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As a software engineer with little memory of maths from school :( I have become obsessed with machine learning and all of the advancements in AI. So much so, my curious mind is sta…

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how? I want this

A message of appreciation, you sound very cool. I'd love to have seen this when I was a young sega mega drive obsessive

There has been a housing crisis since the late 90s in most countries around the world. We as techies MUST be able to combine house building and apps to solve this problem. How can …

Hi HN, I'm an experienced engineer. I can build things. Alas I do not know what to build .. shall we build a product in this thread Aka This thread == product ideas, documentation,…

Well said

I guess some kind of large rig, that could be lifted on to site and literally print the whole house there and then.

Should read 'if automation DOES...'

Let's be fair... If automation dies what we all probably think it will. Everything is going to be abundant and free. Music perhaps is the best example. It used to be £25 to buy an …

Most developers can't actually code, once the motor skills has been assumed it is nothing but brute intelligence.. and then you can become a lead/architect... It takes 10 years to …

Hello HN'ers I've been working professionally as a software engineer for 10 years+. I'm pretty good with cloud computing, building services and all that goes along with that. I'm a…

Interesting points raidicy, as an engineer I would have similar requirements and really don't like seeding control to third party products :) But then, a no-code almost non techie …

Hey HN, I'm a software engineer and seem to spend more and more time writing pretty much the same system. Read message from x, call api, call api... respond etc etc. It's is integr…

Hi, A question for engineers who have been tech leads. Where did your career progress to, what was your next role? I ask this as a current tech lead, trying to work out the next st…

We used it for a production project which I inherited. Honestly I'm not a bit fan of anything Orm like, as such there is some magic, I believe out of the box it will literally just…

Western exonomies are about to collapse, it is becoming apparent that food is still being produced, we are fed, sheltered and community spirit is high. We are going to survive and …

I fundamentally disagree with this article. SQL is arguably the most important language in a developers toolbox. The attempts to isolate and replace it's complexity through ORMs an…

Hello, Just wondering if anyone is in the music technology space, where is the industry heading? Is Spotify the last word. It seems like there's innovation happening with machine l…

thanks bachbach.. it requires a level of self discipline to fly against the societal movement towards the work / spend continuum..

A question, perhaps to anybody who has lived through this situation. I am luckily in an economic position to do one of the following over the next 4 years. a) Pay off mortgage on s…

Microsoft has embraced Github with it's recent .Net core development, they are one of the largest contributors with some incredible cross platform dev tooling. C# is a pleasure and…

Learn ES6 first, it will make learning the framework very easy. Otherwise you will never know the vanilla JavaScript from the React / JSX syntax.

It's starting to feel like the JavaScript 'ecosystem' is broken. Especially npm and the proliferation of small libraries written by inexperienced developers. When is the industry g…

Memory management, a closer connection to the compiler, ability to write embedded apps.