On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 09:21:46 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote:
Then again, there can just be an obligation to post this job
add as a requirement for getting grant money for a project
(many EU projects have this), but you have your own person in
mind for the job, so you fit the add for her.
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 13:04:29 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote:
Dne 24.6.2015 v 14:15 Chris via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
Sure, this smells like a job description tailor made for
someone they already have in mind. However, I wonder what
"experience" means. "Yeah, I've played around with Java an
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 09:01:47 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 19:01:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
So I wrote an Oxbridge style applied economics open-ended
question. Most of the perfect candidates on paper just
regurgitated what they read in the FT; a few didn't and
ac
Dne 24.6.2015 v 14:15 Chris via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> Sure, this smells like a job description tailor made for someone they
> already have in mind. However, I wonder what "experience" means. "Yeah,
> I've played around with Java and C++" or "I'm really into the two
> languages and know them ve
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 09:21:46 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote:
There are definitely people like this. If you focused your
Ph.D. on machine learning, than you likely qualify for most of
the requirements.
Then again, there can just be an obligation to post this job
add as a requirement for
Dne 24.6.2015 v 11:07 Chris via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> Speaking of which, just found this in a job add (no joke). Sure, who
> doesn't have all of these qualifications:
>
> Required
>
> Doctorate Degree
> At least 5 years experience in the areas of information extraction
> and machine
Speaking of which, just found this in a job add (no joke). Sure,
who doesn't have all of these qualifications:
Required
Doctorate Degree
At least 5 years experience in the areas of information
extraction and machine learning
At least 1 year experience in publication in top-tier
re
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 19:01:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Chris wrote:
"This already started in the 1990ies and got worse and worse,
this business of looking for the "perfect" candidate. A lot of
skills can be acquired in the first weeks (or months,
depending). It's better to train someon
On 06/23/2015 03:19 PM, ketmar wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:04:49 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Even that intrinsic passion in the field itself isn't strictly necessary
to be a good programmer. I know that sounds wrong, but hear me out: All
that's REALLY needed at the bare minimum is the basic
On 06/23/2015 04:49 AM, Chris wrote:
Yeah. A guy I know had a hard time finding a job with Java. HR would
always demand experience with this or that build tool and stuff like
this. As if you couldn't learn this in a week or less, at least enough
to be able to contribute to a project. Actual prog
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:04:49 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Even that intrinsic passion in the field itself isn't strictly necessary
> to be a good programmer. I know that sounds wrong, but hear me out: All
> that's REALLY needed at the bare minimum is the basic integrity to say
> "If this is wha
On 06/23/2015 02:15 PM, ketmar wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:24:14 +, Tobias Müller wrote:
For many programmers, programming is just a job, not more. They don't
program in their spare time and are not really interested in programming
languages as you are.
that people called "code monkeys"
Chris wrote:
"This already started in the 1990ies and got worse and worse,
this business of looking for the "perfect" candidate. A lot of
skills can be acquired in the first weeks (or months, depending).
It's better to train someone who's intelligent and innovative
than someone who's worked wi
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:08:07 +, rsw0x wrote:
> No, there really are no libraries for D. And it's 1000x worse if you
> attempt to use D for anything related to system's programming aka no GC
> available.
>
> I got so fed up that I ported my project from D to C. I'll gladly trade
> a worse lang
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:24:14 +, Tobias Müller wrote:
> For many programmers, programming is just a job, not more. They don't
> program in their spare time and are not really interested in programming
> languages as you are.
that people called "code monkeys", not "programmers". it's simply
i
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 08:58:39 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
And as a consequence, we see:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/06/the-time-needed-to-fill-jobs.html
The present state of hiring processes can't go on, and so it
won't.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Good-People-C
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 08:49:45 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 17:10:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most
companies
will
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 17:10:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most
companies
will not bet on language for which a pool of "hireable"
dev
Am 21.06.2015 um 00:42 schrieb Ellery Newcomer:
On 06/20/2015 07:00 AM, Etienne wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 13:33:34 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I recently read this facebook post on their future implementation in
their Folly libr
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 19:45:57 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 22/06/15 14:46, Etienne wrote:
[...]
[...]
Seems I need to actually make a try on using these libraries.
[...]
In general I feel it hard to justify when everything is already
implemented in Ruby. At some point I just wan
On 22/06/15 14:46, Etienne wrote:
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:29:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
* Database drivers for Postgres and SQLite
https://github.com/etcimon/d2sqlite3
async with vibe.d :
https://github.com/pszturmaj/ddb/blob/master/examples/basic.d#L7
* ORM
https://github.com/bugg
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I recently read this facebook post on their future
implementation in their Folly library.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1661982097368498
This made me slightly envious. Thoughts on a D implementation?
After having worked with Obser
On 23/06/2015 12:46 a.m., Etienne wrote:
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:29:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 22/06/15 01:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
For work, that would be:
* Database drivers for Postgres and SQLite
https://github.com/etcimon/
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 14:03:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:29:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 22/06/15 01:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
For work, that would be:
* Some way to interface with Selenium and Phanto
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:29:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 22/06/15 01:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
For work, that would be:
* Some way to interface with Selenium and PhantomJS
It's not pretty, but for what I want to do I have found e
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:29:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 22/06/15 01:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
For work, that would be:
* Database drivers for Postgres and SQLite
https://github.com/etcimon/d2sqlite3
async with vibe.d :
https://git
On 22/06/15 01:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
For work, that would be:
* Database drivers for Postgres and SQLite
* ORM
* Unit test framework. I want something like RSpec
* RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ
* Some way to interface with Selenium and PhantomJS
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 23:43:16 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Curiosity, what libraries do you feel a lack of?
XML/Webservice - I know about JSON/REST, but often I have no
choice
Poor database support - a lot of libraries/drivers, but they
can't win competition against Java JDBC.
On 22/06/2015 10:02 a.m., Etienne Cimon wrote:
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 19:08:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
e-commerce/blo
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 23:08:09 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
I got so fed up that I ported my project from D to C. I'll
gladly trade a worse language for not having to write an entire
standard library by myself.
I'm exactly the opposite. I've wasted so much time putting up
with awful languages I'm
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 19:08:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how
D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
My biggest
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 22:02:39 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote:
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 19:08:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand
how D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting
a
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 19:08:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how
D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
My biggest
On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
My biggest reason is the lack of libraries.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On 06/21/2015 09:24 AM, Tobias Müller wrote:
But do you also think that the average java code monkey will pick up D
equally fast?
Well, I don't believe the average java code monkey is an asset to ANY
company, merely a liability.
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies
>> will not bet on language for which a pool of "hireable" developers is
>> small. and it's und
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 22:42:23 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 06/20/2015 07:00 AM, Etienne wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 13:33:34 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
[...]
Even if the callbacks are sequentially listed, the "callbac
On 06/20/2015 07:00 AM, Etienne wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 13:33:34 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I recently read this facebook post on their future implementation in
their Folly library.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/16619820973
On 06/20/2015 01:24 PM, ketmar wrote:
oh, well, i repeated Joel almost literally here. ;-)
That dude knows his stuff ;)
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:10:26 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Well, not really. I mean, managers and HR all *believe* that to be so.
> But that's because pretty much all non-programmers, even ones in the
> software dev industry who really should know better, are stuck in this
> bizarre idea that pr
On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies
will not bet on language for which a pool of "hireable" developers is
small. and it's understandable: two developers quit, and t
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
yes. and another thing (which is tied to "popularity", though) is the
question: how many developers are here to hire for XYZ?
let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies
will not bet on language for which a po
On 06/20/2015 11:12 AM, ketmar wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:00:47 +, Etienne wrote:
Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't
fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
D is just not ugly e
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:00:47 +, Etienne wrote:
> Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't
> fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an
> e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it?
D is just not ugly enough. the key to be popular (not on
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 13:33:34 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I recently read this facebook post on their future
implementation in their Folly library.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1661982097368498
This made me slightly envious. T
On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 12:35:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I recently read this facebook post on their future
implementation in their Folly library.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1661982097368498
This made me slightly envious. Thoughts on a D implementation?
Even if the callbacks are sequ
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