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I know that in things like games and other highly concurrent applications that object pooling is a must, otherwise you inevitably run in to the problem of attempting to update or r…

In an age where communication platforms are so readily abundant and (relatively) easily accessible, people aren't forced to write economically. Contrast this with even fifty years …

I guess it's just concerning that the people who would say this kind of stuff online don't think about what they're doing. They wouldn't say it to someone's face, isn't it common s…

The intent of the sentence was to point out that her article is important because it speaks out about something that's outrageous, regardless of if the reader knows who is writing …

This was a very well-written article. Though I haven't followed any of this person's journey that she's recounting and can't simply trust her retelling of what happened (based on t…

I'm someone graduating from college in a few months, and this is one of the most striking things to me about a programmer's expected outlook on jobs. The career path of going and g…

A lot of people in this thread are questioning how this adds any new information about time or how it is different/better than a classical explanation of systems (coffee cup reachi…

This got very dark very quickly. It does make me wonder though, to what extent are we responsible for the repercussions of our actions? Where along that chain did it stop becoming …

Yeah, I appreciate that. It's really easy to get tunnel vision on parts of a job that you don't like and forget the things that are good about it.

My elders all do the same flavor of tasks that I do, just more entrenched with knowledge because they've been there for a while. It looks like the two career paths for me there if …

Thanks for the advice. I should have been more specific with my complaint. Programming is a lot of fun, and I'm majoring in CS. The problem I'm running in to is that my job is bori…

> "Maybe loren quit because he wasn't being fulfilled." This is the thing that strikes me the most. I'm fairly young still and have begun working at a company as a programmer. I've…