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However if you asked your Danish roommate to write down what he said it would make perfect sense.

I've had one-line PR fixing real bugs sitting unreviewed for years. It didn't need any bumps or reviews.

So they won't have idle hands sitting around and itching to redesign something that works just fine. Alternatively, if they could reassign that 50% of their headcount to bring Moun…

(Author here) I found that over time I spend more time striping someone's badly designed abstractions to get to the real functionality. LLMs are surprisingly good at figuring it ou…

(Author here) I meant "design" as in designing physical objects — and all our "programming" is "design" in this definition, because "manufacturing" is done by compilers and bundler…

(Author here) That's why I spent a sinificant chunk of the article talking about what should and what should not be reinvented.

(Author here) I'm actually talking in the article why it hasn't happened.

24% real vs 17% expected. Yes, some patterns, but not much.

Better never stray from code. My faviourite configuration pattern for SaaS code: all the configuration for all targets, from local development setup, to unit tests, to CI throwaway…

I don't see it challenged before the MR. Linux caught Kent when he tried to sneak in non-bugfixes into a RC, and berated him. After that (not before, this is a critical distinction…

I didn't make myself quite clear — the others were raising points on _other_ rules, and as a result we tuned the rules quite often, as we discovered what works better and what work…

It is, but directly, not as a subversion. I have had a similar experience with a team member who was quietly unhappy about a rule. Instead of raising a discussion about the rule (l…

Except that every month bits of that value get chipped off.

PostgreSQL server is a single process that starts in under 100ms on a developer's laptop. In the company I work for we use real PostgreSQL in unit tests — it's cheap to start one a…

Serial port Cray 1 was released 1975, teletypes were old tech at that time.

Thank you, that's what I feel too. For me switching the career, after spending more than 20 years in this as well... is very hard. I spent all my career outside of high-pay places …

Will it? The author goes to my «do not hire / hype-eater» list for sure.

Indeed, that's the only reasonable scenario that comes to mind.

Have you really seen language chosen based on formatting?

Should all companies expand to the whole globe? There are plenty of well-off places with mild climate where using a scooter all year around is feasible.

Syscalls are easy. Drivers will be tough.

Make managers personally responsible.

Exactly: this "license" thing has to be changed to buying digital content.