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Yes, I don't think I have ever seen a premature optimisation actually ending up being beneficial when the time came to add new features to the project.

At the end of the day, every team still needs at least one senior team lead who can decide "we do it like this" and move on. Or else you get stuck forever in which db technology is…

Exposure doesn't pay many bills.

I have heard several guided meditations having an instruction like "let your mind do whatever it wants to do". Surprisingly it works very well to let the mind do nothing.

I often try to remind myself that it is better to start somewhere, than nowhere. Just getting started is often halfway done. Even though it might turn out that you could have start…

If we make a crude risk assessment, it is way more likely that her account will be randomly hacked by a botnet if she has "kitten4" as a password than someone actively stealing her…

While working from home can be nice and more productive if you have some well defined task that needs to be done, I still feel I need the daily social interaction with my coworkers…

You got to consider your most likely risk for attack. Targeted or at random by a botnet? For example, you are most likely more secure in practice by writing your own website than u…

Yes, but are hackers going after common used libraries to get more vulnerable systems to attack or are they going to spend time on some unknown homebuilt crypto? In some cases, sec…

But then again, we still got Heartbleed.

I can see some logic behind number 3 of having your password in the clipboard. It could lead to users pasting their password somewhere else where it was not intended. However, if y…

> However lately Netflix' content simply seems to lack substance to me. It feels as if it's just the superficial result of throwing a promising combination of those very specific t…

Gaming Googles image search is a popular activity on some subreddits. Basically telling people to upvote a picture of something with a misleading title. Like if you search for imag…

> In practice though, even the smallest toy project will pull out hundred tiny dependencies. I had a problem with running out of inodes on my server because of the massive number o…

For me it is Nectarine Demoscene Radio at https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ Something about all the blip-blops that sets the right mindset.

Whether items with same sorting key will remain in the same order or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Stability

I would recommend something like https://getvau.lt Generate your passwords with a simple algorithm with a servicename and a keyphrase. Works really well.

Really like the intense focus music. Seems to work really well for me. However I am not a fan of the nature based ones. The nature sounds comes of as too artificial. I might consid…

> If the ads were not intrusive and destructive, they wouldn't take the trouble to block them. Maybe if it had been like that from the beginning, but now, I see no turning back. Ad…

Did they take into account something like version control? Because, I have a hard time seeing using Word on a collaborative paper - or even just as the single writer - being very e…

I have fallen into this pitfall myself a couple of times. Trying to write reusable generic code on the idea that we would be able to reuse it later for a similar project, but in pr…

Could someone please explain #Test 11. How is using %s instead of %d double as fast even though it is the same thing is being calculated? I always use %d because it seems like the …

It has a very feature rich library. You can build relatively big applications with lots of features in a very short time.

I remember tracking the flashes these satellites made in the sky. Was quite cool as a teenager to be able to predict a flash of light at a particular time in the night sky.

It is frighteningly common to neglect backups when thinking in security. I have seen a couple of examples where the technical aspects of security with good firewalls, good access c…