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I've also run into this myself in publishing my own blog posts. I had this burning need to add caveats and write very defensibly because the fear in the back of my head of being "w…

I was laid off along with most of the engineering staff at the startup I was working at in February due to lack of funding. Since I'm based in NYC and my colleagues were very well …

Echoing any recommendations for 'Scala for the Impatient' - it is a fantastic beginner/intermediate book that gets you productive pretty quickly, so much so that I'm planning on ha…

I agree wholeheartedly with you, to me it's a form of humblebragging. It's definitely a nice thing to be in high demand and 'complaining' about recruiters knocking down the door se…

I've been through a few 'crunch modes' before and while there was a general feeling of "wow, we accomplished that" afterwards. Looking back, however, I now realize how profound of …

I think this is the most reasonable take I've read and encompasses the whole "right tool for the job" mindset that I like. I've found that when starting a new project I get paralyz…

Thank you so much for the hard work. I've been using Skeleton for a personal project even though it hadn't been updated in over 2 years. As a (mostly) backend developer, Skeleton h…

Location: NYC Remote: open to it Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Scala, Play, Akka, MySQL (also in a past life: PHP, Java, Hadoop) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/longcao…

Can't a man walk down the street without being offered a job?

I've found this to be a problem with reading technical books on my Kindle. I'm constantly flipping back and forth between examples and text and it's really not as good (read: not a…

Can you estimate how much faster your processing is now vs. before on MySQL? I find it interesting that your cluster is only 6 nodes - relatively small compared to what I've seen a…

Can I just say that I love your attitude? A borderline unhealthy sense of self deprecation and just 'doing it' because you can - qualities I wish more tech people had.

If you're well versed in Clojure and FP principles, the only difference for you would be in picking up Scala syntax, in my opinion.

Which has been superseded by Slick ( http://slick.typesafe.com/ ) and does exactly as the parent says.

He's one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter [1] because of this; he regularly tweets about stuff he's learning, especially new languages. It's quite inspiring and uplifting…

Your being a big white guy visibly unaffected by soy is strictly anecdotal evidence - perhaps you aren't affected by it. The plain reality here is that we don't yet know the full e…

Growing up before I knew anything about computers I always asked my parents if I could play on the home PC, which really equated to MSPaint time. Others might have started off with…

Somewhat related, there's a great This American Life episode on the same kind of subject called "The Convert": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/t...

I'm somewhat bemused that The Social Network isn't on there somehow, despite the movie's misgivings.

It's not even marketing in my mind but a public obligation. If there is anyone who would be able to provide this service, it's Twilio. Agreed, hats off.

And even if he's not - he should concede this point. There's no winning for EA if they continue to argue this, consumers have already made up their mind about it. They should cut t…

I use both ag and ack interchangeably and one thing I wish is that ag would be 100% compatible with ack options. It'd be nice to just do a s/ack/ag and expect things to work.

I've been meaning to try out matcher[0] for usage with CtrlP, I'm not sure how well it works but it's written in C and is purported to speed up search. Not sure if it's still being…