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Working as a test automation engineer in '91/92 (although as an intern), I wrote a program that controlled a test rig for seat belts. The machine was basically a home computer runn…

It's always interesting to read such articles. 7,500 Employees? Bah, too much! 100 Engineers will do!! I raise you to 50 employees, the number WhatsApp had when they reached 1 bill…

Three things might come into play here: 1. AFAIK Google ranks pages (amongst other metrics) by how "fresh" they are. A date given on a web page might count as a measure of "freshne…

Like others said before: CL is just a programming language that can be used for functional programming, but doesn't enforce this. So you have to be disciplined. I stick to the foll…

I'm currently in the process of doing exactly that. Although formally, by applying internally for the same job but in another team.

Am I missing something? Or is this article really advocating to not count the worst thing that can happen to an utility (electricity provider, traffic lights, streaming service, on…

I finished one other project - playing "MasterMind" against the computer (you know, where you have to guess five colour pins) with output done on the internal little printer. After…

Funny enough, I think those things were never meant to be a "personal" computer. You could get quite a sophisticated external bus system for these ("field bus" I think) and that ma…

I once (1992?) calculated mandelbrot sets on one of these. 400x400, output to an external thermo printer as the one-line display had, well, only one line. With a calculation depth …

I've done one in Common Lisp, but compared against ~100 lines / bytes,it is obviously bloatware: http://www.faoileag.de/fn/software.html

This is possible, at least from hearsay. 1. A decade or two ago a story made the news that some guy was working from some remote place in Scotland, basically in the middle of nowhe…

If you are starting with C++ right now, I'd suggest Scott Meyer's More Effective C++ (and his other books) and the books by Herb Sutter. Don't worry too much about C++ 17/20 unless…

Just a few things you should consider: - C++ is highly complex. The poster lower down claiming you already know 90% if you know C#/ObjC is simply wrong. The learning curve is steep…