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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I agree. The practical intuitive way to think about “infinity” I use is to simply use a variable N that can be arbitrarily large. And then reason about f(N). It stops you from asking nonsenses like “what is infinity divided by infinity?” si
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
This. Fire 50% of the administration and use the money to increase salaries for teachers/hire more teachers.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Chess is not programming. We have software that can beat any human chess player. We don’t have software that can beat even a mediocre software developer.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Certificates is paperwork BS. Just look at ISO 9001. What a joke. You can be ISO 9001 “quality” certified and deliver absolute crap.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
We already have a world class way to make software reliable without a mountain of bureaucracy: formal methods. As in using proof assistants to prove code correct. It is still too labour intensive for most applications but it is getting bett
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
VSCode. Love it. Especially for remote development.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Yes! Automated testing is a super power. I haven’t had a single bug in production for 5+ years because of automated tests.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Thanks and yes I think you are right. Unfortunately most people automatically starts to behave in a way that fits the culture. Even if the culture is toxic.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
One of my all time favourite ZX-Spectrum games. It blew my young mind that the characters would move around and do things on their own without waiting for you to type a command.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
“Rich Dad Poor Dad”. The most impactful book I have ever read. It completely changed how I handle my personal finances and think about money. It also made me deeply understand why high earning rich people go broke all the time.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Masses of people are putting in a huge amount of effort to live in any rich western country.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
It’s pretty bad if you have to compare the US with Syria to feel superior.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I am a European who has actually lived, worked, and paid taxes in the US and 4 other countries. And no you are wrong. And it’s getting worse.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Not true. It is very hard to hire good C++ developers. They are in very high demand. Not surprising since the world mostly runs on C/C++.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
New C++ projects will continue to be started every day for a loooooong time. There are millions of C++ programmers out there and most of them have zero interest in switching to another language.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I actually think that a terrible short-term memory makes developers write better code. Because it forces them to write easy to read, well-commented code so that they can figure out how to improve it later. I regulary have to modify code I w
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I have worked for a company where I didn't get along with 95% of the people. And yet I worked fine with 99% of people in every other company I have ever worked for. So sometimes it actually isn't you that's the problem. Som
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Apparently 80% of people quit because of their boss. So yes it is almost always the people.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
It’s easy: Pick tools you like a stick with them. There are no perfect tools/solutions out there. Only different flavours of compromises. So pick the flavour you like and master it. I picked React and Typescript. Perfect for me. I see
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
> all adults in the room Adults re overrated. Adults are mostly small children in larger bodies. Adults will sulk, throw tantrums, be petty, feel slighted, want to always be right, want to dominate etc. It is adults that kill, rape, maim
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
C++ is not even close to being a legacy language. New C++ projects are started every single day.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Nope. The more a few individuals go out of their way to glorify a language on HN, the less relevant the language usually is. Nobody writes glowing posts about C/C++ and yet those languages absolutely dominate the software the world run
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Modernising B-2 Spirit Bomber Software Systems (2009)(semdesigns.com)
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
The only “true” OO language that I am aware of is Erlang (using the definition given by Alan Kay).
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
You are 100% right. Work on the high profile projects that senior management cares about. Bonus points for being good at translating tech details to business speak (as in how tech/problem X impacts $).
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
Just assume for a second that you are talking to an experienced competent developer here. I have never done any of the things you mention. And I have never worked with a developer who did any of the things you mention. I have however worked
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
“Rich Dad Poor Dad”. Not my field of study (finance) but it can be argued that it is relevant to anybody who cares about their long term financial health. It completely changed how I spend money and build for the future. It is a small boo
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I am 100% sure we can’t reboot civilisation. All the easily accessible resources needed to bootstrap has been depleted years ago.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
I am a developer. Give me a VM I have root access to and walk away. That’s all I need from you.
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by mbrodersen 4y ago
> Tackling ever growing complexity requires going outside of the defined process and finding exciting solutions. Nope. Not at all. Experienced professionals, who focus on solving problems for customers , want boring solutions that has

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