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The affiliate thing might be interesting. Insurance is a no-go though. There would be incentive to strike to get more payout on the policy. Or worse, an insurance company would tak…

This is how I do it as well. I usually find inspiration that makes my code much better. My secret sauce is telling others I am debugging it instead of making a new draft. This keep…

Go's compile speed is its raison d'être. It straddles the line between convenient scripting languages and heavy compiled languages. You deal with boilerplate using either interface…

Same here. We are stuck in Watcom F77 right now due to using some old extensions. We are in the middle of eliminating control characters from format statements so we can finally up…

I actually have had the pleasure of porting a program from a defunct 16-bit language called Actor to C++. It wasn't a huge deal even at around 800 kLOC. All mainstream languages in…

Commercial success has little to do with your tech stack choices. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with jumping ship for the latest shitty framework just as the old on…

No, it is very much LSP compliant. The purpose of toString() is to give a string representation of the object. Most overloads of this do exactly that. An LSP violation of toString(…

In my experience, much more damage has been done by people who implement EDA and fancy cloud architecture in general. Something like 95% of applications are simple CRUD with a minu…

LSP just says that derived classes should behave similar to their base classes. class Base { virtual int size() { return size_; } ... class Derived : public Base { virtual int size…

Prosperity Gospel is very different from traditional Christianity. It is much closer to New Age Spirituality than most Christian denominations.

This would be more NSA jurisdiction and they do. The problem is most people's assumption is that if one part of the government has it, then everyone gets it. This is wildly false. …

>You could end up throwing away years of edge case handling I work with software that has been continuously worked on since the 60's. It has the dreaded legacy if's like below ever…

It comes from two religious movements in the U.S. that became popular starting in the 50's and has been gaining momentum ever since: Prosperity Gospel and New Age Spirituality. The…

Always on accident of course. There is no way a hardware manufacturer would intentionally sabotage their products to boost sales.

Sony literally bricked my PS1&2 compatible PS3 with an update and offered me something like a $20 gift certificate for Sony products for my troubles. I haven't bought anything Sony…

I dislike pseudocode. I make candidates use an actual language because it smoke checks the ones who put X years of Y language. I don't demand perfection, just that the general shap…

I have personally hired false positives. Like you say, they are expensive. I have never once hired someone who was literally incapable of doing the job. It's never because of work …

I would not be shocked. I meant it when I said to weed out the charlatans. I certainly do some basic FizzBuzz. I do it over the phone and in-person because sometimes they get a fri…

I can't find the article because its hidden behind Google's previously admitted coin flip, brain teasers. An interview only has one question to answer: How long will it take this p…

People get rejected for reasons like that everyday. I have been part of several interviews where a co-interviewer would say something at least as stupid as that. This is the real p…

No industry's interviewing is as awful as ours. The mythical 10x programmer has ruined our interviews. All these companies have it in their heads that you either need a rubicks cub…

You probably wouldn't like the feedback. Most interviews these days are random because our field is obsessed with finding 10x megarockstar GTD superprogrammers. I can't think of a …