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Agreed, I'm quite sensitive to the scrollbar size when I land on a new article, and in this case I almost closed the window, thinking this would take the whole day to read :)

Yep, sounds much more natural at the end :)

Jamais entendu ça de mes trente ans au Québec

Also agreed. I will use single-letter variables like "c" or "x" occasionally for lambdas or anonymous functions, but that's about it. "lambda x: not x" in python - anything longer …

Agreed with you. Perhaps if you're using temp or tmp, something could be done better, but I see no harm in using the others. If you're counting things, a variable named "count" sou…

I am not sure when this was written, but Lambda supports ES6 directly as of about a month ago. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-4-3-2-runtime-n... I think you can avoid…

Interesting. Had a google interview not too long ago, and this was exactly the question asked to me - how would you design an algorithm to find overlapping free time from person X,…

Great realization. I'm in a similar boat. On the upside, 30 is still quite young, there's lots of time to do other stuff and slow things down ever more.

Montreal is not known for its tech scene. Scrolling through this page, I can immediately identify: - the "startups" that are a 1-guy team doing "disruptive-PASS-agile-SCRUM" consul…

So, you were in MTL for ~1 year? Working / studying?

I used to try and reason with ES settings on production, for about a year or two. Something would invariably break, unless you spend time with it every day, checking configurations…

> My ground rule is that anything I easy_install will go into env, and env will quite often be (re)built on a separate machine that matches my target environment. So I treat it as …

This is an unfortunate title for this post. AWS released API Gateway sometime last year, and this makes it sound like a caching layer behind API Gateway, to access S3 files.

Unfortunately it seems like the argument is mainly semantic then - I find it reasonable to think that "pedantically instructs the programmer how to properly do what’s requested, ev…

Did you read the quote? He very exactly says that python is bad in comparison - by using a concrete python vs ruby example. If this was a passing mention on some blog post, I'd be …

This is easily described with a contrast to Python. [...] Ruby accepts both exit and quit to accommodate the programmer’s obvious desire to quit its interactive console. Python, on…

Living in Montréal, I'm happy to see this article. The highways / traffic situation is horrible here, but I will point to one example in particular. Getting to the airport: there i…

> This guy got a bunch of things wrong: > I don't like that. Not sure how "not liking something" equates getting things wrong, but I agree with most of what the author mentioned. U…

Great point. Also, the pipeline you mention removes many risks related to the 'common' mistakes mentioned in the article (scaling, monitoring, provisioning it all done for you - or…

Really? People who write code, any code - but make under 6 figures are not "software engineers"? What's making 6 figures have anything to do?

At the end: To employers – ask your staff to help find new hires. Offer a bounty – enough to get their attention, say a fortnight’s salary. It’s a lot less than Shithead would cost…

I like this idea, but I'm not sure it's realistic. Constraints change all the time, just like your users' needs. In principle this works, but I'm not convinced that everything shou…