SolubleSnake

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by SolubleSnake 6mo ago
My opinions on functional languages in a practical professional setting is that they largely seem like a curiosity and a bit of an oddity when you encounter them in business software at work. I worked at a company migrating a huge amount of
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by SolubleSnake 6mo ago
In the future it will be considered one of the most unusual cultural/social decisions ever, that large financial services firms are as they are in the Western world. I have never seen a group of people so frantically doing nothing of a
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by SolubleSnake 6mo ago
I also don't know how this should work and some people's comments on this thread seem really weird to me because it seems really unlikely that someone who was eg a 'senior software developer' somewhere could be so bad th
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
It's one reason I am actually going to continue pursuing the 'physical engineering' side of my career rather than the software development (software 'engineering' side of it). I studied CS at UCL years ago but worke
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
Argh gawd I hate this! There are plenty of reasons that a department within a company will prefer spreadsheets. Software is not the answer to everything and also this is the same problem you get when Microsoft introduces those pesky 'P
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
Guessing this has to do with how China tends to turn a blind eye (although increasingly less so) to copyright and more importantly trademark infringement issues of Western intellectual properties...perhaps Unity have tried to get some Chine
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
There's a big problem that a lot of the people in AI have spent so much time with other PhDs in the AI space and working in these professional AI labs that they've forgotten or never even seen what 'normal' businesses lo
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
These were always a disaster. It's essentially trying to 'Uberify' the entire economy. Be your own boss etc...People just end up sitting by the phone waiting for 2 or 3 hours of minimum wage work a day. Maybe this is possible
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
This is a fairly odd statement given that BOMs are managed in manufacturing systems and for accounting and engineering purposes in multiple different ways. This can be for anything to do with sales data for a client or for guys on the facto
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
I am a CAD engineer and software developer who has worked in manufacturing a lot in the UK in various industries - products as big as superyachts and as small as peristaltic pumps. I think if the UK and EU are to try and defend their weaken
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
I disagree actually. There certainly are games that I have felt are pretty 'magical' as you put it but they tend to me almost childlike in some of their design choices. Monument Valley for example was amazing. I was so impressed b
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
i will never stop finding it weird when American software developers/IT people call themselves 'Engineers'. I am actually an 'Engineer' in the UK and it's a very different term here that basically implies someo
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
I think this may actually begin to happen anyway with the increased use of coding agents. A lot of the reason people/workers were not in a 'developer' position before was not only because they didn't know how to or want
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
Some code has always been the easy part, similar to the way a lot of systems abstract the more complicated pieces of a software project away from you. I am not talking about the relationship between higher and lower level languages but rath
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
I think a lot are feeling a bit like this...Also pile in all the web frameworks etc...on top of 'crypto' then 'AI'...then who knows what... There'll be another overhyped buzzword in a few years and we will all be ex
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
I now see groups of people just meandering between buzzwords and sort of calling it a career. Honestly I know people who were 'crypto developers' 3 years ago who are now 'senior AI implementation architects' and similar.
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by SolubleSnake 7mo ago
Hi I'm a big surfer (or have been most of my life but doing less now at 40!) also building a mobile game in Unity/C# right now although it's not surf related like yours it's actually based on Chinese Wuxia cinema from 5
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by SolubleSnake 8mo ago
I'm going to be controversial and say that this is an interesting spectacle but it is not even remotely comparable to the difficulty of what was going on in Free Solo. This is a circus trick by comparison to that. For example I think a
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by SolubleSnake 8mo ago
The Tao Te Ching is sort of impossible to translate into modern English. I don't really understand it but I can speak and read Chinese and it doesn't make much sense to Chinese people either. It is the weirdest thing that it has b
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by SolubleSnake 8mo ago
I love Aphex Twin but my only issue is he keeps saying in interviews how he hates surfers?! Being a proud Cornish surfer and one of his earlier fans this saddens me. We were his first fans! There used to be raves in Cornwall like the one in
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by SolubleSnake 1y ago
I agree that the term 'Engineer' has lost all meaning in the software/IT world. I studied CS at a UK uni which was a subject in the engineering school. I then worked with engineers on multidisciplinary projects (mechanical, e
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by SolubleSnake 1y ago
Linkedin is verging on unusable/not fit for purpose... Example, how can I see job adverts with very very niche requirements in quite unusual roles (one of which I do actually know about eg data 'migration projects for large compan
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by SolubleSnake 1y ago
There are a lot of sensible comments on this thread but seems not a very strong consensus. I can see why! ERP is an extremely complicated space... There was a thread a while ago about ERPs on a post about future start up ideas....i'll
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by SolubleSnake 1y ago
Location: Travelling SE Asia but I am British (Cornish) Remote: No preference. Worked remotely during COVID and a lot since. Most of my career has been office based. Willing to relocate： Yes Technologies: .NET, SQL Server, Angular for front
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by SolubleSnake 1y ago
As others have mentioned this is an extremely odd thing to expect to work.... I'll give an example. I worked for a FTSE 100 company using a very old Product Lifecycle Management system (model manager - based actually on pre-DOS techno
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by SolubleSnake 2y ago
If you are at all interested in getting into game development in Unity (so C#) then this is a great course - and free. Make a full game over a 10 hour youtube video (obviously not in one sitting!). I've been doing it and am at 5 hours
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by SolubleSnake 3y ago
Ah ok. I'm an interested in this as a topic and would like to take a stab at this as I think it's an almost impossible project. I would like to caveat any opinion first by saying these: I have a great deal of experience customizin
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by SolubleSnake 4y ago
Probably not there? Starting a business is expensive. Why would anyone in their right mind do it in California?
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by SolubleSnake 4y ago
This topic (whiteboarding in tech) is so common and SO boring! I work in an engineering org with ‘real’ engineers (mech eng, electrical, chemical eng etc) and I’m on a multidisciplinary team. No one tested my code on a whiteboard on the way
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by SolubleSnake 5y ago
Systems Engineer here! I studied computer science at one of the best U.K. universities but I currently work at a multinational engineering group in a team of chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers and I much prefer this kind of thing

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