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by swisniewski 2y ago
I would be hard pressed to call the Linux Kernel a mono repo. It’s all one kernel really. The Kernel is a monolith, but that doesn’t make its repo a mono repo. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is a mono-repo. It has the kernel, all the user mode
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by swisniewski 2y ago
Have you had a conversation with your manager? If the policy requires S-Team approval, it could be hard at the SDE 3 level, though it should be much easier at the PE level. If your Director is willing to go to bat, and you have a track reco
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by swisniewski 2y ago
Ben Horowitz talks about this in “The Hard Thing about Hard Things”. He uses the metaphor of an Offensive Lineman and the concept of “giving ground begrudgingly”. His core concept is that one should slowly delegate responsibility. Not deleg
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by swisniewski 2y ago
Extension methods complicate implicit interfaces considerably. This is likely one of the reason they don’t exist in C#. It’s also one of the reasons GO doesn’t have extension methods. https://github.com/golang/go/i
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by swisniewski 4y ago
Kind of off topic, but you should always have line mangers on their teams on-call rotation.
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by swisniewski 4y ago
I am not a Lawyer…And not a dnd gamer… But this does not “cancel” existing licenses. Instead, what it does is create a hard fork, between 1.1 content and 1.0 content. Basically… any content released under the 1.1 license is not usable under
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by swisniewski 4y ago
The author has probably never written a compiler before. Inside any compiler, you are going to have “type keys” and switch statements all over the place. Even if you are writing a compiler in languages with builtin “tagged unions” and “patt