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That’s good to hear. I haven’t touched Eclipse in maybe 15 years and back then it fueled me a burning hatred for IDEs. It felt like a huge confusing mess. But maybe it has become more streamlined lately.

Now I have grown out of my hatred and can’t imagine a day without (non Eclipse) IDEs.

Is anyone using Eclipse anymore? I’ve barely heard anything about it the past 10 years.

It’s not that funny.

Docker is like a virtual machine, but you only run one specific program in it. About exactly what the meme describes.

It’s barely waterfall planning either. Often there’s no planning, at least no coordinated one.

Currently at my current workplace we lack coordinated planning between teams. It seems like everybody is working in their own directions and it can take months until we get feedback from other teams. Mostly a product management problem.

The author is also hyping up waterfall too much. Agile was created because waterfall has its shortcomings (e.g. the team realizes too late that what they’re building isn’t what the customer wants).

But I also think it also represents how poorly implemented these ideas are. People say they do agile/kanban/scrum, but in reality they do some freak version of these.

I think this is a bit disingenuous. There’s no customer interaction in these panels.

So waterfall would be:

Customer says they want to go to Mars.

You spend years building a rocket capable of going to Mars, draining all the company budget in the process.

Customer then clarifies they actually meant they wanted to go to Mars, Pennsylvania, USA - not the planet!

Which doubles the maintenance work to keep docs in sync

When someone writes API docs, should they assume the reader knows nothing or can they assume the is already experienced?

It takes a lot of effort to write documentation towards newbies, at the cost of making it more difficult for already experienced to find the answer they need.

Time complexity is mostly useful in theoretical computer science. In practice it’s rare you need to accurately estimate time complexity. If it’s fast, then it’s fast. If it’s slow, then you should try to make it faster. Often it’s not about optimizing the time complexity to make the code faster.

All you really need to know is:

• Array lookup: O(1)
• Single for loop: O(n)
• Double nested for loop: O(n^2)
• Triple nested for loop: O(n^3)
• Sorting: O(n log n)

There are exceptions, so don’t always follow these rules blindly.

It’s hard to just “accidentally” write code that’s O(n!), so don’t worry about it too much.

A new hope started with blood line. It was established out of the gate that Luke’s father was a Jedi knight and a good friend of Obi Wan.

Force Awakens and Last Jedi seemed to go in the direction that Rey and Snoke are unrelated to previous blood lines, but nope, it’s all Palpatine.

You have two lists of size n. You want to find the permutations of these two lists that minimizes a certain distance function between them.

print(A)
print(B)
hello: print(C)
print(D)
print(E)
comefrom hello
print(F)

This will print A, B, C and then F. D and E will be skipped because of the comefrom.

When you hold a hammer everything looks like a nail. Just because it’s useful in some cases doesn’t mean it’s always the best solution.

The article mostly rants about front end devs using unnecessarily complex solutions for simple problems. Like using React for generating static web sites.

When web development started to move away from jQuery towards Angular, React, Ember, Vue and all that shit I made the conscious decision to stay away from front end development. Well, I already made the decision after struggling aligning elements in all web browsers with CSS.

I’m glad I made that decision.

Simplicity is unsophisticated and lacking in many parts. The simplest solution to a problem is always the best solution. Choose simplicity. I’m begging you. Your future is begging you.

This goes with all of programming. It’s rare someone makes a clever solution that doesn’t immediately turn into “technical debt”.

Bit shift magic.

My guess is that all the individual characters of Hello World are found inside the 0xC894 number. Every 4 bits of x shows where in this number we can find the characters for Hello World.

You can read x right to left. (Skip the rightmost 0 as it’s immediately bit shifted away in first iteration)

3 becomes H 2 becomes e 1 becomes l 5 becomes o

etc.

I guess when we’ve exhausted all bits of x only 0 will be remaining for one final iteration, which translates to !

This is tied to YAGNI. Do you really need to impose this restriction on this database? Don’t add restrictions “just in case it might be useful”. If you don’t have a good reason, you ain’t gonna need it.

I don’t want to set up Patreon for every creator I’m watching. Often I just watch one or two videos from them and that’s it.

Which ones then?

Collect taxes.

Governments are incentivized to match people to combat declining birth rates. Lower birth rates means fewer productive people to support an aging population. It’s also loss in taxes.

Cheaper for them to make.