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This was my first thought as well, just from reading the title.

I took a functional programming in Haskell course first year in Uni without having much previous programming experience at all. Quite early in the course we were tasked with implem…

Capital M is for Mega. I would use duration_s and duration_ms. const duration_ms = 1000 * duration_s And _us for microsec. const duration_us = 1000 * duration_ms But then the tool …

I see, wow. Thanks for the info.

I don’t work for Google and have no insight in what the average Google job pays, but $99 per day is basically my entire salary (after taxes etc.).

Will give it a go. But probably it’ll take another generation or two before it’s good enough.

I second this. My impressions so far are pretty much the same. Have been trying to get ChatGPT to generate code for some algorithms that are pretty close to well known implementati…

Agreed. A comment can also explain things that a function name cannot. I’m all for splitting code into paragraphs with a well written comment above each. Of course I also extract f…

I'm having a hard time believing that world's top talent in software development are fighting to get into Swiss banking. What makes you think that the brightest people are striving…

I mostly write C++ and I would love to use CLion, but my employer won’t pay for the license fees, so my choices are VSCode or Eclipse.

I'll have a look a the book. Thanks!

My experience is that the expectations on what your average engineer should be able to handle has grown enormously during the last 10 years or so. Working both with large distribut…

Thanks for this comment. A very interesting observation. Do you have any thoughts regarding American companies that are established in Europe, shouldn't they be able to introduce t…

It's hard to answer your question without actually experiencing the differences first hand. It's not like we don't have visible poverty in Sweden. Almost every day I see people dig…

It’s interesting to see these salary levels. A senior developer (10+ years of experience) here in Sweden is paid less than their entry level salary. The difference in pay between E…

Premature optimization is a common disease amongst C and C++ devs. I often come across code that is written in an obscure/complex way just because someone thought execution speed t…

You only work 7h per day minus lunch break? Sounds sweet. Do you get paid for full time? I usually work 7am to 4pm but lately we have been ordered to work overtime so currently I a…

Where can I get some of this high paid, asynchronous, uninterrupted, and self-scheduled work?

I read Clean Code in 2010 and trying out and applying some of the principles really helped to make my code more maintainable. Now over 10 years later I have come to realize that yo…

I don't know about Facebook but here in Sweden we have several systems where you need to use Google, and of course accept Google's terms in order to do that. One example is the hea…

I see your point. I have friends that put GPS trackers on their kids "just in case they get abducted by a sexual predator". It does happen that kids get taken, however it's more li…

I understand that a lot of parents are positive to the parental control and supervision that you describe, I am not that kind of parent. I want the relationship with my kids to be …

I don’t believe in BDUF:ing even regulations too much, better to get a toothless first version out in the wild and then tweak it when in place.

I’m in Sweden, so Scandinavia. Every company I know has 40h work weeks. Lunch break is not included so if you start working at 8, take a 1 hour lunch break around 12, then you can …