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1891.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
> ... there is still so much that stands in my way ... I keep reading this on HN and I am surprised every time. It is so much easier nowadays to develop software than it used to be. Back when I started out there was no HN, no Stack Over
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
Tell your boss that if they are willing to pay 2x your normal hour rate for work done during your vacation then that's OK. If they are not then clearly the work isn't important enough for your vacation to be interrupted.
1893.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
The USAF will do everything in its power to keep human pilots in the loop. It would take a credible opponent (Russia/China) switching to drones and/or a third world oil country putting up a real fight with drones to change that.
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
AI's fighting it out while the human crew does nothing is not compelling drama. That's why Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. etc. all have 2nd World War style fighting going on. To get a more realistic idea of what future battles will be
1895.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
If you don't know how to structure a monolith well (using libraries/modules) then you will 100% fail building well structured micro services. Micro services take the difficulty of building a well-structured monolith and adds eve
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
V8 (and other Javascript JIT compilers) are written in C++. Whenever you think you run Javascript code, what you are actually running is C++ code that will emulate and compile your Javascript into machine code, update the DOM with C++ c
1897.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
I am thinking it but not saying it out loud :-)
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
Be happy to see them go. They are the wrong developers for you to employ. Their focus is all about self-indulgence and not on creating a viable long-term business. Don't ever hire anybody who calls them self a "ninja developer&quo
1899.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
How can you, with your specific talent/skills, make your family/community/the world better? In that struggle you will find your meaning.
1900.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
Having lived, worked and paid taxes in England for a number of years, I can tell you that England typically is 5 to 10 years behind Denmark/Norway/Sweden.
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
What has that got to do with anything? Movies, games etc. all seems to have moving objects. And yet they are all discreet.
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
> Continuous transition Are you sure there is such a thing in reality?
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
Making short-term-good-long-term-bad decision might be the right thing to do for a small company in order to survive long term. However nothing stops you from doing the best you can given the circumstances.
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
> how far behind the old world is, both in tech as in spirit I always laugh out loud reading nonsense like that. It is only true if you extremely narrowly define "tech" as SaaS solutions. Just to mention a few examples: almos
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by mbrodersen 6y ago
The primary aim of programming is to solve problems. The moment you forget that one simple fact you are already heading in the wrong direction.
1906.
by mbrodersen 6y ago
Remote work means you can quit any time and get a better job.
1907.
by mbrodersen 7y ago
It isn't in my experience. A list of languages I have used professionally: C, C++, Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, Assembler (PowerPC), SQL, ... And for fun: Basic, Pascal, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Idris, Assembler (Z80 and I86), ... O
1908.
by mbrodersen 7y ago
The end of the war began when Germany invaded Russia. Europe/Russia had already killed 30+ million German soldiers and destroyed most of the German war machine when the US joined the conflict. The real contribution of the US was stoppi
1909.
by mbrodersen 7y ago
Those bombers were designed and built by private companies. Paid for by the government.
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
I am sure you can also produce a long list of screwups by private companies. Assuming you made an honest effort of course. Private companies fail and go bankrupt every single day. 90% of private companies fail within a year. The real proble
1911.
by mbrodersen 7y ago
The history of software is full of failed projects trying to make users into programmers. It simply doesn't work. Thinking abstractly/systematically about automating processes is a skill that is hard to learn, and customers are bu
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
I must admit I laughed out loud reading this. The real world is complex. The problems software solve in the real world are complex. Economics, sales, politics, personalities, random world events, competition etc. has always and will always
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
If you can’t write well functioning monoliths, then you most definitely will fail implementing the same system using micro-services. Micro-services have all the complexity of the monolith plus the complexity of a distributed system added
1914.
by mbrodersen 7y ago
If you really learn and understand the SOLID principles then you already have better tools in your architectural toolbox than most “software architects”.
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
What kind of problems do you like to solve? Figure that one out and then learn the tools/skills required to solve those problems.
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
A great developer will write great code in any language/framework. A bad developer will write bad code in any language/framework. I have seen this so many times in my 25+ years of developing software and don’t expect this to chang
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
A better approach in my experience is to grow the whole system from a “skeleton” implementation, refactoring the architecture and code as your understanding grows. With the key use cases being your guide.
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
I am 50 and have been programming since I was 11. I learn new tech all the time. Just enough to find out if it is worth learning deeply or whether it is just another flavour of something I already know. 95% of the time it is just another
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
Governments have a monopoly on violence, the ultimate source of influence. Tech giants don't. End of story.
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by mbrodersen 7y ago
... which is why Erlang is perhaps the only truly OO language used in production today (using Alan Kay's definition of OO).

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