There is a little voice within my skull that points out the worst of every situation I encounter.
Someone told me once, this is like a nasty friend who is constantly giving me unwise advising—yet, he is me, and I am him. Although I rejected this idea at first, I had to embrace it later as it proved to be accurate.
The image is the Amazon App. It kept showing that error each time I wanted to complete my order earlier today.
Tags: #Software
I don't really care if this function is “highly optimized” — I doubt it is — but reading this make me feel like throwing up.
Disgusting!
At least, I would expect proper indentation, for fuck's sake.
Should I add that this is a C++ codebase? Why the hell don't use some useful — and much needed — C++ constructs?
Aaargh!!!
On my professional life, I have to deal with complex systems.
“Complex systems” is the fancy term for those systems with many interconnected components, where each component's behaviour is impacted by and, simultaneously, impacts other components' behaviour in a non-trivial way. The multiplicity of components and their interactions is what makes a system complex.
On October 31th, 2008, someone (or somemany) under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published an article titled: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”
Today, we had a quarterly team meeting at work.
Sales are great, profit margin is okay. The company got a prize (silver metal) in 'sustainability'—whatever that means. AND, we have gone public (!).
I used to reply to all these recruiters emails, it felt rude not to do so. But I quickly realized it was a waste of time.
Many years ago, real people wrote the emails. Then they used (and abused) templates, then bots learned to write, but now, even bots seem unqualified for the job.
A recent discussion in Remark.as triggered by a Paolo Amoroso's post remind me of the following story, nicely put together by Brantley Coile.
I've never been too fond of managers and their managerial work. The mere concept of “managing” people make no sense to me.