Пытаюсь создать репозиторий на Gitee (китайский аналог GitHub). Оказывается, чтобы иметь там аккаунт нужно иметь китайский телефонный номер. Такой вот у них open source, только для своих. Может быть слово "open" неправильно перевели? Или кто-то специально вставляет палки в колеса, что им, что нам?

p.s. Общее впечатление от платформы — сделана неряшливо, баги в интерфейсе на каждом шагу, плюс китайский язык вперемежку с ломаным английским.

Порекомендовали мне посмотреть фильм Территория (1978) от Александра Сурина. Кино конечно не высшей пробы, но несколько интересных и поучительных мыслей в нем есть. Вот одна из них (осторожно, сексизм!).

I stumbled upon the book The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher. In 2011, they suggested using "a simple technique of describing your program in plain English and using that description to help you write more natural code,” speculating that “if you can't describe the problem or your design in words, something is probably missing or undefined." Now, in 2024, this idea is very relevant, and we have a proper listener and judge: ChatGPT. We need to practice this skill of explaining our code in plain English, in order to get a proper advice from the LLM on what's wrong with the design and how to fix. #books

Я буду в эту пятницу в Новосибирске. Есть желающие организовать встречу и общение? Желательно где-то в Академгородке.

Ten (!) years ago, we tried to create Thindeck, a cloud serverless hoster of containers. At that time, it didn't work, for a number of reasons. Now it's called Google Cloud Run and AWS AppRunner. Everything has its time :) #justsaying

"OpenAI acquired Multi, a startup focused on enterprise video-first collaboration, built by an ex-Dropbox product manager and an ex-Google software engineer. Multi will shut down after July 24, and most of its team will join OpenAI in an acqui-hire deal." — this story perfectly explains the trend: large companies don't care about your innovative ideas, they need you to work for them. Stop dreaming, become an employee.

"Obviously, an architect is usually someone who has the most knowledge, skills, experience, and authority. Of course, an architect usually knows more than others and is able to communicate his knowledge with diplomacy and pedagogy when required. An architect is usually one of the smartest guys on the team. This is not, however, what makes him/her an architect. Instead, an architect is the one who takes the blame for the quality."

— What Does a Software Architect Do? (2014)

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