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My opinions on functional languages in a practical professional setting is that they largely seem like a curiosity and a bit of an oddity when you encounter them in business softwa…

In the future it will be considered one of the most unusual cultural/social decisions ever, that large financial services firms are as they are in the Western world. I have never s…

I also don't know how this should work and some people's comments on this thread seem really weird to me because it seems really unlikely that someone who was eg a 'senior software…

It's one reason I am actually going to continue pursuing the 'physical engineering' side of my career rather than the software development (software 'engineering' side of it). I st…

Argh gawd I hate this! There are plenty of reasons that a department within a company will prefer spreadsheets. Software is not the answer to everything and also this is the same p…

Guessing this has to do with how China tends to turn a blind eye (although increasingly less so) to copyright and more importantly trademark infringement issues of Western intellec…

There's a big problem that a lot of the people in AI have spent so much time with other PhDs in the AI space and working in these professional AI labs that they've forgotten or nev…

These were always a disaster. It's essentially trying to 'Uberify' the entire economy. Be your own boss etc...People just end up sitting by the phone waiting for 2 or 3 hours of mi…

This is a fairly odd statement given that BOMs are managed in manufacturing systems and for accounting and engineering purposes in multiple different ways. This can be for anything…

I am a CAD engineer and software developer who has worked in manufacturing a lot in the UK in various industries - products as big as superyachts and as small as peristaltic pumps.…

I disagree actually. There certainly are games that I have felt are pretty 'magical' as you put it but they tend to me almost childlike in some of their design choices. Monument Va…

i will never stop finding it weird when American software developers/IT people call themselves 'Engineers'. I am actually an 'Engineer' in the UK and it's a very different term her…

I think this may actually begin to happen anyway with the increased use of coding agents. A lot of the reason people/workers were not in a 'developer' position before was not only …

Some code has always been the easy part, similar to the way a lot of systems abstract the more complicated pieces of a software project away from you. I am not talking about the re…

I think a lot are feeling a bit like this...Also pile in all the web frameworks etc...on top of 'crypto' then 'AI'...then who knows what... There'll be another overhyped buzzword i…

I now see groups of people just meandering between buzzwords and sort of calling it a career. Honestly I know people who were 'crypto developers' 3 years ago who are now 'senior AI…

Hi I'm a big surfer (or have been most of my life but doing less now at 40!) also building a mobile game in Unity/C# right now although it's not surf related like yours it's actual…

I'm going to be controversial and say that this is an interesting spectacle but it is not even remotely comparable to the difficulty of what was going on in Free Solo. This is a ci…

The Tao Te Ching is sort of impossible to translate into modern English. I don't really understand it but I can speak and read Chinese and it doesn't make much sense to Chinese peo…

I love Aphex Twin but my only issue is he keeps saying in interviews how he hates surfers?! Being a proud Cornish surfer and one of his earlier fans this saddens me. We were his fi…

I agree that the term 'Engineer' has lost all meaning in the software/IT world. I studied CS at a UK uni which was a subject in the engineering school. I then worked with engineers…

Linkedin is verging on unusable/not fit for purpose... Example, how can I see job adverts with very very niche requirements in quite unusual roles (one of which I do actually know …

There are a lot of sensible comments on this thread but seems not a very strong consensus. I can see why! ERP is an extremely complicated space... There was a thread a while ago ab…

Location: Travelling SE Asia but I am British (Cornish) Remote: No preference. Worked remotely during COVID and a lot since. Most of my career has been office based. Willing to rel…

As others have mentioned this is an extremely odd thing to expect to work.... I'll give an example. I worked for a FTSE 100 company using a very old Product Lifecycle Management sy…