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Their new appointment of leader for their Xbox group suggests that they intend to wind down that business unit in time. The founder of the Xbox team has commented that he believes …

This has become a personal debate for me recently, ever since I learned that there are several software luminaries who eschew debuggers (the equivalent of taking an oscilliscope pr…

Can anyone explain how they maintain backwards compatibility on formats like this when adding features? I assume there are byte ranges managed in the format, but with things like c…

> phishing resistance (with UX that supports that) and low-level security audits of encryption software and hardware Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t this saying “we can’t rely on re…

> Also the code should be written "for the now", not for "that future feature it would be awesome to have someday like making it compatible with every other library X, etc.". The f…

Phoenix is robbing Peter to pay Paul with regards to water. Phoenix survives thanks to extreme planning measures and water diversion from the Colorado river, but that’s not going t…

Nor do they necessarily have the ability to do discretionary prioritization of certain bugs or features, even if they did see it.

You may not be in one job forever, and you can move between about 10,000 tech companies through a long career if you are in the Bay.

I don't completely disagree, but his point about the irrelevance of SOLID, OO, and Java in this supposedly grand new age of FP programming ignores that OO is still the pre-eminent …

It’s the first I’d heard of this axiom. Can you give an example of that in a real architecture? I think about a central server with multiple terminals on a network. There the node …

ITT: a non-controversial opinion shared by most programmers. Print debugging is fast in many cases and requires little mental overhead to get going. But for some/many systems, ther…

Remember: "CTO" sometimes means "I am the technical founder of a 3 person company"

In the uuid case, the person had no choice. Remember, these are principles, not laws, and at some point your system is making concrete choices. Choosing UUIDs isn’t necessarily a O…

The public plaintext emails are not a good idea. Scrapers will gobble these up and spam those emails into oblivion. At least put them behind a captcha.