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I have seen head first books being recommend by many. The only one I ever read half way though was one on design patterns and I regretted it. When I am learning something new, I want every sentence to be information heavy. So I could learn much more efficiently. Head first books just drag on and on with jokes, unnecessary conversations, cartoons and stuff. I literally gave up and Google searched each design patterns.

All my engineers books were pretty dry and to the point.

I am thinking, evolve more like people in WALL-E. Blobs of flesh with no muscle definition or ability to use them.

That's an interesting graph. What happened after 1990? Is the period after 1990 considered an outlier or is there another explanation?

> Rank Location 1 Algeria 2 Iraq 3 Yemen 4 Myanmar 5 North Korea 6 Afghanistan

I am hoping you are not attributing violence and instability in some of these countries to lead based gasoline. Sure, there may be correlation, but these places are centuries old. There are many factors like culture, religiosity, socio-economic status , history, contemporary culture, so on and so forth.

It's not either/or. Everything needs to be tuned to achieve the final latency requirements. This includes tuning java code to eliminate creating "garbage", immutable string objects mostly, unnecessary object creation, creating short lived objects compared to long lived etc. The other part right sizing jvm generational partitions, using right gc algo etc. Next part would be to find out the code path with lowest latency requirement and making it hot/jitting. Even next part would be to tune OS for things like thread pinning etc etc. You can go further and tune the network layer. Every little thing counts.

You can go even further and employ what's called mechanical sympathy (https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/) and write your code in a way that makes it easier for the processor to process faster.

I've never worked with application that use off-heap allocations or no-gc requirements.

1. I want to do certain things/buy things (travel places, climb mountains. buy/build small plane)

2. need x amount of money/y amount of vacation time

3. target next company

4. requires certain technologies

5. study/practice

6. interview

7. success / Failure (go back to step 5)

It's always going to be subjective. If you have people experienced in gc tuning, it's pretty easy to weed those gc outliers out. I am currently doing that for one of the applications for the company I work for. For me, it would be far easier to write a low latency, high concurrency Java app than a c++ app. The last c++ app that I was asked to write works horribly and bleeds memory. But it was not an important app.

You would be surprised to know majority of trading companies/exchanges use Java for trading platform. So does majority of companies in finance sector. I have been working in this secor for over 10 years and have interviewed for many of them.

I worked for a company where we had a 100-150 microseconds order latency. We had to tune jvm to extremes. But it is very doable to optimize Java gc for low gc pause times.

> But here's the thing: As a man -- and especially as a white, English-speaking, North American man -- nobody gives a shit about my problems.

I migrated to different country from my birth country as well. You know what, nobody gave a shot about my problems in my home country and nobody does in my adopted country.

I am very independent, but few times when I leaned on someone they totally failed me (not intentionally), so I don't even expect anything from anyone.

It's libersting to know exactly what I am capable of because there's no one else in the equation.

Dunning-Kruger.

You may not. As a student on F1 Visa you are not allowed to work in any capacity without the approval of your school. You can invest in a business, but you are legally not allowed to perform any tasks for the business.

Hopefully you don't work in medicine or in any discipline where lives are at stake.

It's kind of funny that the bots were arguing both sides of the issue. Whole bunch of people from both sides were mostly arguing with Russian bots. If the results weren't so grave, this would be really funny.

I totally agree with you. Whoever approves or decides on UI at Google has no taste whatsoever.

This is very ideology over common sense. There is no scientific approach in software development. Did anyone conduct a reproducible study that was peer reviewed that concluded that pair programming was x-times better in creating relatively bug free software?

We just latch onto hysteria.

Unfortunately, I don't work for a multinational.

What's the higher range of the salaries in Barcelona. I work in USA, east coast and with 10+ years of experience, salaries can go as high as 200K+. How does this compare to Barcelona or other European tech cities? I am curious.

>Because you never asked

I don't have to. I can clearly see that you are just a right-wing whiner. I am pretty sure you enjoyed the frivolous bashing of democratic president, but now complain about the same thing when it is dished out to the republican president. Your comment history is self evident.

How come you are not complaining about Fox News bias? Obama tan suits/Dijon mustard/flag pin/Bengazi/her emails etc

One could argue that the alt-right rally from last year was very eventful, hence the huge number of reporters present at the current one.

And I didn't read full details about the rally, but I do know out about the skirmish between antifa and the alt-right. Also Fox news reported about it extensively. So what's your point? Are you saying that there's a liberal/progressive bias in media?

If you see a nicely designed website, try to replicate it. You can learn by checking the CSS/JS and learning from it. This assuming you have bare html/js/css skills. If not, then try some online tutorials/classes/books.

Isn't that more of a gossip/sensesionlism, rather than bias? Given the track record of the guy, it even seems plausible. Besides if a senior aide to the most important person in the country says that the president said racially explosive stuff, isn't that worthy of a report?

You label her crazy. May be you are right. But the same crazy person was the inside person for couple of years and was also paid $180K. Sure it makes them opportunist/immoral/backstabber. Crazy? I don't think so.

When you say bias, are you talking about the news articles or the editorials/opinion pieces. Can you give me some examples of political bias in recent news articles?

Chicago/Atlanta doesn't count?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.citylab.com/amp/article/399...

To add to this, if you root your phone and install adaway you would be free from ads even in an app.

If you really care about changing their views, then you would need extraordinary amount of patience and an arsenal of different tactics. You are fighting against years long indoctrination. Much of it from the formative years and much of it from people they trust and hold dear, like parents and grandparents. If you are expecting to make a five minute argument to change someone's deep seated ideology, you are mistaken. Regardless of how logical and factually accurate you might think you are.

Depending on your social circle, you might come across a few people who are really open minded and with your arguments might be able to plant seeds of change. That's probably all the power you really have.

I understand that that every developer should aspire to become someone who writes code that reads like a children's book, and they should. However, actively discouraging writing comments is so wrong on so many levels.

At the last place I worked, we used to have a small at-home coding test before interview and none of the young developers who successfully completed the test did any sort of code documentation or commenting. When I asked why, they would tell me that their code is self-documenting, which was utter nonsense.

What incenses me is this recent notion that because programmers fail to change comment with the code change, they shouldn't even write comments. They should instead write the self-documenting code.

This doesn't make sense on so many levels. Only a recluse sitting in some dungeon who never dealt with people can come up with something so inane.

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I understand that that every developer should aspire to become someone who writes code that reads like a children's book, and they should. However, actively discouraging writing comments is so wrong on so many levels.

At the last place I worked, we used to have a small at-home coding test before interview and none of the young developers who successfully completed the test did any sort of code documentation or commenting. When I asked why, they would tell me that their code is self-documenting, which was utter nonsense.

Sure bud! "We" developing more value (whatever that means) is equivalent to that of a stock trader on an open outcry floor thinking they develop country's economy.