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If you are a painter, you don't need to know chemical formulas for the pigments you're using to have a direct touch to your creation. For me, that material conciousness in computer…

Fair. But I'd change a title a bit to Product Engineer or System Designer. Still a lot of engineering judgement is/will be required to deliver production-ready systems.

When you let compiler generate code for you, you're not a real programmer... That's what opcode coders was ranting in early 60s about FORTRAN programmers. Product managers can't pr…

Yes, fully agree with you. Although, I read some stories that in early 60s a lot of people who used to program in opcodes (because there were no higher-level languages, even assemb…

I started my coding apprenticeship back in early 80s with a senior programmer who taught me to code in LSI-11 processor codes. I memorized the whole table of octal processor opcode…

I'm currently a technical architect (individual contributor role, IC) at a large multinational financial firm in Switzerland. Previously CTO/CIO/Founder/CEO in multiple companies i…

I fully support this approach! When I first started experimenting—rather naively—with using tool-enabled LLMs to generate documents (such as reports or ADRs) from the extensive kno…

There is a lot said about exploitation in the book and in the comments here on HN. I would like to start a kindergarten (a day care for toddlers and pre-school kids) in Switzerland…

Not only the codebase, but also the domain, the stakeholders, the history of requirements, etc etc etc.

Thank you so much for recommending both authors! I'm a huge fan of Egan and would really appreciate to explore the Australian sci-fi scene more.

R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth. Your ideas, languages and designs were the inspiration for several generations of computer scientists and engineers. Your Lilith computer and Modula-2 languag…

Yeah, and to prove your English residence you have to provide a paper bill from a utility company (water or electricity) with your name and address on it. Which adds another 3 mont…

The OA was excellent series and it's a shame that they cancelled it after the second season. Indeed, Netflix could really benefit from releasing smarter shows.

I have working PDP-11/23 in my possession and last couple of months I’m trying to convince myself that I have enough soldering skills to solder four additional memory lanes on its …

Ternary logic based computer Setun with 9-bit "bytes" was developed in late fifties in the USSR. Not much info on about it in English, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I‘ve been working for Lucent Technologies in Moscow, Russia from 2000 to 2004. I remember my feelings when I looked up Dennis Ritchie in PeopleSoft, corporate directory - hey, I wo…

1) ES 1022 which was a clone of IBM/360 and SM-4, a clone of PDP-11 2) Maximus BBS was the most popular software to run a BBS in USSR in late 80s, in addition to FifoNet utilities …

Most probably the OP visited the left bank of River Ishim side of Nur-Sultan which is indeed quite dull and built for cars. OTOH the right bank, the historical city, is much better…

OP is here. I was a son of very ordinary parents, they both were doctors, second most underpaid profession after teachers in the USSR. In my post I just wanted to make a point that…

Well, in 1990 I created a first FIDOnet node in USSR and became first regional coordinator of FIDOnet there. Next I graduated from Novosibirsk State University and opened my first …

I was not a big fan of Soviet regime and I‘m still fully agree that the collapse of the Soviet Union was for the good and do not wish it restored in any form. But being born in 197…