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  • I haven’t written any Java since Java 6. This makes me so happy to hear.

    What about XML, and XML based configs? Is the Java ecosystem still obsessed with XML?

    I remember I was once trying to learn Hibernate. After finding what I thought looked like the best tutorial, I skimmed through it and there was literally no Java code in the tutorial about a Java library! It was all XML! I never could understand it, but this was early in my career, maybe I could handle it now, maybe not.




















  • Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.

    If I’m a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I’m a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone’s money and is essential to the entire nation, I’m paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.

    If I’m a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.

    (Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)