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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
searching for "емайлирани съдове" in bulgarian.. https://elcishop.com/product-category/емайлирани-съдове/ https://www.mira-n.net/emailirani_rom_black.html https://zana-bg.com&
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
very nice metaphor, and overall feeling. Thank you
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
"product is the knowledge in the code, not the code itself".. and other interesting observations. That might be relevant in current to-AI-or-not-AI questions Published as book - The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Pr
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The five orders of ignorance (2000)(cacm.acm.org)
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
hey. if u haven't seen this book/author/ideas, check those: The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software, 2003, Phillip Armour http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Software-Pro
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
i think whole business around software is to change (as i said in another thread few days ago). if u imagine the "business" stack as: customers on top, over business, over analysis, over software, over machines/infrastructure
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
if u imagine the stack as: customers on top, over business, over analysis, over software, over machines/infrastructure.. 25+ years ago i thought that DSLs and such very-high-level-mostly-formalised-descriptions will move the line betwe
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
this is the best description of software (as notion and as profession) for non-insiders. Here another jewel from Paul Ford: "The only technology that you need is deadlines" And an article about it: https://blog.jim-niel
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
i never went into spotify. Too much "tunnel-hearing" and, $$money-related choice. My collection is like 20k pieces (curated with time, some still whole albums, some 1 song only). a) put all that on a usb stick. inserted in car&#x2
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
i prefer the "criticality" categorization of Alistair Cockburn in his crystal clear methodologies.. [1] (funny, none of the hundreds of copycats includes that - it's only findable in the book itself (pp ~240): ""&qu
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
hah. Bulgaria does not count i guess. Even if same timing/trajectory as Romania. Too much cyrillics maybe.
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
in 6th edition of Ian Sommerville's "Software engineering" textbook, there was a whole chapter on legacy software. How to fix, how to emulate, copy, migrate, whatever. Technical issues slowly progressing into human/socia
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by svilen_dobrev 10mo ago
the actual software design patterns, unbiased by language/particular-usage, are subtle. i would go as far as say that there are also "design-patterns"-usage patterns.. and those might be even more subtle. e.g. what is/co
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by svilen_dobrev 11mo ago
search for "Controlled natural language". Many attempts in the past - ~20y ago, one of these is even called "Attempto", near nothing recently. Seems not enough interest in wide audiences
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by svilen_dobrev 11mo ago
>> A literate program has code and documentation interleaved in one file. >> - Weaving means extracting documentation and turning it into e.g. a pdf. >> - Tangling means extracting code in a form that is understandable to
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by svilen_dobrev 11mo ago
well, maybe it is everything that is not "illiterate programming", i.e. "programming-without-understanding".. which decade by decade gets more and more abundant/dominating. i do similar thing which i call live-sketc
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by svilen_dobrev 11mo ago
heh. i am making software for 40 years more-or-less. Last re-engineering project was mostly done when they fired me as the probational period was almost over, and seems they did not want me further - too expensive? - and anyone can finish i
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
link is error 403 all over
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
dejavu :) Here something i told my mentees 4 years ago: searching for answers.. does not make life interesting. search questions.. then You become interesting. and inconvenient. To the answer-manufacturers. (whole industries and institution
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
Aargh. As someone who went into programming at ~12 after trying toys, woodwork, mechanics, electrics, electronics, .. - and stays there for 40years - i would have blessed software if it was just the software to blame. But i also knowhow a
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
you might be onto something here. some time ago i discovered Wardley maps [1] (about company's "landscape" and strategy there), and one thing that stick with me was this: there are 4 levels/stages of development there -
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
they even had a project for hydraulic-driven wheels - some kind-of water-mill in each wheel, and a huge pump, and that's it :) p.s. long time ago i bought a 15y old hydraulic Citroen, drove it for 10 years.. the hydraulics was less bre
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
sigh. Somewhat like the flying car, and the fusion.. Similar title, 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17108828 Still keep fingers crossed it would make it. btw, one possible side effect of mass-adoption of t
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
Here another two of Sustrik's gems.. Anti-social Punishment: https://250bpm.com/blog:132/ Technocratic Plimsoll Line: https://250bpm.com/blog:176/ seems lesswrong has all of them, older and n
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
nice. Reminds me of BOFH (Bastard operator from Hell) . And those box-like calendars with page-per-day with some excuse^w^w tip on each :) https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
long time ago, in one small company, i wrote an accounting system from 1st principles and then it was deployed to some large-ish client. It took several months of rearranging their whole workflows and quarelling with their operators to enab
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by svilen_dobrev 1y ago
So how the usual otherwise-harmless treatment with extract of Serenoa repens works? Seems even that is not clear - [1] is ~2011, [2] is 2024 it seemed to work for me, took it for few months, 10y+ ago. "Lasted" 8-9 years.. - until
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by svilen_dobrev 2y ago
there were "traits" in python :/ . Search for pyprotocols. (searching myself.. not much left of it) 2004 - https://simonwillison.net/2004/Mar/23/pyprotocols/ some related rejected PEP ..
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by svilen_dobrev 2y ago
"Zaporozhian Cossacks write to the Sultan of Turkey" by Ilya Repin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhian_Cossacks#/media/Fi...
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by svilen_dobrev 2y ago
> increased cross-generational interaction cross- class interaction too. in ~2012 i was in Tokyo, and by chance was (also) invited to someone's birthday.. The guy was working as pizzeria-waiter, and has invited.. all his usual cli

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