In Western Europe at least, I think you would have a much better chance if you were applying for a .NET, Java, or PHP position (which given your C experience, you should be able to master any of them). Golang has a much smaller market share here, so that is very limiting (even for younger devs). Most .NET and Java companies I work for would still happily hire experienced senior developers in their 40s or 50s.
Looks great! At first glance, this appears to be the service I've been searching for. I'm currently using raindrop to bookmark items I intend to read later, but its search and recollection functionality leaves much to be desired.
I'm definitely going to give it a try. However, for it to become a permanent part of my routine, it would need a Safari browser extension and an iOS app (compatible with both iPhone and iPad) to allow easy sharing and saving of content from within other apps. Stuff that Raindrop supports.
Additionally, is there an API available so that I can manually script or route content from currently unsupported sources?
Thanks for the feedback! We're working on making our extension cross-browser compatible. For the iOS experience, what's the highest priority for you: being able to save things from iOS or access chat/other functionality?
No API just yet, but if there's an integration you're looking for let us know and we will prioritize that. Thanks!
I'm already seeing a lot of enterprise companies gearing-up to go all-in on Blazor. Having a single language (C#) for web, mobile and all other back-end services must be huge draw for them.
> What's funnier too, is that it's been possible to write F# on the frontend for a while now, compiling down to javascript (like clojurescript). It makes me wonder why this approach was never done with C# too, even if there are pitfalls in compiling to javascript.
There have been several initiatives which allowed you to do that. None of them really successful. I've worked with one specifically in the past (can't remember the project's name though), which even had C# types/bindings for Knockout.js.
How did you manage to get different scaling to work, if I may ask? That's the only thing I haven't been able to get properly working myself. I have a similar laptop screen, and 3 external 4k monitors. I would love to be able to scale my laptop screen differently as well :)
No special tweaks, everything out of the box using Gnome's Settings app. Initially I didn't expect that to work, because of earlier reports I kept seeing, but it did. In fact just now I set one of my external monitors to 100% while the other remained at 150% and it worked. The mouse cursor seemed a bit stuttery than usual on the 100% one, but maybe I was just imagining things.
To be fair stuff like Design Patterns, SOLID, Domain-Driven Design etc. come up in a lot of interviews for "business application development" roles in other languages as well, especially C# and Java. What's ironic is that often on your first day on the job, you'll be put to work on a codebase which violates those principles in a lot of ways.
> To be fair stuff like Design Patterns, SOLID, Domain-Driven Design etc. come up in a lot of interviews for "business application development" roles in other languages as well, especially C# and Java.
Yea. I think there are basically two style of techincal interviews. One is FAANG where they ask you university level stuff. And the other is they ask you a bunch of stuff that they want to have implemented but haven't.
I think it's also why there is a massive culture difference in say Agile in FAANG and everywhere else. FAANG has people that don't know these things as well because to get their jobs they had to learn and study univeristiy level problems.
I think a lot of FAANG devs would get blown out of the water at some mid-level companies. FAANG has the reputation but the reputation is built on a very small subset of their actual engineers.
Not a PHP developer myself, but in my area most web development is still done in PHP. The modern PHP language is a lot like any other high level language now, but the main attraction of PHP are (still) the massively popular (and stable) open-source frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, Magento etc. A big supply of developers and high development pace of custom apps through such frameworks is why it will remain the defacto choice for a lot of webdev shops (at least in my area).
Strongly concur on it being a theater watch, ideally Imax.
The effects are next-level good. You won't see all the detail at home unless you've got one hell of a set-up. There are good sets and costumes, and the CG isn't muddy, cheap Marvel "just good enough not to ruin it" stuff, but is truly good.
It's also very unlikely you have an audio system at home that can keep up. This is both because there's a lot of really good stuff going on in the audio mix that'll fall flat on anything but a stellar home audio setup, and a lot of bad stuff (mostly Nolanesque "wtf did that actor just say?") that'll be even worse.
Acting's good. Big screen doesn't hurt that any, certainly.
The story's Dune. If you like Dune, this is a Dune. That's its strength, and its weakness.
If you liked Blade Runner 2049, 100% for sure catch this in theaters. If you haven't seen Blade Runner 2049, friggin' watch it. It's an idea that seems bad (a sequel to Blade Runner? Oh no...) but turned out perfect.
Best thing about IMAX for me was the sound. Big screen is great, and helps with the sense of scale of the ships which are stunning, but the stand-out element for me was the ornithopters – their sound design was so good, worth watching in IMAX just for that.
I know of at least one theater complex nearby that has an Imax screen or two, but those are not the best sound in the house. They're very good, but the gold standard (at least around here) are the couple of normal (but quite good) screens + projectors that they've paired with some fancy Dolby thing. It's noticeably better, in movies that are mixed for it (and I think this one is).
However, I'd probably take Imax with very good sound over a normal theater with the best possible sound, for this one. Then again, I've not tried it in the best-sound theaters, so maybe I'm wrong about which is preferable.
I know that, trying to (re-)watch it at home, my normally-plenty-good pieced-together 5.1 system was not up to the task, which is the first time I've felt like that about this set-up of mine—and I watched both Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 on it, so it's been Villeneuve-tested before.
Re: audio, to add to the above comment, if you are going to watch the new Dune at home without a really good setup (or good headphones) I highly recommend turning on subtitles.
I sat in what should have been around the audio sweet-spot, if there was one, in the pretty good theater I went to, was paying very close attention, and still missed a few lines due to the mix. Most of those lines I missed again trying to watch it at home (where I have no hope, really, because it turns out this movie's too much for my usually-fine surround sound setup). I blame Nolan, and his... niche, at best, audio preferences. Plus Villeneuve for imitating it. I don't remember his previous films requiring this much active effort to tell WTF people are saying.
I was so disappointed after spending like 12 hours watching this film to it ending without telling the complete story. Never mind the Part 1 title card at the beginning. I just assumed they were going to expand upon the story not cut it into pieces. Then to find out that they didn't already green light the rest of the story being made. WTF? Who does this in today's movie universe? We get the full story approved to make or we take it to another studio. Right Mr. Jackson?
There's a period of several years between where the first film left the story, and the final conclusion. They may be quite happy for Tim and Zendy to put on a couple of years between making instalments.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I was already aware of the fact that it was both half a film, and that the second part wasn't green-lit yet. Despite of this, the film completely lived up to to my expectations.
they really did a number with this. they are getting regular old joes to ask other people to go to the theaters on HBOs behalf. i really gotta figure out how they did that, its pretty remarkable.
