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I agree with you about Clojure in particular. I did do some non trivial work in Lisp in a graduate class, but its not the same as using it all day. I don't believe I would seek out…

That's actually the plan... And then maybe join a SV start up because money doesn't matter anymore... Going to be tough to do as an enterprise Java developer though. =P.

All I'm willing to say here is that I work in financial services. Actually, one of the reasons why I mentioned patio11 above was because it would interesting to talk to him about t…

Plead see previous comment about my compensation. I don't think a company would pay someone that much unless they were really good.

Yes. You should if you want to make a lot of money...

Who ever said I was interviewing for a job? I was commenting on the state of the industry as a whole. Read some of the comments (and the article). The article mentioned that one pe…

I never understood why that was a prerequisite. I program for 60 hours a week. So what if I don't want to do it on the weekends too.

I am pigeonholed. Sure I know other languages: Shell Scripting, Perl, HTML/CSS/JS, Groovy, SQL, C#, etc, but 80 percent of the code I write is in Java. I'm at a Java shop and have …

It's funny you say that. I can't name one factory pattern off the top of my head... Never needed to learn one. I should clarify -- I'm in my late twenties, and I've spent my entire…

I'm an "enterprise" programmer because I write in Java... I'm also older than the average age of a start-up employee (late twenties). I've never written a line of Ruby, and I've ne…