Why didn't you stop working for good?
The image is the Amazon App. It kept showing that error each time I wanted to complete my order earlier today.
Software
Code's nastiness
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!!!
Great GIT commit messages
Read more...Poetry buried in technical complexities
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.
Bitcoin white paper was published 14 years ago
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”
The wrong strategy
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 (!).
Yet another recruiter email
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.
Have you ever used the UNIX program grep?
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.
Managers are going to manage
I've never been too fond of managers and their managerial work. The mere concept of “managing” people make no sense to me.
I visited Edsger W. Dijkstra's archive at the UT again and found a link to an interesting blog post
Edsger W. Dijkstra (EWD) was a Dutch computer scientist. After finishing his PhD. in theoretical physics at Leiden University, he spent his whole life helping to shape what today we know as Computer Science. As a tangential note, EWD preferred the term Computing Science because the field of study is not the computer (hardware) but the computing those computers perform (software)[1]. Sadly, the world does not care about these nuances as he does.