svilen_dobrev

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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
whatever u do, beware: HR dept is there to protect the company from its employees. NOT the other way around - regardless how much anyone fanfares it..
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
Languages are just ...tools, instruments. So desire to learn a language (or framework, whatever tool-kit) for the sake of learning .. isnt going to hold far. BUT.. once u have that half-tool, and the half-transparent-new-window that comes w
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
reminds me of the Twoflower's camera+dwarf from the Pratchet's Discworld.. :)
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
pff, there was some movie long ago, some technician was installing a few 1-armed-bandits in some pub, and asked the owner - should they give 1 win per 100, or 1 per 1000 ? And the owner answered: What? 1 per 1000? We're not a charity h
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
let me add few things... - keep telling pupils the goods (of becoming a pro-gram-mer), AND telling them the bads. One at a time, some needs repeating often. Like the sky moments when u see someone using your stuff and liking it. Or the mult
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
IMO it's not the actual move that is interesting, but when one switches on "search/scan mode"... probably when one feels a downarrow in every morning's answering the question "why should i get out of bed"
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
startup idea: make a real-globe-shaped screen showing these - or any other geography-in-time uploaded to it..
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
we're being comoditized. Either as becoming end layer in a tech stack, or a supplier to an aggregator.. all the same.
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
Lila - "Enquiry into Morals" (R.Pirsig) .. "good" is a noun.. and MoQ in general, with all the orthogonal layers, and identity being the most basic characteristic of things probably also C.N.Parkinson laws (of burocracy)
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Cultural dimensions.. describe national vs. organisational vs. personal traits(geerthofstede.com)
2 points by svilen_dobrev 8y ago|0 comments
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by svilen_dobrev 8y ago
The farther/further u go (and for at least 2-3+ months, better 6-12+, relying mostly on your self), the more you will know about yourself and your compatibility with the new, and the old place. Things that have been protruding a lot, i
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
there is this question on life - to be or to wanna be. it's time to stop any of the wanna be, and enjoy who you are. mental fit may be harder to keep than physical. YMMV. simplify your life, throw away anything that's not real (tv
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
someone said "software is made of decisions". IMO this is the problem. All those listed axises, and another dozen i could imagine (esp. moving away from machine and closer to reality), they all require decisions to be taken. So
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
philosophical part: * tone down all your expectations. really * find friends to be your senses - other places need other "senses" which u dont have yet. technical part: * moving alone needs only a backpack. Moving with a family
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
would this be useful to "massage" a voice phone conversation, so the wannabe wiretappers cannot (automaticaly) decode what really is in it?
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
hmm. if one grasps the basic idea behind this (recently top-HN-ed) weird-machines+exploitability stuff: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/6245516/6558478/08226852.pd... and extrapolates "weirdness"
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
pfft. First time i hear someone around balkans to want to be mentored... everyone here thinks hirself a know-it-all. See, i have 30y of experience and have mentored people @20 , @30 and @45, and it all works (and happened in several countri
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
i am making software for nearly 30 years... yeah all that technicals, peoples, methodology, philosophy.. and i keep doing it. Gradually became more interested in People than machines. Mentored a number of people during the years (and 1-2 ri
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by svilen_dobrev 9y ago
Maybe should try on another level alltogether. Here something from 6y ago. (i even posted it here then but with near-zero attention). A (personal) system that keeps your own notions (and versions of) and crosslinks them to each another, wit
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Any good ways to capture initial “WTF”s of newcomers?
2 points by svilen_dobrev 12y ago|0 comments