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No. The UK has some of the worst tech wages in Europe, esp. on a cost-of-living adjusted basis. Switzerland is on par or better than the US. Other countries fall on a spectrum in b…

On the same topic, https://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock... has detailed advice on what to do as a startup employee in the section about options. (tl;dr: ear…

Ceylon, because after you've seen union types you wonder why they aren't implemented in every statically typed language.

Of course! No need to rush.

Now that there is an apparently superior alternative, do you plan to do something to eliminate the existing enum pattern explained at http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/tour/…

Could you outline the differences between Scala and Ceylon constructors, for readers not familiar with both?

Actually, the new IDEA 9 now has a free, open-source version, with most of what you'll want. There's still a commercial version with some more features enabled. http://www.jetbrain…

I've long been thinking that something like Coda (the distributed filesystem from CMU) would be the best option in this space. Coda keeps the data, but lets nodes locally sync some…

djbolivia.ca - he even has a few mixes expressly made for programmers.

It's worth noting that the practice of the groom's family paying the bride's family is nothing new in China - at least according to my flatmates from Hong Kong. The rationale is th…

This sounds inspired by SEDA (Staged Event-Driven Architecture). http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/ It was about time someone made good use of it, too! Is there more info …

The report uses two metrics of economic mobility: absolute mobility, and relative mobility. Relative mobility is unitless because it's an elasticity: it measures how much parent in…

A lot of people in the US seem to believe this - it's the essence of the American dream after all. But if you actually take a look at the Wikipedia article, you'll see this: "Franc…