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The author here. The point there is not a critique of Rust. I'll offer a bit of context - I started my „from scratch” utility library with a std::string-like type that operates on …

SCRUM solves a problem the X poster is too young to know. I'm mildly amused, he has no idea what SCRUM is about and why the ceremony is a lot better than the sleepless nights and t…

Oh, I so much agree with this!

Like any TDD proponent (and most cultists, really), the author insists that „you're not doing it right”, despite reading the scriptures. You're always misunderstanding, YOU are the…

I agree; of course, both clang and gcc extend C++ with __restrict__ if I remember correctly; from what I know, there are more things that can be done in C++ to improve over C than …

C++ is just a stricter C - if you write proper C, it will be a correct C++ program, therefore it would run at the same speed. There's no way C can be other than marginally faster t…

My thought about this is that patterns are something I recognize in the completed code, not something I bake into my code. A useful tool for refactoring at best. But re-factoring, …

It's not a judgment of GoF per se, although I have some critique on the book as well, but of the impact it had. Unfortunately, a lot of people (mis)took it to heart, and GoF became…

I learned many things from that experience, but later, when I actually got smarter about career and interviews; being introverted didn't help much either. But I'm glad I didn't mak…

I have a terrible problem with people recommending books that „changed their whatever”. And sometimes I think that it comes from an arrogant place where people being „influenced” b…

That's not for physicists to know, more for mechanical engineers :D

I took a very long break, about one year (but realistically, 6 months, the other 6 months I was busy renovating my apartment). I then eased into work; started with 4 hours a day, a…

Not for mainstream projects - plus those places tend to become political mudwaters, because freedom in tech has become political the past few years.

The Discord chat room is very little different from the (RIP) freenode channel. Sure, you need to create an account, but that's where communities are built nowadays - in closed gro…

It's not about the ability to write programs, but the ability to write programs that influence your base system in a meaningful way. Yes, you can write programs, but can you write …

In my post I suggested to watch a presentation. Watch it, you'll understand what Kate Gregory argues, and I completely agree with her point of view.

I can confirm that absolutely nothing of import. I think that the attention shown to my rant is overblown, although I do enjoy the good points made by a lot of commentators here.

Yes and no. std::endl is not an alias for '\n', for good reason.

Yes, and that's a pity. And I will fix that as soon as I get my hands on it - I never knew that I needed to write that web backend myself. This site proved me wrong :D