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lichess.org 1mo ago

2 Years of Programming Chess Apps: My Lessons

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Mercedes-Benz won regulatory approval for level 3 driving in Germany

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www.redox-os.org 5y ago

Open Source and Mental Health

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www.mckinsey.com 5y ago

When code is king: Mastering automotive software excellence

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 5y ago

Software Architecture: How You Make Them Care

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Christmas Rituals During a Pandemic?

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shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com 5y ago

Evidence-based software engineering: book released

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signalsandthreads.com 5y ago

Builds Systems – Interview with Andrey Mokhov

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research.google 6y ago

What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 6y ago

Pondering a Monorepo Version Control System

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Tooling to skip/speed up CI steps?

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 6y ago

Definitions of Software Architecture

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Should version control and build systems merge?

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Companies Are AI

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vasters.com 7y ago

Data Encodings and Layout

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

C++ State Machines

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Tipiwiki (2003)

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Deriving Story Points

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

The Spartan Web

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groups.google.com 7y ago

Mercurial rollout on the massive Google monorepo continues

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

The “Waterfall” methodology was a historic accident and they knew it

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

How to implement strings

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 7y ago

Advice for a Junior Software Developer

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aaronparecki.com 7y ago

An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet

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medium.com 7y ago

Liberapay status update

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Using manyrepo and happy with it?

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 8y ago

Lambda interpreter in the way of GOD

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www.eweek.com 8y ago

Canonical on Path to IPO as Ubuntu Unity Linux Desktop Gets Ditched

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blog.ptsecurity.com 8y ago

Intel ME: The Way of Static Analysis

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Sounds dangerous for liability reasons. Sometimes it is important to not write things down and have plausible deniability. Courts getting access to everything the CEO knows is not something a corporation wants.

I'm working on automotive safety-critical security-critical stuff. There is structure and bureaucracy around this stuff.

For example, a project gets a safety managers assigned who has to sign off the release. Project management is explicitly not superior to this safety manager. In most cases these safety managers are just there review stuff according to some process guidelines. If there is pressure (project is late, etc), there are more senior safety managers to call in and they will usually make more nuanced safety arguments (in this specific case, violate this guideline, but at least do X as mitigation).

In the end there is bureaucracy. Things need to be signed and archived for potential law suits. Not having archived things will be even worse in the law suits.

The upside: As a programmer, you don't need to argue that you need some time for unit testing.

The downside: 100% test coverage is mandatory and it really gets enforced.

I'd say an architect is kind of the opposite from a specialist. The specialists cares about the stuff only they know. The architects care about the stuff everybody should know.

Anyways, it's similar in my company. People get the architect title, so managers can justify the salary promotion.

Probably, but you want to version control assets too.

People usually mention git-lfs at this point, but that is always annoying to use in practice. There is also shallow-clones and sparse-checkouts, but these only mitigate the problem as there is no way around cloning at least one revision completely with git.

I use Le Chat free tier. Not as good as ChatGPT free tier but sufficient for 90% of my uses.

I tried Mistral Vibe (Claude Code equivalent) free tier for a week. I hit web_search limits but not limits for devstral-2. For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.

For my mental model how White House politics work, this article was very influential: https://www.thewrap.com/obama-aides-say-veep-accurate-west-w...

“The funny thing about ‘Veep’ is, we as people who worked in the White House always get asked, okay, what’s the most real? Is it ‘House of Cards? Is it ‘West Wing’? And the answer is, it’s ‘Veep.’ Because you guys nail the fragility of the egos, and the, like, day-to-day idiocy of the decision-making,” Vietor said.

Same vibe as "conspiracy theorists are optimists because they believe there is a great plan."