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I really love Copilot. I had a trial, let it expire because I thought I wouldn't really need it, and then ended up paying for it. It's apparently got even better. For me, at least,…

The Elephant In The Brain and A Philosophy of Software Design!

Are they on the Destroy All Software membership or somewhere else?

I don't think there's been any better value for me than Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software. I randomly stumbled upon it way back in 2014 when I had just learned my first program…

Write a lot! Writing will almost always force you to think clearly, notice gaps, and just generally get a better understanding of what you are trying to do. Write down everything, …

Assuming you have some experience building simple single-node systems: - Read Designing Data Intensive Applications. As others have said, it's a gem of a book, very readable, and i…

Looks pretty interesting. I took a computer architecture class in Jan-Feb this year, and it was one of my favorite things in a long time. I've written software for ~6 years but I d…

Yeah, although I think understanding how computers work at a basic level (the components of a CPU, what instructions are, caches, etc.) has a pretty good ROI because it makes it ea…

I've found it hard to be consistent with it, but basically just waking up really early. I get ~4 hours of calm, focused time to read or do whatever I want.

Depends on how you define advanced, but check out: * Low Level JavaScript https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56l7uZA209tlPTVOJiJ8Tw * David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/…

Agreed. I'm reading it just now and it is really high quality. Just the chapter on transactions is probably the best explanation of a single topic that I've read in any technical b…

Most enterprise businesses win because of better sales and distribution, but your product ultimately has to support your sales. Salesforce had both (and other advantages). How does…

I'm not sure it's the cheap companies or developers driving this. Even companies that pay really well produce pretty slow software (Gmail, etc.). It's mostly the ecosystem in which…

The likelihood that people who created Electron don't understand caches or cache locality is close to zero. That's an oversimplification. Electron is a large project that does many…

Possible. For me, it's a bunch of small things. I have three mailboxes. For one, search is almost always slow and incorrect. To the point where I usually have to load Gmail's web U…

Mail.app on macOS. Some macOS apps are really great (Notes or Safari for example), but the average quality is poor. Mail, for example, is slow, search almost never works, etc.

Thank you, that sounds very reasonable!

How long did it take you to complete it on your own, including the exercises?

Things 3, it's a joy to use. I wish there were a mail app of similar quality! Other than Things, the native Apple Notes app is great. It's simple, fast, and works with a fuss. Sync…

Not the OP, but I would definitely pay that.

I'm currently close to finishing their course on computer architecture. I'm self-taught; for me, it has been absolutely worth the money. I had learned a bit of architecture on my o…

> I suggest everyone take a minicourse or read a book on systems engineering - at least the part where they discuss requirements. The fact that two distinct entities have an identi…

Yeah, we were taught "learnt" in school (British English).

The Page Object pattern is common in Ruby (and some JS frameworks, like ember.js) too. I agree that the issues mentioned in this article seem mostly windows app centric. For JS app…

In my opinion, reading is more for shaping your thoughts over time. I generally don't read for recall value except for technical things, and even there, it's better to build a good…