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by beryilma 2y ago
There are also other ways of ruining engineering organizations that I observed, especially if they are growing: increased bureaucracy and documents for everything; design by committee of engineering/software products; mid-level manager
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by beryilma 2y ago
As much as I like Dijkstra and this particular article of his (it is an assigned reading in my "Software Engineering" class), developing any large scale software that we have today starting from formal methods is just a fantasy.
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by beryilma 2y ago
> The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide), published by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), represents the current state of generally accepted, consensus-based knowledge emanating from the interplay betwee
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by beryilma 2y ago
I had a similar meeting with documentation folks about "dataset" vs. "data set". With Google trend charts and all... I also wish I was kidding.
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by beryilma 2y ago
The fact that the term "evidence-based" science exists in medicine research is an indication of a big problem to start with. I understand the premise of the idea and that more scientists in the field are trying to make their resea
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Given that anyone that codes is at least probably lightly on the Autism spectrum What?!
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by beryilma 2y ago
> It’s not insulting... but a lot of software development honestly just needs painters. The entire Picasso vs house painter analogy is insulting. > Picasso goes to a cabin in the woods for two weeks to architect something that handles
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by beryilma 2y ago
> As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore. So, what are good examples of some things that we used to call AI, which we don't call AI anymore because they work? All the examples that come to my mind (recommendation engines, e
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by beryilma 2y ago
Notion and Obsidian will be dead in couple years. I see academics going crazy with Obsidian to organize and link their precious little ideas and research articles together. But, only to create an overwhelming mess that they will be afraid t
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by beryilma 2y ago
I have been doing this for more than 20 years and it has been working well for me. I have a Works folder and 26 subfolders under it, each subfolder therein starting with the same letter...
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by beryilma 2y ago
On a slight tangent, the type of transactions you can make through your banking app in a developing country like Turkey is insane compared to US. Without exaggeration, you can make instant money transfers across banks; buy stocks, gold, ins
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by beryilma 2y ago
Why is it that the developers would go into useless directions and solve non-problems? Perhaps they were not given good directions and a well-defined problem in the first place? It is this attitude toward developers that made stupid shit li
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by beryilma 2y ago
Being an actual process and being slow and bad are not opposites of each other. Literally, every recent software engineering book has a section on the "Waterfall Process". Nobody claims waterfall is good, but it is a software deve
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Sure, it is not to be blamed as per Agile manifesto but how many companies are adhering to the manifesto? Increasingly, I am also blaming the Agile Manifesto for causing the mess we are all in. Given current business tendencies, the au
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by beryilma 2y ago
By all "software engineering" books' definition, Waterfall is a software/development process. Good or bad...
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by beryilma 2y ago
Extreme Programming used to be a thing. Pair programming and all that... Not so much anymore.
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by beryilma 2y ago
> ... if we don’t feel stupid it means we’re not really trying. > Science involves confronting our 'absolute stupidity'. I understand where the author is coming from, but these are just useless statements. Stupidity and know
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by beryilma 2y ago
Next we will get subscription toothbrush features. Personally, I want my ultrasonic toothbrush to hum to the tune of Taylor Swift songs. More seriously, at this point, any idiot who downloads such invasive apps deserves its consequences.
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Why is it that so many of the PhDs and MDs out there are unable to tell when someone's lying to them about their very own areas of expertise? I'd wager that they can actually tell. They just choose to accept it, or, at least,
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by beryilma 2y ago
If Keith Jarrett can produce such a sublime music as his Köln Concert on a broken piano, perhaps the level of perfection mentioned in the article is just professional pedantry. After all, isn't an artist a better artist when they can u
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by beryilma 2y ago
In the past, I have used a Raspberry Pi 400 as my main home computer for more than two years without any problems. I am currently using a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a wireless security camera. It has been running continuously for over a year wi
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by beryilma 2y ago
KiCad is the good stuff. Having your design rendered in the 3D Viewer is a fun experience.
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by beryilma 2y ago
If you want to learn about the mechanics of designing PCBs, install KiCad ( https://www.kicad.org/ ) and go through these tutorials: https://docs.kicad.org/
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by beryilma 2y ago
> The hiring managers always claim to look for innovators, I thought that they were looking for "rock stars". Not the same thing...
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by beryilma 2y ago
3. No meeting agenda, no meeting. It is OK to have weekly recurring meetings. But if you don't have an agenda emailed a day or so before the meeting, cancel the meeting. 4. Unless you have a somewhat detailed requirements document base
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by beryilma 2y ago
There is absolutely zero chance that either of them will go to prison on this matter. Billionaires don't go to prison for stuff like this. If anything, it will be settled for a sum of money.
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by beryilma 2y ago
This is the modern day equivalent of "every signal is an image" after the initial success of deep learning algorithms in image classification tasks. It is just the academia chasing the hype train...
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by beryilma 2y ago
Obligatory link from a sceptic: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13807 > However, they wanted to develop a technique that avoids fine-tuning, a process in which engineers retrain a general-purpose LLM on a small amount of
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by beryilma 2y ago
I think about naming of things all the time: how they make some things easier and other things absolutely awful. My two recent hang-ups: Agile with capital A. If we applied the principles of Agile without naming the process would software e
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Mostly hiring devs fresh from university so there was a ton of group think due to a lack of new ideas This is a very interesting description of group think between less experienced developers. I've never thought of it this way, bu

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