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While I agree that it's for managers and stakeholders, I wonder how much of it ends up being a net value-add. Where I work, we have a million and one different kinds of reports tha…

> And I find it pretty unreadable, it's not nearly as expressive as other languages I enjoy using. I tend to conflate higher expressiveness with being "clever" until you're really …

I welcome salary discussions with any coworker who wants to talk about it, but I almost _never_ initiate the conversation. It's still too much of a taboo with many people to be wor…

Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of self-centered loud mouths either. And these are typically the types that find themselves in these roles. I think you're making a big leap s…

I think it depends on how you define fun. For me personally, does a workplace need to have alcohol, video games, bowling alleys, and ping pong tables? Probably not. It does need to…

I'm surprised that you would lump Go in as a "super-tanker" language. I find it incredibly small and simplistic when compared to something like Rust. I think it actually has fewer …

>"Stuff like lambdas weren’t born in some hipster language, they came from JavaScript" Lambdas are actually so hipster that they were cool before we even had programming languages:…