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I didn't claim either of those things. I'm just speaking from the practical experience I have. It's just that in static languages, you write unit tests more around business functio…

I've dabbled with both, and they suffer from the same kind of problem that all frameworks on top of dynamic languages suffer from. You essentially have to do all the checks that th…

Are those options the state of the art? I wouldn't use either. Edit: added the following... I've dabbled with both, and they suffer from the same kind of problem that all framework…

reduce the problem as much as possible... use a single serve espresso machine. Volume remaining and freshness aren't really a problem in that context. The best kind of code is the …

Just say "I really appreciate your time so far but I have other offers which I am more interested in and don't wish to continue any further with your interview process" Just be pol…

maybe GnuCash. You'll have to check for features. Or if it's not at great volume, you could just do it the old fashioned way. About $20 at your local stationary store should sort y…

People become entitled like that, basically because you let them by repeatedly allowing them to take your time for free. Compare with: "Sure, I'd love to do that. I can spend about…

No, you're missing something.

hack a sports watch.

I imagine there are all manner of over-engineered solutions to this problem.

Is it ethical to just walk away from a problem?

There's definitely market segmentation and it's definitely a conscious decision, but there are other functional differences between the supermarkets. (Bigger package sizes at pak-n…

An IDE. The same as the technical people use. (In what world can "non-technical people" build any kind of app?)

* they are part of a big enough team that individual responsibility is removed * they're not given enough time to produce good quality code * the design came from someone without s…

balsamiq. Or my favourite, pen and paper.

Nike+ app. Use the built in coach (training programme). Half-marathon training, thoroughly recommended. Don't eat junk food too.

Yeah but then you'd have to maintain some software built on web tech.

https://modern-sql.com/use-case/literate-sql

hands down one of the best software engineering articles I've read in a long time.

Balance. Take the long term view. Your skills don't stagnate because you have the weekends off coding. No one is a 100% efficient human being [the word for that is robot]. My advic…

> most coding is treated as a commodity by the business world, and the younger devs have a cost advantage over you. I have an experience advantage of being able to ship working sof…

BE(SoftEng) here. Professional 10 years. ~3 years at current employer who is the dominant IT vendor in my country. There are definitely lifers within this organisation, the pay and…