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That was my first reaction, too, but then I had a second thought. Google is going to do this work on this in-tree or out-of-tree. If it is done in-tree, then there is a possibility that it will lead to core improvements that would benefit a
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Yes! I learned a number of languages from O'Reilly books and it is a qualitatively different experience than learning through a bunch of disconnected StackOverflow questions. Both modes of learning have their place and a combination of
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Looks like the exact same thing with the exact same name has been done before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171235
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This was very true for me, switching jobs after six years where I had become a domain expert. There is definitely a psychological aspect that makes it difficult—you feel awkward being the noob when you're used to being the expert. Ther
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I've read a fair number of the top level comments and I don't see anyone who develops like me, so I'll throw my hat into the ring. I'll start by saying that I've always worked at companies where the norm is trunk-ba
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That's disappointing if true. If you don't cannibalize your business, someone else will.
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There are reasons to believe "this time is different". Omicron was a huge wave through the population that had the potential to consume all the "fuel" (non-immune people), making future waves much more difficult to get s
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What is the I? I like MAGMA which requires using Meta but not Alphabet.
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It feels like there are as many git workflows as developers. Personally, for almost all of my development I work on a single commit at a time. When I'm positive some changed code is going to be in the final commit I `git commit --amend
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Raymond Chen is a treasure.
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Wow. This sounds just like me. Remote work really started getting to me around Jan 2021, at which point I started taking hour long walks every evening as a way to clear my head. This worked up until a point, but after another 6 months and g
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I'm not saying he shouldn't speak up against a toxic work environment. I'm saying he's doing it on LinkedIn in a way that makes him look bad and could hurt his future career prospects.
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I feel for the guy—taking the post at face value, it sounds like he had a shitty team and a shitty manager. At the same time, this post does not make me want to hire him and in fact quite the opposite. He seems to be fairly junior, but even
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Embrace the ambiguity. People argue what it means for something to be a sandwich as well, and "tech debt" is just a tad more ambiguous. But as a metaphor and concept, it seems to be quite sticky and we've been talking about i
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I only have my narrow view of the industry (a handful of teams across 4 different companies) but I disagree with the premise. It seems to me that software quality is on average better than when I started out in the industry in the mid-2000s
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I certainly understand why various sites, including mainstream and social media sites, dropped their RSS feeds, but it's never made sense to me why browsers did (especially when browsers have so many features). It seems to me RSS is go
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Found this through url hacking: https://kinesis-ergo.com/wp-content/uploads/Adv360-Overhead_...
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This is one of the most frustrating product pages I've ever seen. All I want to see is high resolution photos of the keyboard from the top and back. The top view image is 400x300 pixels. The design looks nice, but not having function k
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I'm a staff/principal at a FAANG. My experience agrees with the other answers here that "it depends"—specifically, on what the larger org or team needs from me at the moment. There is a chunk of consistent work, though,
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Agreed. Exceptions tend to trivially respect the Liskov substitution principle and generally hold little state besides a debugging string. It's when you subclass an object as a method of code reuse that you start running into problems.
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Agree that this is black bar-worthy. His name is all over so many parts of the Python ecosystem. Author of etree, re, and the original unicode implementations for Python.
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https://lwn.net/Articles/548560/ I really enjoyed the article above, which I read many years ago (before Rust 1.0!) which discusses how Golang and Rust handle polymorphism and code-reuse without classic object inh
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We have Applescript to thank, in part, for podcasting. Adding media enclosures to RSS happened in 2001, but it was in 2003 that iTunes Applescript capabilities were used to transfer audio files automatically from an RSS reader into an iTune
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At the advent of the iPhone, I was 100% all-in on the Apple ecosystem. However, the lack of sideloading pushed me to Android and over time I've become more and more satisfied with that choice, even though I rarely sideload applications
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Technically, you can define a median for ordinal data, like age and household income. Median for categorical data like college education and race is mostly nonsensical, except maybe you could say that a median only exists if there is a cat
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When I first heard about premortems, the application was project planning. Before embarking on a project, you'd assume it failed and try to root cause the failures. You'd then take action to mitigate these risks (or possibly scrap
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Rather than ask "what could go wrong?" the standard technique of premortems[1] is to imagine an specific thing went wrong and then brainstorm root causes. Our brains are much more creative when working backwards this way. I'v
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Point notwithstanding, this article says that its own title is wrong: "Non-college whites over 50 are a minority of the electorate".
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Yes, that is exactly what is happening here! When the Rustacean Principles were created, Niko said in his blog post[1] that the idea of creating principles was inspired by AWS. Not that the principles themselves were taken from AWS. Writing
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Agreed. I don't think everyone can be great at everything. There are some basic levels of competencies that are required though and, most importantly, people need to be able to respect the strengths of others that don't align with

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