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by beryilma 3y ago
> Is this worth it? I like playing with gadgets - so yes. It is only worth it because it lets you play with gadgets. Otherwise, one can only have so much attention span. I would go nuts if my home appliances started sending me push notif
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by beryilma 3y ago
Programming a 128x128 OLED screen using a microcontroller over an I2C communication. Low-level programming of any mildly-complicated hardware device using microcontrollers is a PITA.
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by beryilma 3y ago
A sure sign of an inexperienced programmer in numerical computing is when they check for equality to zero of a floating-point number as if (x == 0) ... instead of something like if (abs(x) < eps) ... where eps is a suitably defined small
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by beryilma 3y ago
> On both plots, the horizontal axis represents time. In the bottom image, the vertical axis represents frequency and pixel color represents intensity. The author criticizes the Wikipedia article on the subject being too complex, and yet
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by beryilma 3y ago
Oh, please. The ramblings of a philosopher does not make it so. These people who have no understanding of physics hear the phrases like "dark energy", "fine tuning", and "non-locality", then make up mystic, ant
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by beryilma 3y ago
I don't know much about CUDA and NVIDIA, but it has always surprised me how hardware companies are so bad at producing good software tooling for their hardware. Many microcontroller companies have terrible software support: no free C&#
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by beryilma 3y ago
There are three. The third one being "one not knowing what one wants".
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by beryilma 3y ago
That would be Amazon in its earlier days.
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by beryilma 3y ago
> It's in the nature of their moat On a tangent, what is the deal with the word moat and why is everybody using it all of a sudden? What does it mean?
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by beryilma 3y ago
Motorcycles and bicycles turn with the same principle: countersteering. When I started riding motorcycles, I bought a well-known motorcycling book. It had a whole chapter on countersteering because there are even today many seasoned motorcy
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by beryilma 3y ago
> But how could anyone at Glassdoor think that this policy change would not drive users away? Money. Because somebody there thought this will make them more money.
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by beryilma 3y ago
Although I did enjoy my PhD, I wouldn't recommend it if you have marketable, in-demand industry skills. Especially for international students, a PhD, and especially a postdoc, is akin to indentured servitude. You can't leave, you
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by beryilma 3y ago
> create a quarterly summary and survey of engineers. Be very careful about creating performance, compliance, or progress metrics that can be followed in its wording but not in its spirit. For example, if the developers do not like writi
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by beryilma 3y ago
> The fact that AI can do something doesn't diminish its value when it comes from the hands of a human. Sure. Morally it doesn't. Financially, it certainly does. This is essentially in the definition of automation. Turning soft
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by beryilma 3y ago
You are assuming too much about what I think of myself. I am a software engineer and have been so for a long time. And I've written my fair share of UIs and apps. If all the things we do are so varied and creative, then we shouldn need
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by beryilma 3y ago
Software Engineering as a professional discipline without any specialization (and writing CRUD applications or websites don't count in my opinion) never made sense to me. Software engineers producing web applications are modern day equ
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by beryilma 3y ago
Good point. I've seen something similar to it, but it was a failure of the management, not developers. The management says "we painted ourselves into a corner and now we need to replace this legacy system with a modern implementat
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by beryilma 3y ago
I used to be a fan of him until he went crazy with the lucid dreaming BS. Cal Newport is my new guru now. Let's see how long he will last. I find that once giving advice on any matter becomes one's job, the quality of advice goes
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by beryilma 3y ago
If we need to go the AI route, isn't the timestamp of someone's last TicToc/X/Instagram post a better indicator of time of death?
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by beryilma 3y ago
No. The full article does not make sense. As an example, I have never seen, in my 23 years of professional software development experience, overconfidence be a reason for a project's failure.
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by beryilma 3y ago
> If you ask a developer if they’ve ever written bad code, they will most likely say no. I’m guilty of this as well. I don’t remember ever writing bad code; ... What an utterly nonsensical article. Not a single developer ever said that.
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by beryilma 3y ago
I picked those projects because they were high-profile. But I'll give you another example that I am intimately involved with. Take the software/web accessibility remediation mess where universities and companies are being sued lef
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by beryilma 3y ago
Inability to say no and push back. I am guilty of it myself. Most experienced software developers know in their gut a lower bound for a project's timeline, which always exceeds the timeline in managers' or PM's mind. When the
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by beryilma 3y ago
Estimating in the "second type of environment" is also bogus. The existence of some legal or regulatory liability doesn't really make estimations in that environment that much better. The shining example of this is Big Dig in
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by beryilma 3y ago
I have been programming for over 35 years, 23 years of it professionally, since I was about 15 years old. I've started with ZX-81, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, IBM PC, ... I don't like programming and "software development"
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by beryilma 3y ago
I think this is an often incompatible ideal. I think it should rather say "Create more than you consume" or "Do not consume without creating something in return" using any useful definition of creativity. The amount of c
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by beryilma 3y ago
Contractor horror stories are actually very common. They may not actually say to you "I don't know", but big delays in contractor jobs happen all the time. I would argue that software engineers are at least trying to be more
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by beryilma 3y ago
> Just the act of writing out a proposal... Strongly agree. But this is not the same thing as a tech review. > Design review is just highlighting organisation failures elsewhere. I don't think it is an organizational failure nece
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by beryilma 3y ago
Design by committee (aka, technical design reviews or whatever the hell "crits" means) is one of the most wasteful practices in software development except, probably, for very junior developers. I always see many technical manager
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by beryilma 3y ago
> Writing about the best essay implies there is such a thing, which pseudo-intellectuals will dismiss as reductive, though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another. Preemptive dismissal of any cr

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