bertzzie

  Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
  Remote: No
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java (Spring Boot), Scala, Vue.js, React js
  Résumé/CV: https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/274058?view=Cv
  Email: bertzzie at gmail dot com

I spent my last three years doing various roles at two e-commerces in Indonesia, both top 5 in terms of traffic and transaction. For my last two years, I am doing backend works, both implementing features, system design, tuning performance (both from apps and infrastructure perspective), and doing developer tools.

I'd be very interested in working at either developer tools or high performance/scale processing.

Feel free to contact me if it looks like my skills fill your need. Good luck in your search!

Thanks! Much appriciated!

I've been reading the "How to pay for this book" page [1] and noticed that there the author said:

> I pro­grammed a new web-pub­lish­ing sys­tem.

I seem can't find any other reference to that, and still not sure about emailing the author directly yet. My google-fu failed me on this one. Anyone know if the author's system has been published or sold?

Thanks before.

[1}: http://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.html

It will be long before someone implement this in the real world (website). It needs 16MBs download for the standard libs. Even twitter only downloads around ~2MBs before showing page.

Yeah, and I'm not sure scala will be that useful without the standard libs, much like C# or Java.

Seeing the presentation, I'm thinking more of using it with something like node-webkit[1] though. Didn't LightTable use clojure-script or something? But then, why don't just use one of JVM's GUI framework?

[1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

    Long before the Facebook age, 
    I noticed something very interesting about 
    the personalities of the most vocal people
    I would meet in chatrooms, instant messengers 
    and bulletin boards: They were mostly shy. 
    It took a while for me to realize that this should 
    have been expected. Shy people tend to prefer the 
    anonymity of the internet, where social cues from 
    body language, eye contact and tone of voice don't 
    apply—largely because they are invisible to all.

This hits right at home. When I'm active a lot on facebook / twitter, I am a typical shy guy with little social skills. Then I started going out a lot and meeting lots of people. Then boom. Less twitter and facebook.

This might applies to HN too, but sometimes I find it weird because some people on HN are successful, and I think you can't be successfull without good social skills. Maybe we grow to become good socially, but still attached to the community? I've never experienced that though.

wait, the article is not sarcasm? I thought the site is some kind of the Onion for programmers?

> Few jobs are now so arduous that 70 year olds cannot perform well.

I think it's mostly physical jobs that 70 year olds cannot perform well. And that kind of job can be automated by robots anyway. For job like programming or CEO, I kind of think that 70 year olds can do better than say 20 year olds.

This is interesting. I live in Indonesia, where except on our capital (Jakarta and most Java), working 60 hours a week is the norm. I have noticed (and I think this has been proved over and over again) that people who works 60 hours a week is actually less productive and less happy than those who have a free weekends and work only 8 hours a day.

I wonder how much working time can we cut until the benefits disappear.

> I actively develop for Android as well, and I can say that BlackBerry development has done so many things right. It is really a dream to develop apps for. As a user, it's fantastic too.

I haven't seen and tried BB's SDK, but could you elaboreate more? Didn't they still use Java ME (which sucks compared to Android's IMO)?

It's increased BY 11$, not FROM 11$. Certainly not 640%.

The Amazon link don't work internationally I think. I can't download because "It is only available on US".

The objectifiedfilm works fine though. Downloading right now...

I'm not so sure about that...

    C:\Users\bert>scala
    Welcome to Scala version 2.9.2 (Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, Java 1.7.0_06).
    Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
    Type :help for more information.

    scala> val x = Array(1, 2, 3)
    x: Array[Int] = Array(1, 2, 3)

    scala>

You can see that scala infers the type right (Array[Int]).

See his post on previous thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3736009

Hi.

I have the same problem with OP, where on my atom feed I have both <summary> and <content>, but I only get the summary with ebookglue.

I tried on other RSS reader, and it get the full content fine. Here's my feed for your reference:

https://www.ebookglue.com/share/bertzzie-com-atom-feed http://bertzzie.com/atom

Hope this helps.

It's interesting that there's more improvement from JDK 6 to 7 in Scala 2.9.2 than 2.10. Does that mean that the JVM's performance on all of these benchmark is not improved that much?

I mean, Scala's improvement from 2.9.2 to 2.10 is better than JVM 6 to 7's improvement. Is my assumption right?

I think it can. This is the python IDE I'm waiting for. Can't wait to find excuses to use this on real project :D

> I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. "Java folks" don't throw anything out, Sun introduced a better and better-supported mechanism for doing what javadocs were coerced into doing.

I mean the Java community didn't use it anymore, because the "annotation inside comment" thing is worse than "annotation supported natively by the language". Granted, it's the only practical way to do it in PHP for now, but it still didn't change the fact that it's bad, IMO.

I wonder why SensioLabs (the creator of Symfony and Doctrine) didn't make the PHP's annotation RFC into reality. They are a quite huge powerhouse in the PHP world...

I think yes. It's ok if it's not inside comments. Just like any other language (I know at least C# and Java do this for example).

I never know that, but still, the point stands: making a comment necessity for code to function properly is bad, bad, bad. That's why the Java folks throws it out right?

I think this is quite a good technical reason:

    Because code comments should never be necessary for a script to function properly. 

In which other language do you see comment is necessary to make the code function properly?

    I have a text editor I’ve been using myself that is so complicated it makes VIM look like Notepad — maybe I’ll release that.

This is interesting. Has Linus talk more about this editor he is using? Maybe if he releases it, the editor will be the new trend he's talking about :D

I think it might be better if you add REST API and let the editor's developers create a plugin based on that. It's an interesting project. Appriciate :D

I don't think it is. "Responsiveness" in this article's context is about how responsive the page is, as in how fast it renders and shown to the user.

"Responsive design", OTOH, is about a page that adapats to the user's screen resolution; eg: renders differently on 480x320 vs 1024x768, on the same code base. HTH.

I find this particular slide interesting:

  The academic system does not respect practitioners' knowledge (or timescales).
  I know whereof I speak.
  Practitioners don't understand that computer scientists don't care about building software.
  They are about the science of computing.

Sad but true. Most of CS class taught the theory and algorithm part (compiler, OS, data structure, algorithm, etc) but only a little give materials about programming and writing good code (I think it's called "Software Construction" in Code Complete?). I never understand this, because isn't the point of computer science (or software engineering - the course is not that different, at least in my place) is building software? Seems like many CS people love doing anything but programming.

I kind of hope that one day I'll learn an actual architecture design class for example, because most of my class (both on undergraduate and graduate school) teaches nothing about it. You are expected to write a compiler, but not graded by your code quality. As long as your code works, you pass. It's sad.

Maybe we should start teaching about programming and Software Construction early, so we can actually talks about architecture and good code on OS or compiler class.

Well I might be able to afford that. Thanks!

I can't find a way to message you. How do I do that? There's no email in your profile...

It's not available for me in Indonesia with this message:

This title is not available for customers from your location in: Asia & Pacific

What will it cost when it's released later?

It's sad that they target users, not developers though. Imagine how awesome the ecosystem would be if many developers use it.