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21 ноября 2023 08:02

Happiness, according to Nietzsche, is “the feeling that power increases—that a resistance is overcome.” Therefore, in order to be happy, we must have some issues to deal with. It’s not enough to possess those cars, houses and well-paid jobs. We need to overcome the obstacles first. Happiness is simply impossible without a struggle being won. — Be Unhappy to Be Happy (2019)

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14 ноября 2023 08:03

If you are a manager I have a suggestion for you. Fire those who are ready to work overtime without any compensation. They are the trouble makers. Instead, work with those who are not afraid of putting their own interests on the table and demanding what’s theirs. They will make you stronger, … if you manage to configure your project to deal with their demands correctly. If you don’t, you will lose the money, the project, and your reputation. But you will learn something. — Altruism Kills! (2019)

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11 ноября 2023 07:21

Интервью опубликовано: 86 минут. Обсудили удаленную работу, менеджмент, жизнь в США, военные конфликты, политику, и перспективы.

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09 ноября 2023 04:15

Шестая лекция из SQM курса, посвященная coupling, в основном в объектно-ориентированном программировании. Смотрите: 79 минут.

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07 ноября 2023 04:57

Пятая лекция из курса SQM (Software Quality Metrics) опубликована: 80 минут (with Russian subtitles, auto-translatable to English). В ней речь идет о метрике для оценки качества кода, под громким названием Maintainability Index, предложенной в 1994 году. В конце лекции мы также кратко разбираем процесс написания empirical software engineering научных статей (студенты этим заняты) — может быть будет полезно.

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02 ноября 2023 11:19

Выложил новую лекцию номер 4 из курса Software Quality Metrics (SQM) для бакалавров ВШЭ (Москва): о метриках предложенных Maurice Halstead в 1977, но популярных до сих пор. Смотрите: 79 минут (with Russian subtitles auto-translatable to English).

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31 октября 2023 17:40

Tomorrow I will be recording an interview with Yakov Fain, an author of a few books about Java/JavaScript programming, an expert in software engineering, and the first guest of my Shift-M podcast — I interviewed him in 2017. Currently, he lives in USA and supports Ukraine and Israel (in recent military conflicts). Thus, it will be an interesting debate, I believe. What questions do you think I should ask him?

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30 октября 2023 17:40

Just published the 6th lecture from the PMBA course (about project management) for Innopolis students. It is about Resources Management — management of people. Watch it: 83 minutes (with AI-generated English subtitles).

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25 октября 2023 15:53

Обзорная лекция о причинах провалов software архитектур, на русском языке: 94 минуты. Старался сказать самое главное, уложившись в полтора часа.

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24 октября 2023 09:03

In an ideal world of ideal management, the project compensates the work of its programmers according to the metrics collected. Instead of salaries, programmers get money for features, bugs, documentation pages, and so on. How far your project is from this utopia—is the indicator of your professionalism as a project manager. Lousy managers don’t measure anything and make everybody “happy” by keeping wages high and control low … until the project runs out of money. On the other hand, exceptionally good managers let metrics control everybody, making the best happy and the worst … quickly find the way out. Which one are you? — To Measure or Not to Measure (2020)

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11 октября 2023 15:10

While preparing the next PMBA lecture, I stumbled upon this blog post, which I wrote almost eight years ago: How Do You Punish Your Employees? (2016). It's still very relevant and thought provoking, I believe: a sarcastic view on management so many people practice these days. Moreover, the blog post has Russian and Chinese translations: по-русски + 中文 (thanks to ChatGPT).

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11 октября 2023 06:27

The fourth lecture about Cost Management just published, from the "Project Management Beyond Agile" course in Innopolis University: 79 minutes. We not only discussed how money are supposed to be managed in a project, but also how to measure the value of a programmer in a project, in dollars.

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04 октября 2023 09:12

You know, there are a few very popular places in the Internet, that are curated aggregators of links, for example Hacker News and Reddit. Everyone can post a link to some blog post or a news article, letting the community upvote and discuss it. The most upvoted links stay at the top for some time, thus giving their authors additional attention and traffic to their websites. The key ingredient of success of such platforms is the cumulative opinion of thousands of people that up/down vote.

How about we replace all these people with ChatGPT and similar LLMs? We can build a similar aggregator, but instead of people — robots will upvote and discuss the links posted there. Moreover, how about we make robots post links too, by crawling Internet and finding most recently published blog posts and news? What do you think?

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03 октября 2023 14:10

Началось голосование за премию HighLoad++ среди отечественных open source проектов, среди которых и наш EOLANG. Голосуйте скорее! :)

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02 октября 2023 18:40

Только что выложил новую статью, с размышлениями об индивидуализме и коллективизме, а также о последствиях победы первого над вторым: Не такой как все! There is an English version too, translated by ChatGPT.

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16 ноября 2023 05:36

The eight lecture (out of 10) from the Project Management Beyond Agile (PMBA) course just published: about risk management. Watch: 81 minutes.

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14 ноября 2023 06:44

Седьмая лекция из SQM курса, о метрике LCOM для измерения cohesion классов в ООП, смотрите: 77 минут (with Russian subtitles).

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10 ноября 2023 15:57

Our Friday YouTube live Q&A session, starts in a few minutes: click here

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07 ноября 2023 08:03

When I interview programmers, I don’t pay attention to how much they know about Java, how well they understand OOP, or how many projects they’ve managed to complete to date. And, of course, I don’t care how potentially likable they are. Instead, I pay attention to how much they hate to see what doesn’t look right. I check how intolerant to chaos they are. To be honest, very few of them exhibit these qualities. — Talented Programmers, Who Are They? (2019)

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03 ноября 2023 13:25

Just published the 7th lecture of the PMBA course, about Communications Management: 75 minutes.

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01 ноября 2023 07:58

Have you already tried phind? They claim to be much better than ChatGPT 4.0 for coding tasks: HN discussion.

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31 октября 2023 08:03

Don’t sit and passively wait until your boss comes to you and say what exactly needs to be done. Instead, pro-actively build your own plans by yourself and do everything to convince the boss that they make sense. Moreover, if the boss starts telling you what to do, you must realize that this is the moment where the credit is lost. You’ve already been classified as a loser and an underachiever. Your chances of recovery are very low. You must not allow this to happen. Act proactively; don’t wait until it’s too late and the boss starts assigning tasks to you. — One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss (2020)

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27 октября 2023 09:06

In 2021, we had a few YouTube Q&A sessions with you guys: F1 and F2. You were asking questions in the chat and I was answering, to the camera. It seems to be reasonable to restart this "podcast." Today, at 18:00 (UTC+3) you can join F3 stream, where you can ask any questions you like (either in Russian or in English): software architecture, project management, object-oriented programming, teaching, research, science, lifestyle, politics.

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25 октября 2023 07:12

Just published the 5th lecture in the "Project Management Beyond Agile" course for Innopolis University BSc student. This one is about Quality Management. Watch it: 85 minutes.

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23 октября 2023 07:14

How about me directing a movie? Stay tuned :)

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11 октября 2023 12:32

Definitely worth watching this 2-hours dialogue between Joe Rogan and Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT), just published a few days ago. I enjoyed it. They talked about UBI, Superintelligent AI, Bitcoin, failure of FTX, corruption, society regulations, transhumanism, cancel culture, startups, testosterone drop, feminine men and violent women, conflict, ego, war, Twitter and hate speech, AGI, psychodelic retreats and LSD, fentanyl, virtual reality, religion, aliens and God. Surprisingly enough, I agree with them on most points.

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08 октября 2023 15:24

I just published the third lecture about Time Management, from the course "Project Management Beyond Agile" for Innopolis students: 82 minutes (with English subtitles). As all lectures in this course, this one is structured around eight questions where only one answer is correct.

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04 октября 2023 08:11

Опубликовал третью лекцию из курса Software Quality Metrics для студентов ВШЭ (Москва), на этот раз о метрике по имени Cognitive Complexity, которую всего несколько лет назад придумали в компании Sonar Source: 80 минут.

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03 октября 2023 09:17

I just sent a newsletter to 4865 subscribers. I summarized my last-month content that they might be interested in reading and watching. A few years ago I was sending such newsletters every month, then I got lazy. Now I'm trying to get back on track, promising myself to truly send them every month. You may join the list of newsletter receivers, just fill out this small online form.

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30 сентября 2023 13:04

Опубликовал вторую лекцию из курса "Software Quality Metrics" (ВШЭ, Москва), посвященную "Cyclomatic Complexity by Thomas J. McCabe" и сложности кода вообще: 79 минут. В ней также коснулись вопросов психологии программиста, который пишет сложно и этим очень гордится — я писал об этом ранее: The Better Architect You Are, The Simpler Your Diagrams (2015).