svilen_dobrev

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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   maybe shifting the jobs' target.. to higher a level (finally!) ? Reminds me of: https://chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-new-l... modelling has been , is , and will be the needed literacy..
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   how about keyboard shortcuts? various remote controls? search?
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   Electric Monk ? from Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series "Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, ..." EDit: or maybe, since it's not just believing, a Janito
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   shameless plug: python in bulgarian (or whatever you put in those translation tables). Well.. from 2012: https://github.com/svilendobrev/smok
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   one of lessons i learned hard way: do not trust - or avoid - managers/higher-ups who do not want their things in written - even e-mails. While still have you sign all kind of stuff.
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   reminds me of this old article.. ~2009, Sun/MIT - "The Future is Parallel" .. and "sequential decomposition and usual math are wrong horse.." https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-945-adventures-in-ad
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   i have some experience with another such protocol, for customs , to/from EU. About 15 years ago, it was made mandatory (in Bulgaria). A friend of mine suggested we make a software for filling those forms, and handle the XML-message-pas
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   excuse my ignorance.. AFAI-remember years ago Trump was "fired" out of presidency before end of mandate, AND banned in biggest social networks. Now he is playing president before officially entering a mandate, AND around that thos
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   by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

   so, Clippy again?
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    > failed up to manager... see, everything around can be a tool. Sticks, screwdrivers, languages, books, phones, cars, houses, roads, software, knowledge, .. in my rosy glasses this line stops at people (or maybe life-forms?). People
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    some notes from my ~4 month looking so far (also after a >half-year sabbatical): * one company (behind 2 levels of middlemen) had "invented" some utopian form of LLMized auto-translate framework X into framework Y AND by-the-wa
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    i beg to differ. IMO Python is slowly becoming - or already became - the new Java - and is being used as such. i am programming with it for 25y, and it still allows things to be as simple as they were long time ago (attribute access is sing
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    Charles Petzold.. His c++ book stood on the shelf behind me. 30y ago. heh :)
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    Apart of not knowing / unable to start from scratch, this is about frequent, and infrequent use. The latter also means not-that-important-in-overall-landscape, and brings forgetting and perceiving it as less "ROI", so one (ho
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    hehe. similar to How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements & Statement Expressions: https://blog.robertelder.org/switch-statements-statement-exp...
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    uh dunno. 25y ago, i was working behind a 30" tube monitor (a ~35kg hog), with 1 inch thick frontglass.. and one day, one of my eyes started to focus on the (closer)outside of the glass, the other on the (farther)inside of the glass. C
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    half-off-topic.. i have ~1 diopter shortsightness. Was less before, slowly going up. So screens are getting blurrier. Have glasses but still try avoid using them. If i put the (flat edged) TV remote control at about 10cm from my face so it
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    role links dont work - 6 characters trimmed at end ; use full career page
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    hint: the sign-in-required "type of developer" is another of those preliminary optimizations that may throw baby with the water..
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    interesting. i am 55-ish. "change is the only constant in universe" - whoever said that. For a change, i went long-distance bikepacking 5y ago. 500-1000-1500kms. Then, Learned to e-foil 2y ago.. took me weeks if not months to get
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    > to read code like a Senior Developer. you mean, as in "code written by someone else == bad code" ?
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    cpp? that's a preprocessor. u mean c++? LLM won't help you much if u can't understand what it's talking about. Manual way is, given ELF (linux executable format) somexe, $ strings somexe $ objdump -d somexe $ objdump -s
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    You don't have to lose everything, in order to find yourself, but it may help. Although.., don't lose the people of your life. They aren't "stuff". p.s. Tove Jansson, in one of her stories, has some guy who was coll
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    IMO the good-enough has won. (as in "90% of everything is crap".. good-enough crap). At least within ~~capitalistic something-for-money setup. if one pulls the money from the equation, some thing may change. But don't hol
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    hehe.. Varna-Sofia (Bulgaria, ~450km) is 7h.20m.. on good days, eh, nights.
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    > durable workflows This is what long-running-transactions of the past became.. and slowly cover all their ground (initially Cadence by Uber, then Temporal). Zillions of little flows that can go through their FSMs at any speed, (milli)se
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    > Involve junior developers in architecture reviews. They will help you to identify the mentally demanding areas. This. And also, a mantra of my own: Listen carefully to any newcomer in the team/company in first 1-3 weeks, until s
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    This is only expressions - what you can put inside a lambda. if-then-else are statements. The ternary op (Y if X else Z) probably was not yet there in 2012 - or i did not needed it. But You can add all other dunder operators if u need them
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    Here some expression builder, with few renderers thereof, in one file, with some tests (beware: from 2012-2016) Was used to turn a python function into plain text (textualize itself), into SQL-text (applicable as query), evaluate-numericall
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    by svilen_dobrev 2y ago

    Try to make map/s. Something visual. Of one or multiple aspects. Cross-reference func/class is easiest but too low level ; needed is crossreference of notions - in space AND time. Did such thing several times, helps a lot. in my