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ty for the recommendation; for those interested in reading it here's a PDF version of it (via the author's website). https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

Has anyone read Tanya Reilly's new book "The Staff Engineer's Path"? Wondering if there's overlap in the concepts/model.

The link you provided didn't work for me. I was able to find another copy here: https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/lobster_dfwallace...

Great context! Do you have any books you can recommend to become better at thinking/working in these ways?

The premise of this is that I feel people are pinched for time and need space to work – yet when they come back from their coding mode the answers team members provide seldom respe…

Today I was considering how organizations such as bitly, imgur, reddit, and even github handle hash collision prevention. While for GH it (seems) easier as commit hashes are suffic…

I started my job search about 8 months ago, and while I've had a few interviews, I feel like my CV is hindering my prospects. Ty.

what does "cargo cult their business" mean?

From Ishkur [0]: The Roland TR-808 drum machine doesn't have a kickdrum. Instead it has a BassDrum. It's not as warm as the TR-909 nor as infectious as the LinnDrum, and it can't b…

Can you expand on that? I haven't the strength of body to endure climbing any more (though I do have a local indoors climbing wall). Why climbing? What does the rest of your WFH da…

I've found over the past few years that I've gotten into some unfortunate patterns. I basically need to re-write what it means to be healthy for me but am uncertain what new habits…

Thank you. And thank you for making it open source. Concerning this line: https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector/blob/master/back... Why is it sometimes returning undefined? (…

I was a Frontend Developer for 7 years and, under a new title, FE Product lead on most of our internal client-facing applications for 3 years and find myself interviewing for posit…

Basically title. I got rid of my copy of Rosen's book after undgergrad but am not keen on enduring it again. However, I'm also in need to reflect and refresh on the topics discusse…

Looking back on my replies a few days later I think I missed every mark I tried to hit. The arc of the "narrative" was about the nascent devops bleed into the frontend space which …

Ah! Very good questions. Thank you for asking. > But how do you know these things actually improves code maintainability? How do you quantify it's effect? Trends. Trends in Client …

> There is no way to measure code quality I have to disagree with you on this point (and your third point) I've seen so many examples where developers DID improve Code quality (CQ)…