Shinmon

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by Shinmon 4y ago
The difference between kids at a playground and a startup is that kids don't have to worry about anything in that moment. As a startup founder you usually have to worry about money (personal and in the company) which is technically the
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by Shinmon 4y ago
It's not just installing a chat server though. It's setting up the server in general, securing the chat server, make the chat server work with your companies choice of auth, updating the chat server, updating the underlying server
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by Shinmon 4y ago
You don't pay for chat. You pay for don't having to worry about hosting a chat. With your argumentation everyone could do everything themselves but that doesn't work because companies, startups even more so, need to focus on
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by Shinmon 4y ago
That's a really tough question. I will invest time in learning rust this year, but I have already been coding in C++ the last 6 years. The thing about C++ is that it is such a large and powerful language that it is extremely hard to de
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by Shinmon 4y ago
I think complexity is conserved. You can move complexity around in an application but in the end someone has to deal with it. E.g. the whole microservices vs monoliths debate. While a single microservice is usually relatively simple, you ha
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by Shinmon 4y ago
It's basically content marketing. I wouldn't go as far as writing a white paper unless you have a very specific insight that can drive people to you. Even then, a white paper is quite a bit of work and if you aren't doing it
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by Shinmon 4y ago
> But in a sense the language has deliberately chosen that way. Agreed, which is a pity but it is what it is. > But C++ isn't this language for me either. I personally would love to see Scala (v3) to become a better general purpo
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by Shinmon 4y ago
> What's wrong about old people? > > The problem are people that don't want to change anymore. But this trait is independent form age in my experience. Nothing is wrong with old people. That's not what I was trying t
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by Shinmon 4y ago
While I agree the young people who work on the languages and frameworks are increasingly working with other languages. The rust crowd is much younger than the people who are publicly working on popular C++ frameworks. In 10 years, there won
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by Shinmon 4y ago
It's got nothing to do with computer hacking but it's still all about finding new and creative ways to accelerate growth. 10 years ago that was probably content marketing on social media. Today, who knows and only time will tell,
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by Shinmon 4y ago
I think tools like co-pilot and co will help engineers to get a feeling for possible solutions. This isn't much different than copying from stackoverflow without using the browser. I think a lot of boilerplate code will be written by s
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by Shinmon 4y ago
I use obsidian for keeping track of my personal knowledge and learnings. It's markdown and you can customize a lot of the app itself. The great challenge is to find a structure that suits you. Knowledge management will become more and
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Microsoft does a pretty good job there. clang has been lacking behind ever since google reallocated resources somewhere else. What bothers me most about C++ is that it's mostly old people now. All the young people who are actively invo
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Sounds like it might be time to look for another job to be honest. Seems like you are stuck in your role and cannot really develop further.
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by Shinmon 4y ago
A mentor needs to be willing to be a mentor in the first place. A mentor should not be someone who gives you "homework" but more about challenging you, your thoughts, help you navigate your thought process and share experiences wi
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Most of the errors can already be caught by running `cargo check` which is substantially faster than rust. Coming from C++ rust's compile times don't feel extraordinarily long.
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Have you thought about getting deeper into system architecture/design? Distributed systems are a large beast, pretty technical and highly correlated with many business aspects. You could leverage your web dev experience but still trans
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by Shinmon 4y ago
It's just a hype topic at the moment. Everyone wants to do AI with crazy deep learning models. I am sure, this will subside eventually.
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Obsidian Canvas is definitely local-first. You don't need a cloud solution for obsidian. Obsidian is based on markdown files which are largely readable with a simple text editor. The obsidian canvas format is open source but I think th
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by Shinmon 4y ago
> I did use various deep learning methods as a black box for particular tasks they seemed good at. However, I never really liked doing it and at this point I'm starting to feel like a dinosaur not being able or willing to adapt to t
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Boring spaces can be really profitable. Besides that, I agree with you. Many companies already use excel because they are deep into the Microsoft stack. A lot of companies won't pay for another solution to do spreadsheeting. I didn&#x2
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by Shinmon 4y ago
I agree actually...kind of. And there are good books about software architecture and so on. Unfortunately, for each good one there are at least 50 that are really really bad. There are a lot of technology-related books as well, that teach y
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I feel you. I think this is due to the fact that the overall concepts are usually quite easy to understand and therefore easy to talk about. As soon as you have to dig deeper you need to invest significantly more time to talk about it and y
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It's never too late to go to university. There are certainly people that start later than 32. Anyway, I you goal is to program for your job you might want to look into business intelligence, data analytics for business, etc. It's
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Bit of both I think. VC is becoming harder to get, especially at the same valuation as before. What you never want as a founder, that the valuation drops. Therefore, these companies try to make the current batch of money last longer. Second
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Ah the classic "we built something for someone but we never talked to them". I have seen so many startups trying to improve blue-collar work. Most of them have an academic background and no idea how blue-collar people work and thi
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Mh tough but really good question. I think we need to start taxing work done by robots. For every dollar you earn the state takes an income tax. This is not really true for robots, because it's hard to tell how much they "earn&quo
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by Shinmon 4y ago
Thanks for answering. Not much of an expert in Kubernetes and co, but never looks really easy either. A shift to private SaaS essentially means it becomes much harder to get an MVP running. You don't want to setup kubernetes for an MVP
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This is already pretty common in some regulated fields. Hospitals cannot run regular SaaS software for many things and therefore they self-host it with support from the vendor. I think this will become more and more relevant in other fields
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Maybe, maybe not. here is a video of a more or less AI created minecraft hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKfAV4Ap6o

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