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pieterr··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)

That is adding people to a project means that you have to add even more people to deal with the management complexity.

Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month (1975)

pieterr··on The cathedral that failed

I was expecting a discussion of [1].

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

pieterr··on Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?

Solaris indeed. More recent scanner products use Linux.

pieterr··on Lex Fridman Podcast search engine

'rossum' doesn't return any results?

pieterr··on Ask HN: Reading material on how to be a better software engineer?

Camille Fournier - The Manager's Path

https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...

https://www.elidedbranches.com/

pieterr··on I wrote my own “proper” programming language

https://github.com/mukul-rathi/bolt/tree/master/examples

pieterr··on Guido van Rossum. Reflections on the asyncio.Semaphore class

Wrong url.

Should be:

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2022/10/reasoning-about-asyn...

pieterr··on Fred Brooks has died

Dr. Brooks on No silver Bullet (while eating pizza).

https://youtu.be/HWYrrw7Zf1k

RIP Dr. Brooks.

pieterr··on Ask HN: What are the most prestigious badges a software developer can take/award

1. Turing Award

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

pieterr··on The SAFe Delusion

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

pieterr··on Leslie Lamport: State the Problem Before Describing the Solution [pdf]

(1978)

pieterr··on Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages?

Apple has (re)enabled the downloading of remote content in the Apple Mail apps, as part of their recent "Protect Mail Activity" feature. Since then I received more spam mail. I have now disabled this feature, and reenabled "Block All Remote Content" again, resulting in less spam after a while.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhlae4a4fe6/mac

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/apple-mail-no...

pieterr··on Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?

Showstopper! - G. Pascal Zachary

https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generat...

pieterr··on We need young programmers; we need old programmers

(2020)

pieterr··on Learning Standard C++ as a New Language (1999)

[1999]

pieterr··on 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778166

pieterr··on Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022)

Exactly.

Previous posting from 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151934

pieterr··on Software company SAP: World-leading through intellectual property theft?

lekh jarman mein likha gaya hai.

In German.

pieterr··on Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby

The Joy of Tech's version:

http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2829.html

pieterr··on Alcohol-free beer is fizzing

Did you try Jever Fun? Does taste like real lager.

https://www.jever.de/biere/jever-fun/

pieterr··on if...then...else had to be invented (2019)

Duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406211

pieterr··on The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon

Not forgotten by the people that read "Show-stopper!"

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Show-stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Genera...

pieterr··on VLC and Qt – A History [video]

Slides are available here:

https://www.qtdesktopdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/QtD...

pieterr··on Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter

Your link is from 2012. Five years later, Intel reduced their stake in ASML.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-intel-stake/...

pieterr··on Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)

Reminds me of Dan Luu's various latency articles.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

pieterr··on Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview

> It’s mostly a solo endeavor.

The team is more than just Evan.

[1] https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/team.html

pieterr··on A bank security check that leaves you guessing your own name

In the Netherlands, the various banks have aligned on the IBAN Name Check originally developed by RaboBank. This system works pretty well.

[1] https://www.rabobank.com/en/press/search/2018/20180523-ibann...

pieterr··on Apple devices are leaking sensitive data over BLE

(2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21741332

pieterr··on Practical Python Programming

https://javascript.info/

pieterr··on The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776296

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