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> Your tone is really aggressive and detracts from your technical points. True, but I went with the aggressive tone intentionally while appreciating this concern. For some odd reas…

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On the fence voters were not the subject of the article though.

Uuuggghhh. Bad title. The people who prop up Trump are Trump loyalists who are not necessarily conservatives. Trump, in his scorched earth conquest for extreme loyalty, pushed the …

I have written the fastest network transmission implementation for Node.js and made the front page of HN (under a different account) for creating an original diff algorithm among v…

> i) Like a framework, you are at the whim of TS devs as it gets updated (edited) I have been using TypeScript for almost 6 years and not experienced this problem. Like everything …

> Spend enough time in this industry… I have 20 years in this industry. It’s full of stupid people pointing fingers somewhere else. Any time this is pointed out developers play the…

> As others have noted, part of the problem here is that the engineers in question are actually not yet smart enough. That is highly subjective and purely a result of both perspect…

I'm 43 and feel the complete opposite. I am less coordinated and heavier than I used to be. I am learning advanced SQL for the first time and it feels like I am picking it up at a …

This code sets an event listener on the window object for the keydown event. That means when the window has focus (or any child thereof) and a keyboard key is pressed that handler …

One major inhibitor (perhaps the most major inhibitor) of high IQ people is social repression. For example you cannot get a better software job merely by having a higher IQ. You ha…

If you want to maximize odds for selection focus on what’s most popular according to current practice. Be at the center of the bell curve. If you want to be awesome then go be awes…

The timeline presented in the article is about 80 years of trajectory. Software appears to be following the same pattern through a more condensed timeline.

If you are thinking in terms of tools you are thinking in terms of building, not product. Stop dicking with tools and just build a minimal product. Think only about the minimal pro…

A couple of reasons: * Most people will never voluntarily measure things. Instead people form intuitive assumptions and extrapolate performance and potential from that. This happen…

I have seen developers confused by the words writing instructions before, suggesting either they do not know what writing is, what instructions are, or that they cannot differentia…

Most likely the difference in performance is due to differences in expectations. The two greatest common failures I see repeated among software developers is: 1) The inability to c…

* You can write superior applications in JavaScript by not using a framework. By superior I mean more maintainable code, spend less time writing code, execute faster. * The DOM is …

Leet code is like prostitution. It’s cheap, short term, and the employment prospects are high risk / low reward. In most of software there is no relation between being a good devel…

Still nothing compared to the billions so many VCs have lost on crypto this year ignoring those far more obvious red flags. No matter how bad Elon damages Twitter at the very least…

> When data proved his idea was wrong, he would say words to the effect of "I don't care, because I still believe I'm right from an ideological background". I cannot imagine commer…

What is freedom of speech? Does the freedom to say what you will qualify theft, violations of privacy, and other illegalities? There is no confusion between the freedom of expressi…

* Transmission - I am using HTTP to request assets into the page, I have managed to reduce my total asset requests down to only 4. Other than that I am using websockets for absolut…

You can SSH into a remote box and open vim just using your tty.

That sounds like a training problem more than anything else.