devdude1337

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by devdude1337 13d ago
I find it strange that many people think there’s no technical reasons to oppose vibe coding. Every opposition to it is quickly denounced with strawman and ad hominem arguments.
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by devdude1337 1mo ago
Build yourself a 6502 microcomputer. It’s fairly simple and there’s complete board designs available. The reason is that the CPU is simple enough to quickly grasp all important concepts, and it is still available. Starting with x86 might be
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by devdude1337 1mo ago
People should realize that programming is not a liability. Programming per se is the actual creation of detailed knowledge by writing. You get a task, how does it interact with all other invariants? What are the implications on data flow, p
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by devdude1337 2mo ago
This may sound a little bit ridiculous, but if you’re really into computers: Grab a 6502, build a computer yourself - the chips are cheap and overall availability is good. Try writing a small operating system, an interpreter like Basic or L
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by devdude1337 2mo ago
I start to think most people in Software don’t care at all. Before LLMs they were forced to at least pretend and they had been guarded by more and more style guiding, architecture, frameworks and agile ceremony. I care alot about software a
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by devdude1337 3mo ago
It doesn’t make any sense. If you can build a business purely with LLMs, then it’s even easier to copy it. Producing much output fast was never valuable, but those Valley guys seem to run around like headless chicken on crack (wait does cra
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by devdude1337 3mo ago
Why would anyone want to do that? Why not automate these tasks and let Claude handle everything on its own? If the maintenance and implementation can be done by an LLM, I see no logical reason to keep a human employed for lower work.
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by devdude1337 3mo ago
There is much beauty in the C-code of the compiler.
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by devdude1337 4mo ago
don'hurt me…
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by devdude1337 2y ago
Most job postings are fake / ghost jobs. Some are used for companies to evaluate the talent pool and find the lowest possible wages. Others are made to collect and even sell your data. You can identify those by their vague generic desc
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by devdude1337 2y ago
For any production ready software you plan a budget around the cost of a new car. Mostly even a lot more. Just finishing a software project takes at least 80% of time and money besides the other 80% already done. Sounds funny, but I want to
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by devdude1337 2y ago
It depends on many factors. No policy fits every team or situation. If feedback times - weather due to pipeline or personal/reviews - are long, I would also push larger PRs. Also reviews rarely really improve anything besides bikeshedd
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by devdude1337 2y ago
The author seems to try to enforce programming constraints in order to fix one problem they identified, to fix all related problems that may occur in future. It is obvious that he doesn’t have experience with long living systems, behause th
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by devdude1337 2y ago
You can try voluntary work. Working in animal shelters, or as you mentioned red cross / caritas could offer such opportunities. See, whatever you do, it will teach you required skills for any job and build up reputation. And it change
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by devdude1337 2y ago
When I did game dev I often went for an even driven approach or messaging based systems combined with oop and state machines to prevent eventual consistency locally. It works great in that domain, albeit not being the most performant soluti
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by devdude1337 2y ago
I had a client that enforced writing every customer facing software in C++14. In 2024 they suddenly need to support various web technologies and modern web infrastructure. They still rely on their language limitations and don’t get stuff do
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by devdude1337 2y ago
I assume you mean information density? If so programming languages basic information density is set by their amount of keywords and symbols used for parsing. But there also is implicit density caused by every abstraction - therefor a Lisp c
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by devdude1337 2y ago
In Germany I often come across MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node.JS. Also Java Spring, ASP.net and MySQL is still in use heavily here. Agencies and E-Commerce mostly have PHP backends and React frontends including Next.JS. Hard t
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by devdude1337 2y ago
A decompressed 4k texture uses ~80-90MB of VRAM. Your development tools index millions of lines of code. Not sure what your terminal does tho. But finally it’s mostly the massive amount of data modern applications have to handle effectively
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by devdude1337 3y ago
I would recommend to not use a framework at all. I usually maintain legacy projects and modernize them for my clients. Whatever you feel is the latest shiny thing will be the legacy horror of tomorrow. If I’m free to decide the tech stack i
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Never work for free! Either cash or equity. You should expect an equity relative to your amount of work multiplied by the median freelancer hourly rate in your region. For example: I put in 3 months of work, that should be at least 30.000$
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by devdude1337 3y ago
In 2021 and 2022 companies hired developers in masses. Low interest rates and a boom mentality lead to an extraordinary number of projects being started even if not profitable. In hindsight it was very similar to the dotcom boom. Now as int
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Hey friend ;) Freelancer from Germany here. While I don’t know much about the markets outside of the EU I hope I might still have some helpful advice. First things first: make sure to have enough saved cash to endure at least 6 months witho
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by devdude1337 3y ago
You can of course hire a contractor and tax them as usual business costs. But for a permanent position the employee needs a European Social ID, a Tax ID, health care account and a bank account. All this is needed before you can pay the empl
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by devdude1337 3y ago
What makes you think that developers from Brazil, Vietnam, Canada, Egypt or the US would demand so much lower wages? I helped companies onboarding people from all over the globe, and every developer (at least those we met and signed) know
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Many managers I got to know have a hard time expressing themselves in English properly. They fear miscommunication and the administrative work connected to non-German employees.
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Freelance developer from Germany here. There is a significant drop in projects and a slowdown in permanent offerings, but no layoff wave like in the US. Demand is still high but due to the current recession most companies delay hiring for n
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Does a 10x artist exist? Or a 10x football player? How about a 10x manager? While outstanding talent does exist, it is extremely rare and often can only thrive in specific environments. Also who is the average engineer? If you put the best
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by devdude1337 3y ago
Automotive, industry - IoT, embedded stuff and machine control. Yet, web technologies are used more and more. Qt, for example, is slowly being replaced by web interfaces. CAN bus is getting replaced by MQTT as microcontrollers are becoming
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by devdude1337 3y ago
The phenomenon has a term: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th... Without referring to the article, my advice is to set hard quality criteria for his work. Also you could insist on test coverage and

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