curiousgeek

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https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1695806027256475777

Is there a forum similar to HN where engineering managers and other people in the leadership ladder of companies discuss events and ideas?

https://opensource.com/article/17/9/6-lessons-rfcs

There’s a lot of talk about remote work nowadays. But has the lack of being able to be with co-workers harmed your career over the long run? Especially if the team is a mixture of remote and co-located people? How have you tried to mitigate that?

If you are a consultant, freelancer or in any other sense not a full time employee at a megacorp, how much time do you find yourself hustling for new work (i.e., networking with people, trying out new technologies, improving your online profile etc)?

Developers seem to like open source software and enjoy both using it and contributing back.If you are a product manager or in the business side of things (biz dev, sales etc), do you have an opinion on the increasing availability of high quality open source software? Do you see that as a net positive or negative?

If you are a software developer or if you work in a software related company, what's the age by you expect to be financially independent such that you no longer need to work solely for the money?What are some common mistakes software engineers make that prevent them from getting their sooner?

How big of a market do you feel developer tools are - IDEs, IDE plugins, build tools, monitoring tools etc? Is there space for small companies to build something and survive profitably here?How about if we extend the market to include programming frameworks, libraries and database systems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdZXrzuTxic

In the recent "Electron is like Flash" thread it was claimed by many people that desktop apps are much easier to create and have better tooling than for the browser.Is it a good idea to use desktop technologies for Intranet apps at least (with only API endpoints on the server)? Which stack would you recommend? How hard will it be to auto update the software?Thanks.

Author and computer science professor Cal Newport has written about the benefits of working on very cognitively demanding tasks in a mode of no interruptions or distractions, and progressively building the mental muscle to operate in such a mode.He calls this "deep work" and has written about it in detail in his 2016 book of the same name:...

Are there any application or technical areas in software where new frameworks are not replacing old ones every couple of years? At the same time, inspite of that engineers still get time to solve hard problems and do quality work within those constraints?

Considering how hard it is to build complex web apps, is it better to use traditional desktop technologies for in house web apps? Say Java Web start, for example?

While many of us have reasonably fulfilling professional lives, there is still the need to make mortgage payments and other financial needs that will keep us grinding away at a day job for years to come. And thus we find ourselves working on problems or industry sectors that we don't particularly care for.So I wanted to try this thought experiment: Imagine that you are immediately freed of all...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=559534

I have heard a good deal about how powerful type systems can help you model your domain and its constraints effectively. I am looking for a good resource on this topic, similar to how there exist books about Entity-Relationship modeling, or object oriented design. Do you know of any?

http://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a35725/women-in-tech-2016/

It's almost time for the monthly "Who is Hiring" thread!Considering how much time we spend discussing tech interviews here, wouldn't it be nice if each hiring post is accompanied by a line about the nature of the interview process?Examples:i) Interview process: two phone screens, 3 onsite whiteboardii) Interview process: two rounds on HackerRank, 5 onsite whiteboardiii) Interview process: one...

If you look at the software technology landscape over the last 8-10 years, you find many innovations coming from companies that are using software to solve specific business problems: search, advertising, social networks, media and communication (I am talking of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Uber and the like). The needs of these companies outgrew what commercially available software...

Cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are providing more and more tools that allow companies to build applications with far fewer engineers to handle the backend.Does this imply a gloomy long term outlook for engineers in other companies who do platform and infrastructure development? Are there any leading indicators of this trend?

I keep reading about how hard it is to find talented developers in the Bay Area and how easy it is to find work if you happen to be one.I was wondering if any one has studied the issue (recruiting companies, HR departments of large companies, universities etc) and come out with numbers regarding how many people are needed for such roles, how many engineers are colleges turning out and so on.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/08/17/judge-invalidates-component-foreign-student-work-program

In the last few years, the software industry has moved to deliver stuff over the Web or mobile, with the desktop slowly getting hollowed out.Reading the recent threads about Sublime Text and Atom is making me wonder if there's a blind spot amongst us programmers: What kind of desktop software can one still build and expect to make a living? (It could be for the casual user or tailored for...