elmarschraml

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by elmarschraml 3y ago
Depends a lot on your situation: Does "CTO" mean you are the tech lead of a small (single team) engineering organization? Then everything written for staff engineers applies. E.g I've heard good things about "Staff engin
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by elmarschraml 3y ago
Devastating. Ever since I met him as a young developer, when he was speaking at a local user group, I made it a point to catch any talk he gave at any conference I was at. He was one of the few people who combine huge competence and deep e
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by elmarschraml 5y ago
Second the recommendations for "an elegant puzzle" and "the manager's path". Cant believe this one has not been mentioned yet: "Becoming an effective software engineering manager" by James Stanier ( https:
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by elmarschraml 6y ago
Here is how that press release should have read: First paragraph: Get to the point (layoffs are happening) immediately, and state the concrete reasons why they are necessary. Second paragraph: Thank the people being laid off, call out some
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by elmarschraml 6y ago
Location: Munich, Germany Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Profile: Engineering Manager Experience: Software engineering background (Java, Web), project management experience, Consulting/Requirements/ProductOwner, Solution Desi
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by elmarschraml 6y ago
Skills are tactics. Dealing with a recession is about strategy. Most importantly: this is a time to focus on reducing risks, rather than maximizing profit. This is a crappy time to start a startup or being a freelancer. Keep your job, build
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by elmarschraml 8y ago
Having them do a code review (about 10-15 minutes), i.e. have a short (about 50-80 lines) piece of real code, that I have prepared with plenty of problem, messes, non-idiomatic code, or little ugly things. NOT a test as in "find the 10
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by elmarschraml 8y ago
Generally, asking opinions rather than specific technical answers. Asking "Do you have experience with technology X" is useless - everybody knows that "yes" is the expected answer. Asking specific technical questions is
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by elmarschraml 9y ago
- Savings: a few months' living expenses in a readily available cash account. What happens when you suddenly finding yourself having to pay a few hundred or thousand bucks for an emergency? Not having savings means "Panic mode &#
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by elmarschraml 9y ago
Unrelated to the site, but about the patents: How can a specific games console, like the Nintendo 64, be patented? The name of the product, and maybe some brand-specific design elements, is a registered brand, sure. But a patent is for an i
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
Back in the day, I really enjoyed "Practical C Programming". https://www.amazon.de/Practical-C-Programming-Nutshell-Handb... Short, easy to understand, but not over-simplified, and a practical, pragmatic approach
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
The 4 classic mistakes of programmers in their first "real" job (all made by myself, too, of course): 1) Spending a lot of time building something yourself, where you could have just used an existing library. Example: Writing XML
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
Listening to podcasts. Perfect for when both your eyes and hands are occoupied, but your brain is bored. To put in in less nerdy terms, cleaning, ironing and other housework, exercise and walking will never be boring again.
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
Dreamweaver is (or was, back in the day) a good implementation of a category of software that does not really exist any more. Back when the web stated, creating a web page meant mostly writing html, with a bit of graphics and scripting thro
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
The headphone port is inherently analog - more like power than VGA. With VGA, it made sense to switch to digital ports once the displays went all digital (flatscreens). With VGA, you were converting a digital signal to an analog signal just
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
Also mentioned in the article, in case you're not in the U.S.: Last year, the largest private collection of historic apple products has opened as a museum in Prague: http://www.applemuseum.com/en/about-us (Reviews
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by elmarschraml 10y ago
I've bought pretty much every previous generation of kindles, but don't see the point of this one. The voyage is already quite expensive for an ereader, and an upgrade of questionable value over the Paperwhite, and this one is sti
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by elmarschraml 11y ago
Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model. To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programm
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by elmarschraml 11y ago
If you're looking for a REPL for Java, try the Groovy shell (comes standard with an install of Groovy). Meant, as the name implies, for Groovy, but since Java is a subset of Groovy, works fine for any Java code, too. It's great fo
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by elmarschraml 11y ago
If you care about Javascript at all, this is a definite insta-buy. Axel is one of those rare people who combine a truly deep knowledge about tech stuff with the ability to speak and write about it in a way that's accessible and at the
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by elmarschraml 11y ago
Rails is faster for a rail trip duration of up to 4 hours (no security, no lines, no checkin, plus you arrive right in the city centre). Which, depending on the route, comes to somewhere between 200 and 450 miles of distance. As for me pers
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by elmarschraml 11y ago
Thanks, Jon, for all your reviews. It's a sad day to have to look forward to a new OS X release without a Siracusa review. How about a Kickstarter campaign to fund him taking a month off work to write another review? I bet we could get
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by elmarschraml 12y ago
Joel on Software is a classic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Sadly, a few years ago he mostly stopped writing about business and architecture, but the archives from around 2000 to 2005 are really good, and mostly timeless.
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by elmarschraml 12y ago
XSLT is one of those cases where the idea and the intention is great, but the actual implementation is horrible. I would love to see someone propose a modern alternative to XSLT, that works for the same use cases, but avoids XSLTs mistakes.
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by elmarschraml 13y ago
Off-topic: Does anybody know why you have to wait for a pedestrian crossing light to turn green at all? If it's usually green for car traffic all the time, and only turns green for pedestrians on request, why not change immediately whe
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by elmarschraml 13y ago
This is the best kind of startup - targeting an important problem whose current solutions are outdated and not very good. There are LOTS of seniors already using such a product (usually ordered by their concerned family), and a low monthly
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by elmarschraml 13y ago
Go work in industry for a bit before you go to grad school. Why? You already know academia, but not industry. There is a good chance that you will like working in industry, and after a year or two will think that going back to school would
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by elmarschraml 13y ago
The main ideas are good, but most specifics are unscientific at best. Nutrition is one of those fields where knowing what to do is easy, but actually doing the right thing is hard, so people tend to fall prey to promises of superfoods and s
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by elmarschraml 13y ago
Just like you are considering, I recently upgraded from a 2007 MBP to the current retina one. The biggest changes for me: - the retina screen really looks gorgeous, makes text look great - the ability to switch effective resolution between
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by elmarschraml 14y ago
Bike-for-hire systems are like public transport: hard to run at a profit, but useful for a city to have. Most systems I know (Velib in Paris, Callabike in Munich) are very popular, but effectively run and subsidized by the government. ViaCy

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