I like Free Software / Open Source but I can't stand the idea of companies using my stuff for parasitic purposes, and I can't believe taking a stance against evil gets projects ostracized from the "freedom" community.
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#12My programming font. It’s proportional and uppercase letters have a 1/3 of a space of left padding.
Proportional because they are faster to read in general, and the padding makes reading camel-case faster as well.
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#13- Code format / conventions should not be customizable
- Commonjs should be actively deprecated
- Dev interviews should have live coding sessions, face to face
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#14TypeScript is too much work for not enough reward.
I agree re: correctness, but I couldn't live without Code completion.
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#15We shouldn't only reject bots, we should feed them incorrect information on purpose in order to degrade the systems they are feeding.
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#16DEI hiring mandates destroy teams.
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#17Naming things well (and renaming them as new information evolves) is massively important. As important as tests.
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#18TypeScript is too much work for not enough reward.
Typescript is a neat idea running atop a cursed language (JS)
Using Go has been more fun. Where fun means less surprises.
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#19Computer Security was solved in the 1970s with Multilevel Secure Systems and Capability Based Security.
Security doesn't require making computers unusable, either.
If we had the collective will, we could eliminate cyber-security as a profession within a decade, as an un-necessary thing of the past.
But... that's not gonna happen.
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#20Software engineers should use formal risk management tools like FMEA (failure mode & effects analysis) like engineers in any other discipline.