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Excel is brilliant.

In my view there is no such thing as “tech debt”. The way I look at it, there will always be a delta between the code you have and the business features you want/need. Independentl…

“was previously fired from her job for sleeping in her car behind her place of employment.” The cruelty of managers never stops surprising me. As long as she is doing her job and i…

Agree. I was offered a green card and a 6 digit salary to move to the US. I declined and instead moved to Australia. One of my best decisions ever.

In my experience there is a strong correlation between your ability to communicate clearly and your ability to write clean maintainable code. The 10x developers I have worked with …

Aussie here. Speak for yourself mate. The tech I am working on in Melbourne (Rostering/Pairing) is world class. We are routinely beating international companies 100x our size.

I work for a company where meetings are extremely rare. We only do formal meetings when everything else fails. It is one of the most efficient/productive companies I have ever work…

I have such fond memories of the ZX-Spectrum. I learned how to program machine code using it (hand translates from Z80 assembler) when I was 11 years old. No internet. Nobody I cou…

There is nothing magical about 40 hours. It just happens to be the number of hours that most companies (in the west) happens to choose for historical reasons: https://www.okta.com/…

Perhaps start with fixing the planet we are currently living on?

Not my experience at all. I have worked for two really fucked up companies. But the rest were OK and my current job is pretty good.

Not my experience at all. We have zero problems maintaining large 20+ year monoliths written in C++. It’s all about how you architecture the monoliths and how you refactor as neede…

If you don’t have the skills to create maintainable monoliths then you will guaranteed create an even bigger micro-services mud pile.

I recommend reading everything by Thomas Sowell. A true original thinker.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true. The larger the organisation, the harder it is to deploy well designed software architectures. Too many cooks!

> But when you say garbage like "100% nonsense" it's just fucking rude and against the rules here at HN. Don't say it again. Speak respectfully or don't speak at all. I found that …

Years ago I found the perfect tool for managing anything from small personal projects to large complex software development teams: A prioritised to-do list. It’s simple. It works.

It is my experience as a developer that the shorter the feedback loop is, the more productive I am. Fast auto tests are really useful for this. Being able to test against an in-mem…

A colleague of mine is working on one of the worst software systems I have ever seen or heard of. It is a 20+ years old micro-services architecture. More than 50 services all inter…

It’s a drop in the ocean. There are millions of programming jobs out there.

There are millions of programmers and programming jobs out there. More than 5 million C++ programmers alone. And then there are Java jobs, C# jobs etc. So the head line job cuts ar…

Not my experience at all. The quality and experience of the team is IMHO the best predictor of code quality.

Declarative: Specify the result you want. Imperative: Specify (step by step) how to get the result you want. Examples: Declarative: I want a PC with the following code installed: X…