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I'm looking for a VP of Engineering position in a startup in London (or whereabouts). I am clever and hardworking, and very opinionated about everything.

It's sad that people in the USA have to think about how to live on 1.50 USD per meal. You guys should vote for a more socialist government next elections.

Keep a document of your design decisions. It's very tempting to hack away to get things done, but human memory is short and feeble: you will forget why stuff was coded the way it w…

From Brazil, Beholder: https://beholder.tech/en/ Although not yet doing automatic checkout, but most of the technology needed for it is there.

For me particularly the greatest difficulty was in understanding what was going on, and how people's effort was contributing to the company's goals. There always seems to be a lot …

My dad had a vynil LP with BBC sound effects, which I remember listening to when I was a kid. I particularly liked to listen to the disaster sounds, like cars skidding and crashing…

:) I wrote a couple of tables on Excel v1 that was running on the original Mackintosh we had at home to play around with the same equations.

Yeah, I started doing 1-on-1 with all of them when the team was about half size. The reason I got one of the guys "promoted" as dev lead is so he can take most of the mentoring and…

This has been in my mind recently. I am head of development at a startup and have something like 30 direct reports. I don't want to be doing this job for a long time, and am maneuv…

Calling it an alternative to SageMaker might be a bit misleading, as SageMaker is also a platform for training the models in automatically allocated EC2 resources, even on spot ins…

I never give any information to anyone who calls me, apart from people I already know like friends and family. If they say they are from the bank I apologize and say that I will co…

It makes perfect sense when you think about it.

You can also read the book "Thinking, fast and slow"

It's interesting the author mentioned estimating but said they are not very good at it yet. I have read somewhere else that what distinguishes a senior engineer from a junior engin…

I'm a maths graduate who became a programmer too. In my experience there's very little direct application of the knowledge acquired during the degree, but the thinking process gain…

One comment regarding the "embedding". This is similar to the Toyota concept of the gemba , or being where the value is produced. For automobiles, that's the factory floor. For sof…

I have the good fortune of living in Vietnam, so all this happened while I was sound asleep, and when I woke up I read the rejection email first, as it arrived later and was higher…