googamooga

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by googamooga 7mo ago
If you are a painter, you don't need to know chemical formulas for the pigments you're using to have a direct touch to your creation. For me, that material conciousness in computers was always in grasping the way system works holi
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by googamooga 7mo ago
Fair. But I'd change a title a bit to Product Engineer or System Designer. Still a lot of engineering judgement is/will be required to deliver production-ready systems.
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by googamooga 7mo ago
When you let compiler generate code for you, you're not a real programmer... That's what opcode coders was ranting in early 60s about FORTRAN programmers. Product managers can't produce viable programs ready to be deployed in
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by googamooga 7mo ago
Yes, fully agree with you. Although, I read some stories that in early 60s a lot of people who used to program in opcodes (because there were no higher-level languages, even assemblers were quite new and "untested") were also stru
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by googamooga 7mo ago
I started my coding apprenticeship back in early 80s with a senior programmer who taught me to code in LSI-11 processor codes. I memorized the whole table of octal processor opcodes and learned how to compose them with data to write program
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by googamooga 11mo ago
I'm currently a technical architect (individual contributor role, IC) at a large multinational financial firm in Switzerland. Previously CTO/CIO/Founder/CEO in multiple companies in multiple industries (enterprises and s
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by googamooga 1y ago
I fully support this approach! When I first started experimenting—rather naively—with using tool-enabled LLMs to generate documents (such as reports or ADRs) from the extensive knowledge base in Confluence, I built a few tools to help the L
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by googamooga 2y ago
There is a lot said about exploitation in the book and in the comments here on HN. I would like to start a kindergarten (a day care for toddlers and pre-school kids) in Switzerland, where such service is very scarce and expensive because th
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AI and New Theocracies (2024)(medium.com)
1 points by googamooga 2y ago|0 comments
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GCHQ: Boiling Frogs (2014)(github.com)
1 points by googamooga 2y ago|0 comments
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A spoiler for the future – Bitcoin (2013)(blog.gardeviance.org)
2 points by googamooga 2y ago|1 comments
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by googamooga 2y ago
Not only the codebase, but also the domain, the stakeholders, the history of requirements, etc etc etc.
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by googamooga 3y ago
Thank you so much for recommending both authors! I'm a huge fan of Egan and would really appreciate to explore the Australian sci-fi scene more.
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by googamooga 3y ago
R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth. Your ideas, languages and designs were the inspiration for several generations of computer scientists and engineers. Your Lilith computer and Modula-2 language kindled a small group of students in Western Siberia’s Aka
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by googamooga 3y ago
Yeah, and to prove your English residence you have to provide a paper bill from a utility company (water or electricity) with your name and address on it. Which adds another 3 month as those utility bills are on a quarterly basis. Crazy stu
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by googamooga 4y ago
The OA was excellent series and it's a shame that they cancelled it after the second season. Indeed, Netflix could really benefit from releasing smarter shows.
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by googamooga 5y ago
I have working PDP-11/23 in my possession and last couple of months I’m trying to convince myself that I have enough soldering skills to solder four additional memory lanes on its backplane to increase memory limit from 256KB to 4096KB
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by googamooga 5y ago
Ternary logic based computer Setun with 9-bit "bytes" was developed in late fifties in the USSR. Not much info on about it in English, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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by googamooga 5y ago
I‘ve been working for Lucent Technologies in Moscow, Russia from 2000 to 2004. I remember my feelings when I looked up Dennis Ritchie in PeopleSoft, corporate directory - hey, I work in the same company with a man who invented Unix and C! L
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by googamooga 5y ago
1) ES 1022 which was a clone of IBM/360 and SM-4, a clone of PDP-11 2) Maximus BBS was the most popular software to run a BBS in USSR in late 80s, in addition to FifoNet utilities for sending/receiving/reading messages. In 80
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by googamooga 5y ago
Most probably the OP visited the left bank of River Ishim side of Nur-Sultan which is indeed quite dull and built for cars. OTOH the right bank, the historical city, is much better IMHO, especially the central part. I was born there in 1970
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by googamooga 5y ago
OP is here. I was a son of very ordinary parents, they both were doctors, second most underpaid profession after teachers in the USSR. In my post I just wanted to make a point that even in USSR if you wanted something and worked really hard
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by googamooga 5y ago
Well, in 1990 I created a first FIDOnet node in USSR and became first regional coordinator of FIDOnet there. Next I graduated from Novosibirsk State University and opened my first business (ISP in Novosibirsk). Then in 1995 I moved to Mosco
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by googamooga 5y ago
I was not a big fan of Soviet regime and I‘m still fully agree that the collapse of the Soviet Union was for the good and do not wish it restored in any form. But being born in 1970 in Tselinogtad, middle-sized city in Soviet Kazakhstan, I
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by googamooga 5y ago
Instead of asking Google and Apple to pull from Russia we should better think about ourselves pulling from them.
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by googamooga 5y ago
This management practice called “programmers anarchy”. It worked very well in my professional life too.
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by googamooga 6y ago
You can pay taxes in Bitcoins here in Canton Zug, Switzerland.
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What's Going on with GitHub Actions?(github.com)
5 points by googamooga 7y ago|0 comments
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by googamooga 7y ago
Many thanks @salawat, interesting reading indeed.
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by googamooga 7y ago
It is mentioned in the post: https://medium.com/wardleymaps

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