A number of the ideas here are given chapters in “Search Inside Yourself.” For learning/remembering things try the free “Learning How to Learn” on Coursera. It builds on a lot of cognitive science research and is only four weeks.
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Because I work out three times a week my life is better on multiple fronts, including my concentration and coding.
Two years on I’m down 27 pounds and can do push-ups. I have never been able to do push-ups.
At the bottom of the page we get:
Methodology
This report is based on proprietary data gathered and analyzed by Hired’s data science teams. For the purpose of this report, Hired examined software engineering candidate interview requests and salary data from January 2020 through December 2021 inclusive. The data included reflects over 366,000 interactions between companies and software engineering candidates during this time period.
In addition to our proprietary data, we collected survey responses from more than 2,000 software engineers on the Hired marketplace to inform our understanding of software engineers’ working preferences.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
> if just 10% of the effort were put on improving the existing Rails application, all the Go microservices crazynes that was going on at this place would have been avoided.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Gosh I'm old.
I think years of hard experience across the industry found out that, for example, multiple inheritance and operator overloading caused more problems than they solved. Both features were taught and advocated back in the day, and now "there be dragons" signs have sprung up and most of the literature today warns the journeyman programmer to avoid them.
Many libraries and tools support the standard now.
Yup, was the designated person to report all child porn for our photo-sharing website. It was horrific. Some of those images still haunt me today, they were so awful. And the way the reporting to the NCMEC[0] server worked, you had to upload every single image individually. They did not accept zip files or anything at the time. It was a giant web form that would take about forty image files at once.
It's aged very well; it was slightly cringe-worthy in its time. I watch it over about once a year now.
I believe Emmanuel Goldstein consulted on the film.
So true it should have a name, like kstenerud's Law or something.
Agree. One of the functions of major news outlets in the past was to be gatekeepers, but in a good sense: they would not countenance a journalist going off on flat earth conspiracy theories, for example, because their editorial process filters out stuff like that. Of course there are the negative aspects of gatekeeping; nothing's perfect.
Substack will likely see the day, if it hasn't happened already, where a content creator is pushing bogus information and Substack will come under public scrutiny. It's another variation on the 8chan situation: if you allow anyone to publish, you're gonna get a lot of illegal or harmful content.
I want to stress this point. Crops like wheat, rice, and corn are not suitable for vertical farming. No vertical farms today are growing these.
And claiming “vertical farming does not save land” based on a single 1msq art installation makes a tenuous argument at best.
And even worse, from the article:
> When wheat is planted in the ground next to each other, instead of above, the sun provides free energy and the clouds free water.
No, no, no, no. Water from precipitation is a fraction of the water needed in areas like the American central plains where the Ogallala Aquifer has been pumped out for decades. Irrigation is a must for growing staple crops almost anywhere. And water is increasingly in short supply.
Upvote just for this line of poetry. Mondo 2000, haven’t heard that name in decades.
And once a year as the government decides its budget you get to chew your nails as you wait to see if the money is in the next budget.
I agree there isn’t time to review them, unless you have plenty of staff and time (no one does)... but the recent Solarwinds debacle was a supply chain attack, and automatic updates allowed an exploit to be propagated to many companies and agencies.
I would ask myself if I need that many packages. And raise the red flag with management that maintaining proper security is a challenge under such circumstances.
Excerpt:
There's just about no limit to the earnings, sales and productivity gains technology companies can generate.
Tech companies aren't subject to ordinary economic forces, such as interest rates.
A tech company's prospects are more important than its earnings.
These were some of the guiding principles that millions of investors embraced as they created the historic surge in tech stocks that started in late 1998. The hottest stocks were pioneers of the young Internet. But they weren't the only highfliers buoyed by a widespread faith that a new set of rules applied to tech stocks.
Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index
is assembled, a special page is devoted to its
definition. Basically the calculation comes down to counting
hits for the search query
+"<language> programming"
In the next few sections it is explained what search engines
qualify, what programming languages qualify and how the
ratings are exactly calculated.
Search Engines
There are 25 search engines that are used to calculate the
TIOBE index. The selected search engines are the 25 highest
ranked websites of Alexa that meet the following conditions:
The entry page of the site contains a search facility
The result of querying the site contains an indication of the number of page hits
The results should be available in HTML with clear tags
Search engines in languages with special characters should be encoded properly
The search engine should at least return 1 hit for 1 query
The results of querying the site shouldn't contain too many outliers
Porn sites are excluded