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by mks 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote Worldwide I am an engineering lead with 20+ years of experience in software engineering in startup, scaleup and enterprise. I bring both product and technical sides together in my experience, so I can help you
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by mks 2y ago
I am bored of AI - it produces boring and mediocre results. Now, the science and engineering achievement is great - being able to produce even boring results on this level would be considered SCI-FI 10 years ago. Maybe I am just bored of pe
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by mks 2y ago
Your hands are the most practical brain-computer interface you have. With touch typing it really feels like you are controlling computer with your mind - for me it's absolutely worth the time investment. I was lucky my father prompted
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by mks 2y ago
Add the persistent anxiety that you are missing something you should not have and you end up with constantly refreshing the feed instead of working - just like social media and exact opposite of what you want. MS Teams cause enough headache
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by mks 3y ago
There's so much more to CSV file import than just uploading and parsing - service like this can become backbone of any enterprise data exchange pipeline. For real mission critical use cases you need features like being able to ingest m
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by mks 4y ago
This site is quintessential Czech humor, similar in spirit to recent Kralovec annexation and Jara Cimrman. Thank you for linking it here.
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by mks 4y ago
Great video. It shows how much climbing (and lot of other things) is in your head and your repeated experience. The route (5.9/5a/VI) must be laughably easy for Midtbø who climbs 5.15/9a/XI+ yet he is quite understandabl
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From a two month to a two week release cycle(gohealth-slovakia.medium.com)
1 points by mks 5y ago|0 comments
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The “Jira mindset” is damaging your data science team(towardsdatascience.com)
4 points by mks 7y ago|0 comments
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by mks 7y ago
Maybe the SkySail could own the sail system and sell the "thrust" - basically charging a success fee for saved fuel. In a similar vein in how the airlines don't own the engines of their airplanes but rent them from manufactur
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by mks 8y ago
It will be difficult and frustrating, but can be also fun and rewarding in addition. Here are some pracoval tips that worked for me in similar situations. Treat everyone with respect - everyone has a story and being competent developer is n
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by mks 8y ago
Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - great inspiration for regaining playfulness. Particularly this quote applicable to many burnt out developers I believe: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physi
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by mks 9y ago
Maybe the times are different now than in the past or the food industry works on different timescales before they kill off something. Possibly because the investment is much bigger than software - they mention building a whole new factory f
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by mks 9y ago
It intrigues me that the experts and their market research told them it will fail. Did they just do a lousy research or was the idea too innovative? How is it possible to distinguish between those cases (bad research vs no one will buy it v
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by mks 10y ago
The best observation from the article is that payment system complexities are not entirely technical. Some that we experience: The domain is really complex - credit card transactions have many variables that can make endpoints unhappy, add
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Edge Case Bias(michalkostic.com)
1 points by mks 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Become a Senior Developer(michalkostic.com)
1 points by mks 10y ago|0 comments
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by mks 11y ago
Your issuer could talk directly to your private wallet (e.g. on your phone or on server). You could preapprove requests coming from your issuer to be automatically executed so that there is no payment delay. This scenario would be somewhat
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by mks 11y ago
Sorry for the linkbaity cliffhanger. Occasionally there exists a situation when there is huge demand for shipments in one direction (e.g. Hong Kong to Singapore) while there is not much traffic the other way round. Shipping companies then n
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by mks 11y ago
I fondly remember interning at major freight forwarder during university. The main input interface was paper which was them keyed into the mainframe application. Only the biggest partners have been integrated via EDI. So just putting sensib
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by mks 11y ago
For me this means you have to be able to reason about your code. When you write a piece of code you need to understand what it does, how it behaves and why it behaves the way it does. It is not uncommon to reveal bugs during code review jus
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Advantages of Rapid Prototyping in Java(michalkostic.com)
2 points by mks 11y ago|0 comments
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by mks 12y ago
The checklist oscilates between high level (does it work?) and very specific - even stuff auto format could take care of (braces). Creating such an checklist is great exercise though - writing my own made me think heavily on what is importa
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Code review checklist(michalkostic.com)
2 points by mks 12y ago|0 comments
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by mks 13y ago
This > NoFlo graphs instead are only the coordination layer that manages the control flow of your software. reminds me a lot the whole SOA/BPEL/BPMN mess that was hot few years ago in enterpriseland. The surge in visu
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by mks 14y ago
OOP is great when your main focus are data structures. Many enterprise applications are basically just transforming data from one system to another. Being able to come to an unknown code and figure out what is the format of input and output
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by mks 14y ago
We (plumgine.com - in private beta) have been using Java with a success with Play Framework and asynchronous AJAX fronted (some parts with Backbone.JS). I have been using Java for a while (8 years - J2EE, Android, some desktop utils) and ba
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The Best Code Editors for Android(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by mks 15y ago|0 comments
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by mks 15y ago
Ok, thanks. It seems that apart the obvious stuff (Menu+Back buttons) it is mostly tweaking the app to use the correct widgets/APIs for the task. Based on various comments about porting I was affraid I am missing some grand user experience
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by mks 15y ago
I often hear about important UI changes when porting from iPhone to Android to make the app look more native. Could you (OP or anyone else with the experience) be more specific of what they are? Some examples?

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