My guess is we have different definitions of what a high-Level language is, but you are right in that I’ve never studied or reviewed a large-scale system written in e.g. Haskell or ML. I’d love the chance to do it.
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Applied for my first oftware developer job at an insurance company, got invited to what turned out to be a local branch. “Interviewer” told me I could be very easily re-trained to be an insurance salesman, then proceeded to try to sell me insurance policies. Left quickly.
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Don’t know it well enough, but even if it were a great language, I suspect I’d still hold on to my opinion: Does not matter that much in the greater scheme of things
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Maybe if some part of the system is really hard to get right, in terms of domain complexity, parallelism, or other aspects … not if it’s a more a less typical business system, IMO
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Erlang is interesting; i know of no other language or language ecosystem with such a strong influence on systems architecture. Maybe it’s the exception to the rule.
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I love how some programming languages allow you to express your intent on a high level, while others put almost no boundaries between you and the machine. But looking at the architecture of large-scale systems, I feel the choice of language almost doesn’t matter at all
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Bei jedem neuen Tweet dieses Menschen bin ich hin- und hergerissen zwischen Freude, dass er seinen Job los ist und Entsetzen, dass er ihn jemals hatte
Lassen Sie sich nicht einreden, dass es sich um Seenotrettung handelt. Diese Migranten sind keine Schiffbrüchigen und keine Flüchtlinge. Sie haben als einwanderungswillige Ausländer die Schleuserboote bestiegen, um von einem Shuttle-Service nach Europa gebracht zu werden. (hgm)
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c't-Redakteur Jan Mahn: „IT-Experten sollten den Digitalisierungs-Diskurs nicht länger Laien überlassen und ihre Kompetenzen in der Politik einsetzen“ 👏heise.de/newsticker/meldung/…
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Finally, somebody wrote a thread about what I think so I don’t have to
Since the 10x debate is still going on, my thoughts:
1. 10x engineers/programmers exist. If they didn't, it'd make programming the ONLY field which didn't have "the best of the best".
2. "10x" is a term, not an exact description. They are not "literally 10x more productive".
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It’s the difference between using a centralized approach to ensure everything conforms to the same rule set vs. a decentralized approach where this is merely one of many quality criteria and things can evolve more easily. A bit like static vs dynamic typing ;)
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This is their problem, not yours. You have zero obligation to agree to their crazy terms. If that means they can’t hire you, that’s too bad for them. If they really want you, they’ll find a way.
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It’s fairly new, €1500 would probably only cover about half of its cost at most, and I’d rather re-install the OS from scratch before doing that.
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