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octo-andrero

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About octo-andrero

An engineer by nature. I write andrewpakhomov.com. It's about things I learned about people, orgs and code by doing software engineering for 14 years.

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    For some topics search here, at hackernews, may work very well. Some people submit links to theirs personal blog posts here. There's a newsletter that tries to find and get togethe…

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    Comment #42255662

    "You and your research by Richard Hamming". https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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    Comment #42134115

    Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch is my favorite one. It explains object oriented programming from the conceptual point of view. I would also sug…

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    Comment #42125359

    Because it's interesting and, probably, the easiest way to bring significant business value. Most of the problems and opportunities I saw lies somewhere on the border of different …

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    Thank you!

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    Comment #41570985

    Could you share any examples of interactive documentation or tools to build interactive documentations? The only thing comes to my mind is Swagger / OpenAPI documentation pages fro…

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    Ask HN: What is your personal motivation for documenting code?

    Hey guys! There's a statement that good code is self-explanatory, still there's a ton of articles in the web describing the importance of documentation. What makes you to write doc…

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    Comment #40905445

    Redis University is free. The quality of materials is superb. I fully prepared for Redis Certification exam using only Redis University materials / Official redis docs. https://red…

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    Comment #40727279

    The Knuth is great, for sure, and I encourage any efforts to build strong basement of fundamental knowledge. Still I would suggest you to change the focus. As a software engineer m…

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    Comment #40715494

    Good engineers design according to requirements, great engineers challenge them.

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    Comment #40710326

    I would suggest you to split the question into multiple: 1/ What should be communication pattern you need: synchronous calls via API, message brokers (you configure routing rules i…

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    Comment #40432904

    I use Hugo, GitHub to store blog and Cloudflare Pages to host it. This setup is free, straightforward and configures in few clicks. You only need to pay for the domain name.

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    Comment #39382575

    Considering the upcoming advancements in AI, the more beneficial will be to give a hard focus to software engineering fundamentals: object oriented programming design patterns, dom…

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    Comment #39343325

    I have never heard about the LLM-based solution, but the tests written with help of Cucumber ( https://cucumber.io/tools/cucumber-open/ ) framework looks very similar to what you'r…

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    It depends on the value your tool adds for developer. I pay for IntelliJ IDEA despite there's free community version. Also, postman seems feel good. Docker in the very end found a …

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    Comment #39315655

    > Obviously I can't get "paid to learn" how to code but are there any entry-level jobs where I'd get general exposure that could aid/speed up my learning? (in any programming langu…

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    Comment #39216946

    > In an office it's easy for a new hire to ask a question or get someone's attention. When remote, how does the company communicate culturally? Is there an expectation for response…

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    As it seems to me, it's highly depends on the kind of material you're trying to memorize and the cause you're trying to memorize this. What usually works for me when I'm trying to …