devdude1337

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by devdude1337 3y ago
Christmas 1992 - my parents gifted me the Nintendo Gameboy. One hour after playing Tetris I told my dad: that’s what I want to do when I’m grown up. And now I’m a grown up L block. Mostly useful but often leaving gaps
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Many people seem to think that developers need a lot of guidance, yet I’ve never seen someone proving that point. What would happen if the team was unmanaged? Let them do what they think is right to fulfill the businesses tasks. I doubt the
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Companies do not have missions. They are mandated to earn money - a simple and clear goal. Everything else companies proclaim is what I like to call: social substitution currency. These are used to motivate employees to put more effort in t
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Scrum is advertised massively. There is certifications and consultancies all around the globe making money out of it. Marketing works, especially on people with a CXX title… Kanban is simple. So simple that no one could justify taking large
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by devdude1337 3y ago
It’s not harder, it’s more tedious. We’re currently developing a somewhat sophisticated AI/Image Analysis system with OpenCV. While the backend is pretty straightforward it’s still not easy - reading papers about different AI models an
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Put the "more" link to the right corner, so it’s easier to reach one handed from a smart phone. That’s the one and only thing I’d change
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Back in 2013 we built a software with xulrunner and extensive usage of XSL/T. It allowed us to create an absurdly complex UI with precise rendering. No CSS. Despite the lack of animations -that we have in CSS - it was superior for cust
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by devdude1337 3y ago
There is a significant misconception in that post: "If you change the implementation of your project, some of your unit tests will break, without anything being wrong with your project" That is a big but common mistake! You don’t
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by devdude1337 3y ago
My first experience with postgres was around 2009. Picked it out of curiosity and it ended up at the clients server doing it’s job and never bothered anyone. I thought it was very cool doing fancy joins and reliable procedures but then came
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
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by devdude1337 3y ago
AI is currently massively over-hyped in both directions. Either people fear to be replaced completely by AI or to become super humans by merging with them. ChatGPT is a nice tool, and I use it for my work nearly every day. However, it’s a t
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by devdude1337 3y ago
As a senior developer I trained juniors all the time during different projects successfully. I don’t think bootcamps and workshops help much as the provided knowledge is not immediately used in real-world work. Instead I delegated parts of
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by devdude1337 3y ago
One aspect of the article, if I understood correctly, is that with abstraction comes uncertainty about the compilation result. If you need to be 100% sure about what the compiler will produce you shouldn’t go with a higher level language li
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Every database I’ve seen so far grows into a state that makes relations necessary. Earlier or later those become more and more atomic and then systems like MongoDB will make you suffer. Redis is awesome for caching and cache-like situation
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Marketing. There are plenty of alternatives for ERP and project management but non of them are so aggressively marketed. In germany most big business run SAP. Why? Is SAP technically better than anything else? No, but their sales people pl
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by devdude1337 3y ago
While there are lots of fear-driven opponents here in germany, we also know our math - and you can be sure if there was a huge ecological and economical benefit from nuclear power we would build reactors like crazy. But it turns out that i
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Your question seems a bit too generalized imho. It’s a bit like asking for resources about building a fast vehicle, without specifying what kind of…a fast car is certainly much differently built than a fast ship or plane. I assume you want
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Full-Stack doesn’t indicate competence. A good developer will write good software. When the task is building a nice GUI, he will. When it’s building a performant datalayer he will also. Refusing to work on stuff outside ones comfort zone ma
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by devdude1337 4y ago
The choice of language is never irrelevant. Especially if you are launching a start up. You are about to build the foundation of your future development architecture. For example C++ is a great choice for heavy data processing and number cr
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Most C++-projects I dealt with are neither clean nor performant. I rather follow clean code to improve maintainability and get things done than to optimize for performance. It’s also easier to find bottlenecks in a well readable and testab
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by devdude1337 4y ago
The same as in times of a booming economy: Sharpen your tools, learn new and old stuff, revisit the basics. Work on your social skills and networking. Maintain or improve your physical and mental health. Recessions are turbulent, sometimes
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Just an idea: how about a programming language framework that defines a basic formal grammar where the keywords can be customized? I could imagine it might help people getting into programming all over the world.
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by devdude1337 4y ago
There is no project where you find perfect architecture combined with clean and fully tested code that reads like a poem. You must master the chaos. Entropy is inevitable and yesterday’s genius design is tomorrows legacy junk haunting devel
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Can you remind me on that conspiracy theory? Is it something like: we the middle class process that tasteless goo into something you - the poor - can eat, so we can get some money from the upperclass who still eat their wagyo beef?
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by devdude1337 4y ago
There are no tools that improve your skills. To become a better developer you have to apply new ideas and concepts on real projects. Try new programming languages (I assume you use .Net so why not write some tests for your current project u
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by devdude1337 4y ago
A large amount of modern is software is bloated. Most websites are filled with dozens of tracking an marketing (anti-) features, Drm in games, ORMs and query-languages that require another parsing and resolving layer in backends, let alone
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Let me just give a few opinions. First, social media is bad for mental health in general. From a business view it’s a marketing tool - use it as such and don’t follow anyone - why waste time reading stuff there anyway? As a founder you must
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Why estimating work in development always fails? Because I can only estimate things I have done before within a context that I know. The nature of software is the unknown, therefore any estimation will be unreliable. Using story points is t
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Microservices are a solution for scalability problems. They can have benefits in terms of maintainability by separation of concerns - but the decision in favor or against should be based on technical decisions, not on how advanced or big yo
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by devdude1337 4y ago
Modern C++ is just fine. It is a more flexible language than Java and the rising demand of embedded software for advanced microcontrollers allows complex C++ instead of no-malloc-for-safety-reasons - style C. So I find the current trend not

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