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msolujic

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Software entrepreneur, founder of fittico.com @msolujic
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msolujic··on A $309B Bet Fuels 24/7 Dollar Banking Without Borders
Available without paywall here https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/stablecoin-boom-fuels-24-7...
msolujic··on From project to product: Architecting the future of enterprise technology
One thing here is bit strange How patterns can replace good old reviews. It is not explained what kind of patterns those are
msolujic··on Mullenweg Says Lawsuits Could End WordPress
Is this another example of Tragedy of Commons?
msolujic··on Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?
Few weeks ago archeologists found similar, older settlement bit west from that one, that belongs to Vinca culture, that spanned in current Serbia, South Hungary and western Romania Here is HN story about it

Archaeology team discovers a 7k-year-old settlement in Serbia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220691

All those are obviously connected and related

msolujic··on Google layoffs: Company fires entire Python team for 'cheaper labour'
Agreed. Munich is crazy expensive Serbia or Romania get a much better bang for a buck. Maybe this is part of long-term term strategy to move "commodity" roles to cheaper markets amid recent FTC decision on forbiden non-compete ...
msolujic··on Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
A transcript of the original speech at Harvard, June 1995, should be e.g. at

https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/psychology-of-human-mi...

A recording of the original speech is at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY

msolujic··on The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud
There is one more player joining that small club, Huawei
msolujic··on Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation
It is a very sad thing to remove TLD for any country, no matter if it does not exist anymore. As the author underlined, tons of valuable and interesting historical resources are lost for good. ICANN should change this rule, IMHO.
msolujic··on AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
I hope some of open solutions for policy management will prevail soon,like OPA, and all public cloud providers give support for it.

I did not expect from AWS to simply support OPA in this phase of problem/market fit for the complex system Auth. Still, not happy with yet another siloed solution which is proprietary to one cloud.

msolujic··on The Art of the Romanian Haystack
Reminded me of my childhood in Serbia, western neighbour of Romania, where we used to have same hay stacks [1], but now those are very hard to see, since modern methods prevailed for hay collection and transportation. Not sure tbh, why this thing is called Romanian in first place.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=stogovi+sena

msolujic··on Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
Andrew of Mixergy podcast recently had great guest and episode related to better schooling with Chrisman Frank, the founder of Synthesis.

Intro: If youve been a long-time listener you might have heard me complain about my education. So much so that a guest at one time told me to stop. But I still think there should be a better way. Another person who feels that way is Elon Musk. He hired someone to create a whole new curriculum for his kids. Well, todays guest got to see inside that program and he was so blown away by it that he created a company that kids outside of SpaceX can get access to.

duration: 1:03h

Episode Download link (58 MB): https://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Chrisman-Frank-Synthesi...

Show Notes: https://mixergy.com/interviews/synthesis-with-chrisman-frank...

msolujic··on The Programmer's Brain
This. I also wished we learned more about this in my CS degree college classes. Luckily, there is pretty good podcast series that helped me structure team leadership, management and other non technical skills. It is called: Manager tools. Here is the list of all topics on politics [1] with intro to 101 series saying this: "Your organization is MUCH more political than most of us realize. For those who know it's political, some say, I'm not going to play that game. Either state of being - not seeing the politics, or ignoring them, is unfortunate. Professional Life is HUMAN life, and that means it's emotional, and therefore political. Engineers, software designers, technical people take note: hate those marketing and sales people all you want, but they're gonna end up being your boss unless you recognize the value of political, or put differently, non-rational, decision making."

I highly recommend this series at least.

[1] https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/politics#

msolujic··on Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
This is pretty opposite of the truth. In the recent NPR podcast they talked about the fact that inventor of rapamycin practically cured himself of late stage cancer (given up to 6m of life, lived 5 years) His cancer was nowhere to be found. Then he decided to prove rapsmycin was the cause, stopped taking it, and died very shortly of cancer. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dirty...
msolujic··on Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
Yes, he talked extensively about rapamycin on the recent Tim Ferriss show podcast, in terms of its potential to extend lifetime. [1]

Also, scientist who has found this compound and saved it in his freezer to be used for transplants rejection problems, applied rapamycin on himself when he was given 6m to live prognosis based on late stage cancer he had. He lived 5 more years, and died short after he stopped taking rapamycin, to prove it was responsible for the cure. Amazing story.

[1] https://tim.blog/2021/06/08/peter-attia-2/

msolujic··on McKinsey suffers from collective self-delusion
There is pretty illustrative TV series for the management consulting, House of Lies [1] Of course there is some comedy and all, but surprisingly solid and realistic picture of that business.

[1] https://www.sho.com/house-of-lies

msolujic··on Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
Good start for this vast and complex topic. One thing that pops out here as missing is Data Mesh [1] It is emerging pattern for complex data management and data exchange between multiple products and product components/services.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html

msolujic··on Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
Yep. That was intentionally put at song start :)
msolujic··on Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
This reminds to that brilliant ad in 80's I want my MTV [1] where people are used to put pressure to networks in order to get MTV on

Some numbers: Estimated revenue loss of 50% from audience networks [2]

[1] https://totally80s.com/article/march-1982-i-want-my-mtv-camp...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/26/facebook-apple-ios-14-could-...

msolujic··on Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics
Agreed for most what was said there. Still, I find that people mostly use SLA as only thing important to track for alerting and incidents arousal. There is a lot of said about importance of defining solid SLI - Service Level Indicators which are aligned to SLO - Service Level Objectives SLAs are usually given to external user of SaaS, not very useful for SRE team.
msolujic··on The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia
Nice find. I'll try to get parts and assemble it for myself as well. Maybe engage my kid into magic of computer science as a side effect ;)
msolujic··on The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia
This brings back many memories.. I owe my early amazement of being able to "tell machine what you want and it will obey" to guys like that. Here is another nice piece that puts more context on that era and creation of Galaxija [1]

BTW, Voja Antonic left Belgrade few years ago, now living in US.[2]

[1] https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-story-of-yugoslavias-di...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voja_Antoni%C4%87

msolujic··on Encouraging a culture of written communication
> My other musing on this is that I've always wondered if there would be value in teams establishing an internship or low/mid level position for a technical writer to serve as a team librarian.

What if the communication tool can help to sort out communication messinnes and produce knowlege base as team uses it. Like this one https://9mcollab.com/

Full disclosure: I am advisor to young team behind it

msolujic··on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
It seams to me that this bust of economy that is rolling has potential to be even more destructive than previous one of 2008. Brace yourself. Here is good list of advices in case of layoff, it was posted in HN few days ago https://jacobian.org/2020/mar/13/layoffs-are-coming/
msolujic··on IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
This is great news. NPR Planet money podcast cover this topic in detail past 2 years

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

msolujic··on Meetup.com alternatives
Pls add Belgrade, Serbia
msolujic··on In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything
I would add one important thing: it does not apply to business and politics when you want self serving or short term results. Otherwise, I would argue that it still applies. This is what Jim Collins found with his colleagues in research about exceptional CEOs, and put in book "Good to great"
msolujic··on The Slackification of the American Home
https://www.google.rs/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlass...
msolujic··on Skara Brae – Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
Recently visited Lepenski Vir, oldest urban setlement known in Europe. http://www.serbia.com/visit-serbia/cultural-attractions/arch... Highly recommended for anybody interested into dawn of civilisation
msolujic··on Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
Ha you considered using GAME coin instead? https://gamecredits.com I is leading solution for gaming ecosystem Disclosure: I am part of the GameCredits team
msolujic··on The great self-esteem con
Another great book on subject: "Nurture shock"
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