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SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote Worldwide I am an engineering lead with 20+ years of experience in software engineering in startup, scaleup and enterprise. I bring both product and …

I am bored of AI - it produces boring and mediocre results. Now, the science and engineering achievement is great - being able to produce even boring results on this level would be…

Your hands are the most practical brain-computer interface you have. With touch typing it really feels like you are controlling computer with your mind - for me it's absolutely wor…

Add the persistent anxiety that you are missing something you should not have and you end up with constantly refreshing the feed instead of working - just like social media and exa…

There's so much more to CSV file import than just uploading and parsing - service like this can become backbone of any enterprise data exchange pipeline. For real mission critical …

This site is quintessential Czech humor, similar in spirit to recent Kralovec annexation and Jara Cimrman. Thank you for linking it here.

Great video. It shows how much climbing (and lot of other things) is in your head and your repeated experience. The route (5.9/5a/VI) must be laughably easy for Midtbø who climbs 5…

Maybe the SkySail could own the sail system and sell the "thrust" - basically charging a success fee for saved fuel. In a similar vein in how the airlines don't own the engines of …

It will be difficult and frustrating, but can be also fun and rewarding in addition. Here are some pracoval tips that worked for me in similar situations. Treat everyone with respe…

Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - great inspiration for regaining playfulness. Particularly this quote applicable to many burnt out developers I believe: Physics disgus…

Maybe the times are different now than in the past or the food industry works on different timescales before they kill off something. Possibly because the investment is much bigger…

It intrigues me that the experts and their market research told them it will fail. Did they just do a lousy research or was the idea too innovative? How is it possible to distingui…

The best observation from the article is that payment system complexities are not entirely technical. Some that we experience: The domain is really complex - credit card transactio…

Your issuer could talk directly to your private wallet (e.g. on your phone or on server). You could preapprove requests coming from your issuer to be automatically executed so that…

Sorry for the linkbaity cliffhanger. Occasionally there exists a situation when there is huge demand for shipments in one direction (e.g. Hong Kong to Singapore) while there is not…

I fondly remember interning at major freight forwarder during university. The main input interface was paper which was them keyed into the mainframe application. Only the biggest p…

For me this means you have to be able to reason about your code. When you write a piece of code you need to understand what it does, how it behaves and why it behaves the way it do…

For me this means you have to be able to reason about your code. When you write a piece of code you need to understand what it does, how it behaves and why it behaves the way it do…

The checklist oscilates between high level (does it work?) and very specific - even stuff auto format could take care of (braces). Creating such an checklist is great exercise thou…