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by faoileag 4y ago
Working as a test automation engineer in '91/92 (although as an intern), I wrote a program that controlled a test rig for seat belts. The machine was basically a home computer running a repl with BASIC, beefed up with a handful of
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by faoileag 4y ago
It's always interesting to read such articles. 7,500 Employees? Bah, too much! 100 Engineers will do!! I raise you to 50 employees, the number WhatsApp had when they reached 1 billion users. So where's the mistake the author makes
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by faoileag 5y ago
Three things might come into play here: 1. AFAIK Google ranks pages (amongst other metrics) by how "fresh" they are. A date given on a web page might count as a measure of "freshness" so it would be good SEO practice to
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by faoileag 5y ago
Like others said before: CL is just a programming language that can be used for functional programming, but doesn't enforce this. So you have to be disciplined. I stick to the following rules: * have a (main) function * prefix io funct
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by faoileag 5y ago
I'm currently in the process of doing exactly that. Although formally, by applying internally for the same job but in another team.
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by faoileag 5y ago
Am I missing something? Or is this article really advocating to not count the worst thing that can happen to an utility (electricity provider, traffic lights, streaming service, online shop...)? Namely the unavailability of the service it o
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by faoileag 5y ago
I finished one other project - playing "MasterMind" against the computer (you know, where you have to guess five colour pins) with output done on the internal little printer. After that I had started one one other project (an 8085
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by faoileag 5y ago
Funny enough, I think those things were never meant to be a "personal" computer. You could get quite a sophisticated external bus system for these ("field bus" I think) and that made them ideal for lab environments.
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by faoileag 5y ago
I once (1992?) calculated mandelbrot sets on one of these. 400x400, output to an external thermo printer as the one-line display had, well, only one line. With a calculation depth of 256 it took about 48 hours to produce one set.
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by faoileag 5y ago
I've done one in Common Lisp, but compared against ~100 lines / bytes,it is obviously bloatware: http://www.faoileag.de/fn/software.html
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by faoileag 5y ago
This is possible, at least from hearsay. 1. A decade or two ago a story made the news that some guy was working from some remote place in Scotland, basically in the middle of nowhere, with just a modem and some novel idea: do freelance re
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by faoileag 6y ago
If you are starting with C++ right now, I'd suggest Scott Meyer's More Effective C++ (and his other books) and the books by Herb Sutter. Don't worry too much about C++ 17/20 unless you are working for a company that us
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by faoileag 6y ago
Just a few things you should consider: - C++ is highly complex. The poster lower down claiming you already know 90% if you know C#/ObjC is simply wrong. The learning curve is steep. - Your stated experience sounds a bit like "App