Last year I chose some goals for my career: Work with very clever people or alone, from home Work with good development tools, i.e., Git, Mercurial, Emacs etc. Work with good programming languages, i.e., Scheme (first choice), Haskell, Common Lisp or Lua These goals are intended to guarantee my long term happiness and stress-free high [...]
Thanks to the Financial World Crisis, my employer wants to relocate me to a place where it will spend less money paying me and with less infra-structure. As I do not intend to relocate, I therefore offer my good coding skills for money. Remember that Brazillian paying rates are lower than European and American ones! [...]
I have disappeared for a while, but my excuse is that I have been coding furiously. I intend to write a lot more in the not-so-far-away future. In the meanwhile, a quick post. From time to time I read another Paul Graham essay, usually when they are cited in some Reddit or Slashdot thread. He [...]
But there are out there things like this: We don’t really care about the title but we want someone good (who doesn’t?). We need someone able to model and code well (No architect who never codes). The ability to communicate well with a team is also a big plus. You don’t need to speak French [...]
There is a recurrent angst I feel every time I think I could be working daily in a decent programming language. Usually the management people believe the choice of programming language is irrelevant, but we developers know better. Languages shape our thoughts. Today I found an interesting post about getting work using non-mainstream languages. Well, [...]