Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-30 Thread William Park via talk 

Sorry for late reply.  Back to office has been crazy busy...

At the beginning, I liked Python's indented structure, OOP ability, etc. 
 This was when I was the one doing the programming, test, bug fix, and 
support.  Things didn't go well when I had to read/fix someone else's 
code, or my code went to someone else and came back to me.  All the 
things I liked Python for, turned into all the things I disliked Python for.


Main issue was, difficulty in debugging.  What's in an object depends on 
the path it took.


On 11/29/21 5:53 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:



On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:36 AM William Park via talk > wrote:


Thanks.  Perl -> Go is big jump.  I'm currently dabbling in Dart,
because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter.  Go is next on my list.
I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile. 
Looking

for something better.


Curious - - - - what went sour with Python?

TIA

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Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-29 Thread o1bigtenor via talk 
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:36 AM William Park via talk 
wrote:

> Thanks.  Perl -> Go is big jump.  I'm currently dabbling in Dart,
> because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter.  Go is next on my list.
> I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile.  Looking
> for something better.
>

Curious - - - - what went sour with Python?

TIA
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Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-29 Thread William Park via talk 
Thanks.  Perl -> Go is big jump.  I'm currently dabbling in Dart, 
because few guys here are dabbling in Flutter.  Go is next on my list. 
I was an early adopter of Python but it went sour after awhile.  Looking 
for something better.


On 11/28/21 10:20 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:

On 11/27/21 22:17, William Park via talk wrote:


Just curious... Why was Go chosen?  And, more importantly, what other
languages were considered and rejected?


We were looking for a compiled language that did parallelism without
requiring a PhD in temporal logic. It replaces Perl, where we used lots
of parallel instances of a rather large monolithic application.

There are other language in use: Python for ML, Java for big data and
some I've never heard of, but Go is the major one. Which is cool, as
it's one of my favorites.

--dave


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System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
dave.collier-br...@indexexchange.com |  -- Mark Twain


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Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-28 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk 

On 11/27/21 22:17, William Park via talk wrote:


Just curious... Why was Go chosen?  And, more importantly, what other
languages were considered and rejected?


We were looking for a compiled language that did parallelism without
requiring a PhD in temporal logic. It replaces Perl, where we used lots
of parallel instances of a rather large monolithic application.

There are other language in use: Python for ML, Java for big data and
some I've never heard of, but Go is the major one. Which is cool, as
it's one of my favorites.

--dave


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System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-27 Thread William Park via talk 

Hi Dave,

Just curious... Why was Go chosen?  And, more importantly, what other 
languages were considered and rejected?


On 11/27/21 2:05 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 
milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful 
and moving steadily toward IPO in a few years.


We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for 
automation, and data / machine-learning engineers. Plus co-ops.


There are roughly 60 engineering position we want to fill, nominally in 
downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. In fact, we've mostly 
been working from home world-wide, and turned our old North Toronto 
office into a data centre. We do have a building at King and Spadina for 
folks who prefer to have a desk (which includes me), but it's optional.


This is the best job I've had since /Sun Microsystems/: come join me.

--dave

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[GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-27 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk 

We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 
milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful and 
moving steadily toward IPO in a few years.

We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for automation, and 
data / machine-learning engineers. Plus co-ops.

There are roughly 60 engineering position we want to fill, nominally in 
downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. In fact, we've mostly been 
working from home world-wide, and turned our old North Toronto office into a 
data centre. We do have a building at King and Spadina for folks who prefer to 
have a desk (which includes me), but it's optional.

This is the best job I've had since Sun Microsystems: come join me.

--dave

--
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System Programmer and Author.| some people and astonish the rest
dave.collier-br...@indexexchange.com
 | -- Mark Twain
dav...@spamcop.net



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