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As someone that gets very annoyed when having to do LeetCode in interviews... Knowing algorithms, data structures and their memory and time complexities is very relevant for SWE. I…

The activity that needed and still needs to be protected is problem solving: - Understanding the problem at hand - Putting all the pieces together so that they solve the right prob…

I was just thinking about forge federation this morning. It'd be nice to base the federation on email, which has been working fine for decades (boring tech and all that), and build…

These projects quickly reach a point where evolving it further is too costly and risky. To the point that the org owning it will choose to stop development to do a re-implementatio…

It is my understanding that a lot of EU governments are setting up their own matrix servers.

FWIW, I have managed 10 simultaneous live transcoded streams on a ARC B580 and it could have managed a few more. With couple of them you cold be fine. The other aspect is you could…

It's not a good look to break userspace applications without a deprecation period where both old and new solutions exist, allowing for a transition period.

Software is applied mathematics, though

But not across the Pyrenees :_)

>The fix isn't "apply traditional methods" I would argue they are. Those traditional methods aim at keeping complexity low so that reading code is easier and requires less effort, …

This article describes the body of knowledge I was taught when I joined the industry and parallels with my experience with and thoughts about AI. I have come to the realization tha…

This is something I've been wondering about... If boilerplate was such a big issue, we should have worked on improving code generation. In fact, many tools and frameworks exist tha…

The git plugin in oh-my-zsh has an alias for this: gbda It also has one for squash-merged branches: gbds Very useful I've been using them for years

I am a daily user, family and friends chatting on Matrix. My take is that there are two layers of friction: a) people that care about chat encryption and would be willing to change…

For a casual CS server the ratio could perfectly be 1:50 and that'd be fine. That's how it used to be with, i.e., CS:Source. Then, there are companies that ran a bunch of them, whi…

They come from science. Engineering applies laws, concepts and knowledge discovered through science. Engineering and science are not the same, they are different disciplines with d…

Our job as SWEs is to convert the vertical slice of functionality into something that fits well and robustly in the various technical layers that need to be touched. The process th…

My take on this is that, from a SW development POV, user stories are not the right unit of work. Instead, I treat user stories as "Epics". Stake holders can track that Epic for pro…

Hasn't balancing quality (in this context due diligence) and speed (AI code gen.) been the name of the game in the industry for ever? Management should have enough experience by no…

Python has Protocols. They work like Go interfaces

I have said many times to teammates: the only code that is perfect is the one that hasn't left our minds. The moment it's written down it becomes flawed and imperfect. This doesn't…

I just want to add that I also have a Docker Swarm running, with four small nodes for my personal stuff plus a couple of friends' companies. No issues whatsoever and it is so easy …

I'm not bothered by if nor def. public void can be annoying but it's also fast to type and it doesn't bother me. For import I always try my best at having some kind of autoimport. …

>I'd bet that no one actually likes to write code And you'd be wrong. I, for one, enjoy the process of handcrafting the individual mechanisms of the systems I create.

This is how I feel. I mentioned this to a couple of friends over a beer and their answer was that there are many not "decently competent programmer"s in the industry currently and …