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By non testers, do you mean developers/UI designers and such ?

Useful links. Thank you.

> It's like hiring a plumber then trying to tell them how to fix the toilet.

I never faced or witnessed that in software dev.

> Unfortunately, I cannot read technical books fast and definitely not fast enough to make the subscription be worth $500 per year.

Reading is never about being fast at doing it.

If you don't want to read a book, read it fast.

> PHP was fast, easy, forgiving. It also led to such awful code that several companies banned it.

That's not the case nowadays with PHP 8.5 for example... and Laravel framework.

Good documentation, communication channels and a healthy work environment where colleagues can communicate and help each other are much beneficial than an internal SE.

Unlike the author, Youtube and such are full of coding gurus who know everything and whatever you do is never the right way.

>Being independent is lonely

You can find yourself in the same situation at a usual workplace.

And insulting publicly developers like that isn't ok.

Example of an animal which keeps growing until it dies ?

Indeed.

That's why we see every now and then "new" programming paradigms which were once obsolete.

>Breaking News! Developers Have Egos!

That concerns cleaners too. Ego is a universal currency and a strong element of the human nature.

At least he hid a part of his nature because of social pressure. Nowadays people live in disguise at will.

A couple of decades ago, I read that "le café est un emmerdeur biologique".

I still don't know how coffee tastes.

I checked only North Africa: several mistakes (even inaccuracies in terminology such as showing Berbers and Tuaregs as if they are distinct population groups)

You are questioning the human nature.

>According to a review of more than 230 studies recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, adjusting our goals in response to stress or challenges, rather than grinding on, is often “a more appropriate and beneficial response.”

That is also what people who persist on the path of their goal do. And that's not giving up, as the title claims.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors"

That's because being strongly opinionated about anything nowadays is viewed down.

Over specializatoin is the enemy of adaptation.

> Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn't doing the thing."

> Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

Clearly defining and understanding the thing or, as they say, understanding the problem is half the solution. Real life experiences totally crash the OP statements.

Can't read the article from phone.

Effort was made to write this article. Deep insight in several statements.

If everyone refuses to pay, such incidents would largely reduce.

From my experiences, a good book takes me a year to several years to read. I have one book (science & philosophy involved) which I kept re-reading for the last 16 years.

There are levels to reading.

> "I put effort to think about design, structure, and implementation more than coworkers."

Everybody thinks the same.

Not surprised when you are born in the smartphone era where your attention and memory are constantly hijacked.

>"The repetition of behavior, not the sincerity of belief, is what shapes character"

To perform behavior X repeatedly and consciously for a long time, you have to have a belief (whether it is good or bad). Hence it is the sincerity of belief which shapes character.

Like when you wash yourself every now and then: you repeat that because you have a belief that keeping yourself clean is useful. Without that belief, you won't waste your time on that. Behavior is just an expression of a belief.

How a society which is supposed to be of the hunters gatherers era raised such monuments and set up that site?

Accepting yourself as you are is the worst poison to tell to your child or someone you care about. Life is about in inventing yourself through craft, doing, trying, discovering, challenging, achieving goals and self improvement.