As a software engineer with little memory of maths from school :( I have become obsessed with machine learning and all of the advancements in AI. So much so, my curious mind is starting to learn pytorch and some of the associated maths (I feel like I'm learning things and making hands on progress).Have any SEs learnt similar? Did it help at all with work, did you move over to a different role...
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There has been a housing crisis since the late 90s in most countries around the world. We as techies MUST be able to combine house building and apps to solve this problem.How can we solve this problem?
Hi HN, I'm an experienced engineer. I can build things. Alas I do not know what to build .. shall we build a product in this threadAka This thread == product ideas, documentation, recruitment, team building.. GitHub repo info.. etcSo. What shall we build?
Let's be fair... If automation dies what we all probably think it will. Everything is going to be abundant and free. Music perhaps is the best example. It used to be £25 to buy an LP in the UK. Include inflation and it's a lot more.Forward to today, housing is in crisis everywhere. From London to Sydney, every single western city is unaffordable for all.My ask is this, can we yes WE digital...
Hello HN'ersI've been working professionally as a software engineer for 10 years+. I'm pretty good with cloud computing, building services and all that goes along with that.I'm also a creative person but really have kind of ignored UX and design.. I'd love to strengthen my skills here so that I could essentially build any kind of app or website with world class UX + design.Are there any...
Hey HN,I'm a software engineer and seem to spend more and more time writing pretty much the same system. Read message from x, call api, call api... respond etc etc. It's is integration work largely but it seems to be becoming the norm. I've had an idea to essentially distill those patterns in a Saas system. Is this a stupid idea or not? Would any of the engineers/managers entertain using such a...
Hi,A question for engineers who have been tech leads. Where did your career progress to, what was your next role?I ask this as a current tech lead, trying to work out the next stage in my career and where I might like to go.
Honestly I'm not a bit fan of anything Orm like, as such there is some magic, I believe out of the box it will literally just create tables and keys for you.
For what it is, it's very fast for prototyping things out.
I would personally just use the in built jsonb functionality of postgres and build out my own repositories. Saves confusion from all of the magic.
My 2 pence
Western exonomies are about to collapse, it is becoming apparent that food is still being produced, we are fed, sheltered and community spirit is high. We are going to survive and the government are going to pump billions into each of our economies.Given that society is so advanced that our food is ordered through the internet and our total abundance underlined. Will a new system prevail, will...
Like mathematical syntax fits mathematical logic. So SQL matches data retrieval. Let's stop trying to replace it just because it's old. SQL is amazing.
Hello,Just wondering if anyone is in the music technology space, where is the industry heading? Is Spotify the last word. It seems like there's innovation happening with machine learning, recommendations etc, what comes next?
A question, perhaps to anybody who has lived through this situation.I am luckily in an economic position to do one of the following over the next 4 years.a) Pay off mortgage on small house b) Sell said house and buy bigger house with mortgage that will last me another 10-20 years.Has anybody faced such a situation? I quite like the idea of paying off the mortgage and slowly becoming self...
Go forth Microsoft, the standard bashing in these communities is unjust.
It's starting to feel like the JavaScript 'ecosystem' is broken. Especially npm and the proliferation of small libraries written by inexperienced developers. When is the industry going to move on? Angular is a behemoth.If the idea is to simplify with modules, I think they miss the point. The 'old' server side libraries, flask, ror, even .net MVC look elegant and simple in comparison.When will...
Honestly, i can't see them going anywhere, especially Python.
Might as well learn Clojure, you have ten years..
C seems to not be going anywhere ever. Will there be that many new technologies??
I notice there's a lot of finance work in C++. Do you expect this trend to continue?
I have around 9 yrs experience as a C# developer, I'd really like to try something new and learn C++, ideally in a C++ environment. C# is great but the lower level stuff is starting to attract me.Does anyone have any experience in crossing technology / language without commercial experience?