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Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to …

Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.

Polestar is Swedish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar

It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with …

Coroutines are an abstraction though.

Something that coroutines made a big impact on for us was testing. Multi-step integration tests became a breeze. With state machines, each test would need its own FSM, and callback…

Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties…

As a software engineer (consultant/contractor), you can easily make 80k USD post tax in Sweden. That’s not too bad.

You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parent…

Since services are basically modules in monoliths, does that mean that we should have cute names for those as well?

I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see thei…

Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean. Real return: 7.9%/6.1%. And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower. https://…

I’ve been on the stakeholder side in similar situations. Rather than saying that they were very busy and that it can take a while to get my task done, they strung me along (“we’ll …

Sprints are also detrimental to “soft values” in my experience: * Engineers rushing to wrap up for the sprint (stress and decreased quality is bad for morale) * Engineers getting m…

The argument is usually that sprints just add overhead on top of picking the highest prio work from the backlog. Ie, sprints don’t have to be replaced with anything since there are…

Parts of Russia are in Europe.

Where in the world are nuclear disasters “in vogue”?

How do you deal with errors? Do you check them at every callsite and manually “bubble up”, or do you use exceptions? I’d love to use coroutines but we don’t use exceptions and I’m …