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by dejv 7y ago
It happen to me once. Company I worked for was acquired by competitor, our product was not offered to new customer anymore and it was decided to shut down majority of development team. I was quite unfortunate as I had to switch from contrac
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by dejv 7y ago
My favorite from the list is Traction. It is quite short and it clearly fit the type of person that I am: Developer who like to sit down and create some products, but haven't really thought about channels and distribution systematicall
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by dejv 7y ago
As another Czech person and former PM of another security product I guess there are two main factors in play: 1. Tech factor: amount of HW and SW what could be exported into Eastern bloc was very limited so people who worked with computers
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by dejv 7y ago
Of course that is work, but not job and definitely not a career. What do you think you are going to do when you get basic income? In my case when somebody asked me and I haven't have had much going on I did it, but I haven't chase
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by dejv 7y ago
I am with you, I don't know why people are so scared about not going to work. Due to some lucky events I was able to maintain some fairly large custom ERP system. After few inital years all the big problems were fixed and I was keeping
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by dejv 7y ago
I do, but they still use enterprise grade servers that each cost almost as much as my house.
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by dejv 7y ago
Even having access to the source code might not be enough: I’ve seen cases of weirdly forked repos with custom additions and half baked backports that relied on hacked system libraries and weird mix of specific legacy packages in some symbi
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by dejv 7y ago
Oh yeah storage is huge part of what determine final price: for investment grade wines you need to proof that you store it in proper place with reputable vendor. those places are not cheap and will eat into your margin.
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by dejv 7y ago
Big problem with wine collections is transfering stock into money. Selling big stashes is not going to be easy and cheap.
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by dejv 7y ago
And at the end they would offer you 20 or maybe just maybe 30 USD/hour maximum. And with hour they do mean billable hour.
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by dejv 7y ago
I love that book as well as Making of Karateka (his previous game), I read both books for 5 times and each time when I started to have doubts about my decision to be indie developer (not doing games anymore) and when I started to think abou
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by dejv 7y ago
Tube amps are also much more dangerous than 9V battery operated headphone amps. For people that are just starting out those cmoy style projects are awesome. btw there is also 1W guitar amp in style of cmoy.
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by dejv 7y ago
Terry Pratchett wrote a book about newspappers that is even more relevant in current age of social media. It is called The Truth.
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by dejv 7y ago
I had quite a lot of failures, but one of the most interesting was/is my software for managing wineries. Go niche they said and I did. I also picked real pain point: doing compliance tracking in EU is ridiculous process and it is often
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by dejv 7y ago
You might want to try cutting clove in half and remove that green/off colored part in the middle. It does help with stomach hurts.
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by dejv 7y ago
Not just regional, but also tribal. I was firmly in C64 camp and we always make fun of ZX owners or Sharpists and vice versa. It is silly looking back two dacedas, but hey we were all “kids” back then. It is interesting how biggest flamewar
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by dejv 7y ago
Few years ago I've bought few plots of vineyards and started to make my own wine. I was lucky that many members of my familly is making wine for many years already (like few 100s of years) so I was able to borrow some equipment and get
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by dejv 8y ago
Another niche is control software for industrial/laboratory instruments. I know about FTIR spectroscopes, huge weaving machines or system that call you by number when you are at office, bank or post office.
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by dejv 8y ago
My favourite method for distributing software was hapening during 80s on Czechoslovak television, there was some tech/computer show and at the end, during credits they play sound that when you record it (and was lucky) you’ve got some
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by dejv 8y ago
Checkout this Minecraft clone: https://github.com/fogleman/Craft It is not tutorial, but the code is very clean and readable and it use modern techniques (compared to Wold3D/Doom style raycasters). The codebase co
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by dejv 8y ago
I bet there is some technical reason behind allowing just few architectures and I hope they will fix it in future releases. Currently you can't even run ResNet type of networks on it.
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by dejv 8y ago
I did work on optical sorting machine: you have stream of fruits on very fast conveyor belt and then machine vision system scans the passing fruits, detects each object and reject (by firing stream of air) those that don't pass: those
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by dejv 8y ago
As a person with access to their documentation I can confirm that this is currently the only way to compile model for this TPU. Also list of supported network architectures is very very short. Well this is just begining I am sure they are g
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by dejv 8y ago
It is not just US, also in Europe it seems like the hitchhiking is dead. 15 years ago when I was criss crossing Europe many times hitchhiking, sleeping in hostels but usually just in the ditch next to the road or field nearby. I used to mee
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by dejv 8y ago
Yes, we do have nice park just outside our house and there is also forest with a lot of hiking trails in walking distance. I try to bring my kids out every day, our 2 years old can easily walk 10 km now. Also trip to grocery store is like 3
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by dejv 8y ago
Freelance developer, based in Europe. In my 30s, two kids and working from home. I do work 4 days a week (+ 1 or 2 days a week working on my farm). Working from 8:30 till 4pm and having 1.5 hours break to cook for my familly and we eat toge
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by dejv 8y ago
My grandmother was survivor and died few months ago as 95 years old. To be honest I havent seen any radical independence traits or much impact caused by that period, she was around 20 when in camp which might help as body and mind might hea
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by dejv 8y ago
I always had hobies: I used to be into live music A LOT: I went out to gigs like 5 or 6 times a week, then there was always some friends around, wine tastings, mountain hiking or random trips on weekends. I have small kids now, so I dont go
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by dejv 8y ago
Since our first kid was born, so for them it is just natural way of life.
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by dejv 8y ago
I do work from home and am father of two small kids (3 and 1 years), both kids and my wife are stayign at home. From the begining we set strict rules: my office is off place: nobody except of me can go inside, kids are taught that when I am

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