@Taqriaqsuk that was exactly the first sentence that popped into my head...

I myself got my first job through Open Source work. Did spend half a year on an Open Source pet project and so had some work to show my programming skills, my team work capacity and my willingsness to stick. I am on that very OSS today still.

On the other side, you could get a job as an intern. May be the faster path to paid work.

If you are looking for an IDE instead of a text editor and money is no issue I'ld go with JetBrain.

9. Works on my machine, no tests needed developers.

I might actually be mentally unstable and show signs of psychopathic behaviour :D I actually Cut and paste in place to paste in destination if I just want to copy...

... and REPL driven development is exploration. :)

I just commented your other post with "missing respect". Same here. But different. This is just missing respect towards another personal being and arrogance. "My time is more valuable than your's or the other student's" ...

@idocerra I feel your point, too, but it is not a thing of age. I have a mentee who starts every bloody question with "But back at my old job ..." and ends it with "... why can't I just leave it that way?" She's 19 and had a 6 week internship at her "old job" . I think it is a question of respect towards the things you don't know and the person who teaches you those things that some are just missing.

@Yamakuzure @thomasd3 @AleCx04 The discussion is off topic, but I like it and find it a very important one. I myself miss the mathematical understanding in many of my colleagues. I started my career in 1999 with Common Lisp and have been mostly a Lisper since. I am deeply passionate about functional programming because I am a mathematician per trait. And I shake my head when "programmer" cannot even comprehend simple computational logic ...

#0 Clojure, Elixir, JavaScript, PHP, Java, Kotlin
#1 Nope, none
#2 In comparison to what? I find it most comfortably to work with MacBooks

We use elasticsearch at some industry grade customer applications and we are quite happy with it. I am not an expert on the subject, though.

There are only two hard problems in computer science: naming things and caching. I believe, we got pretty good at the latter one.

What coffee and whiskey have in common: they are meant to be enjoyed pure. ☕

I am working on a standing desk. It actually helps me focus.

The first thing I actually "shipped" to friends was a little game for the terminal (around 1998). Made it on my first SuSE-Box.

It's just preparation to make room for the upgraded model.

About 5 to 7 hours per week. Mostly on the weekends.

I am amused about the fact that all of you discuss about the wrong usage of Java - when it is totally obvious that the non programmer friend's answer had to be "Chinese".

@Irithyll you actually seldom cross composer. I find it pretty easy to use.

I find Neos (neos.io) pretty easy to setup, use, and extend. And it comes with an actual WYSIWYG editor.

Jep, I am doing this all the time.

Give that man a medal!

Welcome fellow Clojurian. If you need any advice, just ping me. Clojure is not as academic as you might think - I use it in multiple applications and libraries and have a full stack saas written in Clojure.

I have tears of joy in my eyes right now.

For a head start to any language/paradigm I strongly recommend the "Heads First" Series. "Heads First Javascript" might be a bit outdated when it comes to modern JS Frameworks, but it gets you into the basics fast.

Wow, a rant that I can negate in full and it would work for me.

At a company I worked for some years back we have had a coffee machine that you could sent an SMS message to with "coffee" and it would brew some. took about the amount of time that I needed to walk from my desk to the machine. Sadly I don't know, how my manager than did this. he was more the hardware frickeling kind of guy...

what happened to SSA, SSS, SAAA and SASA?

@Teabagging4Life that's pure bullshit and most countries have laws against discrimination like that. Within Europe and Germany especially you cannot choose your employees on any of those criteria you mentioned.

First name - more so, we are on nickname basis.

@JustKidding wow, I did not know that.