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by playing_colours 4y ago
Your post is very inspirational. Maybe, you could recommend something to read on deep expertise that is useful and motivational?
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by playing_colours 4y ago
Another attractive option: “doing it” but for +xx percent to compensation.
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by playing_colours 4y ago
I believe a lot of interesting and original content is created these days: books, music, games. The problem is it is difficult to find them. They are not in the top of Google search or reddit. “Best original fiction 2022” query will not wor
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures from Manning publisher: https://www.manning.com/books/advanced-algorithms-and-data-s... I have not finished it yet, just went through a few chapter, but I can definitely recommen
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by playing_colours 5y ago
The 4th edition of Cormen book got published recently! Now in colour! I think it added a bit to better comprehension. It is slightly thinner than 3rd edition as they removed computational geometry algorithms and added some ML stuff.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
To have a richer, multidimensional perspective on life, learn to respect your partner, communicate better, deal with conflicts. Become less self-centred, learn to both give and receive support, tolerate mutual imperfection.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Thank you for this post, it strongly resonates with me. I recently went through the breaking point you were talking about. I think experiencing both disillusionment in being someone special, and realisation of the freedom to choose what I w
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Check IoT companies as well - they often have web, firmware, hardware. I think it is also easier to move at a startup company, where it is usual to wear a few hats, and all the teams may still sit in the same room.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
I share your excitement, but there is a problem. How can you get hired and paid in those innovative industries? If you are 20 - you are in a good position to get appropriate degree and start building your career. If you are 35+ with family
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by playing_colours 5y ago
To me the last name of Durov makes an association with “someone who fools”, connected to the verb “дурить” - “durit” - “to fool”.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
I'm getting into Computational Geometry, and am interested to learn from and contribute to relevant projects in GIS, Computer Graphics, Robotics.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Software Architecture: the Hard Parts https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architecture-t...
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by playing_colours 5y ago
> Avoiding thundering herd on reconnect is a very explored problem and wasn't too bad. Can you please share approaches to mitigate this issue?
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by playing_colours 5y ago
It is not a binary flip between monolith and modular monolith, it is on a gradual scale, and I saw teams moving toward modularity with a various degree of success. They may not even use the term of distributed monolith to name their approac
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by playing_colours 5y ago
C++. C++40 standard will have some great new shiny stuff, but most of the industry will still stuck with C++32.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
I did not suggest to replace managers with engineers, just give an opportunity to work and be represented on more strategic level to some engineers. It can be seen as a good career progression for ICs.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
It is often expected to be defined in the expectations towards engineers at Staff+ level that people on that level are good at communications and can balance technical and business points of view. Also, developers are often not skilled enou
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by playing_colours 5y ago
I think the responsibilities of project coordinator / project manager can be a part of the work of senior IC (Principal Engineer) or someone like Agile Coach, Delivery Lead. Recently, I was a Chief Architect - an IC role - and organise
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by playing_colours 5y ago
When we talk about niches for specialists compiler development and Linux kernel are usually mentioned as examples. What are the other good options where specialisation, long term investments are valued, and someone after 30 can focus on goi
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by playing_colours 5y ago
The problem with private for-profit companies is that they fundamentally cannot play a role of moral or political beacons, by the purpose and mechanisms that ensure their existence and success. We have a lot of examples in history when the
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by playing_colours 5y ago
When opposing a state on such topics you can refer to the Constitution, freedom of opinion and speech. I am afraid of large powerful private companies - now and even more in future. They can fire you, reject providing services that are esse
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by playing_colours 5y ago
The first option looks good. Would you be interested to check if you can transfer to a more exciting but less pragmatic STEM degree - pure mathematics, physics, astronomy? Maybe, you can find more interesting people there? Also, remember to
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by playing_colours 5y ago
I’m planning to retire from contracting and looking for a permanent position where I can ideally - dig into one of the specialisations I’d like to focus on: data processing frameworks, databases, computational geometry, - keep improving my
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Good point! I suggest the topic starter to apply at the companies that build products for us techies to use. I live in Germany and we have many more remote options nowadays - New Relic, Elastic, Snowflake, Aiven, etc. It will be fun and you
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Very recently, a few bad facts were revealed about Google’s illegal activities against users’ privacy, unfair competition tricks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967575 https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by playing_colours 5y ago
If there is a lot of mess, in most cases, the organisation is dysfunctional. It may have histories of some futile attempts by proactive senior engineers to improve the situation in past. They were either ignored or faced resistance, and ev
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by playing_colours 5y ago
The Germans and people from eastern Europe are usually straightforward in their communications. There might have been a shift towards conflict-avoidance in younger generations (< 30 yo) though.
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Synthesis may be the name you were looking for?
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by playing_colours 5y ago
Imagine Dale Carnegie was born and grew 100 years later and wrote his book in our time. Do you think it would be the same? Maybe, he would address that cooking advice to both husbands and wives, would not he? Imagine yourself being born 100
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by playing_colours 5y ago
You are describing the way I wrote in Scala, and now in Python: using class instances as that are initialised shared contexts like shared database connections, serialisers, etc.

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