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by dejv 10y ago
Lead developer, architect, senior developer, fellow... it depends on company. It could be also CTO in some cases.
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by dejv 10y ago
Good examples. Lets do another one, more text oriented. Say you want to classify if text is spam or not. Features could be each word. Then you can build additional features on top of those words, like: - is header all caps? - is text conta
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At the end, the most important step is good feature engineering. (including dimensionality reduction, regularisation and stuff like that)
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I do like programming as a hobby and a business and I am surely going to continue doing it in next decades. Doing programming as a job with viable long term career is another topic with quite a few landmines. I am glad I am not into this ra
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by dejv 10y ago
Well, that was mostly point for others to consider better planing of their career. Personally, I am not going to be developer for much longer (unless some catastrophe happens). Income from my winery, various projects, rental properties and
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by dejv 10y ago
It is very simple if you want to be employable person, just stick to trendiest and coolest stuff and switch when there is market demand for new tech. For past decade thats like Java/PHP -> Rails -> Objective C -> Node.js (or w
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by dejv 10y ago
Who knows, my main income streams are developing Delphi 5 applications (dead market), iPhone apps (market is changing and I see much less new gigs for solo developers) and Rails apps. Low hanging fruits seems to be picked and each new app n
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by dejv 10y ago
If you want long career in programming you should really do serious career planing during your 20s to make sure you check all important boxes: correct technologies, mix of different kind of companies, team sizes and roles. Otherwise you mig
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by dejv 10y ago
I hope he will publish third book about development of The Last Express.
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There is also Making of Prince of Persia book, which is great read as well.
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by dejv 10y ago
I am in wine business (owner-winemaker of small winery) and it hold true, so I guess it applies to bars as well
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There is distinction between consulting company, new business and startups.
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He did quite a lot of stuff: fish for (and resell) golf balls, did paper route, have pinball business and he also shoplift at Sears.
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Yeah, badly done translations are a big turnoff. In Czech version they call their "Premium" plan button as "Insurance". This is good point for monetising side projects: if you are going to create international version, s
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After the correction comes the Conclusion(techcrunch.com)
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I built lab grade NIR spectrometer around Arduino. At least first two prototypes of it, then graduated to Teensy (32bits compatible board) and will use custom board for production. The thing is: most of electronic projects needs some way to
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Same here, but I had to replace battery last year.
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Yes, and farming on small scale is actually more expensive then buying produce at shop. (When you include all the investment required for hobby scale gardening initiative). Speaking as a farmer and hobby gardener.
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I am using BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com/ ). The name is awful and it is also paid, but it is very fast, stable and very similar to Google Reader. Bonus point: it is written in Haskell
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by dejv 10y ago
I am doing maintenance for some software in roofing industry. The software was written 25 years ago and it sux in so many ways. My first reaction was that it would be very very easy to make much better version of this software and take the
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by dejv 10y ago
10 years ago our studio (indie in pre-indie times) tried to purchase the NDS dev kit and it costs something like 50k USD (if I still remember it correctly) and tons of due diligence for a chance to play with it as having game actually publi
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by dejv 10y ago
There is also video of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
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by dejv 10y ago
Most of the software on market is basically data collecting apps (be it manual or automatic data entry). What you get out of those apps is just another piece of (already abundant) information. You might get good insights out of it, but most
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by dejv 10y ago
I run small web app for farmers ( http://vitipad.com english website is not really up to date as I am active mostly on Czech market at the moment. I am not selling the data, the app is used for storing their data and generating t
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by dejv 10y ago
The progress on Lazarus is awesome, I am keeping eye on the project for past 5 or so years and it is getting so much better so fast. I can't easily migrate my biggest project (25 years in making 300k+ LOC), but I am going to use Lazaru
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by dejv 10y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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Thats right, but there is also big game industry around the town and quite some high tech stuff (I used to work for company making embedded databases in aerospace/defence market) and hardware companies.
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I don't think it is about the price, maybe it is about the contractor market I was in, who knows. I don't really mind, there are tons of opportunities around. There are tons of companies willing to hire people remote all around EU
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by dejv 10y ago
It always amaze me, how companies at London resist remote work. I did returned back to Czech republic (want to be closer to family as I am having kids now) and jobs, once plenty, dried out very quickly, even when I am willing to commute to
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Also Brighton is quite nice. Good amount of tech jobs, awesome music/culture scene and it is quite close to London, making it possible to commute daily.

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