Scandiravian

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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   When I studied pharmaceutical sciences ten years ago, the rule-of-thumb was that it cost around 1 billion dollars from idea to the product being launched. That's only r&d costs and regulations have become stricter over the years, s
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   I would extend the term "communication" to also include how we speak and listen to ourselves I don't think I am able to explain it clearly without writing a very long post. There's a really good book by Marshal Rosenberg
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   The examples I gave obviously requires being part of a team, but even programming on your own, I think it's one of the most important skills. I'd be happy to elaborate on that argument if you have any examples of one or more situa
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   I think we're saying the same thing in two different ways, so I agree with your point. What I'm reading is a good "why" - why wasn't there time to prevent this bug. Better is a subjective word, so I think I could ha
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   I agree with the difference between programming and software development, though I'm not entirely sure on why you're pointing this difference out. Do you think my answer is not answering the OP's question? :)
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   - Communication skills Being able to clearly explain why your solution will solve a given problem better than the alternative and listen to your colleagues when their suggestion is better than yours, will save you an incredible amount of fr
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   Thank you and well played ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406193 ) For future people getting here - the site went down. Most likely from the massive attention from this post.
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   I actually found the LangExt package a few months ago, when I started a new job and had to use C# as the default language (I've primarily been using Python, Typescript, and Rust in my previous jobs) I spent some time explaining the adv
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   by Scandiravian 6y ago

   That is something I've struggled with as well. Do you have any suggestions for resources, that could help overcome that challenge?
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    by Scandiravian 6y ago

    Throwing an error is implicitly making a decision, that there's no way to recover to a working state for the program A lot of times that's a perfectly fine decision, but six months down the road when the code has grown a lot, you