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what is often overlooked in corporate culture: if you take a step back, two coworkers refusing to cooperate, regardless of the reason, is a typical "corporate kindergarten" scenari…

While I circumstantially agree, I hold it to be self-evident that the "optimal amount of grift is nonzero". I leave it to politicians to decide whether increased oversight, decentr…

I can't help but think that this is a "I have nothing to hide" argument. It's quite sisyphean to keep accounts perfectly segregated, therefore there's always a chance that personal…

Related and likely inspired by the related thought: https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/

On the topic of working hours, flexitime is highly addicting and I cannot imagine anything that's better for a software developer. Clock in, have meetings, write code, commit, cloc…

I find it quite intriguing to introduce "language-native" matrices and 2d blocks (which I still find difficult to wrap my head around.) The reason why most people would more intuit…

Looking at the software development today, is as if the pioneers failed to pass on the torch onto the next generation of developers. While I see strict safety/reliability/maintaina…

Org mode offers so much more than just syntax. You can use org files as a calendar, a todo/issue tracker with time accounting, a diary/knowledge base (zettelkasten, org-roam), as a…

Since I don't often write raw SQL, I can only assume the author named their CTE `deleted_tasks` to elucidate that the query might delete multiple items. Otherwise, it makes little …

I admire your deontological zealotry. That said, I think there is an implied virtuous aspect of "internet vigilantism" that feels ignored (i.e. disabling a malicious bot means it d…

I find it hard to believe that vigilance can be opted out of, unless—sarcastically speaking—you leave the company before the lack of vigilance becomes a problem. I somewhat agree w…

There are more interpretations of "OO" than there are people, but the overall direction is that OO isn't a panacea for code maintainability, and some frameworks ahem Spring create …

This is mostly the case because most solutions provide more than the bare minimum of DOM rendering and event binding that a web view originally entails. Once you "accidentally" shi…

I resonate with skepticism for perhaps a different reason -- I just don't see how the censorship discussion is ever about helping China, when the whole discussion is "thinly-veiled…

It might seem less credible to encounter English in a place where it’s less expected, but think of it this way: would a Yandex-developed ClickHouse database be adopted by Chinese d…

blaming Neanderthals for most things is a gross over-simplification and misdirects reader's attention towards genetics. While there is some humour to it, I would be cautious of giv…

As a worthless junior dev, thank you for the post. I am seeing a general sentiment of reluctancy towards an introduction of yet another dubious metric in an environment where "soft…

Don't tell the corporate about it, but using charcount/80, excluding newlines and whitespace is the _improved_ pseudoscience. Additionally, excluding 'imports', namespacing, and ot…

Written language is like the outer skin layer, a product of a living organism consisting of dead cells. Being a good translator is to have a good sense of what those organisms are.…

Using Tinder as analogy for bandmate-finding works quite well, as the end goal can be abstracted away as some "intimate relationship". Whether the mechanics of Tinder are worth par…

Before ChatGPT, human language translation had a similar problem but people weren't as vocal about it. What I find frustrating that it's increasingly challenging to have DeepL tran…

A strongly-related topic would be Curry–Howard correspondence, that is to say that programs and mathematical proofs have a lot in common. Proving an assertion is chaining transform…