mcdevhammer's comments

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017

Spring Boot for Java

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your greatest programming stack?

Cloud Foundry + Spring Boot + Angular or React with Concourse/Docker for CI.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You

Please just no. Part of the charm of the guitar is that its this kind of organic piece of wood and metal that you have to learn to master to make sound good. A lot of the different character and style of different players comes from their different technique and how they learned to play which I think would be lost if you could just easily make perfect notes by basically pressing a button. I guess this is the same reason why I prefer listening to instruments like guitar, piano (real piano, not electronic) and saxophone and synth/electronic music I find all sounds similar and lacks individual character.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you using for project management?

Also use pivotal tracker. I find it much better than JIRA due to its simplicity.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can we train a neural network to write code?

You can use a RNN to generate code, but not for any particular purpose. It would be syntactically correct nonsense.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you test your webapp's front end code? How?

Full integration tests (I.e. click a button in the UI, check that something was updated in the database) with Fluentlenium in Java and unit tests for directives/controllers/services (Angular) using Jasmine.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much of your time is spent in meetings?

Software developer working at a fortune 500 financial company. 30 mins stand up every day, 1 hour retro every week and maybe 1 or 2 hours a week of impromptu meetings on top of that.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

Actually "serverless" in the sense of the current buzz word is not P2P, it is basically Lambda: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua

Also https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

I haven't tried it yet (still running 7) but I use the git bash shell all the time. Can anyone chime in on what the bash in Windows 10 gives you that git bash doesnt? Not that I've really fully explored but git bash seems to have a lot of the common utilities (it has grep and vim).

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What command line interface do you wish had a graphical user interface?

I find gitx is pretty good.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first dev job?

I didn't go to a big name university. I did a 3 year college diploma that had coop. I had a job lined up before I even finished school and a few months later had 2 competing offers (one from a company I coop'd at). I think the key thing that helped me was being able to put work experience on my resume from doing coop.

Also I put a lot of effort into making my resume the best I could. Don't neglect this. It is the #1 most important thing you need to do when searching for a job.

You mentioned your intern experience being at 'lower tier' comonies. Are you maybe being too picky in where you are applying?

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do programmers suck at estimating hours?

Seems to just be the nature of it. Every single project I have ever worked on was delivered late.

mcdevhammer | 9 years ago | on: What are the biggest headaches as a developer or systems admin?

Change tickets. Change tickets for everything.

mcdevhammer | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the code you've written of which you are the most proud?

Probably the toy compiler I wrote for a c like language: https://github.com/claassen/CmC and the parser generator it uses to parse source code: https://github.com/claassen/ParserGenerator

mcdevhammer | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some important math topics every programmer should know?

Depends on the industry I suppose. I work in the financial industry and I have used linear algebra quite a bit and graph theory as well. I would say linear algebra in pretty important as it is also used heavily in graphics/games.

mcdevhammer | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

An HTML5 canvas UI framework. Not really serious, just wanted to finally learn to do OO javascript properly and see where it goes.

mcdevhammer | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for a remote minimum wage job/task

Lol

mcdevhammer | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much you make, how long did it take for you to get there?

$65k + bonuses comes to about $75k. C# developer in Toronto.

mcdevhammer | 11 years ago | on: One-bit signed integers

I don't understand.