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And... informal communication has to be in a video call? It can't be in writing? On video calls and in meatspace, you get to see peoples facial expressions, their smiles, they can …

Have you been in that scenario, ever? Video calls are infinitely worse than typed text between non-native speakers. And if the call is not going to be in english… why would the wri…

I disagree with a lot of this article because it assumes that we are efficient robots that just need things to be searchable and written down. Tools are also a bit lacking -- in th…

A Fairphone is repairable and, using Lineage, has long term software support. I have a Fairphone 2 as my main phone (released in 2015) and I am running Lineage based on Android 10.…

It's like asking why the knife you're using keeps cutting you when you put your finger on the sharp end. Most cloud providers don't have this billing problem and so the analogy bre…

it routinely eats up close to 4 GB of RAM, which in my case is an entire VPSes worth and costs me about 60 Euros a year You are absolutely correct that running other peoples Ruby c…

I have been on several teams that found the following article "Unlearning toxic behaviours in a code review culture" very helpful: https://medium.com/@sandya.sankarram/unlearning-t…

Certainly not clarity of written communication.

Sometimes I think Canada is more interested in portraying itself as a progressive beacon to the world than actually being one. Its attitude to seals is not very progressive: https:…

The taxi could have been in on it -- its a trick that is normally used in poorer countries but looks like its reached the EU.

Two things stick out here that I don't fully understand. Declarative schemas, and a well-defined update process (that isn't human-written DDL), are essential at any sort of organiz…

One thing I would recommend when someone blames a bug on you -- without hesitation, always say "yes, I will take a look at it". This way if you have to push back and say it wasn't …

Even if actual flu related deaths reverted to a pre-2020 level, I guarantee it would still be news. People will still be wearing masks, state/local governments will be enforcing ma…

Gstreamer uses it. Those are some smart guys and I trust their choices. I tried the Meson build of GStreamer last year. It didn't go well and I gave up because of time pressure. I …

If you need to talk to someone immediately there is the Samaritans: http://www.samaritansusa.org/contact.php I have no idea what they are like in the US but they are very helpful i…

We're still using Spring boot and some JHipster. I feel quite productive in Spring boot and, even though I hate frameworks, its the best framework I have ever used.

In Go, you solve problems by outputting inhuman amounts of code. The standard library manages to pack a lot of functionality in little code. Its probably not easy to write simple c…

Some general recommendations (these are not new books): - The Phoenix Project. An easy read that is a good introduction to modern Dev Ops culture [1]. - Designing Data Intensive Ap…

Linters such as golangci[1] which will warn if you ignore the return value. If you ever write Go again I highly recommend you look at golangci -- the security checks have been real…

You can't even leave your mobile at home accidentally - that would trip alarm bells, especially if your contact does it at the same lunch hour. This is straightforward to spoof. A …

Is it even possible to do Android development without Android Studio? Oh yes: https://www.lambdanative.org/

Generics in C++ really damage the readability of the code sometimes, maybe the go devs have found a better way. The culture might help. I think generics in Java are not overused --…

Thanks, that was an interesting read. I read a book a while ago that was well researched and gave the impression that Afganistan would always belong to the Taliban. It was called "…

VS Code is the example that shows that you can create great Electron apps I am a happy user of VS Code but it feels super slow if you use it shortly after using Qt Creator (QtCreat…