I sleepwalk and sometimes have night terrors (where I hallucinate an intruder or spiders on the walls/ceiling). Lately I've been having them almost every day, despite practicing good bedtime habits.
Am I going to have early onset dementia? I wake up almost every morning with a headache from sleep deprivation
I think it's in Hackers & Painters that Paul Graham talks about the commonly held view that wealth is like a pie, that one group of people having more somehow means others must have less. He's also immensely wealthy, so I take what he says with a pinch of salt
While we're listing our Netflix gripes - Why is it so hard to watch the credits? Often there's a good song playing and no simple way to avoid it skipping to some other programme, while the emotional resonance of what I've just watched sits with me.
I think one has to take his writing of late with a pinch of salt because he writes things that only a rich, white and old guy could write. But the earlier stuff is still great. Hackers & Painters is still a wonderful book.
I don't think they're talking about a physical 'product'. They're talking about building character, making themself a better person, learning a skill etc
I have been thinking about the complexity bias that affects our perception of quality. I think as programmers it is our natural assumption that if something is complex, lots of thought must have gone into it beyond our understanding. This is especially true when starting a new job. But this is slightly ironic because often more code makes something slow, which isn't a good thing at all.
That's true. So I suppose I would amend to say "if the line is exponential". At the company I work for presently we try to adopt "painful now, pleasurable later".
The metric that you use to measure technical debt is "the time it takes to build new features over time". If that line on your graph is going up, you have a problem.
You can of course take a TDD approach with Laravel. I think I know what you're getting at, but I do find the Laravel has a lot out of the box now that I would otherwise have to write from scratch. I suppose the Spatie packages (for example) fill some of those gaps. I hadn't heard of Laminas before
Mocked as in made fun of? Personally (in 7 years as a PHP dev) I've not found this. There was one company I interviewed at where the lead engineer thought facades were dumb, but then couldn't explain why he needed to rebuild the entire backend in Node. Perspective.
Me neither actually. I had only this vague recollection from high school Physics that they used gamma to scan shipping containers (but this was 10 years ago).
Unrelated, but I think the latest Android update is ghastly and I have no way of changing back to how it looked before. I'm all for progressive design but some of the new UI changes (for example the clock app which I use every day) make it way less usable for me.
I don't think you would have time to know or feel anything after being shot. If this is a joke, it seems in bad taste to me. Nonetheless what a terrible waste of human life.
I remember having this feeling very early on in my career trying to learn about curl and finding it terribly frustrating. Then later when I next needed to work on it, things just seemed to click. It's a feeling I don't have as often these days but still incredibly satisfying.
TLDR: I don't think that poorly written code is as common as devs like to thing it is. Context is just as important in our general perception of how well some code has been written/designed. There are several ways we can and should document our code including descriptive variable and method names, commit messages, tests and PR comments.
I think perhaps the wording might have confused you (and now reading again I can see why.) I was merely expressing sadness at the situation, that the man found himself left with no other possibilities. Particularly the quote: "It was either die or do this transplant. I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice." By "things have come to" I didn't mean in society, I meant in his life.
I've stayed on much longer at the business I work for because of my 4 day week arrangement. Definitely golden handcuffs; I recognise that I probably wouldn't have this anywhere else. It's my life admin day mostly: chores, going to the dentist etc and when it isn't I make time for fun. Generally I feel much more rested in the week.