Several years writing code, and only now am I catching up to a mistake I’ve been dragging along the whole time: zero open source contributions. I’d bang my head against a wall if it did any good. Not one team, not one manager, tech lead, or coworker ever brought it up. Repositories, yes, since day […]
READ MOREWhy yet another language Go was born at Google in 2007, designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson (yes, Unix Ken Thompson), and open sourced in November 2009. Source: official Go FAQ. If the plan is to learn Go from scratch, this series starts right here. If the plan is to learn Go […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend, all because of a hiring mistake nobody at the company wanted to own up to. At the time it was rough, today he tells it as a story so ridiculous that people barely believe he actually lived through it. They say first […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This one I heard from a former coworker at an old job. One time the company approved an unusually large budget increase, and someone had to design a full investment project to put it to use. From scratch. From the title page, literally. It had to be […]
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