seems too limited to be useful. Setting up an IRC server, with a bouncer on a $5/month droplet would be more useful.

Even non-lethal chemical weapons? /pedant

I'm not arguing for or against patents (personally, I think they're an abomination), only against 'group think' from people choosing a 'team' and then using propaganda to reinforce their positions.

I agree that they are different, however it sounds like I'm not communicating my idea correctly.

I'm very much NOT interested in code quality from an engineer. I very much AM interested in how an engineer thinks and approaches solving a problem.

One way to start that conversation is to have a code portfolio that they can talk to. Why did you do this? What were thinking about when you did that? Did you start writing some code then refactor? Did you think about the problem for 3 days before you started writing? Do you diagram on paper? Did you model the data structures before you modeled the application itself?

These are the sorts of questions I'm interested in when I hire someone; They're also the sorts of questions I want someone who is hiring me to be interested in.

Using your words:

To me, writing code is an artistically creative process as well, which takes talent. I wouldn't hire an engineer if I don't perceive their thinking as beautiful

The process for creativity doesn't change just because the expression changes. Compare the process of writing code with that of painting and you'll find a lot more similarities than differences.

PG even wrote a book about it.

For a long time, the whole 'Github profile' stuck in my craw, but recently my thinking has changed to more of a 'show us your code portfolio', which isn't much different than a lot of creative job interviews.

When hiring a designer, part of the interview process is showing things that you have done. It doesn't matter if they're real or not, only that you were the one who created them. You also talk about 'your process' when designing those things.

Much the same, I believe that hiring an engineer should be about showing your portfolio and talking to your 'process', whatever that may be. It's a far more interesting way to get to know a person, how they reason and what they're capable of.

I seriously can't believe that there is an entire sub-culture of people that are still trollololing about 'rounded corners' without understanding the context.

Design Patents are Different than Technology Patents.

Is that a popular place for bodies? I swear I can see a body at street level here: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-12...

Weren't 'you' (wingspan) the first online bank in the 90s?

Unless 'someone' gets smart to the system and starts adding tax to the quit smoking products, of course.

I think we're seeing some of this now, with the greater attention being paid to e-cig products.

I could be wrong, but the op was asking for a book recommendation beyond the Rspec book, because the root message of this thread says: "The Rspec book is a load of crap."

Completely anecdotal, but their rental prices for Redwood City are in line with what I pay. The median prices they list for other cities seem to be in line with what I'm seeing looking at different places to live as well.

One thing to keep in mind is that things 'feel' different on the phone than they do in screen shots. I was pretty 'meh' about iOS7 until I installed the GM on my phone. It still has some weird spots, but over all it looks a hell of a lot better 'live' than it does in pictures. The transitions effects are nice, the removal of skeuomorphism is awesome and the operation is nice. It is not 'revolutionary' but it is a nice evolution from iOS6

I can't be the only person who thinks Go is really interesting, but can't get over the 'package' hump... It's just too wonky for 'real-world' from my experience. For example, how do you create clear lines of separation with internal modules? If you want to use 'namespaces' then each namespace has to be it's own package, which then requires its own Repo that you have to 'go get'. There's unsustainable for a project of any useful size.

I must be missing something.

I've got to be missing something... I don't see where the racism is? Because he said 'white'? He also said 'gay', so is he a homophobe too?

In all seriousness, point out the racism, please?

It depends on your keyboard as well. I use a Kinesis Advantage, which has the arrow keys in a place that doesn't require movement from your hands, so hjkl doesn't provide the advantage that it used to.

The fact that you have to sign a contributor agreement is cause enough to leave it alone or fork it. I read through your commit comments, read "Please sign this agreement" and thought to myself "this is why Microsoft is dying. They just can't join the rest of us here in the present."

In the Bay Area? Barely middle class for a family of three.

What I don't understand in the venom these people receive. Makers vs. Takers? Ridiculous. Perhaps people should stop buying into Ayn Rand's objectivism nonsense and take a more humanist stance? Society is made up of people from various strata, some skilled, some unskilled. That doesn't mean it we should devolve into class warfare. These people are working and providing a service. Shouldn't they try to maximize their earning potential while doing it? Why begrudge them for wanting to make a decent wage in an area that is already hyper-inflated? Certainly there were some ridiculous parameters for the negotiations, coming from BOTH sides. If there should be anger it should be at the lawmakers for allowing critical infrastructure in a city the size of SF controllable by any one entity, be it union or not.

To me, this issue is about more than a wage number. It's about leveling everyone in society.

There's a pretty significant different between EFT ( what you're referring to ) and ACH, which is the transfer of money directly into an account electronically.

It makes business sense to have all of your clients pay you via ACH if possible, however, you're correct that EFT is not a good idea.

There's no next year, this has already been happening for years. The requirement (used?) to be 35 hours or less is considered part time and dd not require insurance. Walmart, which you mentioned, is infamous for making everyone a 'part-timer' to avoid health-insurance and other benefits.

I cannot believe you're serious... You believe that people should go to jail for the things that they say, really? It doesn't matter if it was tacky or juvenile or vulgar.

When you were a teenager, you didn't do and say things that flew in the face of convention just for the sake of making noise? Saying the things that you know were verboten, just to get the reaction?

These are interesting, but for some reason they read a little too much like AA self help books. Perhaps because it's difficult to be informative and vague at the same time.

There are really several layers of issues to deal with in regards to the JVM.

First, the JVM really IS NOT a great choice to build other languages on. It wasn't designed for it; In fact before invokedynamic, it was nearly impossible. For all intents, building other languages on the JVM is a bad hack, regardless of how elegant ( or not ) the language syntax is. The amount of fuckery required is nearly unbelievable.

Second, the JVM is owned by Oracle. It is technically 'open source' but Oracle has proven time and again to not only be against open source, but one could even support the position that they're actively hostile towards it.

Ideally, the solution would be to invest engineering mind-share into creating a REAL VM that was designed to host many programming languages. Regardless of what you think of Microsoft, they got .Net correct in that their tooling infrastructure was built from the beginning with multiple programming languages sitting on top of the CLR ( and later the DLR ). The LLVM folks have been making some progress in this regard by way of VMKit, but personally I cannot understand why this issue doesn't get more mind-share. Python, Scala, Ruby, Clojure, Lua, etc would all benefit in the end.

The comparison to Steam is false to begin with. PC gaming has NEVER been a trade with your friends (legally) culture. Console gaming has ALWAYS been a trade with your friends culture (legally). When was the last time you saw a used PC game store?

Second, there is no evidence that companies who's job is to maximize profit will have any incentive to lower their prices for disc-less games. For this, we CAN look at Steam (and other services). AAA titles are full retail when they are released. The price degrades over time, but the same thing happens with disc releases.

This is a one-sided win for Microsoft (and game publishers for XB1) and is yet another reason to avoid the XBox 1 like the plague. That is the market feedback that Microsoft should receive.

Really? Are you just saying that to be contrary? What specifically about the XO are you more excited about than the PS4? I'm genuinely curious.

Personally, the locking down of the platform to destroy the used game market is a big loss, imo. Being anti-friendly to indie developers is just another data point for sure; it's still not engendering excitement about the future of the XBox.

Most people I interact with still don't want to use Office Apps in the web browser, so it doesn't seem like much has changed on that front.

Aren't we "paying" them by 'being the product'? That's the faustian bargin, I believe. You let me use your tool, I let you profile the hell out of me...