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I'm not based on the US, but as an app developer I really really hope this bill goes through

I tried to switch to Firefox, is almost one year that I've tried but it just does not work for me. I can't express what it might be in words, but the experience is just worse than Chrome.

I was not able to find an explanation on the internet, but I'm sure that some of you folks will know something about it.

Yes I'm right handed while writing. I've never tried Dvorak because I found it very scary and with a steep learning curve but maybe I can give it a try.

I was also suspecting that the cause might be because of the thinness of the keyboard.

Anyway you have any link that shows the fact that more keystrokes are on the left side? I would love to see the distribution

I totally love this part:

When “Agile” ideas are applied poorly, they often lead to more interference with developers, less time to do the work, higher pressure, and demands to “go faster”. This is bad for the developers, and, ultimately, bad for the enterprise as well, because doing “Agile” poorly will result, more often than not, in far more defects and much slower progress than could be attained. Often, good developers leave such organizations, resulting in a less effective enterprise than prior to installing “Agile”.

I can totally relate with this experience in a previous company I've worked with. They effectively starting the transition to Agile, but the execution was so poor and the general culture was so immature with a lot of chain of command and top-down that it ended up being a total toxic nightmare. I end up blaming Agile for this at first, but now i'm realizing that was not the tool.

That's very interesting, i never thought about pairing as a tool that help people with ADHD stay focused.

At ThoughtWorks we do promote pairing, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you out!

This is a great question to ask. Thank you for this

This is a very good feedback, as coming from a tech background myself I totally didn't think about that

This is correct.

Kudos on this. Amazing how you were able to find it :)

Anyway yes, the more i see this written down the less i like it

I totally agree with you on the fact that for a skilled engineer good code does not comes with a bigger cognitive load (nor time spent). But I would like to challenge your point on writing maintainable and understandable code. One can argue that writing maintainable code following the best practices it's just a set of conventions that are useful just because we have no better solution right now. It's a solution that works but can be very well be improved for instance by removing the needs of writing code in the first place (ie: with some very advanced level of code generation). About the understanding bit I usually look at tests for understanding code, it's easier for me to read an English statement that tells me what a things does rather then trying to understand it starting from how the problem has been solved in details. Code is for machines, "it should do this" is for humans.

Honest question, is code a very important part of our job as a developers, seniors or junriors? I truly think about code as an implementation details, I don't really care how the code looks as soon as is quality tested (and cross-functionally testes, ie: security). I agree with the sense of the article in general, this code lacks basic engineering/programming concepts, but I generally disagree on the fact that code as a piece of text that execute a software have any meaning of "beauty" standard as such. Code is just the way we have in this specific moment in time to describe the solution of a problem, very far from being the only one ore the "final" one. Therefore I would not invest much time in putting lipstick on cows.

I'm doing exactly the same since almost 1year, but still I'm not seeing much benefit from it. Like I still have belly fat, I wonder how do you eat when you break the fast and how do you avoid binging? I'm not gonna lie, after 15-16h I start to feel hungry and as soon as the fast finish I tend to eat something pretty caloric & fatty (ie: cheese or nuts)

What we seem to forget is that the hiring process is actually to hire people not to reject them.

Companies should remind themselves to help out the candidate, give them prep material, and create a safe and relaxed space if they want to see really how a person will perform in their daily job. I think that a lot of this is driven by big company ego where a high rejection rate implies a higher reputation because of course: "we only hire the best, that's why so many didn't make it" this is a total bias IMO, a sane metrics for a smooth interview process should not be based on the result of the interview solely. You should ask your self how diverse are the profile that you are able to attract, how long did they stay and how good their annual/performance review goes after 1 year, what's the feedback of their coworker and leads after 3/6 months. Getting feedback out of this and tune the interview process interactively and in a data-driven fashion, because this is what it is, a process that can and should be improved, not a sort of fetish medal to show people and (falsely) say: "Hey look how cool I am, I hire only `the best`"

I always wonder why people have this second thought about these super complex and convoluted sneaky edge cases. Maybe I'm being naïve here, but I truly think that this will happen in less than the 1% of the candidates, there are just so many jobs offers to waisting the time on doing all that for a "chance" of trick one interview, which you might not even like the offer and then ending up rejecting anyways.

I think that you should work on these trust issues, the interview process is about hiring people not rejecting them.

Do It with a friend which is equally curious an committed as you are.

Can't understand why, since is only the frontend :(

The same is true for Flutter also, since the desktop support for both MacOS, Windows & Linux is available in the master channel at the moment.

Actually I prefer this future instead of a JS dominated world.

My 2 cents, Flutter for the desktop will disrupt this market in the near future.

Thank you so much for that!

Very refreshing and insightful answer :)

Microservices solves an organizational problem not a software one.

The best advise I can give you is: "Do it with a friend"

It's the best formula to keep yourself accountable and keep going even in the less fun moment (because even in Greenfield hobby project there are shitty moment's)

If possible do it in pair programming, it's the best for sharing and learning from each other meanwhile

This comment was so useful to me, as a man i consider myself to be sensible enough to not be an harasser but it's true that from the standpoint of a white male it's very complicated to fully understand what women goes through.

I think exactly this is the reason why many mans perceive the sexual harassment and the sexist argument has overkill sometimes, basically it's an issue cause by a low exposure to it.

Thank you for this comment, i'll use it as an argument in sexism discussions trying to help other fellow mans to understand it.

Wow, i'm struggling with a sql query in psql just right now, this seems to be just what i was looking for! Thank you so much!

How Dystropian is this thing? Who needs it? You don't want a kid you want a Bot.

Elizabeth Holmes seals of approval.

I'm wondering how this even makes sense from a PR prospective.

Workers (?) that are paid for talking good about their employer? What's the interesting bit here?

Blame it on Apple 99$/Y vs the 25$/Lifetime on Android.

“The Russian government and President Putin personally denied several times that these were Russian troops and described them as spontaneous ‘self-defence units’ who acquired a uniform similar to the Russian [one] in local stores,” writes Harari. “When they made such rather ridiculous statements, Putin and his associates knew perfectly well that they were lying.”

In the russian version becomes:

“According to estimates of the Washington Post newspaper, President Trump made more than 6,000 false public statements in the time after his inauguration.”

As an excuse he said: "To enable my ideas and messages to easily reach people from various countries".

This IMO is a pretty cheap excuse to cover the underlying fact that he changes that just to sell more books, because honestly i can't believe that an historian worth of his/her name would agreed on doing that on purpose.

I honestly love his books, but i expect a bit more integrity.

* https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/ * https://developer.apple.com/system-status/