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This phenomenon (or a closely related one?) is recognized and known as Kotov Sydnrome in the context of chess. A summary, courtesy of chess dot com: > The name of this "syndrome" c…

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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear : )

Not exactly a true greybeard though, given that the author has "more than 10 years of experience", and judging by the picture on his GitHub page ;) [0] [0] https://github.com/Laure…

Games couldn't rely on patches back in the day, because they used to be shipped in boxes, and providing patches was tricky. (The ease of providing updates may indeed incentivize re…

Phlogiston, C-field... the list of such "placeholders" is pretty long.

Sure, I see your point. Obviously a wasteful format is also getting in the way of queryability. My point is that the main goal should be to improve for queryability, which inherent…

What's good style in production code isn't necessarily good style in test code (and vice versa). Good style in an SDK or a library is not necessarily the same as good style in a se…

PGN is a highly redundant format, but it has the inherent advantage of being human readable. The problem is interesting, but I think it falls on the side of "fun" more than "profit…

I think that AI, overhyped as it may be, will truly get to shine when it comes to this aspect of chess - basically, tutoring.

> Use StockFish to predict the next move, and only store the diff between the actual move and the prediction. This ties the algorithm down to one specific version of Stockfish, and…

Why a "victim"? Honest question.

Once you have the technology to freeze evolution, you also have the technology to accelerate it and steer it, and given the level of incentive (to gain competitive advantage), I do…

> Because they need to keep some gaps in the tax law to allow their friends to pay less taxes than normal people. The self-employed in Poland provide almost 30% of total budget rev…

It certainly helps the IT sector to stay globally competitive, also attracting foreign talent (hence plenty of programmers from eg. Ukraine, particularly these days). Being self-em…

Not all intellectual property is patented. Anyhow, you don't include git diffs. You cannot, even if you wanted to - the code is not your property. The whole point is that you're se…

> > I can't see why a company couldn't have one long-term customer. > Let's hope you won't find out why that's a very bad idea. The way you phrased it feels needlessly patronizing …

I'm not sure if there had been any unprecented drop in the trust level between 2015 and 2023 (meaning under the Law and Justice government). While it is true that it's relatively l…

> To truly do that, you need to move your center of life abroad, which generally means being outside Poland for 183 days a year. Yeah, theoretically. But at least within the Scheng…

I'm not fighting, I was just curious what you're basing your claim on. I disregarded your unnecessarily incendiary phrasing ( "software from Poland is such a tacky crap" ) complete…

> - Countries should want internally organised production, strong companies with own IP, not one-man "companies" producing IP to external entities. Of course it's great to have dom…

Yeah, but how do you know which application was and which wasn't? Apart from some big customers, it usually isn't public knowledge. Eg. my previous project was a banking app for a …

I can't see why a company couldn't have one long-term customer. It's not unusual eg. in the building sector (where large construction projects, not unlike software projects, can ta…

> That's also why software from Poland is such a tacky crap despite so many "talents" [citation needed] How do you recognize "software from Poland" anyway?