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New programming language. Took some good ideas of Pascal and making it more modern. Minimal runtime, manual memory management, single (small) executable, no dependencies. Compiler …

Careers could be very very long. My relative was kicked out of academia after finishing his postdoc and has to work manual jobs till the end of comunism in my country. His career a…

It was custom SW created by construction company: things like quotations, warehouse management, controlling, some accounting integrations, time tracking and what not. At the end it…

I lived for next to nothing and I had a gig maintaining a system that paid something like 1500 euros a month and it required few hours a month. Did that gig for 12 years, saved me …

I also taken up farming in 2013 after 10 years of working on startups (as founder and early engineer, with no success at all). I was about to move back to village I was born at and…

"Do LLMs make bad code: yes all the time (at the moment zero clue about good architecture). Are they still useful: yes, extremely so." Well, lets see how all the economics will pla…

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Even if I wrote 10k lines of code a day I will be out of things to implement in day two. Maybe I am working on wrong codebases, but I never felt like I am behind because of not eno…

Similar story in Europe with white tailed eagles, which are quite similar in size. They were extinct in my area for maybe 60 years and recently returned and even started to hatch.

Well, yes. Kinda. You need to know a bit about high level organization and structure of OSes first as the codebase is not particularly small.

Universities in eastern bloc were really elite places. Only low single digits percent of people were able to enroll. Also majority of degrees were in STEM, education or medicine as…

I am playing with LK (little kernel) with aim to replicate some functionality of Fuchsia OS, just much simplier and lighweight. I do miss something that is more interactive than Ar…

Not sure about Arduino specific code, but including C/C++ is fairly easy. See Swift Embedded Examples [1] (check Sources/Support) [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examp…

100 or even 200 will be quite a hard target to hit even considering BOM. Most bare bone optics setup will cost you maybe 100, 130 USD. Unless you find some spare parts or go DVD gr…

There are huge apps (such as Shopify) which will safe a lot of money by having more performant BE so they do invest heavily into it. Python workloads, with deep pocketed backers, d…

The Pragmatic Programmer - I read this book when I was programming professionally for maybe 5 or so years, so I already had my basics covered, but reading this book really expanded…

Technically it was not an investment, they've sold part of company to Bezos. As in money went directly into owners bank accounts instead of bank account of the company.

+ you can write both UI and low level code in one language

A lot of lab instrumentation companies across EU still use it. Also quite a few companies producing industry machinery, industrial displays etc.

Well, purpose of Tada list was to act as a funnel to Basecamp: they took part of the functionality and when you needed more you check the Basecamp. I think they are going to with t…

I feel like this is going to be something closer to Tada list than Basecamp.

Did you take a look on how Zircon (Fuchsia) is handling this? It is quite interesting.

Working from home since 2007, I do keep my setup very simple: - good quality chair - single 27" monitor with adjustable arm (to level it with my eyes) - Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic …

Don't forget precision machinery of all kinds: from industrial CNCs, medical instrumentation or electron microscopes.

Not sure about availability around the world, but I would say Merkur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur_(toy) Fun fact: first line for creating contact lenses was build using …