CyberFonic

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by CyberFonic 7y ago
There is a massive amount of material out there. The keywords that you might want to search on are: MBSE: Model Based Software Engineering; MDD: Model Driven Development; MDE: Model Driven Engineering; generative programming. UML is also on
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I like "Javascript for Impatient Programmers": https://2ality.com/index.html If you mean ES6 as "modern" JS, then you might want to avoid any material on prototypical nature of "true" JS (which
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
If you read any articles about VCs you'll note that most startups fail and even when they don't the multiple investment rounds dilute any stock you might have been granted. They don't call the rare exceptions "unicorns&q
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
Personally I don't know. But you have to remember that most of the researchers at those bodies do have PhDs. Why don't you read up some of their papers and decide for yourself. I think you should read @impendia's comment abov
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out SciHub. I never needed to use it because I had good access via my academic institute's eLibrary. Out of curiosity I looked up some key papers in my area of MBSE and was able to find them on SciHub. In my mind
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
In theory it should be possible, in practice it is rare. At most top conferences industry track papers are somewhat more likely to be accepted from non-academic contributors. The following is based on my decades of industry experience as w
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I think your concerns are very valid. However, I also believe that the target market for your product makes a lot of difference. The two extremes are: Your target market is non-technical, then demonstrating your MVP to potential customers s
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
With the exception of drivers for some devices on cheap notebooks, I have found Ubuntu to work perfectly well. Unlike Windows and Mac OS (I have used both extensively in the past) I remain in total control of my Linux systems. I update when
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I did abandon Mac OS several years ago. Still use a 2009 MBP on very rare occasions. Have been using Ubuntu LTS desktop most happily ever since.
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Elon's superlative talent is as a salesperson and as an inspiring leader. Very few engineers would come even close. Elon has probably never done much hands on engineering work himself. Instead he has hundreds of very talented engineer
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It also carries over to OS implementations. For example, many OS designed for the 386 failed to implement demand paging for which the CPU had some great support. I believe Windows continued using segmented addressing due to the backward co
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
Most 64 bit processors only use 48 or 52 bits for physical memory addressing. So you might have a 64 bit virtual address, but that gets crunched down to your real physical memory which might only need e.g. 36 bits for 64GB RAM. You rarely a
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
All those extras are how they make a profit. After doing my research I often end up buying "bargains" at those types of stores. The hassle is the inconvenience I endure in order to get the loss leaders. Of course, I don't ta
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It probably isn't the salesperson's fault. Many managers harangue their staff into selling all those "add-ons" as that is where the profit is. Most managers get a bonus for reaching profit targets.
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
With a data-driven system, you basically end up with the data as a sort of intermediate code which is then interpreted by the "environment". The interpreter still needs to support the domain objects that implement the required beh
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I have had many managers and no two conducted 1:1 meetings the same. In my experience it depends greatly on what sort of rapport you have with this manager. Can you read his personality? If you barely know the person and think he might be
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I dislike the idea of backing up my data on other people's computers and disk drives. And paying for all that internet bandwidth is another negative. So I have several USB3 external hard drives which I backup to in rotation, more or le
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
It is dangerous trying to be an expert at everything. Even super-heroes need to team up to defeat the worst adversaries. So pick one skill to learn at a time and get really good at it. As for the salary comparisons. Look at people at your l
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I agree networking events generally consume a great deal of time. Perhaps you could try to be a more strategic. That is, at least get an idea of what your idea client / collaborator would be like. For example, if you are interested in
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I cut my teeth on the "Dragon Book", but as you say once you get past the syntax analysis material it becomes increasingly opaque. Most books are written to be used as part of some CS curriculum. Only a tiny number of SEs go on t
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
It's an excellent book. But it presupposes that the reader enjoys the processes of learning, discovery, experimenting and lots of failure. The process of becoming an accomplished generalist involves a lot of "struggle". Ther
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
You don't provide any context as to what form your struggle takes with each new project. So it is hard to give general advice. However ... In doing the many random things, have you noticed any that you enjoy far more than others? If s
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
My guess would be that the people you are trying to reach are not reading reddit nor Hacker News. In my experience, typical business folks are too busy running their business to look beyond their everyday problems. I have lost count the n
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
Exciting application of "cognification" to enhance the speed at which you can program in Python. Other languages coming soon, just sign up to be notified.
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Faster Python Coding with Kite(kite.com)
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
From the headline I thought you were referring to Google Cloud servers and services. Whether you like it or not, Google search, AdWords, etc do capture a huge segment of the potential marketplace. Focusing on quality and relevance instead o
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
The "Unix Philosophy" section is solid gold. With those principles in mind many other aspects suddenly make sense. Might be a good idea to keep that page bookmarked and return back to it, often.
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I'm sure you'll get lots of conflicting advice. There really is no high road that's better than the others. Although I've been using variations of Unix since Version 5 running on a PDP-11/45, I use an Ubuntu deskto
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I presume you will be sharing the results of the survey with HN readers.
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by CyberFonic 7y ago
I too bombed in second year of my degree. Looking back I can see that it is the "dip" (there's a book by Seth Godin on this topic) in your academic progression. Your references to not knowing enough come across as the impos

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