Speccing up the triton with the HD screen and a bit more Ram is GPB500, which seems quite reasonable for a decent machine for programming and the odd bit of web surfing.
The review linked here looked quite positive, but I'd been keen to here from someone that actually has one.
There was a great cartoon that the farnam street brain food blog sent out which illustrates this quite well.
http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
I partially agree.. I think that one of the challenges is that lots of blue chip firms use a degree as a gating process to get an interview.
Faced with tens/hundreds of thousands of CV's, there probably has to be some kind of coarse filter to get past that and get them down to a meaningful number that a person can review. I know some companies in the UK still use UCAS points (A-Level results) as a gate to get from one stage in the process to another.
If you don't have a degree - even if you are a superstar/10x person, then it's going to be hard to get through the scripted screens that will block you from getting your CV in front of a hiring manager.
Generally after 7 or 8 years of experience, I guess a degree counts for less and its more about peoples experience.
.. additionally, I always found the scala equivalent of the javadocs harder to read.
The end result (for me) was that I'd download, say an HTTP library, all the method names would be things like '/' and '?' - and you couldn't actually see what a minimally functioning code should look like due to all of the implicits flying around.
If you compare this to java, which was undoubtably more verbose, but was easier to take and unfamiliar library, squint a bit, and see how the building blocks roughly fit together, using a combination of reading the docs, and looking at the intellisense in your IDE.
Not tech orientated, but lots of CEOs doing 'front line' work (e.g CEO of hotel chain working as a receptionist in one of his premises)
It sounds cheesy, but the program was often enlightening.
Was curious about how Microsoft organize their continuous integration for windows OS. I'm sure I remember reading a blog post about it somewhere, but I can't find it now.Specifically, Can developers check out all of windows and reasonably expect to build it on their desktop machines? or is it simply too large. Part of my thinks "you can do it with a linux kernel, why not?", and part of me...