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- ship faster, more incremental changes.

- Try to get stuff tested earlier (see point 1)

- if things can get be tested, write tests while working on the code

- split a feature up in chunks and develop parts

- take your time. Pressure of failing sprints (whatever that might actually be caused by) does not help. Smaller changes help with getting others to respect your time too. Everyone is happy when stuff works :), even if its incomplete

I've read about 80% of this page, and eventually stopped at the part where he says that the next generation will be more cautious. This, in my opinion, is false. Most software has simplified for user experience, and has not helped kids in the slightest bit. Its more addictive than ever, and all caution gets thrown out of the window when we let kids browse youtube unsupervised. Heck, a wrong search query or random text can give you NSFW content. And with the rise of shorts/stories/tiktoks you'll be molded by the algorithms. You don't or have barely any control over the content you see. If it notices you watch, what, 5 seconds? of a clip, it'll start recommending that.

The issues we have nowadays are different than those in 2005. People that havent seen the bad parts of the internet, will not teach their kids about it either...

A C# redis lib. For just the basic set/setex/del/exist and an auth layer and proper retry logic both the StackExchange and the (try-than-buy with command limit!) Other popular lib, I just made my single-file driver instead. I didnt need clustering and async. Much better and something I can trust, as well as much less code, so less error prone.

Of course you can use an ORM with Golang, and will have reduced throughput. However, I wonder how much you can profile for both languages and fix the bottlenecks by rewriting things. It can also depend on the machine and how the VM allocates the threads and memory allocation (for example multi chiplet, multi rambank support).

Guess Elon should go and reduce some Tesla services like he did with Twitter. Having different major versions of software running must take up a lot of maintenance...

Isn't this exactly like that "god complex vs imposter syndrome rollercoaster" meme? First you think you know nothing, then you feel like the best of knowing something, but then another thing happens that you know nothing of, etc.

I don't think this should be straight up attributed to narcissism. Just "doing your very, very best to get things perfect" is not a trait of a narcissist. Better yet, they usually say they are, but have 0.0 credibility of doing that, and will try to disprove any hint that would, basically, hurt their ego or image.

Latency is a thing, and newer networks have lower latency or are affected by other clients being slower (eg MIMO and improved channeling), though other ethernet devices can still have a big effect (eg remote server latency, dns latency, retransmissions).

IMO having a fancier keyboard that does more clickety-clack will not make you a better programmer. If anything, your co-workers cannot work as good and will have to put more energy to focus.

Experience and the skill to remember or recall well, help a lot with engineering.

I actually installed Firemin[1] and it really helped getting Firefox's memory usage down (while keeping the browser usable!). Some days I wasn't able to play games because Firefox ate up a large chunk of memory, even though I have 32GB installed!

Its pushing Firefox to purge memory more and more, and it managed to reduce memory usage from gigabytes to under 500MB (used, not allocated).

[1] https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/firemin/