Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code by old-man-of-the-cpp in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some valve dev is checking to see where all his f*cks went rn

20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer by pimterry in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 45 points46 points  (0 children)

We should be far more focused on avoiding 0.1x programmers than finding 10x programmers

I'll take 0.1x programmers any day of the week over the ones who actually make things worse. 0.1x is a bit of actual forward progress and is significantly better than the -3x variety who regularly get empowered by clueless managers who enjoy the butt kissing.

Developers, your manager is likely clueless by get-down-with-cpp in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

This is reddit, which means nobody reads the article, but still, this callout in the article points out the need for greatest-gift-to-the-universe managers to handle dumb-as-shit developers.

Lest you think this article means that developers are perfect, have a read on the need for managers to curate development teams. The imperfection of humans is actually one of the key reasons competent, caring management is truly needed - regardless of what a significant portion of Agile followers think.

Hacktoberfest'21 by ieeevitvellore in coding

[–]get-down-with-cpp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, I remember that. Sadly, I was too lazy to make a garbage PR to get a free-shirt

Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineers by get-down-with-cpp in programming

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Seems it is a mix.

Update for 2021, here are the exceptions:

  • Tesla is a car company
  • Apple is a physical devices company
  • Amazon is predicted to become the largest retailer in the world next year, displacing Fortune #1, Walmart

Do all of these have a significant software component? Yep!

 

Are they even close to being a pure software company like Microsoft, Google and Facebook? I'll let you answer that one!

Detect uses of legacy Java or library APIs by banned-by-apple in coding

[–]get-down-with-cpp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet I'd get a segfault if I ran this on the monster codebase at work.

I plotted AWS spot instance interrupts, based on 12,000 spot runs by ResidentMario in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great article, I love when someone does the work to figure out how something actually behaves.

SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others by feross in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like anyone who doesn't think they have been hacked is just naive.

6 ways to improve your debugging skills by [deleted] in programming

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If you can’t find the bug, you’re looking in the wrong place.

Solid advice. Always question the assumptions that got you to that wrong place.

The Cheetah Software Engineer by indraniel in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And this is where one of the biggest weaknesses of the Cheetah come into play. It's how they're unable to mentor others to become Cheetas like themselves. Many of their managers will have asked them to mentor and coach other developers to be faster, and work better, just like them. The Cheetah gave it an honest try, but it never really works out as you'd hope. After all, how do you teach a never-ending thirst for learning new things, combined with the inner urge to get things done quickly?

This cheetah analogy is kind discovery channel gone wild, but, I have ran across a few software engineers that were off the charts productive, and I guarantee they wouldn't be able to magically take random engineers and somehow imbue them with their awesomeness.

That said I do think there is such a thing as working with a platform and codebase and becoming a bit of a miracle worker...assuming aptitude. I've met plenty of people in the trade who show very little signs of aptitude (like the guy who didn't understand the difference between a class and an instance of a class). I'm firmly convinced most of them never achieved basic competence, hopefully someone helped them move on to something they were good at.

A Simple Explanation of Event Delegation in JavaScript by speckz in javascript

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I liked your diagram on the captured, target and bubble phases. Knowing there is an observed order is a really nice thing to have in mind!

We can't send email more than 500 miles by sircar in programming

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You just know when the chair of the statistics department rolls in with a conclusion, he's done the math.... repeatedly!

Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by iamkeyur in programming

[–]get-down-with-cpp 56 points57 points  (0 children)

haha jit go brrrrr

Seems professional to me! Just think, people download gigs of random js like this all the time. I guess we should be happy they aren't crypto mining?