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Languages aren’t worse, you’re just better than you were. You’re aware of all the warts that you didn’t know before.

Great topic, long topic. I could write a book on it. Wait! I did! https://www.amazon.com/Single-Page-Applications-end-end/dp/1...

A lovely knot to unravel! First, get everything in source control! Next, make it possible to spin service up locally, pointing at production DB. Then, get the db running locally. T…

It’s a common misperception that a 10x engineer is 10x the average engineer. The original quote said that the best engineers are 10x the worst engineers which is easily true. 10x t…

What this study shows is that when infection rates are high people wear masks, and conversely, that when people wear masks infection rates are high. Or put another way, it either s…

Finish your degree, then pursue computer science. Understanding statistics and data is a super power for a software engineer. There are a lot of data-adjacent software engineering …

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This article doesn't take into account that maybe the kids didn't all get sick because closing the schools helped stop the spread of COVID in kids. It's like saying I exercised and…

This is a plan that is much worse for employees, being presented as if it were better. At least be honest about feeling like you are paying employees too much equity up front and w…

I had the same thing, I switched hands using the mouse and developed it in my other hand. I switched to a trackball, it persisted. I switched to a Wacom tablet and it went away. I …

“So Canadians pay (some) income tax to the US instead of Canada and the US gives us nothing in return?” Seems like Canadians got the ability to make money on YouTube in return. See…

With everyone sharing a single user name and password for access, I don't have a high level of confidence they have simple logging.

Get involved in the cities government by volunteering, or serving on a city commission. Just start showing up to city council meetings and start learning what is going on and who t…

The worst engineer in the world is the one that worked on your current project before you... even if that person was you a year ago! “Who wrote this sh!t?!?” >git blame Oh, it was …

Something can be racist by affecting some races more than others, it's not binary.

People are still being excluded because of their race, it doesn't matter if you changed the rules once that exclusion was locked in or not. That's a bait and switch justification.

California has a shameful past of adding racist restrictions into real estate through title documents and other means (ex. "no person of any race other than the Caucasian or white …

Was Facebook blocked from informing people about the Facebook 70% fee?

This is not quality thinking. Without adequate time to destress and unplug, employees are likely to leave and if an employee leaves, the company will lose far more than someone’s v…

The warm, sunny states with affordable housing and zero taxes will see an influx of educated, rich workers. States will need to cut taxes to keep up,” Or maybe, just maybe, the zer…

People don't move to a place because that place has cheap housing, otherwise people would be piling into the countryside. People move places with better economic opportunities for …

I think that while people wouldnt be surprised that i -= -1 works, formatted as i-=-1 it's unclear what each - is doing, likely someone did it because it looks nice and symmetrical…