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TLDR - He hears us, but he's doing nothing.

This motivates me to go to the tech meetup on Wednesday.

www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/47879702/

That's great to hear, Jonathan. I personally know two of the people on that team and they're brilliant programmers but never saw their view from the outside. I'm glad to hear you're getting amazing support from them.

If you're enjoying it a lot and love to program, you should consider applying there too.

What motivated you to use the Etsy API? I'm good friends with a number of people there and worked a bit on their search too.

Kids here should read the dragon book and then this argument will just be "ahh duhh."

In theory, any VM language will be slower than a memory managed app.

Then again, the dragon book is hard :)

First hand experience here. They'll never have an affiliate program, even though it's very easy to do.

You should read through a resume if you're going to interview them.

Signed,

A person that has viewed 1000s of resumes a week from time to time.

The article's author is just breathing "I'm a dick." There's no need to word the things like he does. "You've annoyed me." Really? Sounds like a drama queen. He should smoke a bowl and get laid once in awhile.

The author just seems like a narcissistic sad man.

Anyone who refers to themselves as a "rockstar" should never be hired. Real rock stars get laid by any women they see. It'll be an HR nightmare if what they say is true.

You forgot all the self righteous "you're doing it wrong" posts. Usually written by a coder who works for a company that's still in startup mode.

It's also funny to read the "how to ___" from companies that are not yet profitable. I try not to take advice from a VP/CTO who has not yet lead an actual profitable company. And my profitable I mean make more money than it spends - not get bought out and cash out stock.

CPU speed isn't a bottleneck anymore. These days improving caching, threading, and increasing the bus/memory speed have been the primary contributors to speeding up a computer. Once those bottlenecks close a bit you'll see those numbers begin to rise again.

I still can't find a company that processes millions of dollars that uses MongoDB without the help of real databases.

Idiots.

"University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana"

Should be:

"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

Commonly referred to as UIUC.

They spelled the fucking city and university wrong.

It's DUMB to make ANY of your build dependent on an external system. Build 101 crap.

I've also found that having a laptop with you with your preferred IDE ready to go is a great idea. I suck at hand writing but type like a champ, and feel that "whiteboard" coding is more of an exercise for those who were TAs in college than someone who can show how to really code in person.

About 1/2 the time my suggestion to write live code was shot down. I do fine on the whiteboard, just hate it.

China is far from first world. They have modern cities, but their GDP is less than $5000/year pp. They employ slave child labor to make your cheap plastic shit. They work 14 hour days. It sucks.

The IRS has unionized workers. 5 weeks vaca, 3 weeks sick pay, overtime.. It's a sweet gig and deserves to be - they control the biggest money collection in the world.

Hate to tell you - it's already prime time in business, just not in consumerland. And that's only because it doesn't have MS Office/Photoshop.