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Re:Photorealistic Path Tracer on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:17AM (#20490691)
This is cool. I want to start learning this. What programming language would you suggest to write my code while I learn this? Is C++ pretty much necessary for performance reasons or other languages would be okay too? Any specific recommendation?
What is the generally the best language while working on more than one cloud? If I want to deploy VMs into the major three clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure), is Python a good language for automation or am I better off with Java?
Re:Why Not to Use Quora on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:59AM (#18645559)
How is the etymology of "Guru" relevant to this discussion?
Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:21AM (#18346411)
> Which means every time some one searches 'Python, the snake', that also gets counted as 'Python, the programming language'.

This is false.

Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:19AM (#18346394)
Code indentation has been automated away since like 10 years or ago or maybe even more.

Vim, Emacs, Atom, Sublime Text, Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans can all auto-indent code for you. Combined with linters they can also automate stylistic checks and coding convention.

I don't know anyone who indents code themselves. The editor/IDE does it for them.

Indenting code is certainly not a code review check. No sane workplace should waste a senior developer's precious time commenting about indentation problems during code reviews. It is a tooling check that is part of CI/CD.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018) on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:07PM (#18118527)
What are the examples of new visas that you can sponsor?

I thought H-1B was the only way to immigrate to the US for work? There is L1 but L1 requires the employee to be working for the foreign office of the US company for at least a year before he/she can be issued L1.

So which are the visas you are sponsoring when you say "all visas except new H-1Bs"?