If you're at Goog or Meta, you probably have seen best practices around you. If you're working at elsewhere, some things in the book would might be new to you.
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There is a thing among park rangers where “if people are taking this shortcut despite the signs and fences, then it’s the trail that’s wrong, not the people”.
More software engs should think this way instead of “educating harder should solve incompetence”.
It’s not that people are incompetent. The trail is wrong.
6 languages per day? Are they the same six the next day?
> they all suck in their own special way.
Not surprising if you're writing 6 different languages per day.
> Haskell excels at using computers to compute something
Can you please explain how Haskell computes medians more elegantly than say C?